The latest news from the UW

Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations

Age-related macular degeneration is a serious, progressive eye disease perhaps best known as the leading cause of legal blindness in people over 55.

The first Russell Ross Endowed Lecture, presented by the Department of Pathology, will be given next Friday.

Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

The good news is, people live longer.

A ROYAL HONOR: Professor Emeritus George Hiroaki Kakiuchi will receive the prestigious Emperor’s Award, the Order of the Rising Sun, in ceremonies at the official residence of the Consul General of Japan, on May 24.

Public Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at 1 p.

TIME TO ACT: A UW animal behaviorist recently told Newsday that it’s time to intervene on behalf of the young killer whale that’s been swimming alone in central Puget Sound.

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

As celebrations go, it wasn’t exactly posh.

If you’ve ever had the urge to write a play, you can get your feet wet beginning Wednesday, May 22, when Once Upon a Weekend kicks off.

Through the years, some of Barbara Kirkevold’s and Joan Lockard’s students have had some pretty unusual “classmates” — a baby elephant, a pair of rambunctious juvenile grizzly bears, two troops of western lowland gorillas, orangutans, a northern fur seal, a family of laughing thrushes, and many more.

Steve Hill
University Week

He’s logged more than 60,000 miles while commuting to and from the UW campus during the last 30 years.

As you sit in the audience waiting for a dance concert to begin, the last thing you might think the dancers would be worried about is their computer.

Pets can help children learn about life, love and death.

New recommendations from American Diabetes Association stretch options

Driver air bags offer relatively little benefit in road vehicle crashes compared with seat belts, according to a study published in the May 11 issue of the British Medical Journal.

Hearing Research Day on May 20 will bring experts together at UW next week

Public Hearing Notice

Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at 1 p.

A year ago on May 17, Washington’s Forest Practices Board adopted new permanent rules implementing what’s called the Forest and Fish law passed by the Legislature.

TIME TO ACT: A UW animal behaviorist recently told Newsday that it’s time to intervene on behalf of the young killer whale that’s been swimming alone in central Puget Sound.

A 1.6-mile long cable and 3,500 pounds of instruments were retrieved from a mooring that was anchored to the seafloor at the North Pole for a full year — eight times longer than the only previous mooring.

Daily journal entries and the ability to ask questions online allow anyone interested to go along on the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson as it maps the seafloor off the Washington coast.

Sixteen finalists will compete for investment capital May 21 in the UW’s annual entrepreneurial business plan competition.

The speed and efficiency of computer network and database servers could increase as much as 400 percent because of an idea developed by two University of Washington computer scientists that is reaching mainstream computing.

Psychology 419, or behavior studies of zoo and aquarium animals, primarily draws psychology and zoology majors.The course was started in 1975 by Lockard, a psychology professor, as an alternative to an animal behavior laboratory class that used rats, and it was designed for students who wished to do research on exotic species.

When residents of one Amazon jungle village get ready to harvest yucca root, they stop by a grass hut to log onto the Internet and check out market prices 250 miles away in Lima.

Log on starting Wednesday to join researchers and five public-school teachers on an oceanographic expedition aboard the University of Washington’s research vessel the Thomas G. Thompson as it works off our coast.

the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources is bringing together representatives of four organizations that have been trying to help rural landowners understand and meet requirements of the new Forest and Fish Law.

Driver air bags offer relatively little benefit in road vehicle crashes compared with seat belts, according to a study published in the May 11 issue of the British Medical Journal. The study was conducted by researchers at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC).

Pets can help children learn about life, love and death.

An elementary school intervention program that promotes social competency, academic success and bonding to school also has the long-term effect of cutting pregnancy and birth rates among young women before age 21, according to a new University of Washington study.

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations

The School of Medicine’s Office of Research and Graduate Education has recently completed reorganization of a unit focusing on outside professional employment for faculty members, research contracts and conflict-of-interest policies.

Marjorie Wenrich
Medical Affairs

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Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations

The UWired Health Sciences initiative will present the second in a series of Advanced Applications Forums on Thursday, May 16.

Last month, Dan Jacoby, Chair of the General Faculty Organization at UW Bothell shared his views in a University Week column titled, “Growing up is a challenging balancing act for Bothell.

SUPREMELY LEGAL: When the recent well-publicized case of disability rights vs.

Cynthia Scanlon
UW Bothell

At the UW Bothell, nursing students studying ethics get a true cross-cultural perspective.

A new center named in honor of Evans School of Public Affairs Dean Marc Lindenberg was announced last week to increase the UW’s teaching, research and service connections with struggling regions around the world.

When the UW Opera production of The Beggar’s Opera opens Friday, it will be with a new “musical realization” of the score written by a student.

Stroke survivor event
Harborview Medical Center is hosting a free community event this Saturday, May 11, for stroke survivors, their families and others concerned about strokes.