October 9, 2008
A rhodie from China that can grow 2 ½ foot leaves when mature, a fuchsia from New Zealand that hugs the ground and produces red berries, and a monkey-puzzle tree from a lineage that goes back to Chile — a country with no monkeys — are a few of the unusual plants one sees strolling the just-opened Pacific Connections Garden.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The Burke Museum has partnered with the Pacific Science Center to present a series of lectures inspired by Pacific Science Center’s current exhibit, Lucy’s Legacy: the Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia.
There will be an open house from 2 to 3:30 p.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant of approximately $40 million over five years to the Pacific Northwest Center for the National Children’s Study at the UW to partner with Washington State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and local communities in Washington’s Grant County and Oregon’s Marion County.
The events around UW’s annual Homecoming get under way Sunday, Oct.
BEYOND BORDERS: The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students has announced the recipients of its annual awards honoring individuals or organizations who embody the FIUTS mission of international understanding and peace.
If something in your office or lab is damaged or stolen, the University has insurance to replace it, right? Well, not necessarily.
“Engineering Inspired by Nature: Robots, Greener Energy & Nanotech Systems” is the title for a series of three lectures that examine nature’s role in our future.
The Tsangpo River is the highest major river in the world, starting at 14,500 feet elevation and plunging to the Bay of Bengal, scouring huge amounts of rock and soil along the way.
A seminar series for inventors and would-be entrepreneurs is back by popular demand.
Campaign UW officially concluded several months ago, but the Faculty-Staff-Retiree Campaign for Students is still raising money through the end of the year.
The National Academy of Education will discuss second language-learners and the role of foundations in funding education research, among many other topics, in its annual meeting, Oct.
UW employees help others year-round through the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), Washington State’s workplace giving campaign.
Michele Puckhaber, the UW Police Department’s first-ever crime victim advocate, says she thinks often of Rebecca Griego as she does her job.
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the UW clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
Between 1994 and 2005, the number of prescription drugs purchased in the United States increased 71 percent (from 2.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
Les Roberts, who has been quoted widely in the media about the underreporting of Iraqi death statistics, will speak on “U.
Women have been at the forefront of healing practices since the beginning of time, but it has only been in the past 150 years that they have been included in the formal study and practice of medicine.
October 8, 2008
New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those deposits appear to have acted as dams that prevented the rapidly traveling Tsangpo from carving upstream into the plateau.
October 6, 2008
An atomic-resolution view of an enzyme found only in the eye has given researchers at the University of Washington (UW) clues about how this enzyme, essential to vision, is activated.
WHAT: The Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering will host a workshop this week, sponsored by the University of Washington, the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.
October 3, 2008
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a grant of approximately $40 million over five years to the Pacific Northwest Center for the National Children’s Study at the University of Washington to partner with Washington State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and local communities in Washington’s Grant County and Oregon’s Marion County.
October 2, 2008
A second season of Luce Lectures will focus on the U.
Community leaders and members of the UW family who have made outstanding achievements in promoting diversity at the UW and in the community will be honored when the Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) and UW Alumni Association holds the 14th annual Bridging the Gap Breakfast on Saturday, Oct.
As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.
When John Francis was an undergraduate biology major at the UW, he spent several summers studying northern fur seals in Alaska, and the experience hooked him on research.
POLL FIBBING: Anthony Greenwald, the UW professor of psychology who developed an online test to detect implicit biases called Project Implicit, was mentioned in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about voters lying in polls and surveys.
Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.
A report on the log-truck industry just delivered to the state Legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Hundreds of spring-blooming bulb selections and companion plants will be available at the Arboretum Foundation’s Fall Bulb and Plant Sale from 10 a.
Three finalists for the position of chief of the UW Police Department will be visiting campus this month.
There’s a lot of truth in the old proverb “experience is the best teacher,” and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.
The Capital Projects Office recently held its second highly successful networking event for companies seeking a share of the UW’s capital projects, which typically amount to at least $300 million annually.
The UW received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.
Seminal fluid contains protein factors that, when transferred from a male to a female at mating, affect reproductive success.
That patience and persistence pay off is dramatically illustrated by the scholarly work of Mona Atia, whose recent dissertation on trends in Islamic charitable giving was hailed by one reviewer as “the best dissertation I have read anywhere.
POWER PICNIC: Staff of the UW’s Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) enjoyed a picnic Sept.
“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.