The latest news from the UW

Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.

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

SHE’S GOLDEN: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and its NSF Science of Learning Center, was awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal, its highest award.

Welcome to the grand re-opening of the UW’s southwest waterfront.

The collapse of the Sacramento River chinook salmon run may be another lesson on the importance of coming to grips with the biocomplexity behind successful salmon runs.

Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist.

UW Medical Center’s Tim Nguyen, manager of Waste Operations, and Sheila Lockwood, Environmental Health and Safety, accepted in May UWMC’s second consecutive Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth.

By Cynthia Salzman
Rehabilitation Medicine

Aditya Ganapathiraju uses the word “interesting” to describe his life so far.

The Cerner/ORCA CIS Replacement (CISR) project has been named IT Project of the Year by Advance for Health Information Executives, an industry publication for health care executives.

UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.

By Jean Patterson
School of Social Work

Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health, a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, is groundbreaking in exploring links among stigma, prejudice, and discrimination and their impact on health, as well as implications for public health practice.

For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods — land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages — in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.

The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a UW astronomer who revolutionized research on interplanetary dust entering Earth’s atmosphere.

Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college, according to the first study to directly compare the two groups.

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

Online asbestos training required for UW employees

The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) requires the UW to provide general asbestos awareness training to all UW employees.

A special work by artist Jacob Lawrence arrived at the University this week, but it won’t be found in a gallery.

Three regular UW faculty members are among six instructors named by UW Educational Outreach as recipients of a 2008 Teaching Excellence Award.

Visions of future technology don’t involve being chained to a desktop machine.

It’s just not enough to say that wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski’s work capturing polar bears on film was a labor of love.

More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks.

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When Kodak introduced its modestly priced and readily accessible box camera in 1888, the company’s slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest,” proposed that anyone could become a photographer.

There are chase scenes in Room 102 of Suzzallo Library just now.

You know it has to happen: U-PASS rates are increasing as of July 1.

In a newly created ranking, the UW is listed second among 54 colleges and universities nationwide in the number of graduate students serving in the Peace Corps.

The UW Board of Regents approved the creation of a College of the Environment, as well as a tuition increase for undergraduates, at its June meeting.

Faculty and staff can enjoy an exciting seven-game home football schedule this fall, including BYU, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, among others, by purchasing season tickets.

The UW has signed an agreement with the University of Queensland, in Australia, that will provide new opportunities for academic exchanges, joint research projects and coordination of science outreach to K-12 students.

A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of UW research.

FALCON CREST: Employees in Creative Communications have enjoyed watching a family of peregrine falcons that is hunting from and feeding its young on the roof of their building lately.

Devon Pena has spent his career working for environmental justice.

Broken Obelisk returned to campus June 19 after a little more than two months in the shop for repairs.

Working as a team will be much easier when 14 UWMC offices move to UW Tower on the northwest edge of campus.

Collaboration and creativity are at the heart of the new UW Medicine at South Lake Union complex of buildings.

Faced by concerns that the current bird flu epidemic could become the next global human flu pandemic, UW researchers joined public health officials from 16 Pacific Rim economies May 29 for a real-time virtual video conference to tackle the challenge of pandemic influenza preparedness and response.

Ellen Howard, UW Health Sciences librarian at Harborview and UW medical centers, has received the prestigious Michael E.