As an astronomy major, Ethan Owens saw student and faculty computers within the department being used to study galaxy formation and orbital mechanics.
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The UW Faculty Senate is taking nominations from those interested in becoming vice chair for the next school year, 2006-2007.
Aspiring set designers in the UW School of Drama are going to be studying with a teacher who knows his way around Broadway — and pretty much everywhere else good theater is made.
It’s not every day that a UW assistant professor leaves Mary Gates Hall to head a foreign delegation at a major overseas conference of the United Nations.
All over the world, researchers are trying to find the answer to making spinal cords whole again after they have been injured.
About 30 exhibits and hands-on demonstrations were set up in the Health Sciences Lobby and adjacent courtyard as part of the Dawg Daze orientation program for new entering freshmen and transfer students in late September.
UW physicians featured on KING-TV Friday
UW Medicine physicians and researchers, including Dr.
The third Russell Ross Endowed Lecture will be given by Dr.
Recurrent miscarriage (RM) can have devastating emotional effects on a woman and her partner.
It’s a lot like an art class on upper campus.
A new office is opening on campus alongside the By George Café in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library: The Husky Card Account & ID Center will be a convenience for students and some staff.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Jane Brown, professor of Germanics, has received a Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.
Collier & Dean, the duo featuring UW Music Professor Tom Collier and his friend Dan Dean, will perform their 40th Anniversary Concert at 7:30 p.
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Proposals wanted for CSSS Seed Grants The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants.
The UW Information School will hold three public events in coming days related to its search for a new dean.
UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.
Puget Sound men and women with an opiate addiction and women with suicidal behavior are needed as volunteers for two studies at the University of Washington designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for borderline personality disorder.
Got something bugging you? A nagging concern you’d like to discuss or research? Or maybe just a life or change issue you’d like some discreet help coping with? APS Helplink is a useful link to know.
The UW will host the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition on Saturday, Oct.
As researchers announced the lowest amount of ice cover in more than a century in the Arctic recently, the fourth consecutive year of record and near-record lows, two polar scientists at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory say they believe a tipping point has been reached.
The UW Libraries is getting new copy machines this week, and with the new machines will come some expanded services.
Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans, a UW research team has found.
Six weeks after the unprecedented devastation of Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf states, the UW community’s response continues to grow and evolve with help and hospitality for those affected.
Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable.
Twelve-year-olds whose parents smoked were more than two times as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13 and 21 than were children whose parents didn’t use tobacco, according to a new study that looked at family influences on smoking habits.
President Emmert has supplied one-year pilot money for an effort to create leadership and professional development opportunities for graduate and professional students.
UW President Mark Emmert and UWT Chancellor Patricia Spakes will host the the 15th anniversary celebration for UW Tacoma on Oct.
The UW’s World Dance Series begins a new season with Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Life of Billie Holiday, a multi-arts performance piece based upon the life and legacy of the late jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.
The CEO of Sonosite, a firm headquartered in Bothell that produces handcarried diagnostic ultrasound devices and revenues of more than $100 million, is the Oct.
Airlift Northwest is holding a memorial service today, Oct.
Mary Lidstrom, professor of chemical engineering and of microbiology, and holder of the Frank Jungers chair of engineering, has been appointed vice provost for research, effective Nov.
More than 100 charitable and nonprofit agencies filled the HUB Ballroom Wednesday for the kickoff to the UW’s annual Combined Fund Drive — a gala invitation to the UW community to donate a little bit each pay period to help others.
UW Recycling is continuing its Stop-Think-Recycle campaign this week.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Friends, family and colleagues of Anthony Qamar, UW professor of Earth and Space Sciences, will gather in a special memorial service at 7 p.
The UW has once again topped the nation in biomedical engineering research funding from the National Institutes of Health.