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UW researchers have successfully used a method called exome sequencing to quickly discover a previously unknown gene responsible for a rare
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The m.UW mobile campus tool is now available on the BlackBerry. The UW is the first educational institution to offer a BlackBerry app.
WHAT: Dedication of the Medal of Honor memorial at the University of Washington.
WHO:
- Keynote Speaker Dr.
Military service had shown them they could effectively combat both enemies on the battlefield and racism in the ranks.
In collaboration with La Raza Commission and other Latino organizations, the Ethnic Cultural Center hosts this annual event.
Awards of $10 million or more go to teams that solve problems facing humanity and create new opportunities
The Walt Disney Company began offering refunds for its “Baby Einstein” DVDs, videos and similar products more than two years after UW researchers showed that the DVDs marketed as boosting infants’ language learning were actually detrimental.
Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment.
The University of Washington has announced a new program to make it easier for students entering the university with a high number of Advanced Placement and/or Running Start credits to complete a bachelor’s degree in three years.
The odds triple for premature child delivery among pregnant women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medication, according to a new study.
Stress can change circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain and precipitate a low mood and cocaine-use relapse
A good many Washington voters haven’t decided their choices for Seattle mayor, King County executive or Initiative 1033.
Tsunamis are among the most-devastating natural calamities.
Biologists document a second breeding season for songbirds that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in the tropics.
When Justin Henderlight’s original composition is performed at a concert Oct.
For nearly two decades scientists have known about the Seattle fault and have been refining their understanding of the danger it presents to the Puget Sound region if it ruptures in a major earthquake.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus.
UW scientist instrumental in important step to convert methane gas to a liquid, giving the potential of making it more useful as a fuel.
With eight Medal recipients, the UW has more such alumni than any other public university in the country except the service academies.
Pacifier, bottle, or finger sucking may hamper a child’s speech development if the habit goes on too long.
It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
University of Washington’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences and its partners—Group Health Research Institute, Duke University and Wayne State University—have developed a new web site to help researchers create and sustain successful multisite research collaborations.
Depression in older cancer patients is very common, and has debilitating effects on their quality of life both during and after treatment.
New research finds evidence that ancient earthquakes rased land at least 6 feet on the west edge of Washington state’s Puget Sound.
For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.
University of Washington researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.
University of Washington leaders today officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building.
Robots equipped with wireless and sensing capabilities are available for use in the home. But safety and privacy risks remain.
Flights over Antarctica, with University of Washington’s Seelye Martin as chief scientist, start Oct. 15 as part of Operation Ice Bridge.
About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far.
The newly named lab has equipment to test the safety of aircraft and automobile structures built out of composite materials.
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will receive an honorarydegree from the University of Washington Oct. 26
While end-of-life-care issues have come front and center in the current health care reform debate, physicians in the Pacific Northwest now have access to intensive training and new board certification in palliative medicine and hospice care.
An event will be held Tuesday to formalize a partnership between the UW and Automobili Lamborghini on composites research for sports cars.
César Chavez and California’s San Joaquin Valley are what come to most people’s minds when farmworkers’ struggles for decent wages and working conditions are mentioned.