The Triple Door will host a launch party for Taste This Northwest, a CD benefiting homeless youth in the Northwest, from 7 to 10 p.
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Starting this winter, students will be able to enroll at UW Bothell while completing an associate degree from Everett Community College.
The UW is one of 20 American universities taking part in a new Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research
The initiative was launched today by the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam.
Registration for the 3rd annual Ride in the Rain Challenge is under way.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds.
Editor’s note: This is the last in University Week’s series of profiles of UW employees who volunteer for CFD agencies.
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists for years have been at a loss to explain unexpectedly high levels of mercury in fish swimming the rivers and streams of areas like eastern Oregon, far away from industrial sources of mercury pollution such as coal-fired power plants.
Anyone interested in joining the United States Senate next year had better make the following New Year’s resolution — pile up at least $10 million.
For the third consecutive year, banks with headquarters in Washington state delivered an average of 10 percent return to investors, according to researchers at the University of Washington Business School.
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists studying the effects of carbon on climate warming are very likely underestimating, by a vast amount, how much soil carbon is available in the high Arctic to be released into the atmosphere, new University of Washington research shows.
Harry Bruce, a faculty member at the UW Information School, has been named dean of the school effective Jan.
Where are we? The photo to the right was taken somewhere on campus.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Participants wanted for Continuums of Service conference
Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium is sponsoring the Ninth Annual Continuums of Service Conference, “Engaging Leadership: New Visions, Voices, and Models” April 19-21, 2006, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bellevue.
The ideal undergraduate experience at the UW would engage all students — not just in the classroom, but by extending intellectual life to where students live.
Just over 100 days ago I arrived at the University of Washington as provost.
The 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Undergraduate Theater Society production of (M)Alice: A Gross Misinterpretation Of Wonderland will be presented
Dec.
A purse was stolen from Kane Hall sometime between 12:30 p.
POETIC TRIBUTE: Mary Coventry, a UW staff member for nearly 20 years, died this fall.
A memorial service has been set for Jerre D.
Editor’s note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive, which runs through Dec.
America’s charter schools serve a larger percentage of minority and low-income students than do the nation’s traditional public schools, according to a comprehensive new study of the growing charter movement.
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Sometimes a research project evolves to become more than the sum of its parts.
The UW Photographers Group is holding its annual Group Show at the HUB Gallery in the Student Union Building through Dec.
Less than a decade ago, researchers were able to confirm the existence of adult stem cells hiding out in the central nervous system, and ever since people have been trying to figure out how these cells could be activated to repair spinal cord injuries or even to cure neurodegenerative diseases.
With the No Child Left Behind Act increasingly focusing schools’ attention on test scores alone, programs that stress behavior, social development and commitment to school have sometimes gotten left behind.
With a goal of collecting at least 4,500 pounds of peanut butter before Christmas, the General Surgery Division of the Department of Surgery has launched “Operation Peanut Butter.
Two UW undergraduates have been selected as scholars to study at two of Great Britain’s most famous universities.
If you are interested in learning more about the UW Police Department and our community, you can sign up for a free 10-week Citizen’s Academy.
Van Sherod’s work life plays out against the buzz of power tools, but when he goes home, he’s greeted by a more natural kind of buzz.
Pathways to Civic Participation: Youth Service in the Global Context is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Susan Stroud, executive director of the nonprofit social change organization Innovations in Civic Participation.
When Mike Shanahan was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in 1993, he didn’t say anything about it to most of his co-workers in the UW Police Department that he had led as chief for more than 20 years.
Conflicts of interest, both real and perceived, that are of particular interest to researchers working with human subjects are the focus of a program next week.
The medical school’s first Education in Medicine lecturer will be Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine Paul G.
Open House next spring
The 2006 Health Sciences Open House is set for Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29.