Despite the worsening fracas over softwood imports, the United States and Canada remain each other’s most important trade partners in wood products.
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Wildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe and widespread yet society remains distrustful of management options that include removing trees and controlled burns, says Jim Agee, University of Washington professor of forest resources, whose talk “Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the West,” Feb.
Parents who have children with autism often have no place to turn to when it comes to finding quality treatment for this often still mysterious developmental disability which is accompanied by a wide variety of medical problems.
Parents of children with autism often lack good treatment options for this still mysterious developmental disability that can be accompanied by myriad medical problems.
What sort of person should the UW hire as its next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs? A search committee of faculty, staff and students is posing that question of the University community, and looking for nominations, too.
Once upon a time, life was simple.
Wildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe and widespread yet society remains distrustful of management options that include removing trees and controlled burns, says Jim Agee, UW professor of forest resources, whose talk Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the West, on Thursday, Feb.
UW TechTransfer Digital Ventures has created a new Web portal to provide easier access and information regarding free digital resources written and developed at the University.
In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a UW researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases.
Directors have long felt free to alter the time and place of Shakespearean plays.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a University of Washington researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases.
Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.
For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a UW scientist disputes that notion.
A joint project between the UW and the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) will drive the commercialization of five promising UW technologies.
The worst-kept secret in Olympia is that the next revenue forecast by the state’s chief economist is likely to be decidedly better than recent flat projections.
Sound Transit will host a meeting Feb.
A&S HONORS: Internationally recognized local author, David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars), is among the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the College of Arts & Sciences.
The effect of war on the lives of children will be the topic of an art exhibit and symposium at the UW in March.
Attention parents: It may be midwinter, but it’s not too soon to think about summertime options for your school-age children.
DEGREE EXAMS
Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations.
The School of Nursing will receive funding from UW Medical Center for a new endowed professorship, Dr.
UW Medicine is sponsoring the “Go Red for Women” luncheon on Monday, Feb.
Today’s domestic chickens have just as much genetic diversity as their wild ancestor, according to genome scientists analyzing the variations on the newly sequenced chicken genome.
Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.
Still time for Mini-Med
UW Medicine’s 2005 Mini-Medical School, a six-part series of exciting lectures and demonstrations designed to teach about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research, is open to the UW community and the public.
It began as a modest proposal by three UW professors — geneticist Clement Furlong, electrical engineer Sinclair Yee and chemist Lloyd Burgess.
No country was hit harder by the Dec.
UW officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.
Scott Stephenson would like to take you higher.
The UW Chamber Dance Company (CDC) will bring to life a 1931 masterpiece by dance great Martha Graham next week, thanks to coaching from one of Graham’s students.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.
University of Washington officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.
WHAT: First conference on journalism and the tsunami — lessons learned, and what to do next in covering the social, political and economic fallout.
As the death toll from the Dec.