September 7, 2009
Rates of binge drinking were 37 percent lower among eighth-grade students in communities in seven states that used a prevention system designed to reduce drug use and delinquent behavior compared to teenagers in communities that did not use the system.
September 3, 2009
The University of Washington’s new suite of mobile applications for the iPhone is now available for download.
September 2, 2009
Support comes from across the state and a wide variety of groups
Note: This fact sheet provides additional information about the Regional Scale Nodes project that is receiving money from the National Science Foundation through the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.
August 31, 2009
Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school.
August 30, 2009
It is now possible to count copies of duplicated genome sequences and assess their contents
August 26, 2009
It costs more just to get by in Washington. The self-sufficiency measure for Seattle rose 35 percent since 2001 and Spokane rose 28 percent.
August 24, 2009
WHAT: Press conference detailing the 2009 self-sufficiency standards for all of Washington’s 39 counties.
August 20, 2009
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.
A regional alliance will work to increase minorities in science and engineering programs
Woody biomass could be Washington’s best opportunity for biofuels and to reduce green house gas emissions and dependency upon imported oil.
Researchers have found a way to train tiny semiconductor crystals to display magnetic functions at room temperature using light as a trigger
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.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents Regular Meeting for August has been canceled.
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.
Poetry and technology aren’t usually thought of in relation to each other, but a new Web site with UW ties unites the two to create a “Facebook for poets.
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.
About 12 elm trees between Parrington Hall and the William H.
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
Faculty and staff women who like to sing are again being offered a chance to be part of a choir that practices once a week and performs several times a year.