Three finalists for the position of chief of the UW Police Department will be visiting campus this month.
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Hundreds of spring-blooming bulb selections and companion plants will be available at the Arboretum Foundation’s Fall Bulb and Plant Sale from 10 a.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
A report on the log-truck industry just delivered to the state Legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.
Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.
POLL FIBBING: Anthony Greenwald, the UW professor of psychology who developed an online test to detect implicit biases called Project Implicit, was mentioned in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about voters lying in polls and surveys.
When John Francis was an undergraduate biology major at the UW, he spent several summers studying northern fur seals in Alaska, and the experience hooked him on research.
As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.
Community leaders and members of the UW family who have made outstanding achievements in promoting diversity at the UW and in the community will be honored when the Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) and UW Alumni Association holds the 14th annual Bridging the Gap Breakfast on Saturday, Oct.
A second season of Luce Lectures will focus on the U.
An analysis of emergency medical services-treated cardiac arrest outcomes in 10 areas in North America finds a fivefold difference in survival rates, according to a study in the Sept.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
Last year, when UW pharmacy students were called upon to help with a hypertension-awareness initiative at Seattle Seahawks games, the students were more than happy to heed that call.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The International District’s Legacy House — an assisted living facility — recently celebrated 10 years of providing social and housing services to low-income Asian seniors.
Serge Hakizimana spent 11 years of his life in a refugee camp in Tanzania.
The 2008 Start! Puget Sound Heart Walk is less than two weeks away.
Carlene Anders, Gene Dowers and their children — Danny, 5, and Jessi, 12 — made a special trip to UW Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) on Friday, Aug.
By Peggy Weiss
Harborview Art Program
For more than 30 years, Harborview Medical Center has recognized the powerful humanizing effects of art in the health care environment.
A gathering to celebrate the life of Michael C.
Students arriving for autumn quarter classes at the UW Tacoma this week have a new facility that provides much-needed space for campus events, as well as a place for students to hang out and study between classes.
Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed.
Did you know that a dried grasshopper’s body is more than 60-percent protein: twice that of chicken or beef? Learn more yummy bug facts from “the Bug Chef,” David George Gordon at The Burke Museum’s10th annual Bug Blast from 10 a.
It’s official: The College of Architecture and Urban Planning has been renamed the College of Built Environments.
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.
The Northwest Film Forum will feature two films from the UW Libraries Special Collections on Tuesday, Oct.
New research shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina’s victims were black.
Over the summer, the UW Police Department got its national accreditation renewed — which is a tougher process than getting accredited in the first place.
The MacArthur Foundation works so quietly on its genius grants, UW scientist David Montgomery didn’t even know he’d been nominated until he learned of his selection last week.
The UW World Series opens its 2008-09 President’s Piano solo recital series at 8 p.
Catherine Henderson, who describes herself as a romantic at heart, wrote her prize winning Song of Washington, Stand Up with Pride for Washington, because she wanted to inspire people to be part of something bigger than themselves.
When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Online teaching isn’t right for every class, and in-person instruction can be inconvenient for busy professional people.
At any given time there is a small army of workers on the UW campus who are not employed by the University.
LOCAL HERO: Russell Ellis, a UW Police Department officer, received a Lifesaving Award at this year’s Governor’s Industrial Safety & Health Conference after going out of his way to help a stranger.
You can register now for UW Computer Training classes in word processing, graphics and presentations, desktop publishing and other computer-related topics including these new offerings:
- Introduction to Personal Computers and Vista (R703)
- SharePoint 2007 for Business Managers (R3001)
- SharePoint 2007 Bootcamp (R3002)
You’ll find links to the autumn schedule and a printable course catalog at <A href="https://www.
The Henry Art Gallery at the UW is administering a new award for emerging artists in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
How’s your blood pressure? Oh, you haven’t had it checked lately? The Employee Health Clinic, located at Hall Health, can help you with that.
The first study of conduct problems in children to include a significant number of aggressive girls indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes.