Seven scientists and engineers at the University of Washington have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, according to an announcement July 15 by the academy.


Seven scientists and engineers at the University of Washington have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, according to an announcement July 15 by the academy.

Recent honors to UW faculty and staff members include an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest, membership in an inaugural class of distinguished fellows in pharmacology, and a leadership position in a national student housing association.

Eight scientists and engineers from the University of Washington have been elected this year to the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

Four University of Washington researchers are among 347 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 2015.

Increasing cell signals that put the brake on excitatory brain cells reduces repetitive behaviors and learning problems and improves social interactions in a mouse model of autism. This was achieved with a low dose of benzodiazipine, a common anti-anxiety, anti-seizure medication.

Filtered from a vast sodium sea, more than 1 million calcium ions per second gush through our cells’ pores to generate charges