The latest news from the UW

Medical and health sciences researchers frequently conduct studies in vivo, within the body, or in vitro, in a test tube.

The small elementary school gymnasium is teeming with the unmistakable energy of youth.

For Viola Vogel, thinking big naturally comes coupled with the smallest objects imaginable.

Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life.

It happens to all of us.

The University of Washington has a biology department.

Seattle — Every 53 seconds, someone in America has a stroke.

Eleven landscape architecture students from Japan’s Chiba University will join their University of Washington counterparts to develop urban-design proposals for key sites in the Chinatown-Nihonmachi-Little Saigon-International District, where community groups seek to preserve the area’s heritage amid development pressure.

Few children aged 4- to 8-years old ride in booster seats despite evidence that these children are not adequately protected by adult seat belts and that booster seats are effective in reducing children’s risk of injury.

Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl reported today that 9-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language.

According to Vogel, director of the University of Washington’s Center for Nanotechnology, understanding how nature does things at the molecular level and adapting those techniques into the synthetic world could drastically alter just about every aspect of our lives.

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

The city of Seattle would remove a key barrier to UW growth if legislation proposed Wednesday morning by Mayor Greg Nickels comes to fruition.

“Washington’s health-care system is in trouble,” says a study released by the Health Policy Analysis Program (HPAP) of the University of Washington.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released its final report and awarded Harborview Medical Center a score of 97 with no Type I deficiencies.

The founder and president of the company that makes the world’s top-selling civilian helicopter has given $1 million to help promising engineering students from Whidbey Island attend the University of Washington.

Using atomic-force microscopy, vision researchers have taken pictures of some of the eye’s photon receptors in their natural state, and have analyzed their packing arrangement.

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The new home of computer science at the UW has entered its final phase.

While parents, teachers and school administrators are busy worrying about students’ declining reading and math scores on standardized tests, a UW researcher fears another basic educational tenet may have slipped off the radar screen.

Bruce Crowley is a man who loves his job.

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