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Nonprofit organizations that manage many of the nation’s public charter schools are innovating new practices but also face challenges in extending their reach and will need public funding or long-term philanthropy to succeed, according to an interim report released June 28 from the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) and Mathematica Policy Research, a nonpartisan research firm.

The UW Alumni Association has teamed with University Book Store to sponsor a contest for team-specific slogans that will go on buttons to be given away to Husky fans this fall.

In the culminating event of a yearlong cultural exchange between the indigenous Ainu community of Japan and several Washington State tribal groups, a group of Ainu paddlers will join The Tulalip Tribes in the annual Tribal Canoe Journey event, this year hosted by The Makah Nation.

Comparative effectiveness research has received significant public attention since the federal government designated $1.

Dozens of associations and camps come to the UW each summer, and this year is no exception.

The 2010 Live ARTS Bothell festival will be held at the campus of UW Bothell and Cascadia Community College.

People who fish for a living pursue top profits, not necessarily top predators, according to the first-ever analysis of worldwide catch and economic data for the past 55 years.

A multi-institutional study of 1,000 people with autism found that their genomes had more duplicates and deletions of DNA sequences when compared with the genomes of 1,300 controls without the disorder.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

A virus infection can incite the body to attack its own nerve tissue by activating rare, disease-fighting cells with receptors for both viral and nerve proteins.

Attend this free July lecture series to learn about exciting advances in genetic research.

TRUTH IN MARKETING: A recent article in Bloomberg’s Businessweek says there’s a “quiet revolution” going on in U.

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CHAMPION CUBICLES: Two UW staffers are among those whose office cubicles have been featured in a recent series in the Seattle Times.

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The ATC will let students work with state-of-the-art clinical equipment while treating patients.

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

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We’ve come a long way from Marian the librarian.

In an effort to steer the campus community toward its other restaurants when the HUB closes, UW Housing & Food Services is offering an “all you can eat” lunch option for $6.

For the first time, U-PASS members at the UW who are between 18 and 20 years old can join Zipcar and take advantage of Zipcar discount memberships through U-PASS.

On June 8, World Oceans Day, Washington Sea Grant launched Washington on Water (WOW), a new website to help teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade zero in on marine education resources available statewide.

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A new online study to help people quit smoking is being launched at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

As a public health student, performing artist Michaela Leslie-Rule filmed the views of Tanzanian women on intimate partner violence and gen

According to a 2007 study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, teamwork breakdowns, such as lack of supervision and patient hand-off problems, account for 70 percent of errors by medical trainees.

Andrew Whiteman is looking at a photograph of Japanese macaque monkeys languishing comfortably in steaming hot pools.

This special reading features Paul Martinez Pompa, reading from his first full-length collection of poetry, My Kill Adore Him; and Aaron Michael Morales, reading from his first novel, Drowning Tuscon.