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.
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 University of Washington scientist disputes that notion.
January 19, 2005
University of Washington TechTransfer recently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantage in the fight against disease.
In his second inaugural address tomorrow, George W.
January 18, 2005
WHAT: Panel discussion on politics, health consequences, relief efforts
WHEN: Thursday, Jan.
A team from the University of Washington master’s of business administration program won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition held last weekend at Arizona State University.
January 14, 2005
Brief alcohol counseling sessions for injured patients, already shown to be effective in reducing subsequent alcohol intake and trauma recidivism, can also reduce health-care costs.
Merrill Hall at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture — rebuilt nearly four years after an arson attack ruined the building and set back research, teaching and outreach — is being dedicated during events open to the public Jan.
January 13, 2005
More than 800 children who have been patients at Harborview Medical Center attended a holiday party on Dec.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Just over a hundred years ago, when chemical engineering made its first appearance at the UW as the new discipline of “industrial chemistry,” students conducted their experiments under the watchful eye of rookie Assistant Professor Henry K.
Several squirrels were seen and heard squawking up a storm Friday near where the Suzzallo and Allen libraries meet.
Way before Christmas, campus librarians got what they had long been wishing for — but it wasn’t quite a dream come true.
UW President Mark Emmert has selected Patricia Spakes, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, to become chancellor of UW Tacoma, effective April 4.
Merrill Hall at the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture — rebuilt nearly four years after an arson attack ruined the building and set back research, teaching and outreach — is being dedicated during events open to the public Jan.
Family and friends of Brian Colella, a 17-year-old Seattle-area athlete who has been diagnosed with fascio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy, have organized a new nonprofit organization, the Pacific Northwest Friends of FSH Research, to support research on the condition.
Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to experience a stroke, compared to people who do not get this type of headache.
UW researchers have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.
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.
Recent research on air pollution caused by particulate matter from combustion sources such as woodsmoke, agricultural burning and diesel exhaust will be presented at a one-day symposium this month.
Water provided to and used by the UW is regularly tested and found to be safe and clean — but it doesn’t hurt to double-check every now and then.
TO CURE OR NOT?: Is autism a disease that needs treating or simply a variation in the human condition, like left-handedness?
The New York Times quoted Jane Meyerding, program coordinator for the UW’s International Studies Center, in a Dec.