For Susan Canfield, the creation of her book of interviews about the mentoring relationship, Mentoring Moments, is something of a dream come true.
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Want to take a walk with your UW colleagues and raise some money for a worthy cause in the process? Then join the Seattle AIDS Walk on Saturday, Sept.
Faculty and staff women who like to sing are again being offered a chance to be part of a choir that practices once a week and performs several times a year.
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
About 12 elm trees between Parrington Hall and the William H.
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.
Poetry and technology aren’t usually thought of in relation to each other, but a new Web site with UW ties unites the two to create a “Facebook for poets.
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Savery Hall occupants are coming home this month to a building that looks cleaner and brighter on the outside and completely new on the inside.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The departments of military science, naval science and aerospace studies will hold an open house in their home base, Clark Hall, from 10 a.
Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.
When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike.
By Beth Luce
UW Tacoma
A study by UW Tacoma alumna Kristen Shinohara and Josh Tenenberg, a UWT Institute of Technology professor, made the cover of the August issue of Communications of the ACM.
The UW was ranked second in the country by Sierra Magazine for the University’s sustainability efforts, and it was also named to the 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll by the Princeton Review.
It’s part of the drill in luring fine scholars to be faculty members at the UW: Take ’em to lunch at the UW Faculty Club, show ’em around the building and encourage ogling out wall-to-wall windows at Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains.
YOUNG AND BRILLIANT: The UW’s Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, is one of 35 outstanding innovators under the age of 35 being honored by Technology Review magazine.
One way to experience international travel and bring the world to your doorstep is by hosting an international UW student.
The organizers of last month’s contest to name the UW’s new mobile application have announced a winner.
A Web portal at the Applied Physics Laboratory now has more than 50 different kinds of ocean data being collected in Puget Sound and off the coast of Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents Regular Meeting for August has been canceled.
On the outside, the rock is plain and ordinary serpentine stone common to Washington State.
Plastic that conducts electricity holds promise for cheaper, thinner and more flexible electronics.
That palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function – to stick to your refrigerator.
By Sandra Hines & Catherine O’Donnell
UW News & Information
As of Aug.
UW School of Music students Lauren Roth and Toby Penk are featured soloists for an performance tonight, Aug.
The UW Bothell has received approval from the state Higher Education Coordinating Board to launch a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program (BSEE) in Winter, 2010.
Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones.
Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles.
This is the last issue of University Week for summer quarter.
DUST OF DESTINY: For space enthusiasts, the lede of the recent Los Angeles Times story was pretty exciting: “Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of a comet.
Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting in Boston.
Two UW research teams have won the Life Sciences Discovery Fund’s inaugural winter commercialization grant competition to support commercial translation of health-related technologies.
Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
Nancy Maizels, UW professor of immunology, has received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in recognition of her three years of service on the fund’s Scientific Review Panel.
When Kay Balston graduated from high school 40 years ago, she didn’t head right off to college.
During the last few months, UW CareLink, the faculty and staff assistance program, has provided special workshops for employees who are continuing on the job after others were laid off.
For the past five and a half years, Randy Hodgins has been telling the UW’s story to the Legislature as the director of state relations.
Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth’s history were triggered by a space body crashing into the planet’s surface.