December 21, 2005
A study about the relationship between asthma and obesity, which uses a community-based twin registry from the University of Washington in Seattle, has found a strong genetic link between the two disorders, according to findings published in the December issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.
December 20, 2005
New research reveals that television commercials featuring celebrity voice-overs are most influential when consumers can’t identify which actor it belongs to.
December 19, 2005
A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in stopping breast cancer before it gets a toehold.
December 14, 2005
Scientific insights come at the darnedest times.
December 12, 2005
The Ford Foundation has selected the University of Washington as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and constructive dialogue on campus.
December 8, 2005
Editor’s note: This is the last in University Week’s series of profiles of UW employees who volunteer for CFD agencies.
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.
Registration for the 3rd annual Ride in the Rain Challenge is under way.
The UW is one of 20 American universities taking part in a new Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research
The initiative was launched today by the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam.
Starting this winter, students will be able to enroll at UW Bothell while completing an associate degree from Everett Community College.
The Triple Door will host a launch party for Taste This Northwest, a CD benefiting homeless youth in the Northwest, from 7 to 10 p.
Last Thursday, the Office of News and Information was bamboozled by Google, specifically by Google News.
Nearly 300 people gathered in Bagley Hall Friday to honor B.
Frosh Pond is being drained and a fence erected around it this week in preparation for repair.
The UW School of Law has received a $33.
Harry Bruce, a faculty member at the UW Information School, has been named dean of the school effective Jan.
Although the majority of faculty who were required to complete training on Faculty Effort Certification have done so, a number of follow-up issues have arisen, according to Sue Camber, assistant vice president for research and accounting analysis.
The Diversity Research Institute, a new entity on campus, is making itself known with a call for research proposals and plans for a two-day conference next spring.
Scientists studying the effects of carbon on climate warming are very likely underestimating, by a vast amount, how much soil carbon is available in the high Arctic to be released into the atmosphere, new UW research shows.
A team of Spanish and American neuroscientists has discovered neurons in the mammalian brainstem that focus exclusively on new, novel sounds, helping humans and other animals ignore ongoing, predictable sounds.
For the third consecutive year, banks with headquarters in Washington state delivered an average of 10 percent return to investors, according to researchers at the UW Business School.
Scientists for years have been at a loss to explain unexpectedly high levels of mercury in fish swimming the rivers and streams of areas like eastern Oregon, far away from industrial sources of mercury pollution such as coal-fired power plants.
Anyone interested in joining the United States Senate next year had better make the following New Year’s resolution: Pile up at least $10 million.
The collaboration between a student group and an artist has resulted in two large murals bringing scenes of color and light to the second floor of Miller Hall.
December 7, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists for years have been at a loss to explain unexpectedly high levels of mercury in fish swimming the rivers and streams of areas like eastern Oregon, far away from industrial sources of mercury pollution such as coal-fired power plants.
December 5, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists studying the effects of carbon on climate warming are very likely underestimating, by a vast amount, how much soil carbon is available in the high Arctic to be released into the atmosphere, new University of Washington research shows.
For the third consecutive year, banks with headquarters in Washington state delivered an average of 10 percent return to investors, according to researchers at the University of Washington Business School.
Anyone interested in joining the United States Senate next year had better make the following New Year’s resolution — pile up at least $10 million.
December 2, 2005
Harry Bruce, a faculty member at the UW Information School, has been named dean of the school effective Jan.
December 1, 2005
A team of Spanish and American neuroscientists has discovered neurons in the mammalian brainstem that focus exclusively on new, novel sounds, helping humans and other animals ignore ongoing, predictable sounds.
The University of Washington School of Law has received a $33.
Open House next spring
The 2006 Health Sciences Open House is set for Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29.
The medical school’s first Education in Medicine lecturer will be Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine Paul G.
Conflicts of interest, both real and perceived, that are of particular interest to researchers working with human subjects are the focus of a program next week.
When Mike Shanahan was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in 1993, he didn’t say anything about it to most of his co-workers in the UW Police Department that he had led as chief for more than 20 years.
Pathways to Civic Participation: Youth Service in the Global Context is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Susan Stroud, executive director of the nonprofit social change organization Innovations in Civic Participation.
Van Sherod’s work life plays out against the buzz of power tools, but when he goes home, he’s greeted by a more natural kind of buzz.
If you are interested in learning more about the UW Police Department and our community, you can sign up for a free 10-week Citizen’s Academy.