The latest news from the UW

Want to help local high school students achieve the dream of getting into college? You can, by joining the Dream Project on Nov.

What do macaques, parasites and a piece of plastic poop have in common? They’re all used by Randy Kyes, director of the UW Center for Global Field Study, to demonstrate the significance of biodiversity on health.

Staffers in the Benefits Office really threw their money around on Oct.

Sean O’Donnell, UW psychology professor who studies social insects in the tropics, served as a biology consultant for the new television documentary Great Migrations by the National Geographic Channel.

Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in blogs about their interests or professional matters.

Two UW scientists with bold new ideas for treating infectious diseases rampant in developing nations are among the latest recipients of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges Exploration Grants.

The Washington State Pharmacy Association (WSPA) recently announced its 2010 award winners.

Two UW School of Dentistry alumni are featured in a new exhibit about African-American health care professionals.

Learn more about the medical and dental plans offered to UW employees.

Look at What the Light Did Now documents the journey of singer Feist’s Grammy-nominated album The Reminder.

President Barack Obama addressed — and delighted — a packed, purple house of Huskies at Hec Edmondson Pavilion today, part of a whistlestop-style tour to get out the Democratic vote, especially for Sen. Patty Murray, before the mid-term elections. “I am thrilled to back in Seattle, thrilled to be back in the state of Washington!” Obama said as cheers rocked the hall. As he started his speech, someone called out, but the audience only heard his answer as he flashed…

The UW Botanic Gardens hosts a special, daylong event to inventory the various mushroom species living within the Washington Park Arboretum.

An associate professor of American art at the University of Pennsylvania, Shaw also holds the American art history professorship at the UW School of Art this fall.

UW Medicine transplant surgeon Dr.

For the fourth year in a row, the UW received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.

A survey last year looked at UW employees perceptions about obtaining their care at UW Medicine health systems. Here is a Q & A answering so

Board of Regents

The Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 2 p.

This fall, UW community members can easily access three educational videos produced by the Center for Personal Protection and Safety: Shots Fired, Flashpoint, and Silent Storm on the UW SafeCampus <A href="https://www.

For its fall meeting, the UW Professional Staff Association will offer a talk by Margaret Shepherd, UW director of state relations.

What’s the mechanism that makes a political video go viral? What causes a video clip to spread from a few people to millions, sometimes in a matter of hours? Is it a top-down process led by elite gatekeepers or bottoms up, driven by people at the grass roots? And how do blogs affect the life cycle of a viral video?

Common wisdom might suggest that a posse of political blogs triggers virality, but research from the UW indicates it often springs from just two elite blogs followed by top general interest outlets that aren’t considered political.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Samuel E.

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