October 18, 2007
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how UW engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
It’s possible to discuss American Sabor: Latinos in U.
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
October 17, 2007
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
October 15, 2007
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
October 11, 2007
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
A workshop on violence prevention is available to faculty, staff and students.
Imagine you’re an actress doing Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs — some as tall as 30 feet — and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
This year, the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), Washington State’s workplace giving campaign, asks would-be donors, “What would you give to change the world?”
This year’s campaign began Oct.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Hans Blix, who headed the United Nations commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, is deeply worried that a new but quiet arms race threatens the world.
STAR EDUCATOR: Tom Griffin, editor of Columns, the UW alumni magazine, was named a “Faculty Star” by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Researcher and author Audrey Osler will be the featured speaker for the Center for Multicultural Education at the UW’s 24th symposium-lecture, 11 a.
Four finalists for the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences will be making public presentations in the next month, open to all faculty, staff and students.
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
The UW, in partnership with the Seattle Times and the Seattle Art Museum, invites all treasure hunters and thrill seekers to join an adventurous 10-day foray in fun for the second annual Emerald City Search, beginning Oct.
The first public screening of historic films from the UW Libraries Special Collections will feature an eclectic mix of the humorous, entertaining and odd.
The public is invited to an open house in honor of the dedication of the Benjamin D.
Elizabeth Kolbert tells scary stories, the kind that stick in your head long after you’ve finished her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Undergraduate astronomy students at the UW combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.
It’s well documented that smoking tobacco is one of the riskiest and deadliest behaviors around, contributing to over 30 percent of heart disease and strokes, nearly 90 percent of lung cancers and at least a third of other cancers.
If a woman has been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the other breast may show cancer that the mammogram missed, according to a UW-led international study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March.
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).
Four UW faculty members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).