News releases
January 25, 2011
Higher costs of more nutritious diets contribute to socio-economic disparities in health
People with lower incomes and less education typically have less healthful eating habits than people with higher incomes and more education. A UW study concludes that socio-economic disparities in diet quality are directly affected by diet costs.
Rogue storm system caused Pakistan floods that left millions homeless
Last summers disastrous and deadly Pakistan floods were caused by a rogue weather system that wandered hundreds of miles farther west than is normal for such systems, new UW research shows.
January 24, 2011
Higher costs of more nutritious diets contribute to socio-economic disparities in health: UW research
Higher costs of more nutritious diets contribute to socio-economic disparities in health: UW research
January 21, 2011
President Obama honors UW maternal health researcher Dr. Michelle Williams
Williams will receive a prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring next week at a White House ceremony.
President Obama honors UW epidemiologist Dr. Michelle Williams as one of the nation’s outstanding mentors
Williams will receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Math and Engineering mentoring.
January 20, 2011
Gulf grows between research practice and participant preferences in genetic studies
Realigning with participants’ interests is important for the future of research. UW and Group Health bioethicists suggest ways for scientists and study volunteers to build trusting relationships in a policy forum appearing Jan. 21 in the journal Science.
Encouraging women scientists in industry, government to enter academia
The On-Ramps into Academia workshop at the UW aims to lure women researchers working in government, industry or as consultants to academic positions. Applications for the second workshop, this spring, are due Feb. 15.
Gulf grows between research practice and participant preferences in genetic research
Realigning with participants’ interest is important for the future of genomic research.
January 18, 2011
UW Medicine, Valley Medical Center to explore strategic alliance
Today, Jan. 18, the chief executive officers of UW Medicine and Valley Medical Center announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Inten
January 12, 2011
Iceberg snaps, produces strange song
Want to hear one of the biggest icebergs of the last decade crack up? UW researchers compressed a five-hour event in Antarctica into a two-minute audio file that you can listen to.
January 5, 2011
Co-management holds promise of sustainable fisheries worldwide
Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the worlds fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management.
January 3, 2011
Engineering students hack Kinect for surgical robotics research
Students in the Biorobotics Laboratory hacked the Kinect, a motion-based controller for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming system, for research on telerobotic surgery.
Anti-bullying program reduces malicious gossip on school playgrounds
UW researchers report that elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
Anti-bullying program reduces malicious gossip on school playgrounds
Elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
December 30, 2010
Team approach shows successes for depressed patients with diabetes, heart disease
Depression and physical disease were managed together in a primary-care intervention called TEAMCare in a UW/Group Health study. The results for patients: less depression, better control of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol — and a greater enjoyment of life.
Team-based approach to patient care shows success in fight against depression with diabetes, heart disease
Team-based approach to patient care shows success
December 23, 2010
Layoffs of teachers in Washington state are unrelated to effectiveness
A recent study by researchers Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald of the Center for Education Data and Research at the University of Washington Bothell found that layoff decisions within the teaching profession are disproportionally determined by seniority and other factors unrelated to teaching effectiveness.
December 22, 2010
UW Medicine scientists among international consortium of researchers to conduct first-ever analysis of roundworm genome
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December 20, 2010
Students water-testing tool wins $40,000, launches nonprofit
UW engineering students won an international contest for designing a way to monitor water disinfection by solar rays. The students will share a $40,000 prize from the Rockefeller Foundation and are now working with nonprofits to turn their concept into a reality.
Without intervention, Mariana crow to become extinct in 75 years
Researchers from the University of Washington say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years.
New book on Martin Luther King Jr. and economic rights: "All Labor Has Dignity”
Michael Honey, a history professor at UW Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of Kings speeches on economic justice.
Without intervention, Mariana crow to become extinct in 75 years
Researchers from the University of Washington say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years.
New book on Martin Luther King Jr. and economic rights: “All Labor Has Dignity”
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December 15, 2010
Polar bears still on thin ice, but cutting greenhouse gases now can avert extinction
New research indicates that if humans reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly in the next decade or two, enough Arctic ice is likely to remain intact during late summer and early autumn for polar bears to survive.
December 14, 2010
UW, WSU collaborate in landmark national study of children’s health
The Pacific Northwest Center today announced the launch of a campaign to recruit area families into the National Children’s Study, the largest long-term study of children’s health and development ever undertaken in the United States.
Harborview Medical Center named to Target: Stroke Honor Roll
The UW Medicine Stroke Center at Harborview has been recognized for excellence in emergency stroke care on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll by the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.
Too much retinoic acid disrupts development in zebra fish embryos
Retinoic acid causes lethal truncation of the embryo which grows all of its body, except its head, by releasing cells from its posterior end
December 13, 2010
Assessing the environmental effects of tidal turbines
UW scientists are helping to prepare for a tidal energy project in Puget Sound. Researchers say this pilot project will have the most comprehensive environmental monitoring of any tidal energy installation to date.
Calculating tidal energy turbines effects on sediments and fish
Engineers are developing computer models to study how changes in water pressure and current speed around tidal turbines affect sediment buildup and fish health.
Decline of West Coast fog brought higher coastal temperatures last 60 years
Summertime fog, a common feature along the West Coast, has declined since 1950 while coastal temperatures have increased slightly, new research shows.
‘Array of arrays coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
New technology is letting UW researchers get a much better picture of how episodic tremor events relate to potentially catastrophic earthquakes every 300 to 500 years in the Cascadia subduction zone.
For news media: La Nina, PNW climate experts
Reporters can turn to UW experts on PNW climate variability, effects of La Nina and flooding.
‘Array of arrays’ coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
Every 15 months or so, an unfelt earthquake occurs in western Washington and travels northward to Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Decline of West Coast fog brought higher coastal temperatures last 60 years
Summertime fog, a common feature along the West Coast, has decline since 1950 while coastal temperatures have increased slightly.
December 8, 2010
Tackling new terrain: climate change and global health
A new initiative could position the University of Washington as a major player in addressing global health and environmental issues arising from climate change.
NSF awards $3.5 million to prepare math teachers for diverse classrooms
The UW Tacoma is part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation to transform how K-8 mathematics teachers can be trained as they face classrooms in which many students are not native English speakers.
UW Medicine to expand use of Microsoft Amalga to support clinical, translational research
Based on a successful two-year technology pilot program, UW Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System. The data aggregation platform will support multiple clinical and research initiatives.
UW Medicine to expand use of Microsoft Amalga to support clinical, translational research
Based on the successful results of a two-year technology pilot program, UW Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS), a data aggregation platform, to support multiple clinical and research initiatives across the health organization.
December 7, 2010
International law permits abusive fathers custody of children
A survey of court cases shows that when battered women living abroad flee their abusive husbands and return to the United States, many times their children are sent back, usually to their fathers.
International law permits abusive fathers custody of children
International law permits abusive fathers custody of children
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