April 3, 2008
The Burke Museum will offer hands-on natural science learning experiences in five camps this summer for students from second through 12th grade — including a new all-day, weeklong camp for high school students combining environmental science and video production.
Black Students, Campus Activism, and the Reform of Higher Education: History and Legacy is the title of this year’s Samuel E.
The Guatemalan woman feared talking with the professor and her students.
Lucy Brennan, a UW sophomore in art and the comparative history of ideas, worked with third and fourth-graders at Forks Elementary School during Alternative Spring Break the last week of March.
Leadership training, child care and communication were three of the issues that came to the fore at the first ever Women’s Summit, held March 12 on campus.
Free tickets will be available beginning today for the lecture by artist Brian Tolle, set for 7 p.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
The first day of spring was the last day of spring rolls for the UW Libraries’ staff.
How does UW’s compensation package compare to other local employers? Better than you might expect, according to Milliman, an independent consulting firm that conducted a total compensation study of professional staff compensation.
With gas prices and bus fares rising and a new parking tax in place, the cost of UW parking permits and U-PASS cards will also likely go up.
Three UW students have been honored as medalists for having the strongest academic record in their class for the previous year.
Think you have a million-dollar idea? What about a 10-million-dollar idea, or a 100-million-dollar idea?
If so, you wouldn’t have been the only one at this year’s Invest Northwest meeting to think so.
Presidential candidates use issues of faith and finance to build political platforms, create campaign strategies, and justify their positions on such issues as education, health care, immigration and the environment.
April 16 is the deadline for faculty and staff to RSVP for the annual party in their honor.
Quincy Jones, a distinguished musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor for more than six decades, will be the UW commencement speaker June 14 in Husky Stadium.
Red Square is looking a little barer these days because the Broken Obelisk has been removed for renovation.
Alice Gosti loves airports.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Representatives from the North West Commission of Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) will be visiting the UW Seattle campus April 21 and 22 to review progress that has been made since the last decennial accreditation visit in 2003.
THURSDAY, APRIL 3
Medicine Grand Rounds –“Risk and Litigation Management in the Department of Medicine,” by Tom Steiger, Marcia Rhodes, Cindy Jacobs, Kelly Williams, UW, 8 a.
Students in the UW School of Medicine joined more than 15,000 other medical students around the country in participating in the National Resident Matching Program on March 24.
The American Cancer Society (ACS) presented its annual Legacy and Leadership Research Awards for Seattle-area cancer research at a special ceremony on March 13 at the UW campus.
By Elizabeth Robichaud
UW Medicine Development
The 2008 UW Medicine Salute Harborview Gala, held March 1 at the Sheraton Seattle, grossed more than $2 million — a first in the 16-year history of the event.
April 2, 2008
A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington professor.
April 1, 2008
University of Washington researchers have found that community health center-trained family physicians were more likely to work in underserved settings than their non-community health center-trained counterparts (64 percent versus 37 percent), based on a study published in the April issue of Family Medicine.
Marketing literature often highlights the importance of trust in collaborative entities’ financial performance.
March 28, 2008
The University of Washington again has been ranked first among primary care medical schools in the country, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided by U.
March 27, 2008
A team of researchers at the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories has uncovered genetic errors that may shed light on the causes of schizophrenia.
March 26, 2008
Engineers Without Borders-USA will hold its annual conference Thursday through Sunday on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus.
March 24, 2008
Researchers at the University of Washington have uncovered how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, including the notorious MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staph aureus) “superbug” strains, resists our body’s natural defenses against infection.
March 20, 2008
Quincy Jones, a distinguished musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor for more than six decades, will be the University of Washington commencement speaker June 14 in Husky Stadium.
March 19, 2008
Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a baby, according to a new University of Washington study.
Many important chemical reactions are slow and unwieldy because no enzyme exists to prod them to greater efficiency.
March 18, 2008
As cries of “play ball” ring out this spring, they undoubtedly will be followed by complaints of anxiety and stress from young athletes wanting to quit sports.
Rain falling on snow sounds like a relatively harmless weather event, but when it happens in the far north it can mean lingering death for reindeer, musk oxen and other animals that normally graze on the Arctic tundra.
March 17, 2008
Unlike several other areas of the country, painkilling medicine is widely available throughout Washington state to people suffering from chronic or acute pain and who have received prescriptions, according to a new survey of the state’s pharmacies.