The latest news from the UW

School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers, a new study shows.

Autism research at the University of Washington has received a major boost from an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, which runs for five years, nearly doubles the research funding of the UW’s Autism Center, directed by psychology professor Geraldine Dawson.

School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers, a new study shows.

A free concert on Friday, May 30 is the culmination of a new School of Music class in gospel music.

UW Tacoma’s first official athlete is a Husky who rides bulls.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere at the UW, but not in Seattle.

Students grabbed sediment, sieved for shrimp and viewed plankton with a video microscope during Puget Sound research cruises led by UW alumnus Jim Norris.

What constitutes “good work?”

This is the central question explored in an innovative class offered by Britt Yamamoto, doctoral candidate in geography.

Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun’s heat away from Earth and into space, are part of everyday life.

Murder often begins at a terrifyingly early age.

Writing and the teaching of writing are drawing record numbers of school teachers to classes and seminars here.

If you’ve ever had the desire to live someone else’s life for a while, Janice Thomas has a message for you: It can be done.

If recommendations of the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Writing Committee are accepted, students will be writing more and college writing programs will be more coordinated.

The manager of a multi-million dollar research program for the Office of Naval Research and an expert on using sound energy to “see” inside the world’s oceans has been named director of the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, a center for research and teaching that last fiscal year brought in $43 million in grants and contracts.

The Medicines for Malaria Venture has awarded its Project of the Year Award to two researchers at the University of Washington, Dr. Wesley Van Voorhis, professor in the School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Gelb, professor in the Department of Chemistry.

How global climate change may alter how we live in the Pacific Northwest will be discussed by University of Washington research scientist Nate Mantua Tuesday, May 27, 7 p.m., Kane Hall 120.

Creators of a company that will broaden advances in genome science have won the $25,000 top prize at the University of Washington’s sixth annual business plan competition.

An analysis of clinical trials involving more than 192,000 patients with hypertension shows that low-dose diuretics are more effective at preventing cardiovascular health problems than any other blood-pressure medication, according to University of Washington researchers and colleagues.

People are only slightly more likely to die of respiratory and cardiovascular problems when the air is increasingly stagnant, according to research by University of Washington scientists that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Seattle.

Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center, and several other Puget Sound area hospitals were among the participants this week in a national counter-terrorism drill.

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If two renegade violins started quietly playing “Ode to Joy” during Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony,” some audience members might sense a problem.

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