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Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a new UW study.

Kitchens at the UW have been composting their food waste for some time — but now composting is coming out front, and becoming everybody’s business.

THE KEMPER 100 — Who doesn’t like a good reading list? William T.

SCHOOL OF ROCK: If you’ve passed by Johnson Hall recently, you might have noticed that the Department of Earth and Space Sciences has some rather unusual signage marking its presence in the building.

UW Copy Centers are now using 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper.

Engineering undergraduates begin college with little idea of what it means to be an engineer, and they often don’t find out until their third year.

Video clips of seals zipping around, a kelp crab latching onto the lens of the camera, swirling schools of silvery perch and even birds “swimming” by.

For 16 years, UW Medical Center (UWMC) staff have corresponded with Montlake Elementary’s third-grade class to enhance the school’s language arts curriculum.

UW scientists and other members of an international consortium have completed a multiyear research effort that dramatically boosts understanding of how the human genome functions.

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The UW Center for AIDS and STD is sponsoring a symposium to honor its director Dr.

Young adults chatting on their mobiles wind their way through a crowded, steamy street.

The UW has created a new research center that will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide.

Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a new University of Washington study.

Researchers tracing the development of violent behavior have found a link between teenage violence and domestic violence.

EVALUATING EVALUATIONS — UW psychology professor Anthony Greenwald was quoted extensively in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article about student evaluations of university instructors.

Where are we?  The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Two UW employees, Lois Fink and Miko Robertson, are among more than 1.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Tina Mankowski, director of Health Sciences/UW Medicine News and CommunityRelations, has been named associate vice president-medical affairs for News and Community Relations and Marketing.

President Mark Emmert has appointed Kathryn Waddell as executive director of Health Sciences Administration, effective Aug.

If German photographer Florian Schulz shows a boyish enthusiasm for his photography, it’s no surprise.

Six well-known regional writers will speak at the UW this summer as the public part of two courses on the Pacific Northwest that will be taught jointly.

Sandra McGowan was waiting to get her hair done when the woman who runs a beauty supply business nearby came running over.

A celebration of Margaret Darland’s life is planned at 5:30 p.

Computer science alumna Suzanna Kovoor started a company in January selling implantable brain chips.

Members of the UW community got a chance to see what the Husky Union Building might look like someday when representatives of Perkins + Will, the architectural firm that is creating a master plan for the building, visited just before the end of spring quarter.

Johnese Spisso has been a guiding force in the operations of Harborview Medical Center for the past seven years.