The latest news from the UW

DUST OF DESTINY: For space enthusiasts, the lede of the recent Los Angeles Times story was pretty exciting: “Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of a comet.

This is the last issue of University Week for summer quarter.

Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles.

Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones.

The UW Bothell has received approval from the state Higher Education Coordinating Board to launch a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program (BSEE) in Winter, 2010.

UW School of Music students Lauren Roth and Toby Penk are featured soloists for an performance tonight, Aug.

By Sandra Hines & Catherine O’Donnell
UW News & Information

As of Aug.

That palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function – to stick to your refrigerator.

Plastic that conducts electricity holds promise for cheaper, thinner and more flexible electronics.

On the outside, the rock is plain and ordinary serpentine stone common to Washington State.

A Web portal at the Applied Physics Laboratory now has more than 50 different kinds of ocean data being collected in Puget Sound and off the coast of Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

The organizers of last month’s contest to name the UW’s new mobile application have announced a winner.

One way to experience international travel and bring the world to your doorstep is by hosting an international UW student.

YOUNG AND BRILLIANT: The UW’s Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, is one of 35 outstanding innovators under the age of 35 being honored by Technology Review magazine.

It’s part of the drill in luring fine scholars to be faculty members at the UW: Take ’em to lunch at the UW Faculty Club, show ’em around the building and encourage ogling out wall-to-wall windows at Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains.

The UW was ranked second in the country by Sierra Magazine for the University’s sustainability efforts, and it was also named to the 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll by the Princeton Review.

By Beth Luce
UW Tacoma

A study by UW Tacoma alumna Kristen Shinohara and Josh Tenenberg, a UWT Institute of Technology professor, made the cover of the August issue of Communications of the ACM.

When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike.

Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.

The departments of military science, naval science and aerospace studies will hold an open house in their home base, Clark Hall, from 10 a.

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

Savery Hall occupants are coming home this month to a building that looks cleaner and brighter on the outside and completely new on the inside.

Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.