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“Here Comes Generation Why! Interacting with the Next Generation of Learners” is a new faculty development workshop offered by the Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics and the School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development.

The CEO Lunch Series, sponsored by the UW Business School and Alumni Association, will feature the presidents of regional giants Nordstrom Inc.

The Washington Technology Center’s Microfabrication Laboratory will hold a forum and workshop titled “AccessIQ: A Forum for Innovation in Micro and Nano Process Development” from 7 to 9 a.

Changes in the public broadcasting industry will be the topic when veteran National Public Radio broadcaster Marcie Sillmann speaks at the annual meeting of the Friends of the UW Libraries.

A free public lecture on the national nursing shortage and its impact on patient safety is set for 5:30 p.

Bill Beaty isn’t really a mad scientist — he just plays one on the Internet.

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Thanks to the Byrds, you don’t have to be a Biblical scholar to be familiar with the verses from Ecclesiastes, the ones about there being “a time for every purpose under Heaven.

What happens if a pandemic flu strikes the Pacific Northwest? How will the region respond?

As part of disaster management preparation, Harborview Medical Center and Public Health-Seattle and King County are sponsoring a one day Regional Pandemic Flu Conference, Monday, Jan.

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Regular exercise is associated with a delay in the onset of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, according to a Group Health Cooperative/UW study that appears in the Jan.

MILLIONS: Wecve all seen those promotions where a customer walks into a store and suddenly a horn is blaring as she is surrounded by balloon-bearing staff declaring her the millionth customer.

The Washington Supreme Court will take its work on the road with a community visit to the UW School of Law on Thursday, Jan.

Lisa Kagan’s brief political career is over — for now

It started a week or so back, when the Seattle City Council asked for candidates to succeed outgoing Councilman Jim Compton.

A new undergraduate course will explore how yearning for justice, vengeance, bravery, and honor — all manifested in the hero figure — has satisfied the psychological needs of Japanese and Chinese readers for centuries, and how that tradition is now being used to serve the psychological needs of American readers and moviegoers.

A study about the relationship between asthma and obesity, which uses a community-based twin registry from the UW, has found a strong genetic link between the two disorders, according to a study published in the December issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

The UW School of Medicine and the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine will establish a jointly-operated Department of Global Health, pending approval at the January meeting of the UW Board of Regents.

Most biomedical researchers work in tandem with the process of evolution, tracing the history of an organism’s development over eons.

The University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine will establish a jointly-operated Department of Global Health, pending approval at the January meeting of the UW Board of Regents.

Scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston were excited and awed Tuesday by what they saw when the sample-return canister from the Stardust spacecraft was opened.

DUGWAY, Utah — Nearly seven years after setting off in pursuit of comet Wild 2, the Stardust return capsule streaked across the night sky of the Western United States early today, making a soft parachute landing in the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City.

University of Washington faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds and other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet, winter weather.

UW Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to install a new-generation PET/CT imaging system designed to help physicians detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process.

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The Missing Story of Ourselves is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan.

The American West was a place of greater racial diversity and complexity than depicted in most mainstream histories, with Latino influences mixing with African American, and Asian American and other cultures.

More than 550 volunteers – faculty, staff and students — will participate in some 45 projects on Jan.

Helping the public better understand the relationship between human health and the oceans, such as the environmental factors at work when shellfish develop toxic compounds that cause people to become ill or die if they eat the contaminated shellfish, is the initial focus of the new UW-based Center for Ocean Science and Education Excellence.

Hannah Wiley was trained as a dancer and later became a teacher and choreographer, but now she finds herself creating DVDs, thanks to a grant from the UW’s Royalty Research Fund.

Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds.

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

Partnership for Youth is looking for about 50 volunteers to participate in the annual count of those living on the streets in the University District.

UW School of Music faculty violist Melia Watras will host violists of all ages at Viola Day, Saturday, Jan.

Polyester aside, the disco dancers of the ’70s may have been on to something.

The College of Forest Resources kicks off its Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series today with presentations by Court Stanley, senior vice president and chief forester at Port Blakely Tree Farms; and Sue Joerger, executive director of Puget Soundkeepers alliance.