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UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is a primary sponsor of the Heart Walk, organized by the American Heart Association and set for Saturday, Oct.
The UW has embarked on a program to seek funding from the state for renewing 16 critical buildings over the next 10 to 15 years.
When the Olympics we’ve all been watching on TV wrap up on Aug.
Sometime before fall quarter begins a new sculpture will sprout on the Parrington Lawn just south of the new law school.
The task might sound simple enough — at first, that is.
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes found in hospitals acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics.
A few of Wes Wehr’s works of art hang in a special place in the Henry Art Gallery these days — compact pieces with meticulously layered colors that hint at vast spaces where the earth meets the sky.
With a circle of friends, Karin Olefsky was able to create a small circle in an otherwise linear system.
Unico Properties, the private, Seattle-based firm that manages the UW’s downtown holdings, wants to erect a six-story building with office, retail and residential space and parking where a parking lot now stands, at the corner of NE 42nd Street and 15th Avenue NE.
In days past, it was unlikely that UW students Justin Gale from public affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet recently they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
Mark Tuttle, a UW professor of mechanical engineering whose work includes studying the design and durability of the kinds of composite materials scientists say will make up the next generation of air and spacecraft, has been named new chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
International students struggling to make sense of our language and culture; returning students, rich in personal history, but perhaps slightly under-prepared to negotiate cryptic academic conventions; freshmen or community college transfers getting a head start in their studies, curious, but also apprehensive.
In just a little over a decade, researchers have been able to identify mutations causing several hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, those that damage motor neurons, and in the process have shed considerable light on the mechanisms at work in more common conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
“The Overhauling of Graduate Medical Education: The Time Has Come” is the title for the Department of Surgery’s 55th annual Alfred A.
Smoke from giant Siberian forest fires pushed one measure of Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on at least one day in 2003, new research shows.
Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement.
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Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast.
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma has announced the recipients of the 2004 Dart Ochberg Fellowship.
Like skillful diplomats from developing nations seeking funds for their countries, entrepreneurial American Indian tribal leaders exploited ambiguities and contradicitions in federal policy to gain new authority and access to the federal decision-making process.
Research by University of Washington Professor Ann Streissguth shows that people diagnosed with either fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol effect (FAE) are more likely to escape social and relationship problems if they are diagnosed early in life and raised in a stable and nurturing environment.
In days past, it was unlikely that UW students Justin Gale from Public Affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet yesterday they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
A skillful mixing of religion and politics helped President Bush silence critics and sell his policies on terrorism and Iraq to the nation, according to a new book that analyzes hundreds of public communications and news reports.
Binge drinking and harmful drinking, including both medium to high levels of regular alcohol consumption, account for a substantial number of deaths each year in the United States.
The University of Washington Libraries is part of a national project to preserve agricultural literature on microfilm.
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. A new study shows a recent strategy designed to slow antibiotic resistance — alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals — probably won’t work.
The University gets about 6,100 job applications and resumes every month, each one representing the career hopes of a would-be employee.
Two of the biggest physics breakthroughs during the last decade were the discovery that wispy subatomic particles called neutrinos actually have a small amount of mass and the detection that the expansion of the universe is actually picking up speed.
University and union negotiating teams continue weekly bargaining sessions, according to Patti Carson, vice president for human resources, in an atmosphere of cooperation and commitment that is “evident to all involved.
Songwriting is experience filtered through words, melody and rhythm.
A new home is coming for the community outreach programs the UW shares with Heritage College, in Toppenish, Wash.
FOR THE CAUSE: Jacqueline Brown, assistant vice provost for Information Technology Partnerships at the UW, will be honored with the 2004 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession at the association’s annual conference this October.
FOR LOVE OF PIXIE: The love a pair of poodle owners had for their show dog Pixie has translated into a major donation that will pay for a new endowed faculty chair in comparative oncology next year at the University of Minnesota, according to the UMNews Web site.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY
ADAI Grants available
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.