A little sexual banter in the workplace isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
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WASHINGTON — The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one crucial and time-consuming element in their lives — work.
Bigger is smarter is better.
Students from around the globe will gather in Seattle next week to present their creative and commercially sustainable solutions for reducing poverty through new business development, in the University of Washington Business School’s inaugural Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition.
Over the years it has evolved from a wish to a work in progress — and on Tuesday the UW’s new Q Center will become a reality.
The first awards from the Fund for Innovation and Redesign, made last year, are facilitating groundbreaking discussions and work across disciplines, according to the interim reports submitted by 11 awardees.
Students from around the globe will gather in Seattle next week to present their creative and commercially sustainable solutions for reducing poverty through new business development, in the UW Business School’s inaugural Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition.
Sounder sleep, healthier teeth and gums, eco-friendly food packaging, more powerful electronics — these are some of the innovative ideas generated by Washington researchers and business entrepreneurs that are being supported through public investment from the Washington Technology Center.
Five months after the Business School launched a search for its new leader, the search committee continues to evaluate candidates and officials say the school remains on track for having a permanent dean in place by fall.
Geoffrey Loftus’ latest research reads more like a murder mystery than a scientific paper.
Bob Edie, who was the UW director of government relations from 1986 to 1995 and vice president for university relations from 1996 to 1999, has received the Robert G.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
- WHAT: Tsunamis in Washington, a free public lecture
- WHO:
- Jody Bourgeois, UW Earth and space sciences professor
- Brian Atwater, U.
- Jody Bourgeois, UW Earth and space sciences professor
Farmers, hydroelectric power producers, shippers and wildlife managers remember the Columbia River Basin drought of 1992-1993 as a year of misery.
Geoffrey Loftus’ latest research reads more like a murder mystery than a scientific paper.
An endowed professorship in children’s librarianship, believed to be the first such endowment anywhere, has been created at the University of Washington’s Information School in honor of a renowned children’s writer.
Attention to issues surrounding the UW and higher education in general is at a “fever pitch” in Olympia, according to Randy Hodgins, UW director of state relations.
Diversity, like many of the high goals to which organizations aspire, is as difficult to achieve as it is rich and rewarding to experience.
In a typical year, development officers at the University might be able to facilitate the creation of five endowed chairs and nine endowed professorships campuswide.
Despite the worsening fracas over softwood imports, the United States and Canada remain each other’s most important trade partners in wood products.
Anthropology Professor Donald Grayson has been named winner of the Nevada Medal, established in 1988 by the Desert Research Institute to acknowledge outstanding achievement in science and engineering.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY
Grant applications wanted
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) and Harborview Medical Center (HMC), the two hospitals of UW Medicine, are joining a national campaign to continue to improve patient safety.
A national expert on child development will speak at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) on Thursday, Feb.
The molecular basis for epilepsy in a mouse model is the target of UW research funded recently by the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.
Two School of Medicine alumni have been honored for their service and leadership with the 2005 Multicultural Alumni Awards.
Keeping firearms in a household is associated with a five- to 10-fold increased risk of suicide among adolescents, and an estimated 35 percent of homes with children under the age of 18 contain at least one gun.
The party was delightful, the wine was fine, the music was great and the potluck buffet was so tasty that you got back in line twice.
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Moving from professional bull riding into the creative life of art and exhibition design is not an often-trod path, but it’s the one taken by artist Jim Rittimann, exhibition designer at the UW’s Henry Art Gallery.
Researchers at the UW have blended the past with the present in the fight against cancer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy that uses cancer cells’ rapacious appetite for iron to make them a target.
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles written by the chairs of the Faculty Senate’s councils and committees.
Farmers, hydroelectric power producers, shippers and wildlife managers remember the Columbia River Basin drought of 1992–1993 as a year of misery.
If a generation of college students is four years, more or less, then Ernest R.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
“What we’re really doing,” says Dr.
The School of Nursing will present a free, public lecture about community design and public health at 6:30 p.
Researchers at the University of Washington have blended the past with the present in the fight against cancer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy that uses cancer cells’ rapacious appetite for iron to make them a target.
Keeping firearms in a household is associated with a 5-10 fold increased risk of suicide among adolescents, and an estimated 35 percent of homes with children under the age of 18 contain at least one gun.