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

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.

The Burke Museum has been collecting international textiles for over a century and holds a permanent collection of over 2,000 hand-woven pieces.

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 are among 17 scientists newly elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing scientific achievements.

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.

Chantel Prat was nervous.

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.

The first UW program to be offered in Everett begins Oct.

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.

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.

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.

The UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D) was recently awarded a pair of grants from the U.

Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities.

If it seems as if the campus is one large construction site right now, that’s because it is.

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.

There’s no need to be dramatic when you read aloud from the U.

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.

A grant of nearly $3.

Vice President Joe Biden will be on the UW Tacoma campus for a Get Out the Vote Rally on Friday, Oct.