January 5, 2006
Academic opportunities
Participants wanted for Continuums of Service conference
Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium announce the dates, location, theme, and call for proposals for the Ninth Annual Continuums of Service Conference.
A GRAND FILM: A group of UW Tacoma students won the short-film contest sponsored by the city’s Grand Cinema right before the break, producing a five-minute film in just 72 hours with only a few actors, minimal sets and equipment, and a clunky required line of dialogue.
Last summer, University Week sent out e-mail to all the faculty and staff we could find who have worked here for at least 35 years.
The Stardust landing will be covered live on UWTV2, which will be broadcasting from NASA-TV starting at 1:30 a.
January 3, 2006
One hundred families with two or more autistic children in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho and Alaska are needed for an on-going University of Washington study that is searching for the genetic causes of autism.
Adolescents who suffer physical injuries are vulnerable to emotional distress in the months following their hospitalization, yet almost 40 percent of hospitalized adolescents interviewed for a new study had no source for the follow-up medical care that could diagnose and treat symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
The Stardust landing will be covered live on UWTV2, which will be broadcasting from NASA-TV starting at 1:30 a.
December 29, 2005
The tiny rabbit-like American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best canaries in a coal mine for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin.
December 23, 2005
At least five million people around the world die from trauma each year, with enormous disparities in survival rates for patients injured in high-income and low-income countries.
December 21, 2005
Polyester aside, the disco dancers of the ’70s may have been on to something.
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.