July 23, 2009
What do you call a mobile phone application that gives you the UW directory, an interactive campus map, Husky sports and yes, University Week?
Help The UW name its soon-to-be-released mobile phone application, and you could win an iPod Touch! Just submit your suggestion by 11:59 p.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
About to be eaten by a menacing, shrimp-like copepod, gentle Dylan Diatom is saved at the last second when an arctic cod slices up through the water and swallows the copepod with a satisfied snap of its mouth.
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Natural history writer David Williams, author of Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, will read from his work at 7 p.
Robert Hamby was in a deserted part of the ocean, far from any shipping lanes and his boat was sinking.
Can’t get enough of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition?
Well, here’s more: You Are Here, an exhibit by the AYP Rephotographic Project is on display at Architecture Hall through Sept 25.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s note: Federal stimulus money is starting to be distributed.
A new study from the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education and the education think tank the Center for American Progress questions whether extra pay for masters-level teacher experience improves student achievement.
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
EXCESSES OF SUCCESS: Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Foley — why did they do it? U.
For a number of years, UW has been a three-campus university; well, now it’s a tree campus university too.
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification of and early intervention with children with autism, has been named the new director of the UW’s Autism Center.
For a new exhibition of photographic portraits from its own permanent collections, the Henry Art Gallery had a nationally known photography curator right at hand — its own director, Sylvia Wolf.
When Jason Dallas signed up for a course this summer, the Spanish major probably didn’t expect to be watching a music video of his favorite band, El Canto del Loco, in class.
Four members of the UW faculty have received the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.
TREE WISDOM: Forest Resources Emeritus Professor Reinhard Stettler has a new book just published by UW Press entitled Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society.
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
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.
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.
In the 1941 children’s book, Make Way for Ducklings, Boston police decide to stop traffic so that a family of mallards can cross the road safely.
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.
Sixty-five University of Washington faculty members were among the region’s top 386 physicians in Seattle magazine’s ninth annual top doctors survey.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation’s top hospitals in U.
By Judith Yarrow
UW Health Promotion Research Center
What brings a national leader in healthy aging across the country to share an office at the UW for the summer?
“I came here because the Seattle area has a unique configuration of academic, community and health care professionals working collaboratively to figure out how to improve population health among older people,” said Nancy Whitelaw, senior vice-president of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and director of its Center for Healthy Aging.
July 22, 2009
A community workgroup led by University of Washington research scientist Caleb Banta-Green of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report.
July 21, 2009
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind.
July 20, 2009
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.
July 16, 2009
University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation’s top hospitals in U.
The images below may be used to illustrate the news release about the new science of learning that researchers from the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego reported on in the July 17, 2009 edition of Science.
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
July 15, 2009
A team of researchers from the University of Washington, McGill University and Oregon State University has mapped patterns of illicit drug use across the state of Oregon using a method of sampling municipal wastewater before it is treated.
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification and early intervention for children with autism, has been named the new director of the University of Washington’s Autism Center.
July 9, 2009
While applauding findings that an Easter Island compound extends the lives of middle-aged mice, University of Washington longevity researchers caution that healthy people shouldn’t start taking the drug in the hopes of extending their own life spans — at least not yet.
If you feel as if Western Washington has had an unusually dry start to the summer this year, you’re not mistaken.
Larry Knopp arrived at UW Tacoma recently to head Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the largest of UW Tacoma’s academic programs.
People tune into UWTV for all manner of reasons — to watch reports on UW medical research, notable campus lectures, historical programming, to hear UW leaders addressing current issues, and much more.
The Parapsychological Association, which studies psychic experiences and clairvoyance, will visit the UW this summer for a conference.