January 10, 2008
Albert Folch, University of Washington “Van Gogh’s cells”: A magnified image of muscle cells after about one week of growth, when they start to fuse. The cells have been digitally colored. Albert Folch, University of Washington A microfluidic device is filled by substituting water with dyes, here flowing in from the left. The channels at the top and bottom of the chamber were filled with dyes a minute ago, but are now stopped by two horizontal valves. Albert Folch, University…
January 8, 2008
Most Americans know an assassin shot Martin Luther King Jr.
January 3, 2008
UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have received a second leadership award from the health insurer Premera Blue Cross (Premera) for continued participation and support in the Premera Quality Score Card program.
University of Washington Provost Phyllis Wise announced the she has selected Marla Salmon, currently professor and dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, as the next dean of the top-ranked UW School of Nursing, effective Oct.
January 2, 2008
Autism researchers at the University of Washington will take the initial step in attempting to prevent the developmental disorder when they launch an $11.
December 19, 2007
With the Iowa caucuses only weeks away and Wall Street fearing a recession, two University of Washington political scientists say too many politicians and their constituencies hang onto bad economic ideas, even when they’ve been shown wrong.
December 18, 2007
A new national study of voters who say they might vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses shows a striking disconnect between their explicit and implicit preferences, according to University of Washington researchers.
December 13, 2007
It has been a decade since University of Washington scientists first pinpointed specific instances of air pollution, including Gobi Desert dust, traversing the Pacific Ocean and adding to the mix of atmospheric pollution already present along the West Coast of North America.
December 11, 2007
Record-breaking amounts of ice-free water have deprived the Arctic of more of its natural “sunscreen” than ever in recent summers.
It has been 35 years since humans last walked on the moon, but there has been much recent discussion about returning, either for exploration or to stage a mission to Mars.
December 7, 2007
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes Honoree.
December 6, 2007
Managing fisheries to maximize profits got a bad name in the 1970s after an economist concluded that overexploitation, even to the point of causing a stock to go extinct, is a definite possibility when fishers are pitted against each other and are attempting to maximize profits.
Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
On Saturday, Dec.
A team of scientists working with people who were profoundly disabled and unable to communicate in the usual way wanted to find out if some of them could learn to perform simple tasks using adaptive technology.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
TYPE IT UP: Karen Cheng, UW associate professor of design in the School of Art, has entered a competition sponsored by the Linotype company, which markets and licenses fonts for designers and typographers.
The UW Women’s Vocal Jazz and Vocal Jazz I ensembles, directed by Dave Cross, will present a program at 7:30 p.
With an investment of $15,000, Snohomish County became a founding partner of the Business Development Center (BDC) at UW Bothell recently.
For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months.
Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
The biennial UW Theatre and Concert Hall Tour to London, led by English Professor John Webster, has been so popular that in 2006, more than 70 percent of the tour’s participants were repeat clients.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
The first multidisciplinary study to examine the status of doctoral students in the social sciences at least five years after receiving their degree concludes that doctoral programs need to be brought into the 21st century.
FRIDAY, DEC.
While central Puget Sound voters were debating the merits of and then defeating the $18 billion package of roads and other transit projects called Proposition 1 last month, a smaller group of citizens was putting together its own proposals to improve the region’s congested transportation network.
The floor is open for nominations for the 2008 R1edu Award for Distinguished Faculty Contributions to Online Learning.
The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) has announced its Grant Competitions for 2008: LSDF 08-01 and 08-02.
Jeffrey Eaton, a senior at the UW, has been selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest awards available to college graduates in the U.
The University is seeking to recognize a number of distinguished outstanding individuals at next June’s commencement, and wants the campus community to help in identifying them.
With Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney scheduled to address the nation about his Mormon beliefs tonight, Democratic and Republican debates in Iowa next week, the Iowa caucuses only a month away and seemingly endless political discussion fueled by religion, a new book co-authored by a UW professor explains how politicians are using God talk to garner votes.
Pianist Antti Siirala performs as part of the World Series at Meany Hall on Tuesday, Dec.
After a recent makeover, the little Drama Library, tucked in the ground floor of Hutchinson Hall, is looking pretty good for an old locker room.
They call it the Capital Projects Office (CPO) version of speed dating.
Still haven’t contributed to the Combined Fund Drive? Don’t worry, there’s time.
Operation Peanut Butter: Carlos Pellegrini, chair of the Department of Surgery, with only some of the thousands of pounds of peanut butter collected in 2005 for local Northwest Harvest food banks.
The UW School of Dentistry and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center have announced they are joining forces to combat the growing crisis of childhood dental disease with the development of a new pediatric dental facility, to be located in Magnuson Park.
Pamela Mitchell, associate dean for research in the School of Nursing, has received the 2007 Pathfinder Distinguished Research Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research.
The Scribner Courage in Health Care Award is bestowed to a health care professional who has made an extraordinary contribution to the health of people in the Pacific Northwest through the exhibition of personal courage, within or outside of traditional systems.