The latest news from the UW

University of Washington freshmen are building tiny electro-mechanical valves, constructing a solar-powered fiber-optic laser, developing next-generation materials for ceramic fuel cells and sorting through other technical challenges this term in a new hands-on engineering course – all with the help of some overseas friends.

The University of Washington today announced a $12 million Campaign for the Arts and reported gifts of $2.5 million to begin that campaign.

The University of Washington has received an additional $10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.

A University of Washington program that has proven highly effective in intervening with expectant and new mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs is expanding into Spokane, Grant and Yakima counties.

For more than three decades, the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine has given its medical students hands-on opportunities throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to learn how their medical training can be directly applied to addressing societal needs.

The health of past and present workers and local residents will be among the topics that will be discussed Nov. 2 and 3 in Richland, Wash., during the annual “Health of the Hanford Site” conference sponsored by the University of Washington.

The University of Washington is planning to create a Technology Enterprise Institute, with the goal of aiding the creation of high-technology businesses while advancing the academic disciplines that relate to enterprise creation.

University of Washington researchers are looking for 50 expectant couples in the Seattle metropolitan area to test a workshop designed to promote healthy marital and family relationships.

Dr. Paul R. Wade, professor of zoology and physiology and of human medicine at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the UW School of Medicine’s 15th Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer.

Dr. Paul R. Wade, professor of zoology and physiology and of human medicine at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the UW School of Medicine’s 15th Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer.

“Access in the Millenium: Medical Applications of New Technologies” is the theme of a forum to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, Oct. 25, in the Seattle Center’s Conference Center Room H.

The University of Washington’s main campus 1999 Autumn Quarter enrollment is 35,559, including 930 students in the Evening Degree Program.

Researchers at the University of Washington have begun the first extensive study of lesbian and bisexual women and sexually transmitted diseases.

A voluntary public service organization for University of Washington (UW) medical students, the Community Health Advancement Program (CHAP), was named a Daily Point of Light Award Winner for Monday, Oct. 4.

Donald King has designed schools before, but you wouldn’t expect a medium-sized Seattle architectural firm like his to go all the way to Ghana to do one.

An immense expanse of Antarctic ice that has been receding steadily for 10,000 years poses the most immediate threat of a large sea level rise because of its potential instability, a new study indicates.

More students in the University of Washington’s high-demand computer science and electrical engineering programs will soon have the opportunity to conduct hands-on research into embedded system design and how it applies to the transportation industry, thanks to a five-year, $3.85 million grant from Ford Motor Co.

The University of Washington will receive $3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish two endowed chairs in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Dick Thompson, director of the state’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) since 1997, has been appointed director of government relations at the University of Washington.

Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area as normal children while performing a simple language task, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers.

The next time you glance at a baby in a crib, appreciate the fact that you are looking at more than just another cute face.

Two University of Washington zoology professors are proposing a novel hypothesis for how metamorphosis evolved.

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Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organization, will participate in a discussion of WTO-related issues from 4:30 to 6:30 p.

It may not achieve quite the same global impact on minority science education as a recent $1 billion gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

University of Washington researchers who have been putting marriages under the equivalent of a microscope say it is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of continuing disagreement.

A group of international scholars and leaders in the public and private sectors, including Vinton Cerf, one of the four men credited with founding the Internet, will gather at the University of Washington for a conference to discuss how the Internet is transforming politics and economics on a global scale.

It’s an hour before a major presentation and your computer isn’t cooperating.

One hundred scientists from around the world are meeting this week (Sept. 22 to 25) in Seattle in the largest conference yet to focus on the possible connections between bacteria and heart disease

Just like the people she’s worked with and written about, historian Alexandra Harmon has reinvented herself.

Half a dozen University of Washington undergraduates recently completed a six-week course in Alaska that took place in cabins reachable only by boat or floatplane and in streams filled with thousands of bright-red sockeye salmon fighting to spawn.

The University of Washington Academic Medical Center Research and Training Building at Harborview Medical Center will be dedicated in a ceremony beginning at 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, in the building lobby.

Several University of Washington faculty members will be among the speakers when Seattle hosts the 124th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association Oct. 10-13. The meeting will take place at the Seattle Westin.

Can vitamin supplements help critically ill patients recover from their injuries? A collaborative study by Harborview surgeons and dietitians is evaluating the efficacy of anti-oxidant vitamin supplementation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients at Harborview.

A multi-center study to help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pneumonia among trauma patients began Sept. 1 to test the efficacy of a naturally occurring protein

A clinical trial performed by University of Washington researchers, reported in the Sept. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that an intravenous anti-arrhythmia medication, amiodarone, can save the lives of many patients who do not respond to defibrillation.

Hearing that a loved one has died after trauma could be the most emotionally devastating news one might ever hear. How this news is delivered has an immense impact on how people will later reflect on those initial moments of loss.

Geophysicists from four institutions, including the University of Washington, are launching a second round of the Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) project that started last year.

The organic properties of some particles, such as those from the burning of agricultural waste, have been found to increase the number of cloud droplets in polluted air, allowing more sunlight to be reflected into space than would occur normally.The phenomenon affects climate locally, and probably regionally, say researchers from the Consilio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Washington in Seattle.

Saturdays on the University of Washington campus mean more than football. Fans of the Huskies’ gridiron exploits enroll by the thousands in Saturday seminars, popular lectures by distinguished faculty held before five home games.