The latest news from the UW

LIFETIME OF LANDSCAPE: Richard Haag, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, received the ASLA Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

When internal waves up to 300 feet first form they cause a mighty churning of ocean waters — something invisible to and unfelt by anyone at the surface.

The students in Kathleen Poole’s school face different challenges than their peers at some of the other elementary schools in the Bellevue School District.

The UW’s College of Education and College of Arts and Sciences were awarded a $5 million grant and designated one of 11 “Teachers for a New Era” schools today.

While Seattle city officials considered the lease lid, UW students worked to enhance the neighborhood surrounding their campus.

The UW Summer Arts Festival, which has graced the campus each July for the past four years, will not be returning next year.

The staying power of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field is one reason they also may have been incubators of Earth’s earliest life, scientists report in a paper published in the July 25 issue of Science.

The group that proposed creating a National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at a closed South Dakota gold mine has completed a detailed engineering plan for the conversion, replacing the initial proposal sent to the National Science Foundation two years ago.

University of Washington Medical Center has achieved a top 10 ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.S.News & World Report’s 2003 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” which will be updated in its July 28 issue, available July 21.

Research from the Univerity of Washington’s Washington Kids Count project shows the emotional well-being of Washington children is strongly linked to their parents’ mental health. In turn, parents’ mental health is profoundly sensitive to their children’s emotions and behavior.

Social interaction apparently plays a far more important role in how infants learn language than previously believed, according to three related studies conducted by researchers at the University of Washington’s Center for Mind, Brain & Learning (CMBL).

This summer, the School of Dentistry is again teaming up with the Washington Dental Service Foundation (WDSF) to conduct dental camps for junior high school students from across the state.

This year, as players kicked the first balls around Grass Lawn Park’s $1.

The UW has commissioned a major sculptural work for the area north of Parrington Hall.

To strengthen our capacities for interdisciplinary work at the UW Bothell campus, 33 faculty and academic staff joined teaching and research circles during the 2002-03 academic year.

The UW’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering has started to move across campus into the department’s new building — a transition that will take one of the nation’s top 10 computer science programs to a state-of-the-art facility where it can expand on its tradition of leadership.

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