January 7, 2010
For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Fictional secret agent Angus MacGyver knew that tough situations demand ingenuity.
In real estate, it’s location, location, location.
Margaret Shepherd’s first foray into politics was in ninth grade, when she served as vice president of her class.
When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life.
When most people’s alarm clock rings in the morning, it’s time to pick out an outfit and get dressed in order to start the day.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Jan.
Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife, according to a study published online last week in the <A href="http://www3.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
HUMAN FUTURES: Peter Ward, UW professor of Earth and space sciences, crushed some cliches with lively responses in an article about the future of human evolution on the Web site LiveScience.
The World Series at Meany is offering a package of three performances from its World Dance Series at the bargain price of $75, which is 40 percent off the regular price.
A series of 10 films, each from a different country, will be offered Thursday evenings in Kane Hall from Jan.
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the UW starts the new decade with Introducing, a show featuring the work of the first-year MFA students from the UW Art Program.
Who is that figure on the pedestal below Red Square, looking west to the Olympic Mountains?
It’s George Washington, of course.
TOPS IN DOGGEREL: Professor of Anthropology Steve Harrell got an award that was out of his field recently.
In response to significantly reduced funding, the University Libraries has substantially cut subscriptions to journals; many cuts were effective Jan.
When school begins in the fall of 2010, the UW School of Drama will not be welcoming new classes in its graduate acting and design programs.
The UW faculty and staff have contributed more than $2 million to the Combined Fund Drive, the highest UW total in the 25 years of the statewide workplace donation campaign.
Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia University, will speak at 7:30 p.
Barry Weisband has been named the new director of the Business Development Center (BDC) at UW Bothell.
Six UW-affiliated researchers are among 531 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
A nifty way to make a bench more than just a bench: Give small groups of students in a UW landscape architecture class $400 apiece and five weeks to design, build and install their creations.
UWTV is stepping into the world of UW sports with new programs featuring commentary from coaches and players, game previews and recaps — and rebroadcasts of some of the greatest sports matchups in Husky history.
Students, parents and teachers of current ninth and tenth grade students are invited to learn more about the UW Academy early entrance program at the UW at an information session on Monday, Jan.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
While many in the campus community were taking a break for the holidays, the workers building the Molecular Engineering Building passed a major milestone.
Richard Umbdenstock, president, CEO and director of the American Hospital Association (AHA), says we need “a national framework for change” when it comes to U.
A three-day, open-ended “unconference” about the future of journalism.
January 5, 2010
If the orbit of the newly discovered planet is not almost perfectly circular, then the planet might be rocked fierce volcanic eruptions.
January 4, 2010
Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic threats to humans and wildlife, according to a study published online last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
December 23, 2009
Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a biological regulatory mechanism in cells, d
December 21, 2009
Motor vehicle crashes affect an estimated 32,800 pregnant women each year in the United States.
The University of Washington 2009 Combined Fund Drive raised a record amount for charities.
December 19, 2009
Joy, laughter and inspiration will fill the air as the angelic (and mighty) voices of the Women’s Chorus melt your holiday cares away with an eclectic program of traditional and very untraditional songs of the season.
December 17, 2009
For the first time scientists have seen molten lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor volcano.
December 15, 2009
A Web tool can generate color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world’s most prominent climate-change.
An analysis of data from more than 20,000 people has uncovered several DNA sequence variations associated with impaired lung function.