August 20, 2009
The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program (FICRS) has announced that Kristin Beima-Sofie, a doctoral candidate in the School of Public Health’s Insitute for Public Health Genetics, has been selected as a Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar for the 2009-10 cohort.
UW researchers have successfully developed a novel genome-analysis strategy for more rapid, lower-cost discovery of possible gene-disease links.
By Ashley Wiggin
School of Nursing
What started out as a simple journaling of daily events for UW School of Nursing Dean Emeritus Sue Hegyvary has led to her first chapbook of poetry.
August 17, 2009
Although Asian-Americans as a group have lower rates of thinking about and attempting suicide than the national average, U.
A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. It permits a simpler design for organic electronics.
August 12, 2009
As the national debate on health care policies continues, University of Washington experts are available to discuss the issues.
August 10, 2009
Ed Lazowska
Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Phone: 206-543-4755
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Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones.
August 6, 2009
Editor’s Note: Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
When’s your bus coming? When the sun’s shadow hits the mark, that’s when.
With UW Ethernet, a 24-hour fitness center, on-site day care and playgrounds, a 24-acre park-like atmosphere and other amenities, Radford Court is a pretty nice place to live.
As new director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the UW, Lois Lussier did what many new campus leaders do — she visited a few classes to get acquainted.
School districts faced with large budget gaps could avoid some or all teacher layoffs by rolling back salaries, a UW education researcher says.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
By Catherine O’Donnell and Vince Stricherz
News & Information
Help for people who suffer from sleep apnea.
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers.
Researchers the world over are striving to develop organic solar cells that can be produced easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be used to generate electricity.
A chance encounter with a funny-looking rock when he was 8 years old helped launch Phillip Poonka’s lifelong interest in research.
Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth’s history were triggered by a space body crashing into the planet’s surface.
For the past five and a half years, Randy Hodgins has been telling the UW’s story to the Legislature as the director of state relations.
During the last few months, UW CareLink, the faculty and staff assistance program, has provided special workshops for employees who are continuing on the job after others were laid off.
When Kay Balston graduated from high school 40 years ago, she didn’t head right off to college.
Nancy Maizels, UW professor of immunology, has received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in recognition of her three years of service on the fund’s Scientific Review Panel.
Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
Two UW research teams have won the Life Sciences Discovery Fund’s inaugural winter commercialization grant competition to support commercial translation of health-related technologies.
Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting in Boston.
Depression is common after a stroke, and can interfere with a stroke patient’s rehabilitation.
August 4, 2009
Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
Researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electricity is carried by tiny structures that form inside nanoscale solar cells.
August 3, 2009
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Health Alliance International received a $10 million grant to work with the Mozambican government in strengthening primary health care.
Researchers have developed a nanoparticle for imaging that is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and target tumors.
July 31, 2009
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
July 30, 2009
New research shows that comet collisions most likely are not responsible for any of the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.