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.
July 30, 2008
After a national search, Eileen Whalen has been appointed executive director for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, effective Oct.
July 29, 2008
Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm – or slime.
July 28, 2008
Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica.
Seminal fluid contains protein factors that, when transferred from a male to a female at mating, affect reproductive success.
July 24, 2008
Carlene Anders and Gene Dowers celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in early August.
Inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. Dissolved sulfide minerals that solidify when vent water hits the icy cold of the deep sea have, over the years, accumulated around the vents in what is one of the most massive hydrothermal sulfide deposits ever found on the seafloor.
It all started in 2007 when a resident of Fircrest School wanted to grow pumpkins.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents regular public meeting, which was scheduled for Thursday, Aug.
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, known for work on plant systematics and botanical collecting, is getting into the ecosystem restoration business.
UW President Mark A.
Quick quiz: It’s hot out and you’ve bought a cool drink at a UW campus café.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A UW study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
Growing international interest in the Arctic led the UW in June to become a member of the University of the Arctic.
Dozens of Chinese studies librarians have converged at the UW for the Summer Institute on Chinese Studies Librarianship in the Electronic Environment, hosted by UW Libraries.
Staffers in the UW Libraries have been enjoying fresh produce this summer, thanks to a new program they’ve signed up for called Farm Fresh@Work.
Some people might describe Research1 as “YouTube meets Facebook in a research project setting.
Harry Lang, a Deaf professor in the Department of Research and Teacher Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, will be giving a public lecture on the subject of technology and how it impacts the Deaf community at 7 p.
If you’re looking for a new and different campus eatery, you might want to try Housing and Food Service’s most recent addition, the Tower Café, located in the UW Tower.
Jean-Paul Willynck, a senior Urban Studies student at the UW Tacoma, has been appointed to a one-year term as the UW student regent by Gov.
By Jean M.
A STORM OF RECOGNITION: Sutapa Basu, director of the UW Women’s Center, was one of four women honored during the Seattle Storm’s Women of Inspiration Night recently.
The School of Dentistry and the UW Athletics Program kicked off a new collaboration on Wednesday, July 9, with 130 student athletes visiting UW dental clinics to be fitted for mouthguards.
The whole campus has been quacking over the duck family that was featured on the cover of the last issue of University Week.
On July 17 the UW Foundation announced that more than $2.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
More than 25 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to pursue practices that bolster public health practices in the countries in which they work, as part of an international nongovernmental organization code of conduct developed by UW professors working for Health Alliance International in Seattle.
UW Medical Center (UWMC) has ranked 10th in U.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
One of the first AIDS research centers in the country has been awarded $16.
July 23, 2008
A University of Washington study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
July 22, 2008
Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade — being expelled, suspended or dropping out — were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems.
July 17, 2008
University of Washington President Mark A.
Today (July 17) the University of Washington Foundation announced that more than $2.
July 15, 2008
The damage to brain tissue seen in Huntington’s disease may be caused by an overactive immune response in the bloodstream and the brain, according to new findings from two teams of researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle and University College London.
Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions.
July 14, 2008
Asian-American immigrants who came to the United States before they were 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 or older, according to data from the first national mental health survey of Asian-Americans.
Inexperienced investors can negatively affect their investment results by using “unfiltered” information from Securities and Exchange Commission filings, according to research conducted at the University of Washington.
With their waiting rooms crowded and exam rooms full, many physicians say they are too busy to be good communicators. Those who study physician time-management think otherwise.
July 10, 2008
The School of Music will celebrate summer with a pair of free concerts in the coming week.
It’s cool to combine jazz and art, and that’s what’s happening from noon to 1 p.