The latest news from the UW

Steve Butler
News & Community Relations

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A new service aimed at providing health professional with access to evidence-based information is being unveiled throughout Washington State.

Tiny deletions in a section of human chromosome 15 are linked to an increased risk of idiopathic generalized epilepsies, according to results of a multi-center study published this month in Nature Genetics.

By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations

One curly fry and energy drink at a time, Americans are feeling the sting of acid reflux.

Beer as a healthful family tonic? Cigarettes you can “smoke all day” long with no ill effects? Asbestos that does triple duty as a furniture polish, insect repellant and carpet cleaner?

Welcome to the world of Northwest print advertising, turn of the century style — the last century, that is — in a new digital image collection by the UW Libraries Special Collections Division called Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918.

First in a six-part series of lectures and demonstrations open to the public and designed to teach about medical education, research and clinical care at the UW.

Jay Heinecke, professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, presents the first lecture in the 2009 Molecular Medicine Public Lecture Series, When Good Cholesterol Goes Bad.

Classical drama meets modern-day excess in this fiercely entertaining adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Maidens.

The Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting will feature guest speaker Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, speaking on ‘Science and the Arts.

Miles Logsdon, a UW oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb.

While talking about his recent research, Philip Bell of the College of Education tells a story about a girl who loved to play with the mortar and pestle her grandmother used for cooking when the two visited every Saturday, and how that interest evolved.

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EXPERIMENTAL EXCELLENCE: Geoffrey Boynton, associate professor of psychology whose research interest is in the neural correlates of human visual perception, is the recipient of the Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.

School of Music alumna and pianist Wendy Yamashita will return to the UW for a visiting artist recital at 5 p.

Students in Magnus Feil’s industrial design classes built mousetrap-powered cars, called them trapsters, and raced them last Wednesday — and the world beat a path to their door.

Teaching is on the menu at the UW Club twice a month.

Ninety years ago Seattle shut down.

Library Lecture Series: “Chronic Pain Is a Disease in its Own Right” will be the topic when Dr.

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When Alan Kirtley graduated from Indiana University’s law school in 1972, he had had no clinical training.

MFA directing student Desdemona Chiang took on a big challenge when she decided to do Charles Mee’s Big Love as her thesis production.

Making bales with 30 percent of global crop residues — the stalks and such left after harvesting — and then sinking the bales into the deep ocean could reduce the build up of global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, according to just published calculations.

Registration is now open for summer youth programs sponsored by UW Educational Outreach.

UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series will continue with author Laynie Browne at 6:30 p.

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Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report by UW researchers in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

The UW Graduate School will offer “Nuts and Bolts: How to Successfully Navigate the Graduate School,”  the first in a series of interactive workshops for international graduate students from 12:30 to 2 p.

Students of Michael Partington will present music with guitar to celebrate Spain and Latin America, in ¡Guitarra! at 7:30 p.

In the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of two weeks or more, releasing as much energy as a magnitude 6 earthquake.

Twenty-somethings in a huddle peer closely at mural-size photos in the Henry Art Gallery and then, two weeks later, at intricate 19th century illustrations of Egyptian flora and fauna at the Frye Art Museum.

By Breona Gutschmidt
Facilities Services

Not long ago, a Facilities Services shop that handles flooring diverted its first dumpster-full of old carpet from a dead end in the landfill to a new life as recycled carpet.

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

Winners of the October 27 concerto competition perform with the University Symphony.

As of this month the 20-year-old department of Technical Communication, which began its life 35 years ago as a program in the UW’s College of Engineering, has a new name.