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Low-back pain continues to impose a huge burden on industrialized societies, in terms of symptoms, medical costs, productivity, and work absence.
BizTech, the UW campus technology fair, will not be held in 2009.
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.
Top administrators and students from the UW School of Dentistry met with key legislators in Olympia on Feb.
The Seattle chapter of the Online News Association and the UW Department of Communication will host a panel discussion, “Journalism on the Brink? Can Digital Save It?” The discussion will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.
By Nedra Pautler
Department of Bioengineering
A new interdisciplinary center based in the UW Department of Bioengineering will work on guiding biologically based drugs to targets inside the cell.
John Vinson, the UW’s new police chief, is a veteran law enforcement officer who stresses that cooperation and teamwork are how to make a good police department even better.
The Jupiter String Quartet will make its Meany Hall debut in a concert at 8 p.
Nelita True, professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, will perform works by Beethoven, Faure, Liszt, and more in a visiting artist recital at 7:30 p.
About 90 educators and others were on hand in Mary Gates Hall the afternoon of Thursday, Feb.
“A university is a community of scholars contributing, each according to his own talents and interests, to the transmission and advancement of knowledge.
Class title: GEOG/SIS 111: Global Youth, taught by Dr.
The Japan Studies Program, The Henry M.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
GM + U-M = ABCD: General Motors and the University of Michigan have teamed up to help speed up the design of advanced batteries for electric cars.
Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table.
Marking the end of International Polar Year, the chair of the eight-nation council that is assessing the implications of increased shipping in the Arctic Ocean will give a lecture on campus Thursday, Feb.
A new map depicts the “solar system” of the Puget Sound technology industry as it developed over the past 30 years, as told through the genealogy of 711 companies, institutions and organizations.
On Thursday, Feb.
The UW’s HuskyTV system is ready for the switch to digital television (DTV).
When it comes to global affairs, the UW is “number one but a lot of people don’t know it.
UW voice students perform art songs and arias by Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn in the voice division recital at 7:30 p.
The opportunities and limitations of team teaching is the subject of “Meet, Greet, Teach” Thursday, Feb.
Three longtime UW administrators will gather to talk about how their feminist principles play out in their work in a roundtable next week sponsored by the Women Studies Department.
The good news from Olympia is that legislators’ attention has been focused extensively on higher education for the past several weeks.
Meet with industry experts about career options and the degree and certificate programs that will prepare you to start or advance your career in the health care and biomedical fields.
The opening reception for the School of Art’s Annual Juried student show, OPEN, at the Jacob Lawrence gallery — a no-holds-barred, no rules exhibition of unbridled talent juried by Rock Hushka, curator of contemporary and northwest art at the Tacoma Art Museum.
This farce about ghosts and seances is an enduring classic even though its author, Noel Coward, claimed he wrote it in five days while on vacation.
The final version of Masizakhe: Building Each Other, a film about spoken word poetry and hip hop in South Africa produced by Scott Macklin, the College of Education’s chief technology officer, will be screened at the Real to Reel Film Festival.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love will share her thoughts on the writing life and some of her current projects.
Did you miss “Immigration and American Identity,” the Annual Faculty, delivered by Charles Hirschman, on Jan.
The genome of the evolutionary ancestor of humans and present-day apes underwent a burst of activity in duplicating segments of DNA, according to a study to be published in Nature Feb 12, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
There’s much more to the practice of pharmacy than many people think.
By Ashley Wiggin
School of Nursing
Dr.
Tom Fleming, UW professor of biostatistics and statistics, will deliver the School of Public Health’s Winter Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Clinical Trials: Discerning Hype from Substance.
Medical Education Research & Scholarship Forum: “It’s Not Marcus Welby MD’s Library Any More!” Presenters: Ann Whitney, head, Systems, Health Sciences Libraries; Sherry Dodson, clinical librarian; and Sarah Safranek, information management librarian.
Breast cancer affects one woman in nine during her lifetime, and the risk increases with age.
The UW Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging will fund pilot projects in basic research on the biology of aging.