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Injury prevention and injury outcomes will be the main topics for a short course, Injury Research Methods (EPI590TJ), to be held July 11 to 15 at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, 401 Broadway.

The next presentation in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” will be on “Funding to Aid in Academic Collaboration with Small Business.

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The National Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday the election of Seattle researchers Dr.

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Bioethics and Public Health
“Beyond Bioethics: Thinking about Ethics in Public Health” is the topic for a Symposium on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Cardiothoracic Surgery Visiting Scholar
“Investigating the Mechanism of Neurologic Injury in Cardiac Surgery” is the topic for Dr.

Taking antibiotics weekly for a year does not reduce the risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event for patients with stable coronary artery disease, according to a UW study.

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Board of Regents Meeting

The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.

There is currently no waiting list for community college students eligible to transfer to the UW in Seattle.

In the UW Alumni Association lecture series, “World War II: The War That Changed America,” seven distinguished history professors will talk about the many ways this watershed event affected life away from the battlefield — positive and negative.

Issues of diversity and interdisciplinary work dominated the discussion when the first of three scheduled candidates for provost visited the campus this week.

The results of the most recent legislative session may not have satisfied all of the University’s aspirations for enhanced support, but it was certainly better than most experts would have predicted four months ago.

BOSTON — A leading scientist trying to understand and treat autism suspects that a failure to engage in such normal social activities as looking at a parent’s face or listening to speech sounds early in life may help explain the profound impairments in social and language development shown by most children with the disorder.

Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space.

Sick and injured children come in all sizes, challenging their caregivers to provide them with appropriate doses of medication and other necessary therapies.

There is currently no waiting list for community college students eligible to transfer to the University of Washington in Seattle.

More than 1,100 fifth through eighth graders from across Washington will be honored Saturday on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington for their outstanding verbal and/or mathematical talents.

WHAT: Briefing on proposals for Congress to improve oversight and accountability of charities.

To celebrate the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875), Suzzallo Library will feature a special exhibition from May 3 to Aug.

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

Aw, just take a walk, why dontcha.

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When Dan White was tried for the 1978 murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and member of the Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk, was it an execution of justice as in carrying out justice, or was it an execution of justice as in killing justice?

The double meaning is entirely deliberate in the title of the School of Drama’s latest production, Execution of Justice, which opened last night in Meany Studio Theater and will run through May 8.

The UW Alaska Salmon Program, the world’s longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.

UW Tacoma broke ground this week for Court 17, the new housing and parking complex to be developed through a public/private partnership.

The UW Office of Minority Affairs’ Ronald E McNair Program/ Early Identification Program and the Graduate School’s Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program will hold their 13th annual spring research conference Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, in the HUB.

Student digital portfolios have become an increasingly popular means to assess student learning.

Concerns are heightened on the UW campus over the fate of the federally funded programs grouped under the title TRIO, whose aim is to increase higher education access for low-income students and those who are the first in their families to attend college.

The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans.

A proposed change in the writing requirement for students in the College of Arts and Sciences will be among the items under discussion next week at a meeting sponsored by the college’s Writing Council.

The Washington State Legislature passed a budget for higher education in the coming biennium that was a compromise between versions passed by the state House and the Senate.