UW News
The latest news from the UW
October 6, 2010
Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics
Rising temperatures are most obvious in colder climates, but the impact of warming on life could be much greater in the tropics.
October 5, 2010
Media advisory: UW Medicine Tumor Vaccine Group holds open house, lab tours
Media advisory: UW Medicine Tumor Vaccine Group holds open house, lab tours
UW researchers land $24 million in patient-centered research grants
University of Washington researchers land $24 million in patient-centered research grants
UW-built device reveals invisible world teeming with microscopic algae
It just got easier to pinpoint biological hot spots in the world’s oceans where some inhabitants are smaller than, well, a pinpoint.
October 4, 2010
Depression during pregnancy increases risk for preterm birth and low birth weight
Rates of premature birth are even higher among depressed pregnant women living in poverty in America or in developing nations
‘Living Voters Guide’ invites Washington voters to hash out ballot initiatives
Voters across the country are entering the season of ballot measures.
Latino Film Festival.
A free screening of No Son Invisivbles (They Aren’t Invisible): Mujeres Mayas & Microfinances as part of the Seattle Latino Film Festival.
Lee Konitz New Quartet.
Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz has enjoyed one of the most creative and prolific careers in modern jazz, performing with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, Stan Kenton’s Orchestra and the Miles Davis Capitol Orchestra (aka Miles Davis Tuba Band).
October 1, 2010
Henry Art Gallery Open House
View the latest exhibits, dance to live sixties soul with The Witness, view a glow-in-the-dark slideshow from Sol Hashemi and more as the Henry kicks off another year of great art and activities.
September 30, 2010
Scarless brain surgery is new option for patients
The procedure is performed through the eye socket, thereby eliminating removal of the top of the skull to reach the brain.
UW leading $7.5 million study of animal flight and aerial vehicles
The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
UWTV kicks off fall TV season with brand new, original shows
Have you ever seen lightning strike the hood of a Lamborghini? Or wondered what makes Lolcats.
UW leading $7.5 million study of animal flight and aerial vehicles
The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.
Volunteer with Jumpstart and help local preschoolers prepare for kindergarten
In Seattle, more than 80 percent of children living in poverty under the age of 5 enter kindergarten without the skills necessary to learn.
Interim President Phyllis Wise: The University’s needs won’t wait
Editor’s note: Interim President Wise will give the annual president’s address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Program aims to help Indonesian universities host international students
The UW is one of six US institutions that will be working with six Indonesian universities to help them build the capacity to provide high-quality study abroad programs for U.
Burke Museum to show off collection of hand-woven textiles in ‘Weaving Heritage’
The Burke Museum has been collecting international textiles for over a century and holds a permanent collection of over 2,000 hand-woven pieces.
80 percent of agricultural expansion in tropics came at expense of forests
Tropical forests — and not previously cleared land, as some have contended — were the primary source of new agricultural land in the tropics from 1980 through 2000, according to a paper published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Eight UW professors elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Eight UW professors are among 17 scientists newly elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing scientific achievements.
UW Bothell debuts new principal preparation program
This year, UW Bothell begins its new Leadership Development for Educators Program (LEDE), which will support teacher instructional leaders and help them document their learning so that it contributes to requirements for a masters degree and state residency principal certificate.
New faculty get orientation, too — in the Faculty Fellows Program
Chantel Prat was nervous.
Young investigators will hunt clues at Burke Museum in ‘Seek Your Own Proof’ online game
This fall, the Burke Museum will be visited by a number of secret agents, each on a special mission, seeking information vital to their task.
UW Bothell nursing students in first UW program offered in Everett
The first UW program to be offered in Everett begins Oct.
Memorial planned Oct. 3 for Randolph ‘Ran’ Hennes
A memorial service for Randolph “Ran” Hennes, former associate director of the University Honors Program and history department lecturer, will be held at 1 p.
Etc: News & Notes from around campus
GREEN UW: The UW was a winner of a 2010 Green Washington award from Seattle Business magazine, which recognized those companies and organizations that are “in the forefront of making our state a greener place to live and work” according to the magazine.
U.S. poised to repeat mistakes concerning nuclear wastes, researchers say
Much of the problem of dealing with high-level nuclear waste — from both defense wastes and spent fuel from commercial nuclear power — is political and social, yet the search to date for workable solutions has been dominated by technological remedies, says Thomas Leschine, a UW professor of marine affairs.
Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity awarded Student Support Services grants
The UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D) was recently awarded a pair of grants from the U.
‘Now Urbanism’ kicks off with panel discussion Oct. 7
Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities.
Campus in 2010 is one big construction zone (and that’s a good thing)
If it seems as if the campus is one large construction site right now, that’s because it is.
34 University of Washington doctoral programs rated highly on national assessment
By Elizabeth Lowry
Director of Marketing and Communications
The Graduate School
Fifteen of the UW’s doctoral programs were very highly rated, and 19 programs were highly rated among their peers at major universities across the country in an assessment by the National Research Council, according to the UW Graduate School’s analysis of the rankings.
‘We the people’: Read and hear the U.S. Constitution Oct. 8
There’s no need to be dramatic when you read aloud from the U.
Comfortable at Condon: Former HUB offices getting used to new home
Lost and Found hasn’t gone missing and the ASUW Bike Shop hasn’t ridden off into the sunset — they’re over at Condon Hall now, where many HUB offices have relocated during that building’s two-year remodeling project.
New UW-based Northwest Climate Center to develop new tools for climate change planning
A grant of nearly $3.
Vice President Joe Biden to attend Tacoma rally Oct. 8
Vice President Joe Biden will be on the UW Tacoma campus for a Get Out the Vote Rally on Friday, Oct.
Michaela Leslie-Rule wins Young Investigator Award for work on gender-based violence
Michaela Leslie-Rule, a 2010 master’s graduate of both the UW Evans School of Public Affairs and the School of Public Health, was honored with a Young Investigator Award this summer at the 2010 Global AIDS Conference in Vienna.
Pharmacy professor Joy Plein named Distinguished Alumna of Idaho State
Idaho State University recently bestowed its highest alumni honor to UW Professor of Pharmacy Joy Plein.
UW researchers seek to improve access to personalized drug therapy for underserved populations
The UW has joined a nationwide network of scientists through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how genes affect individual response to medicines.
From film school to medical school, UW grad pursues his passion
Sean Ackerman’s first movie, <A href="http://www.
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