March 13, 2003
At this moment, parts of Washington and British Columbia are having an earthquake, but it is a slow-moving temblor that can’t be felt and won’t cause any injuries or damage. Still, by the end of the event, which already has lasted more than two weeks, it is likely to have released about as much energy as the Nisqually earthquake did in February 2001.
March 11, 2003
Researchers at the University of Washington have found a species of crow that distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or not the other bird is a relative.
March 10, 2003
Primary care physicians under a managed care system were more likely to refer patients to a pain specialist than other physicians were, according to a University of Washington study.
Eighty-four percent of political campaigns last year used Web sites designed to encourage participation in the political process, according to a University of Washington researcher. That’s up from less than 70 percent of campaign sites in 2000 that offered opportunities for involvement.
March 6, 2003
The intricacies of reconstructing the human nose will be the topic for the 10th annual Buehler Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Surgery’s Division of Plastic Surgery.
The UW General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) has received a five-year grant renewal for $36 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2002-2003 academic year.
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Citizens of the UW love their trees.
Craig Sheppard has performed more than half of Beethoven’s sonatas over the years.
Perhaps bowling can bridge a gap between Seattle’s professional artists and its aspiring art students at the UW.
Imagine you’re a junior at the UW, maybe 20 or 21 years old.
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Options for financing newly formed companies will be the topic for the next program in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.
“Cover the Uninsured Week” is a series of national and local activities from Monday, March 10, to Sunday, March 16.
Look AHEAD, the first long-term study to look at the effects of weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes, has recruited more than 200 of the approximately 300 people being sought for the local study site.
An effort initiated by the University of Washington to broaden the scope of education in one of science’s hottest and most rapidly evolving fields has attracted a national audience of researchers.
March 5, 2003
Leaders in the fields of biology and engineering and researchers from around the Puget Sound region involved in exploring the intersection of these rapidly advancing fields.
March 4, 2003
The high-tech industry may be mired in a slump but it continues to stoke a business revolution that could leave some regions behind, University of Washington researchers have found.
February 28, 2003
Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to have bound the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside or are tempted to taste those delicious mud pies they “baked” in the backyard.
What: The general public is invited to Harborview’s Reach Out & Read in the Children and Teens clinic in the Ground West Clinic of the medical center.
February 27, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Next week’s Faculty Dance Concert will offer a new interpretation of a scene from one of the world’s great operas.
Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals.
February 26, 2003
The International House of Pancakes restaurant just west of the University of Washington campus in Seattle is not usually considered a hotbed for science.
February 25, 2003
errors. Researchers who conducted a series of focus groups with doctors and patients say that patients want to be fully informed when an error happens, and believe such disclosure would increase their trust in their doctor. Yet while doctors want to be truthful, a variety of barriers may prevent physicians from disclosing errors to patients.
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February 24, 2003
Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals.
February 21, 2003
The push to digitize the workplace is changing the strategies behind how successful businesses strengthen security issues, revolutionize corporate travel and advance customer relationship management initiatives.
February 20, 2003
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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.