The latest news from the UW

By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine

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A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.

To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound.

The UW has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up the Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.

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Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth.

A heat-loving microbe capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.

The Asian Law Center at the UW School of Law was awarded a $1.

By Marilyn Kliman
Arts and Sciences

Donald Logan, a retired Seattle high school history teacher, has given $1 million to the Department of History to fund the Donald W.

The UW is one of 10 non-profit institutions to be recognized in the first annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration.

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved the new Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering and Systems, offered by the Institute of Technology at the UW Tacoma.

A short, simple resolution recently passed by a campus committee will help more UW-developed medicines and technologies to be distributed in developing countries worldwide.

This is shaping up to be a breakthrough year for funding of higher education and especially the UW.

If a zebrafish loses a chunk of its tail fin, it’ll grow back within a week.

WHAT: Demonstration of a prototype robot developed by the University of Washington to inspect underground high-voltage power cables for damage.

To your left runs a high-voltage power cable that is worn, but still physically sound.

Researchers have discovered two genes that guide land plants to develop microscopic pores that they can open and close as if each pore was a tiny mouth.

It’s often said that half of all public school teachers leave the profession during their first five years.

The University of Washington has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.

The next time you’re in the market for a new camera, it might be best to read about the product’s capabilities in a brochure rather than taking it for a test-run in an interactive, computer-generated virtual world.

A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.

Contrary to a popular scientific notion, there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun’s sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets.

A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.

An international group of researchers has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded $10.

Although there’s often a gulf of perception between the worlds of art and science, many artists use science for their creations and some scientists find art in their work.

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Heather McHugh, a poet and English professor at the UW, has been awarded $50,000 in the inaugural round of United States Artists Fellowships.

Invasive Northwest marine species, a house by Frank Lloyd Wright and the bungalows of Seattle are among topics covered by several books by UW faculty or about the Seattle area soon to be published by University Press.

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

The front desk came from the law school, the carpeting in the back from Housing and Food Services.

By Sibrina Collins
The Graduate School

This fall the University took a step toward its goal of building relationships with minority-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities when it hosted Andrew Williams, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.

For their 25th wedding anniversary, Douglas Louie surprised his wife, UW Tacoma Professor of Education Belinda Louie, with an elaborate, expensive gift she can’t wear, drive or even touch.

Most college term papers don’t make the national news.

Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of profiles University Week has run of UW staff members volunteering for agencies that receive funding through the Combined Fund Drive.