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This legislative session has reached its midpoint, and much of the good news for the UW has been about legislation that has “died” or been amended to satisfy UW concerns.
The ideal Valentine’s Day present for people seeking sweethearts might be a package of self-knowledge.
There’s going to be a major earthquake at the UW next quarter, but don’t worry, it won’t be real.
The Washington Technology Center (WTC) recently awarded grants to eight Washington researchers teamed with local companies to commercialize new technologies.
Spyware is alive and well on the Internet.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Do your children want to go to Mars? Or maybe design a space colony? If so, they’re just the people the Space Huskies Program is looking for.
The best venue for teaching citizenship skills and values to young people is where the diversity of students is greatest, and that’s public school, says Walter Parker, one of three professors from the UW College of Education who will meet the public on Feb.
Like the Ents — the tree guardians from J.
The UW World Series presents a celebration of Japan’s folk history and a solo piano concert this week in Meany Theater.
The School of Music has a busy schedule over the coming week, with five ensemble concerts planned.
Tapping sounds will be heard in the corridors of Thomson Hall in days to come.
The UW has become the largest purchaser of green power in Seattle.
Four finalists have been selected from a field of more than 80 applicants for the chancellorship of UW Bothell.
Brain images of children with dyslexia taken before they received spelling instruction show that they have different patterns of neural activity than do good spellers when doing language tasks related to spelling.
Smart lighting choices and a solar panel provided by Seattle City Light are among the reasons the U.
The most powerful earthquakes — such as those that shook Indonesia in 2004, Alaska in 1964, Chile in 1960 and the Pacific Northwest in 1700 — occur in subduction zones, areas of the sea floor just offshore where two tectonic plates meet and one dives beneath the other.
Cheryl Angeletti-Harris has been named assistant vice provost for equal opportunity, taking over for Helen Remick, who recently retired from the position after 30 years at the University.
The UW Graduate School has been honored for its innovations in promoting an inclusive graduate community.
NBC STAR: If you caught NBC’s Today Show on Wednesday, Feb.
Last summer, University Week wrote to faculty and staff who have worked here at least 35 years and asked for their reminiscences.
The Getty Foundation gives out fewer than 50 grants and fellowships to individual scholars in a year — most to fellows, visiting scholars and scholars in residence at the Getty Center.
Where are we? The photo at top right was taken somewhere on campus.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES ADAI grant deadlines The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from UW faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
The old adage tells that oil doesn’t mix with water.
The authors of a paper in last week’s Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.
When Plato said that life should be lived as play, was he kidding? A daylong workshop on Feb.
How can our schools better promote citizenship education? How do we handle increasing diversity within a framework of national unity? What is the unique role of schools?
Faculty from the UW College of Education will examine trends and issues from our local area as well as examples from South Africa and other emerging democracies to address these questions and suggest constructive ways of engaging these issues for the future.
The National Academy of Sciences has announced that Dr.
A contingent of Chinese medical school presidents, deans and faculty recently visited the UW Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation (ISIS) to explore how to train physicians in rural and urban locations throughout China in the latest advances in medicine.
Once you hear Dr.
Clinical research, or research with human subjects, and the systems that support it at the UW, the School of Medicine and affiliated medical centers will be the topic for a presentation from 4:30 to 5:30 p.
Exhibitors are now signing up to reserve space for the 31st Health Sciences Open House, “Passport to Health: Make the Global Connection!”
Slated for Friday, April 28, and Saturday, April 29, this important community outreach event provides the opportunity to inform the general public about the education, research and patient care programs of the Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health and Community Medicine, and Social Work, their affiliates and the medical centers.
UW Medical Center has become the title sponsor for the 2006 Seattle Marathon, and has designated proceeds to benefit the Living Legacy Foundation, which builds community awareness of organ and tissue donation in the Pacific Northwest.
Care at a trauma center lowers the risk of death for injured patients by 25 percent compared to treatment received at non-trauma centers, according to the results of a nationwide study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the UW School of Medicine.
Older diabetic patients with depression who received a new type of team care had more depression-free days, better physical functioning, and lower medical costs than patients treated with a standard model of care.
Spyware is alive and well on the Internet.