Since this is a La Nina year — with more than average snowfalls expected — it’s a good time to review the UW’s bad weather policies.
News releases
UW undergraduate students will travel to Africa to test an ultrasound system aimed at lowering childbirth-related mortality, which kills an estimated 1,000 women each day, almost entirely in the developing world.
A brief questionnaire commonly used with adults is shown to be a suitable depression screening tool for teenagers, too.
University of Washington researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
The decades-long tradition of salmon returning to campus each fall is ending because of new directions in fisheries research and budget cuts.
See some amazing video of army ants at work, including one in which they bring down prey many times larger than themselves.
Ultrasound could soon be a way for spotting cancerous cells before a tumor develops, precisely monitoring how a person responds to treatment or delivering genetic therapies.
A University of Washington Medical Center patient is the world’s first recipient of a device that aims to quell the disabling vertigo associated with Meniere’s disease.
Penguin Report (PDF) A Tool for Increasing the Population of the Galapagos Penguin For more information, contact Boersma at 206-616-2185 or boersma@uw.edu. Think of it as Habitat for Penguinity. A University of Washington conservation biologist is behind the effort to build nests in the barren rocks of the Galápagos Islands in the hope of increasing the population of an endangered penguin species. Just as Habitat for Humanity crews help build houses for people who need shelter, Dee Boersma’s team in…
UW seismologists have begun recording a slow-moving and unfelt seismic event under the Olympic Peninsula, and it promises to be the best-documented such event in the eight years since the regularly occurring phenomena were first discovered.