November 13, 2008
Name: Dawn Counts
UW job: Administrative coordinator, Department of Urology
Volunteer activities: Dawn is an extremely active volunteer for several outside agencies and has been a UW Combined Fund Drive (CFD) Coordinator for about 18 years.
University Book Store will hold the sixth annual celebration of current UW students, faculty and staff on Thursday, Nov.
Languages are not static; they rise and fall, live and die, and intermingle with surprising fluidity.
September is considered one of the good-weather months in Denmark Strait, between Greenland and Iceland.
Adam Drewnowski, UW professor of epidemiology and medicine, will give the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Fall 2008 Distinguished Faculty Lecture on Wednesday, Nov.
November 12, 2008
Energy experts from the University of Washington want to help local businesses cut their utility bills.
If you’ve ever wondered what the heck a convergence zone is, what a rain shadow is or just where the Seattle area ranks in terms of annual rainfall, you’ll find answers in a new book from a University of Washington expert on Pacific Northwest weather.
November 10, 2008
University of Washington scholars have shined new light on one of the darkest chapters of Washington history — the days when the Ku Klux Klan was a temporary force in the state.
November 6, 2008
The Fourth Annual UW Postdoctoral Association Research Symposium will be held from 2 to 5 p.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The person who committed suicide in Red Square Oct.
Seattle winters all but guarantee buckets of rain, blustery winds and — unfortunately for stargazers — clouds, clouds, clouds.
Joseph Felsenstein, professor of Genome Sciences and of Biology at the UW, will speak on Evolutionary Trees, Coalescents and Gene Trees: Can Mathematicians Find the Woods? at 3:30 p.
In the second lecture of the “Lucy Talks” series, Katherine Taylor, a forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, will discuss the basics of her field and the science of reading bones.
Journalism students from Russia and UW Tacoma got an up-close look at American-style journalism in action as election-night guests of the Tacoma-based News Tribune newspaper Nov.
Marc Seales and friends will present an evening of jazz that draws heavily on Seales’ recent experiences in Paris, as well as his own take on songs of his youth at 7:30 p.
The UW’s Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature was created in 1909 in response to community demand.
Once upon a time, it was enough for University freshmen to get through first-year English composition courses.
It sounds like a tale straight from CSI: The bully invades a home and does away with the victim, then is ultimately found out with the help of DNA evidence.
UW Bothell will celebrate the fall 2008 launch of its Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) Program with guest lecturer Toby Miller from 6 to 8:30 p.
There are challenges in the foster care system and UW Professor Mark Courtney, a leading expert on U.
Last spring, UW professors David Domke and Mark Smith made bold presidential predictions during the widely popular “Faith & Finance” lecture series.
The School of Music’s first opera production this year proves that even back in 1777, humans were already thinking about going to the moon.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Faculty and staff at the UW generally report that they are proud to work here and satisfied with their employment experience.
The inauguration of the new UW Medicine Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence will take place from 1:30 to 6 p.
A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a contract to the UW to use systems biology approaches to comprehensively analyze and model the virus-host interactions and cellular response networks that are induced or altered during the course of acute respiratory virus infection.
The UW Photographers Group fall exhibition will be on display in the UW Medical Center’s Skylight Gallery from November 11 through December.
By Staishy Siem
News & Community Relations
UW Medical Center is scheduled to break ground this winter on the first phase of a two-part construction project designed to give the hospital much needed space for patient care.
As obesity rates continue to rise in the United States — and related health care costs — UW researchers continue to offer findings that may offer some possible solutions, or explanations.
By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations
This past springtime I was cheerfully anticipating new work digs.
November 5, 2008
A newly tested compound appears to inhibit certain mechanisms that make Gram-negative bacteria virulent disease agents.
A cell signaling pathway that abnormally promotes heart muscle cell growth invariably leads to unhealthy enlargement of the heart.
DNA evidence shows conclusively that males from a North American warbler species interbred with females from a related species and took over a large part of the other species’ range.
October 30, 2008
Are all precinct voting sites created equal? Maybe not
UW scientists are discovering how the body’s over-production of clot-busters speeds up artery wall damage, knowledge that may point to new ideas for preventing heart disease and strokes.