July 25, 2002
UW biology gets $2.2 million grant
Grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute will support students and K-12 outreach.
July 22, 2002
Dust in ‘Earth’s attic’ could hold evidence of planet’s earliest life
The dust has been piling up in Earth’s attic for billions of years, and now some scientists want to sift through the accumulation to see if they can find evidence of the planet’s earliest life.
July 15, 2002
North Pacific climate cycle likely to lessen El Niño affects in Northwest
El Niño is coming! El Niño is coming!
But this time, the climate anomaly that usually brings warmer and drier winters to the Pacific Northwest might not have such a noticeable impact, say two University of Washington climatologists
July 9, 2002
$2.2 million grant from Hughes institute will support UW biology education
The University of Washington has won a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for programs to support undergraduate biology education, to help prepare future faculty and to develop K-12 outreach programs.
June 10, 2002
Genetic engineering could salvage once-promising anti-cancer agents
A group of anti-cancer agents that once produced dismal results in clinical trials could once again be a promising tool in fighting the deadly disease, thanks to research by a team of chemists at the University of Washington and in Germany.
June 6, 2002
Oil exploration, fishing threaten penguins
As the world’s increasing population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration.
June 3, 2002
Falklands penguins forage far enough from home to get into trouble
As the world’s spiraling population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration. But University of Washington zoologists and a Falkland Islands researcher have found that such interest could prove detrimental to Falklands penguins, whose numbers already could be declining.
May 2, 2002
Craig Hogan named UW vice provost for research
Craig Hogan, the divisional dean of sciences in the University of Washington’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the university’s vice provost for research.
NSF center designation puts UW on cutting edge
The National Science Foundation said Tuesday it has tentatively chosen the UW as the host of one of six new science and technology centers, a designation that would place the University firmly at the leading edge of research to develop ground-breaking information technology.
April 30, 2002
NSF award would cement UW position as information technology research leader
The National Science Foundation said today it has tentatively chosen the University of Washington as the host of one of six new science and technology centers, a designation that would place the university firmly at the leading edge of research to develop groundbreaking information technology.
April 25, 2002
New work aims to kill parasite, not cell
Parasite-caused diseases such as malaria kill millions of people each year, and eradication efforts have been largely futile.
UW scientists hoping for underground lab in Dakota
The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement last weekend from the National Research Council’s Committee on the Physics of the Universe.
April 22, 2002
National Research Council committee backs national underground lab
The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement during the weekend from the National Research Council’s Committee on the Physics of the Universe.
March 21, 2002
Science close to viewing the beginning of time, UW cosmologist says
When it comes to inflation, cosmologists are pondering a future that probably would leave even Alan Greenspan scratching his head.
March 18, 2002
ADVISORY: UW astronomy open house will show off major planetary conjunction
The astronomy open house this year occurs on International Astronomy Day and comes during a major planetary conjunction. Five planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury — will line up in the western sky, with a crescent moon supplying illumination.
February 28, 2002
More precise solar neutrino production figure determined by UW scientists
Scientists working at huge underground laboratories in Japan and Canada have made major strides in understanding neutrinos during the last three years. Now a team working with a particle accelerator at the University of Washington has added another significant finding, determining with the greatest precision yet just how many energetic neutrinos are generated in the sun’s nuclear furnace.
Temperature creates pollution cake with clean-air filling
Just about anyone who has flown knows the sensation of climbing through smog and bursting into bright, clear air.
February 22, 2002
Asteroid or comet triggered death of most species 250 million years ago
Earth’s most severe mass extinction – an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates – was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, according to new findings by a team led by a University of Washington scientist.
February 20, 2002
Temperature inversion brings ultra-clean air between layers of pollution
Just about anyone who has flown knows the sensation of climbing through smog and bursting into bright, clear air. And once you’re there, the air generally stays clear no matter how high you go. But a University of Washington researcher has found it doesn’t always work that way.
February 7, 2002
End of an era: UW’s state-of-the-art airborne research facility grounded after 30 years
For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest.
UW research plane grounded
For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest.
February 5, 2002
Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak here
Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak
January 31, 2002
UW scientists learn how many neutrinos sun generates
Neutrinos are among the tiniest particles in the universe.
Land-use decisions led to flood-prone Skokomish
With a constancy that would impress the swallows at San Juan Capistrano, the Skokomish River seems to flood each year at the first sign of Western Washington’s rainy season.
January 17, 2002
Hydrogen transfer: New discoveries could prove key for industry
During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds.
Researcher to measure moon, Earth distance
Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long — give or take a millimeter.
Another El Niño could bring less rain to Northwest
Another El Niño could be brewing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.
January 14, 2002
UW researcher plans project to pin down moon’s distance from Earth
Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long – give or take a millimeter.
January 10, 2002
El Ni?ould be brewing a warmer, drier Northwest winter in 2002-03
Another El Niño could be brewing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. If it is, Pacific Northwest residents can expect generally warmer, drier weather next fall and winter, University of Washington scientists say.
January 7, 2002
If it’s winter, the Skokomish River must be flooding
Recent research at the University of Washington has found that a series of land-use decisions dating from the 1930s, from road building and streamside logging to dam construction, led to sedimentation that has made the Skokomish perhaps the most flood-prone river in the state.
December 20, 2001
UW research boosts understanding of how hydrogen transfer works
During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds. Now a team of University of Washington chemists has found that the same ideas apply to transferring a hydrogen atom — an electron and a proton together. That understanding could prove important to scientists trying to devise new classes of chemical reactions.
December 13, 2001
Scientists follow plume of pollution on both sides of Pacific
Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it crossed the Pacific Ocean, settled over a large swath of North America from Calgary, Alberta, into Arizona.
December 11, 2001
Pollution in Asian air mass likely measured on both sides of Pacific
Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it crossed the Pacific Ocean, settled over a large swath of North America from Calgary, Canada, into Arizona.
November 29, 2001
Unraveling the secret of Pacific Northwest storms
The Pacific Northwest’s fabled rainy season typically starts in November.
November 17, 2001
UW researchers hope to improve rain, flood forecasts in the Northwest
The Pacific Northwest’s fabled rainy season typically starts in November. This year Cliff Mass is counting on the storms to give up some of their secrets and help researchers develop more precise forecasts for precipitation and flooding.
November 1, 2001
MEDIA ADVISORY: Marrakech conference prompts expert briefing on NW climate change
Expert briefing for reporters on the impacts of climate change on the Pacific Northwest
October 4, 2001
Northwest coast needs more Doppler radar installations, scientist says
Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a UW scientist says.
September 10, 2001
Northwest forecasts hurt by too few Doppler radar sites, UW professor says
Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a University of Washington scientist says.
July 31, 2001
MEDIA ADVISORY: UW Astrobiology program to host its first national conference
An astrobiology conference is being hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for Astrobiology and Early Evolution.
July 27, 2001
Seattle-area middle and high school students to take part in physics research
Some Seattle-area middle school and high school students and their science teachers soon will be assisting University of Washington scientists in a major effort aimed at solving one of the most vexing puzzles in physics.
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