Patricia Kuhl, a researcher recognized internationally for her work on early language and brain development and studies on how children learn, and Lynn Riddiford, who studies the hormones that regulate insect molting and metamorphosis, have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Opening ceremonies for the Confucius Institute of Washington, which will be housed on campus, were held this week.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
A national study shows that ranibizumab injections plus laser therapy results in dramatic improvement in vision.
Students could smell the Guatemalan river before they were close.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
It was a serious and substantive meeting with White House staff over workplace flexibility issues that Randi Shapiro, UW Work Life director, got to attend on March 31.
You could call it “Campus Makeover, the Hall Health Edition.
Why do workers get paid what they do? Over the past few decades, U.
For the first time in 71 years, the Huskies will be playing a non-weekend contest in Husky Stadium to accommodate a nationwide telecast on ESPN.
A group of more than 40 Japanese delegates, including a survivor of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, will be featured in a forum on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons at 12:30 p.
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth’s history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Seventeen-time Grammy award-winning guitarist Pat Metheny will make a special appearance at the UW School of Music on Friday, April 30, when he leads a clinic with UW jazz students.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Buddy Ratner, UW professor in the departments of bioengineering and chemical Engineering, has been selected to give the 2010 University Faculty Lecture.
There are no comic book shops in Russia, says Jose Alaniz, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literature — no deep appreciation of heroic or sensational comic adventures by the mainstream.
On April 27 President Mark Emmert wrote to the campus community and dropped a bombshell:
“It is with very mixed emotions that I am writing to let you know that today I have accepted the presidency of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The social work discipline has been around for a century.
Hearing the word health research probably brings to mind white-coated workers doing mysterious things with lab equipment, with any benefits to the public years down the line.
The Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase gives everyone the chance to experience first-hand the UW’s best educators.
UW faculty pianist Craig Sheppard will perform Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas in his annual faculty recital, at 7:30 p.
Jim Reinnoldt, a lecturer in business administration at UW Bothell, will discuss how to be successful in job or graduate school interviews.
The School of Music’s Wind Ensemble and symphonic, concert and campus bands team for an evening of music.
A faculty member at the University of Oregon, Dossin will present a lecture-recital on the life and music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.
One of Spain’s national treasures, this dance troupe dazzled Seattle audiences when they appeared at Meany Hall in February of 2008.
Carlos Saura made this film in 1990 and said, “This is the film I always wanted to make.
The number of women dying from pregnancy-related causes has dropped by more than 35 percent in the past 30 years — from more than a half-million deaths annually in 1980 to about 343,000 in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation <A href="http://www.
Your trip can be more enjoyable if you prepare for health risks associated with your itinerary by getting information, vaccines, and presc
“Bat Child Found in West Virginia Cave!” screamed a headline in the Weekly World News on June 23, 1992.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
You may not have noticed them, but the campus is home to a small group of great blue herons who have built nests in trees south of Drumheller Fountain for the past three years.
The books are Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor and Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy and Economic Inequality in Twenty-one Countries.
Each year six students, one each from the UW health sciences schools, are selected for this award
UW researchers have gathered evidence that dangerous plaques in blood vessels can rupture by overproducing protein-digesting enzymes.
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Two UW graduate students in the School of Art raised $2,000 for charity last November with their Hello Poster Show at the Parnassus Cafe, an exhibit of posters each bearing that friendly greeting.
Just don’t say “opposites attract.
Spring has brought good news to the UW’s Disability Studies Program: It has a new administrative home in the College of Arts & Sciences and received a major donation, too.