April 9, 2008
Repeatedly stimulating the mouse brain with methamphetamine depresses important areas of the brain, and those changes can only be undone by re-introducing the drug, according to research at the University of Washington and other institutions.
April 8, 2008
You’re trying to log on to a Web site and it’s not working.
Traffic may be congested around Hec Edmondson Pavilion this week as it hosts several events related to the Dalai Lama’s visit to Seattle.
April 4, 2008
Two finalists for the position of chief of the University of Washington Police Department will be visiting campus later this month.
April 3, 2008
When members of the UW’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter heard that they had won the 2007/2008 EWB International Humanitarian award, they were overjoyed–and surprised.
The UW student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) has made three trips to Yanayo, a remote community in Bolivia.
A two-day symposium on American musical theater organized by Larry Starr, the Ruth Waters Endowed Professor in Music History at the UW School of Music, will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, in Brechemin Auditorium.
The UW School of Music will present a Celebration of Beethoven with Irish Pianist John O’Conor at 7:30 p.
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.
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.
Students come to the UW to find their place in the world.
The Sylvan Theater is back to normal after several months without its columns.
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.