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SIMPLY BRILLIANT: Popular Science magazine chose Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, for a spot on this year’s “Brilliant 10” list.
Name: Susan Lowney
UW Job: Buyer II, in the Purchasing Department.
The Burke Museum helps Seattle’s urban students get out of the classroom and into nature with its Magnuson Outdoor Learning Laboratory, and now the program has been honored by the Environmental Education Association of Washington with the association’s 2007 Community Catalyst Award.
Dan Luchtel would like the Faculty Senate to be seen as a body that “adds value to our shared governance.
How time flies and things grow.
The UW has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
Increased annual coverage limits, the removal of lifetime benefit caps and some different plans are among changes coming in UW employees’ medical and dental insurance for 2008.
English clarinetist Gareth Davis will perform at 7:30 p.
When students come to the UW, many have general ideas about what to study and how to prepare for future careers, but they are often unaware of which University major, program or classes will best help them reach their educational and career goals.
The UW School of Drama presents the Seattle premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street, which previews on Oct.
What began as a meeting of cultures and teaching styles grew into a connection of minds and hearts this summer when Seattle-area educators met, studied with and befriended counterparts from the country of Jordan, and then visited Jordan themselves.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how UW engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
Suppose you went through a series of engaging events with two people from another country.
Wanted: UW videos and other multimedia materials of interest to people aged 18 to 35.
Even as KUOW, the UW’s National Public Radio affiliate, asks for green from its listeners in its pledge drives, the station’s staff and volunteers are going green by recycling and composting, especially in — you guessed it — the green room.
When Steve Malone retired earlier this month, he could take satisfaction in the great strides that have been made in forecasting volcanic eruptions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
Within years of its inception, UW faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
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This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
Mary Levin The UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by UW staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, or 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 3. Pre-registration is required; click here for more information or call 206-685-8033.
The UW Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
Free seminar on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Oct.
Four UW faculty members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
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The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).
If a woman has been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the other breast may show cancer that the mammogram missed, according to a UW-led international study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March.