August 21, 2008
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
Kenneth Sherr, UW clinical assistant professor in global health working at Health Alliance International (HAI), was one of five scientists worldwide honored with a Young Investigator Award at the 2008 Global AIDS Conference in Mexico City earlier this month.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
In response to a campuswide invitation for concept proposals for interdisciplinary global health initiatives and centers, the Department of Global Health received an impressive 41 proposals from faculty representing all 17 UW colleges and schools.
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F.
Twenty-eight UW physicians working at UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have achieved recognition in diabetes care from the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
August 19, 2008
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same.
August 17, 2008
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities.
August 11, 2008
New UW research shows that bugs — both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope — are responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
August 8, 2008
In time for the start of the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show University of Washington ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
August 7, 2008
Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems.
The second annual Public Health Informatics 2008 Conference, Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies, will take place Sept.
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989.
Not many student artists can say their work has hung in the prestigious Jacob Lawrence Gallery — but thanks to a clever connection, the elementary school-age members of the UW Summer Day Camp can make that boast with pride.
FOUNDING HONOR: Social Work Professor Biren “Ratnesh” Nagda was at the University of Michigan recently, accepting an award as one of the founders of intergroup dialogue — a technique he and several other graduate students developed at Michigan 20 years ago.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting scheduled for August has been cancelled.
A week can make all the difference.
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before.
Where can you get weekly singing lessons, perform three times a year and meet a lot of women who love music as much as you do? The answer is the UW Women’s Choir, which is currently looking for new members.
A new program for secondary education teachers at UW Bothell is aimed not just at producing certificated teachers but also change agents.
When Brad McDavid led the Husky Marching Band on a tour to China in 2001, little did he realize that the performances were also an audition.
Leon Preston has been an athlete all his life, but he’s going to the Olympics this year as an official, not a competitor.
The UW will participate for the first time in the Officer in Residence Program, in which a Central Intelligence Agency officer spends two years as a visiting researcher at a United States college or university.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research that apparently showed that soft, pliable tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, a major finding that would substantially widen the known range of preserved biomolecules.
Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica.
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults.
The Killam Fellowships Program, which is based in Ottawa, has expanded to the western United States, and the UW is one of the first partner institutions.
The Henry Gallery is celebrating ingenuity, creativity and originality at an event it calls Rock, Paper, Scissors from noon to 4 p.
One more fixture of the 20th century library is going away.
Stephanie Steppe, director of Health Sciences Academic Services & Facilities, doesn’t think she has taken more than a week’s vacation at a time in 40 years.
By Clare Hagery & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
After a national search, Eileen Whalen has been appointed executive director for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, effective Oct.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The UW School of Pharmacy recently joined a group that is helping transform the pharmacy system in Thailand.
Jack Thompson, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP), has stepped down from this leadership position, effective July 15.
August 6, 2008
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults.
August 3, 2008
BOSTON — The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
August 1, 2008
A research team led by University of Washington scientists has found that several people in South and Southeast Asian countries working and living around monkeys have been infected with simian foamy virus (SFV), a primate virus that, to date, has not been shown to cause human disease.
Twenty-eight University of Washington physicians working at UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have achieved recognition in diabetes care from the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
July 31, 2008
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, but a University of Washington conservation biologist believes there is little outcry because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals’ plight.