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March 26, 2013
Gene therapy may aid failing hearts
Scientists come closer to boosting heart muscle by powering its contractile machinery.
Tag(s): Center for Cardiovascular Biology • genetics & DNA • heart disease
Documents that Changed the World: The ‘Casablanca’ letters of transit
The latest in the Documents that Changed the World podcast series is about a famous World War II-era document that never existed at all.
Tag(s): Documents that Changed the World • Information SchoolMarch 22, 2013
Rising ocean acidity saps mussels’ strength
March 21, 2013
Arts Roundup: Art about music, music about art — and ongoing shows
Ongoing exhibits at the Henry Art Gallery and Burke Museum and UW-related art being shown off campus are featured.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of MusicMarch 20, 2013
News Digest: U Bridge closures, demo of mobile planetarium, SeattleSounder FC’s UW Day
University Bridge closures March 23, 24 || Mobile planetarium demonstration April 1 || Portion of ticket sales for Seattle Sounder FC’s UW Day goes to scholarships
2013 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award goes to King Holmes for STD work
Holmes was honored for his groundbreaking work on sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea and human papilloma virus.
Tag(s): awards • Department of Global Health • HIV and AIDS • infectious disease • King Holmes • School of Medicine • School of Public Health
Some Alaskan trout use flexible guts for the ultimate binge diet
The stomach and intestines of certain Dolly Varden trout double to quadruple in size during month-long, salmon-egg-eating binges in Alaska each August. It’s the first time researchers have documented such fish gut flexibility in the wild.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences • University of Washington
Update April 3, 2013 cherry blossom watch: Quad in full bloom
The cold weather this week is delaying the blooming of cherry trees in the UW Quad.
Tag(s): cherry blossoms • Quad • Sara ShoresMarch 19, 2013
Jordanna Bailkin studies postwar Britain in new book ‘The Afterlife of Empire’
UW History Professor Jordanna Bailkin discusses her new book “The Afterlife of Empire.”
Tag(s): books • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Q&A
Tenfold boost in ability to pinpoint proteins in cancer cells
New research offers a more comprehensive way to analyze a cell’s unique behavior, revealing patterns that could indicate why a cell will or won’t become cancerous.
Tag(s): cancer • College of Engineering • Department of Bioengineering • School of Medicine • Xiaohu Gao
Grieving parents find solace in remembrance photography – with photo gallery
A UW anthropology student investigated how remembrance photography helps grieving parents, and how the practice’s resurgence could signal a change in the way death and dying are dealt with in our society.
Tag(s): College of Arts & Sciences • Department of AnthropologyMarch 18, 2013
UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’
University of Washington students have been testing low-cost materials capable of harvesting water from fog.
UW professor fights poverty one land plot at a time
March 15, 2013
UW medical students match up with residency programs nationwide
On Match Day, students at medical schools across the nation find out where they will train as residents.
News Digest: Sea Grant symposium focuses on waterfronts, lecture March 22 on tissue engineering, reception honors staff nominees
Washington Sea Grant sponsors four-day symposium on waterfront challenges || Lecture March 22 on advances in tissue engineering || Reception March 26 for Distinguished Staff Award nominees
Endangered species meeting endorses ivory testing
March 14, 2013
Arts Roundup: Symphony, chamber singers, organ music and more
The UW Symphony, Chamber Singers, Littlefield Organ Series and more this week in UW arts.
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of MusicMarch 13, 2013
Innocence Project Northwest wins right to DNA testing for felons serving time in community
Felons who serve part of their prison sentence in the community may now have the right to publicly funded DNA testing.
Tag(s): Innocence Project Northwest • School of Law
Ethnomusicology’s Global Reach
UW places highly in ranking of graduate programs by US News
US News & World Report recently published its national ranking of graduate programs.
Tag(s): RankingsMarch 12, 2013
News Digest: UW Tower Green Fair Thursday, Restoration Ecology Network recognized
Demos, films, exhibits at UW Tower Green Fair Thursday || Society recognizes UW Restoration Ecology Network
Tag(s): College of the Environment • School of Environmental and Forest SciencesMarch 11, 2013
Long-term relationships, access to data drive sustainability institutions’ success
Successful sustainability initiatives need to be grounded in long-standing relationships among scientists, local communities and decision-makers, UW’s Lisa Graumlich told a session on sustainability science at AAAS.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Lisa Graumlich
Remote clouds responsible for climate models’ glitch in tropical rainfall
One of the most persistent biases in global climate models is due to poor simulation of cloud cover thousands of miles to the south.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Dargan Frierson • Department of Atmospheric and Climate ScienceMarch 8, 2013
Spring move-in slated for new UW Medicine South Lake Union research building
Occupying the seven-story facility will be labs for kidney research, vision sciences, immunology, rheumatology, and infectious disease investigations.
Tag(s): Capital Projects • UW Medicine
The engineering and design behind EcoCar2
March 7, 2013
Tracking sediments’ fate in largest-ever dam removal
Any day now, the world’s largest dam-removal project will release a century’s worth of sediment . For geologists, it’s a unique opportunity to study natural and engineered river systems.
Tag(s): Andrea Ogston • Charles Nittrouer • College of the Environment • Elwha River • School of Oceanography
Arts Roundup: Music, opera, drama — and dinosaurs
Lots of music this week, plus “Cyrano” continues and the Burke Museum holds Dino Day, a family-friendly event 65 million years in the making.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • dinosaurs • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Music • Undergraduate Theater SocietyMarch 6, 2013
UW nautilus expedition may have spied new species
A University of Washington research team has captured color photographs of what could be a previously undocumented species of chambered nautilus, a cephalopod mollusk often classified as a “living fossil,” in the waters off American Samoa in the South Pacific. “This is certainly a new taxon, but we are not sure if it is a…
Kate Starbird’s new path leads to UW
Crow slumber party at UW Bothell
March 5, 2013
News Digest: UW students speak at Town Hall, nominations due, celebrate Philosophy in Schools program, tobacco cessation help
UW Science Now kicks off at Town Hall tonight || Celebrating UW Women nominations due March 11 || Nominations sought for fourth annual Husky Green Awards || Grade-school students take on philosophy in panel discussion || Hall Health Center expands tobacco cessation program
March 4, 2013
United States lags behind many developed countries on key health measures
A public symposium on the Global Burden of Diseases study will be held on campus Monday, March 11.
Lost and Found Films: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge and more, 1940
“Governor’s Day 2,” a six-minute montage of colorful campus scenes, is the latest in the Lost and Found Films series, where readers help identify snippets of UW footage.
Tag(s): UW Libraries
‘True grit’ erodes assumptions about evolution
New work in Argentina where scientists had previously thought Earth’s first grasslands emerged 38 million years ago, shows the area at the time covered with tropical forests rich with palms, bamboos and gingers. Grit and volcanic ash in those forests could have caused the evolution of teeth in horse-like animals that scientists mistakenly thought were adaptations in response to emerging grasslands.
Tag(s): Caroline Strömberg • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of Biology • evolution • paleontology • University of WashingtonFebruary 28, 2013
Arts Roundup: Dance, art, music, lectures — and students stage ‘Cyrano’
This week the Undergraduate Theater Society stages the Cyrano de Bergerac story and the School of Drama performs “Pentecost.” There’s also the 2013 Dance Majors Concert.
Tag(s): Henry Art Gallery • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama • School of Music • Undergraduate Theater Society
Changes in cloud distribution explain some weather patterns
Regional cloud changes may be as important for climate change as the overall amount of cloud cover.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • Ryan Eastman • Stephen WarrenFebruary 27, 2013
Tusk tracking will tackle illegal trade
UW biologist to push for more forensic testing of seized ivory to help track down poachers, slow elephant slaughter.
Women Who Rock (un)conference, launch of oral history archive – with video
The Women Who Rock Project, a collaboration between University of Washington and the community organizers, will hold its third “unconference” combined with the launch of its oral history archive March 9.
Contaminated diet contributes to phthalate and bisphenol A exposure
People are exposed to these endocrine-disrupting chemicals even if they eat an organic diet and do not store, prepare or cook in plastic containers.
Tag(s): Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • pollution • School of Public Health • Sheela Sathyanarayana • workplace safety
Bundle up for Polar Science Weekend at Pacific Science Center
The annual Polar Science Weekend, featuring many UW students and faculty, takes place tomorrow through Sunday at Pacific Science Center.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • Harry Stern • Polar Science Weekend« Previous Page Next Page »
