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When Sindiwe Magona was a little girl in South Africa during the ’40s and ’50s, she anxiously looked forward to the days when white folks’ threw out books because they eventually came to her, and she was delighted.

By Claire Dietz
News & Community Relations

Other summers, Araceli Vasquez had worked with her family in the beet fields of southern Idaho.

Gail Stygall, chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2006–2007 year, believes strongly in the idea of shared governance, and says openness and cooperation have grown tremendously at the UW in recent years.

By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations

Orin Smith, retired Starbucks president and chief executive officer, has donated $5 million for the UW’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.

Where are we? The photo to the right was taken somewhere on campus.

A CAT PROBLEM: If a single female cat is left unspayed, how many offspring can she produce in seven years? That’s the problem Math Professor Jerry Folland was presented with recently.

“Americanese,” the film based on a novel by University of Washington professor Shawn Wong, is going big time.

More and more, Congressional candidates are turning to the Web as a tool to mobilize their base and build credibility with undecided voters, according to findings in a new book by a University of Washington researcher.

An earthquake swarm — a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events — over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St.

Researchers at the University of Washington  are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement.

The Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington are looking for Puget Sound men and women who have an opiate addiction and women with suicidal behavior to volunteer for two studies designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for people who have trouble regulating their emotions.

Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.

Once consumers buy an item, it is often difficult for them to get rid of it, even if it makes rational sense to do so.

The state’s single most valuable resource, its smartest young students, are wanted by the University of Washington as it embarks on its annual hunt for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across Washington.

Natural and manmade disasters, including the terrorist attacks of Sept.

PHILADELPHIA — If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist.

On Wednesday, Oct.

HIPRC AND Children’s Hospital awarded $3.