UW News


March 4, 2004

Mystery Photo

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


UW professor goes from collecting to creating Chinese style art

The first American exhibit of Chinese style paintings by a UW professor is now on display at Seattle Pacific University.


Gardeners do battle with tiny foe

UW gardeners are fighting a war against an enemy that is tiny in size but devastating in impact.


New homepage created by students

For the first time in its short history, the UW home page (<A href="http://www.


Web site features pioneer EarthDials from around the globe

Join a dozen “EarthDialers” at  <A href="http://planetary.


UW program reaches out to Bering Sea island

In a program that lives up to the spirit of distance learning, the UW has been hired to teach an Internet technology program to students at an Aleut community in the middle of the Bering Sea.


Lawmakers have big budget disagreement to solve as end of session nears

Competing versions of the supplemental operating budgets are taking center stage in Olympia.


Family discipline, religious attendance, attachment to school cut levels of later violence among aggressive children

Aggressive 15 year olds who attended religious services, felt attached to their schools or were exposed to good family management were much less likely to have engaged in violent behavior by the time they turned 18, according to a new multi-ethnic study of urban youth by University of Washington researchers.


March 3, 2004

Before symptom onset in inherited paralytic disease, levels of growth factor VEGF fall in the spinal cord

Scientists have discovered that spinal cord levels of a certain growth factor fall in mice just before the onset of symptoms similar to X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (also known as SBMA or Kennedy’s disease), a form of motor neuron disease.


March 2, 2004

Web site launched today features pioneer EarthDials from around the globe

Join a dozen “EarthDialers” starting today at http://planetary.org/mars/earthdial as the modern marvel of the webcam merges with the ancient technology for marking time, the sundial.


Providence Journal wins 2004 Dart Award

The Providence Journal has won this year’s $10,000 Dart Award for Excellence in Reporting on Victims of Violence for a study of the effects of a rape of a teenager on a small Rhode Island community.



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