The University of Washington School of Law has received a $33.
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A team of Spanish and American neuroscientists has discovered neurons in the mammalian brainstem that focus exclusively on new, novel sounds, helping humans and other animals ignore ongoing, predictable sounds.
Booster seats have been proven to protect children from serious injury, yet new research shows that in some communities fewer than 21 percent of children 4-8 years old are properly secured in booster seats when they ride in cars.
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.
UW Medical Center has become the title sponsor for the 2006 Seattle Marathon.
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.
More than 20 million black and white Americans poured out of the South in the first seven decades of the 20th century, sweeping north and west in two parallel, but largely separate, migrations that transformed politics, culture and religion in the United States.
Students who enter the UW next fall will have at least one thing in common — they will all have read the same book.
Audiences may come to remember the UW’s 2005 production of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, set to run Nov.
Deep in the bowels of Allen Library is a treasure trove in the process of being discovered.
The UW’s Department of Bioengineering has received a $2.
The five-week course “Choices and Change in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” may have concluded in August but the learning continues.
The University Book Store is holding a Campus Thank You Night from 5 to 9 p.
For the 20th year the Giving Tree, a project of the Department of Housing and Food Services and the National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH), is asking faculty, staff and students to help make a difference in a child’s holiday.
Where are we? The film above was taken somewhere on campus.
The Dance Program at the UW will open its annual performance series with an eclectic concert showcasing work choreographed and performed by Dance Program faculty, guest artists and students.
Editor’s note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive, which runs through Nov.
“Caught in the (Patriot) Act” is the title of a forum on the implications of the Patriot Act featuring Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, and other speakers.
“Caught in the (Patriot) Act” is the title of a forum on the implications of the Patriot Act featuring Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, and other speakers.
More than 20 million black and white Americans poured out of the South in the first seven decades of the 20th century, sweeping north and west in two parallel, but largely separate, migrations that transformed politics, culture and religion in the United States.
Infants begin pulling off an amazing feat sometime in the final three months of their first year of life.
PREMIER COURSEWARE: A group of faculty and students in the UW’s College of Engineering has won an award for an interactive CD tutorial the team created to use in an engineering class.
The UW has convened a group of international innovators in doctoral education to explore the forces that are driving change around the globe and the forms that innovation is taking.
Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote is one of those books that everybody has heard of but almost nobody has read.
Editor’s Note: Through the Combined Fund Drive, which runs until Nov.
Most people think of HIV/AIDS as a young person’s disease.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Saturation media coverage of strange rituals, weird attire and sexual eccentricities put the case in the public spotlight for weeks on end.
Campus interviews for the next dean of the College of Engineering have been scheduled.
Type 2 diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix.
The UW announced last week that starting fall 2006, it will offer a new Master of Science in Medical Speech-Language Pathology degree.
The “Hungry for the Holidays” Food Drive to benefit the University District Food Bank is in full swing on campus.
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The University of Washington Specialized Center of Research in Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy (UWSCOR; supported by NICHD and ORWH) announces $10,000 for one year of research for projects on the pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy (UWSCOR).
A patient has a heart attack, and is rushed to the hospital for treatment.
Connie Huffine doesn’t take the idea of a personal philosophy lightly.
A project to renovate existing quarters and increase the amount of research laboratory space in the Department of Biological Structure has been awarded $4 million in Research Facilities Improvement Program funds from the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health.
Jill Morelli has been named director of facilities for the School of Medicine.
“New Gut Diseases and Old Ones Rediscovered” is the title for the Wade Volwiler Lecture, to be given at 8 a.
“Health or Health Care? Reframing the Discussion” is the theme for the 2005 Washington Health Legislative Conference to be held Tuesday, Dec.