October 30, 2008
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Saying, “This is no time to accept the status quo,” Dean Martha Somerman affirmed the UW School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility and patient care, progressive oral health training and research leadership in her annual State of the School speech on Oct.
Where others have a dining room, Joan Hanson has a quilting room.
Imagine you’re on your own, a new student in a foreign land.
Armon Dadgar was surprised by the amount of stuff King County Elections wants him to know on Election Day, Nov.
Celebrity and amatueur drummers in nine cities in the United States and Canada will attempt the world record for the number of drummers playing the same tune at the same time in the same place via the Internet at <A href="http://www.
In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Choose a name for the Husky mascot! The current mascot, “Spirit,” will retire in November.
The UW Bothell is expecting two literary guests in the next week.
In the United States, as many as 10 in 100 young women suffer from an eating disorder.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The UW’s new eScience Institute will help keep the UW competitive as research projects become ever more reliant on computation and on the analysis of massive amounts of data.
Twenty-one students from the Yakima Valley area sampled the oral health profession on Saturday at the School of Dentistry’s annual Dental Camp.
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Many of those who enjoy Halloween will find a scary and unwanted bonus: a crop of cavities on their next visit to the dentist.
One of the seminal statistical thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sir David Cox, will present the Department of Biostatistics’ Norman E.
It’s not unusual to see news headlines related to salmonella outbreaks, avian flu concerns or mad cow disease.
A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.
“The name Karen Ann Jenkins was recently added to the former masculine ranks of Environmental Health Specialists.
October 29, 2008
A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time occurrence.
October 28, 2008
A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health-care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.
In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
October 27, 2008
New data from the Washington Poll shows Gov.
October 23, 2008
The world financial crisis has been a painful game of musical chairs, but now governments and financial managers are scrambling to bring players back to the table, said a panel of financial experts Monday evening at the UW.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The week before the opening of Twelfth Night, the Meany Studio Theatre is abuzz with the frenetic energy of a rehearsal.
Washington state Speaker of the House Frank Chopp will be in attendance at the first Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year today.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The UW Bothell recently received approval from the Higher Education Coordinating Board to extend its MBA Program southward to Bellevue.
Boys who experience childhood physical or sexual abuse are more likely to use sexually coercive behavior against an unwilling female partner when they are adolescents and young adults.
Some costs will rise, of course, but some coverage levels will, too.
DETOX SCAM: Late-night television ads promote a product called Kinoki Cleansing Detox Pads, which are often applied to the feet, and claim to remove toxins from the body.
Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of UW Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.
Playing French Seattle, a UW student organization, is presenting two plays and two staged readings of work by José Pliya — in French.
Jazz for vibraphone and piano, world premieres on viola and eerie, Halloween-friendly organ music are among events offered by the UW School of Music in coming days.
Recent Work by Zhi Lin: Unheard, Forgotten and Disregarded Stories will be presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Oct.
A group of public officials from Hunan Province in China is visiting the UW this week to learn about how Washington state’s Freedom of Information law works, particularly in regard to records held by large public universities.
October 27 through November 30 marks the UW’s annual open enrollment period for medical and dental insurance as well as other benefits.
DIGITAL HISTORY: The recently developed Civil Rights Digital Library (<A href="http://www.
The learning of science and math is a civil rights issue, and schools should give students broad participation in those areas as early as possible, says Philip Bell, a UW associate professor of learning sciences.
You take the stage, surrounded by the orchestra.