March 16, 2007
A new antimicrobial approach can kill bacteria in laboratory experiments and eliminate life-threatening infections in mice by interfering with a key bacterial nutrient, according to research led by a University of Washington scientist.
More than 150 scholars, community leaders and activists will participate in the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies next Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23) on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.
March 14, 2007
Departure set for Friday, March 16, 3 p.
March 13, 2007
It is an inevitability of life — you are born and you begin to age.
March 12, 2007
The University of Washington has joined 26 universities offering a Department of Energy-sponsored program to reduce electricity use in manufacturing plants.
If Phil Howard’s calculations prove true, by year’s end the 2 billionth personal record — some American’s social-security or credit-card number, academic grades or medical history — will become compromised, and it’s corporate America, not rogue hackers, who are primarily to blame.
Employers would be better at keeping workers if they focused on why their employees want to stay rather than what kinds of things make them quit, according to researchers from the University of Washington and Truman State University.
March 8, 2007
Boys and girls who played basketball for coaches trained to emphasize personal improvement, giving maximum effort, having fun and supporting their teammates reported lower levels of sport anxiety compared with athletes playing for untrained coaches.
Maybe it’s the long hours alone on the bike that provide the inspiration, or maybe it’s all that dreary rain.
Ready for Web 3.
On Tuesday, March 20, Parking Service’s main office (located at 3901 University Way NE) will be closed from 1:15 to 3:45 p.
Academic Opportunities
Applications invited for Small Grants Research Awards
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University of Washington faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
What can the average UW employee do to ensure that the UW lives its values in the work place?
A daylong seminar last week, attended by close to 100 staff and faculty, used a combination of case studies and events involving major historical figures to explore how individual decision-making helps create — or undermine — an organization’s stated core values.
A UW effort to help rebuild a community along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast is a drop in the bucket stacked against the $110 billion the government has budgeted for recovery.
It’s not every day a musician gives a concert and a three-story gingerbread cookie shows up.
A run/walk event beginning at 10 a.
The Comparative Religion Program presents Christopher Evans speaking on Baseball: an American Religion? at 7:30 p.
Three UW students receiving medals for high scholarship for the 2005-6 academic year were honored at a private reception hosted by President Mark Emmert Friday, March 2.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Canadian-American double bass virtuoso Gary Karr will discuss “My Life in Music” with UW School of Music double bassist Barry Lieberman at 2 p.
The UW President’s Piano Series will present Vladimir Feltsman at 8 p.
SPACE STAMP: A Hubble Space Telescope image captured by an international team led by UW astronomy Professor Bruce Balick is included in a new series of stamps from Royal Mail in the United Kingdom, issued Feb.
Each year, BizTech presents seriously helpful information wrapped in a decidedly light-hearted theme, and this year’s event, subtitled “Discover the Possibilities!” continues that tradition.
The UW World Dance Series presents the Sydney Dance Company at 8 p.
Editor’s note: Uniquely Washington is a biweekly column featuring one of the University’s most important resources — our people.
A group of graduate students is organizing a daylong conference on interdisciplinary dialogue on religion.
Award Winners
The Harborview ICU liaison program has won the National Association of Public Hospitals 2007 Safety Net Award for Patient-Centered Care.
Hurricanes can gain or lose intensity with startling quickness, a phenomenon never more obvious than during the historic 2005 hurricane season that spawned the remarkably destructive Katrina and Rita.
At the end of April, a major renovation project for the G wing and the older section of the H wing will begin in the Health Sciences Building.
When cells become cancerous, they also become 100 times more likely to genetically mutate than regular cells, UW researchers have found.
When Frantz Marc Marthol left Haiti in January and landed in Seattle for the first time, the cold winter weather blanketing the Pacific Northwest was the first of many stark contrasts he’d soon encounter.
By Jill Carnell Danseco
UW Tacoma
Good nurses are important.
Put that cheeseburger down.
March 6, 2007
The University of Washington Medical Center is the title sponsor of the 2007 Seattle Marathon, with proceeds to benefit the UW Medical Center Patient and Family Housing Fund.
March 1, 2007
Much like how a person’s genetic code differs from other individuals, the level at which those genes are activated in the body differs from one person to another, scientists have learned.
Hurricanes can gain or lose intensity with startling quickness, a phenomenon never more obvious than during the historic 2005 hurricane season that spawned the remarkably destructive Katrina and Rita.
The College of Architecture and Urban Planning will present Civic and Green Infrastructure, a panel discussion highlighting sustainable planning and design in the Pacific Northwest and in Denmark, from 7 to 8:30 p.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
It’s been a long, cold winter.