December 9, 2004
The connection between species richness and area occupied, recognized by biologists for more than a hundred years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level.
By today’s standards, pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.
The Congressional response to the recommendations of the 911 Commission is unlikely to prevent future terrorist attacks in the United States, according to former Washington Senator Slade Gorton.
Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America’s school-age children.
The UW Faculty Senate is starting to get interested in intercollegiate athletics.
Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior.
As citizens of Washington state wait out a third count with 42 votes separating the candidates for governor, new research shows that Washington was not the only state where the voters’ true choice may never be known.
December 8, 2004
The connection between species richness and area occupied, recognized by biologists for more than a hundred years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level.
December 7, 2004
Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior.
December 6, 2004
Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America’s school-age children.
Recent testing throughout the Seattle Public School District revealed that many schools have at least one drinking fountain with lead levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency guideline for lead in school drinking water.
December 2, 2004
Mention Scrooge and what comes to mind? Miserly, check; mean, check; unsympathetic, check; tap dancer, ch — huh? Dickens’ famous curmudgeon doing a soft shoe routine? Not the picture we usually have of the old boy.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.
Maresi Nerad, director of the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.
Maresi Nerad, director of the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.
“T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Academic Opportunities
Faculty Senate position
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three UW campuses for the vital position of Secretary of the Faculty.
Technology transfer activity at the UW increased significantly in fiscal year 2004, reports UW TechTransfer, the office that facilitates commercial development of innovations arising from UW research.
With increasing global warming, Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus’ reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
The Human Subjects Division is either moving to a new place or coming home to an old one, depending on how you look at it.
The UW Police Department will be offering a free 10-week Citizen’s Academy beginning Jan.
PRESS ON PREZ: If you missed UW President Mark Emmert’s speech on Tuesday, you have another chance to hear him as he sits for an interview with Seattle Times higher education reporter Sharon Chan and executive editor Michael Fancher.
The world’s fastest glacier, Greenland’s Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.
Preparations for new facilities to house the UW Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
December 1, 2004
With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus’ reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
Preparations for new facilities to house the University of Washington Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
November 29, 2004
Researchers at the University of Washington have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.
WHAT: Panel discussion about Grid West, a proposed nonprofit corporation that would manage key features of the Northwest’s electric-power system.
November 22, 2004
By today’s standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write, or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.