The latest news from the UW

Despite the worsening fracas over softwood imports, the United States and Canada remain each other’s most important trade partners in wood products.

Keeping firearms in a household is associated with a 5-10 fold increased risk of suicide among adolescents, and an estimated 35 percent of homes with children under the age of 18 contain at least one gun.

Researchers at the University of Washington have blended the past with the present in the fight against cancer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy that uses cancer cells’ rapacious appetite for iron to make them a target.

Wildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe and widespread yet society remains distrustful of management options that include removing trees and controlled burns, says Jim Agee, University of Washington professor of forest resources, whose talk “Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the West,” Feb.

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

Directors have long felt free to alter the time and place of Shakespearean plays.

In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a UW researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases.

UW TechTransfer Digital Ventures has created a new Web portal to provide easier access and information regarding free digital resources written and developed at the University.

Wildfires in western forests have become uncharacteristically severe and widespread yet society remains distrustful of management options that include removing trees and controlled burns, says Jim Agee, UW professor of forest resources, whose talk Forests Aflame: Strategies and Challenges for Managing Fire in the West, on Thursday, Feb.

Once upon a time, life was simple.

What sort of person should the UW hire as its next Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs? A search committee of faculty, staff and students is posing that question of the University community, and looking for nominations, too.

Parents of children with autism often lack good treatment options for this still mysterious developmental disability that can be accompanied by myriad medical problems.

Parents who have children with autism often have no place to turn to when it comes to finding quality treatment for this often still mysterious developmental disability which is accompanied by a wide variety of medical problems.

UW Medical Center (UWMC) and Harborview Medical Center (HMC), the two hospitals of UW Medicine, are joining a national campaign to continue to improve patient safety.

In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a University of Washington researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases.

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

The UW Chamber Dance Company (CDC) will bring to life a 1931 masterpiece by dance great Martha Graham next week, thanks to coaching from one of Graham’s students.

Scott Stephenson would like to take you higher.

UW officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.

No country was hit harder by the Dec.

It began as a modest proposal by three UW professors — geneticist Clement Furlong, electrical engineer Sinclair Yee and chemist Lloyd Burgess.

Still time for Mini-Med
UW Medicine’s 2005 Mini-Medical School, a six-part series of exciting lectures and demonstrations designed to teach about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research, is open to the UW community and the public.

Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.

Today’s domestic chickens have just as much genetic diversity as their wild ancestor, according to genome scientists analyzing the variations on the newly sequenced chicken genome.

UW Medicine is sponsoring the “Go Red for Women” luncheon on Monday, Feb.

The School of Nursing will receive funding from UW Medical Center for a new endowed professorship, Dr.

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Attention parents: It may be midwinter, but it’s not too soon to think about summertime options for your school-age children.

The effect of war on the lives of children will be the topic of an art exhibit and symposium at the UW in March.

A&S HONORS: Internationally recognized local author, David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars), is among the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Sound Transit will host a meeting Feb.

The worst-kept secret in Olympia is that the next revenue forecast by the state’s chief economist is likely to be decidedly better than recent flat projections.

A joint project between the UW and the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) will drive the commercialization of five promising UW technologies.

For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a UW scientist disputes that notion.

Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.

Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.

University of Washington officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.