February 1, 2005
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.
January 27, 2005
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.
DEGREE EXAMS
Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations.
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.
January 26, 2005
Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.
January 25, 2005
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.
January 24, 2005
WHAT: First conference on journalism and the tsunami — lessons learned, and what to do next in covering the social, political and economic fallout.
January 21, 2005
The Master of Arts in Policy Studies at University of Washington, Bothell is hosting a Policy Forum on February 16, 2005 from 3:30 – 5:30 PM.
The University of Washington, Bothell (UW Bothell)’s very own student organization, Community Science Connection, is making a difference in the community!
Community Science Connection helped twenty-six 5th and 6th graders of Bothell to enter the “Design a Lunar-Based Mission to Mars” contest.
As the death toll from the Dec.
January 20, 2005
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
More than 850 volunteers participated in service activities in celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr.
A team from the UW’s Master’s of Business Administration program won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition held last weekend at Arizona State University.
David Horsey, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, will speak at 7 p.
Talk to pianists Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard for any length of time and you’ll learn some fascinating historical tidbits.
Five educators from Uzbekistan are on the UW campus this week, continuing an exchange of time and talents that will culminate in a conference in Tashkent — Uzbekistan’s capital city — this fall and another in Seattle in spring of 2006.
Myth or reality? There are no good jobs out there for people with undergraduate degrees in the visual arts.
Technology comes more easily to some than to others.
Throughout her childhood in Sri Lanka and during adult stints working as an anthropologist there, Manjari Wijenaike saw little letup in the island’s ethnic tensions until Dec.
A joint project between the University of Washington and the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) will drive the commercialization of five promising UW technologies.