UW Physicians Neighborhood Clinics received an exceptional score of 100 percent in a reaccreditation survey performed by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
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Fourteen teams of undergraduate students will vie for mechanical mastery to see whose robot can sink the most golf balls in a series of one-on-one matches between the competitors.
Researchers at the University of Washington have applied research in how proteins bind with different molecules to create a molecular switch that enables them to turn an enzyme on and off.
Advanced urban design and planning students will present 11 proposals tomorrow for reconnecting Seattle with its waterfront when the Alaskan Way Viaduct is torn down.
The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) has announced a new Record of Invention Form to more effectively serve the process of commercializing inventions arising from UW research.
In the upcoming congressional debate on lowering the drinking age to 18, sponsor Lech Radzimski will argue the change would curb alcoholism and encourage self-control.
Sports fans now have a convenient way to prepare for a business career, thanks to a new certificate program at the UW.
Neuroscientists trying to tease out the mechanisms underlying the basis of human sympathy have found that such feelings trigger brain activity not only in areas associated with emotion but also in areas associated with performing an action.
Nominations are now being sought for the University’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Excellence in Teaching Award, S.
A free academy for people interested in learning more about the UW Police Department begins Wednesday, Jan.
Reminder! The University of Washington Press holiday sale for University faculty and staff ends Sunday, Dec.
Due to construction, the UW Libraries Media Center in Odegaard Undergraduate Library will close at 5 p.
Volunteers are needed for a “U District Fix-up” for the holidays.
Faculty, staff and students from the UW will be joining in projects throughout the region on Jan.
The administration unveiled a new graphic identity this month and officials hope the look becomes synonymous with success, tradition, innovation, and the University of Washington.
Next week some members of the University community will celebrate the sesquicentennial of King County with a party for their new book, More Voices, New Stories: King County Washington’s First 150 Years.
It was two years ago this month that scientists surveying the seafloor in the mid-Atlantic were startled to come upon a field of hydrothermal vents with pale “chimneys” the height of skyscrapers, far taller than any seen before, leading scientists to believe they were looking at a field unlike any previously discovered.
Pianist Craig Sheppard will begin a chronological journey through Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas at a concert at 7:30 p.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A University of Washington study is the first to provide visualizations of tuberculosis infections in an intact living organism and reveals how tuberculous granulomas, the tight aggregates of macrophages that are the hallmarks of this infection, are formed within infected organisms.
Patients with panic disorder who received collaborative care, rather than usual primary care, had on the average over 74 more anxiety-free days over the following year, according to an article in this week’s Archives of General Psychiatry.
For several years it has been widely believed that increased ultraviolet-B radiation because of thinning of atmospheric ozone was a major culprit in deforming amphibian offspring and dwindling populations. Now two new studies cast serious doubt on that assumption, and the lead author of one says the belief could have had negative impacts on efforts to save amphibians.
The new Center for Public Health Nutrition is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of all Washington residents through better nutrition. The School of Public Health and Community Medicine has established the center to address growing rates of obesity in Washington.
As the country marks the first anniversary of Enron’s bankruptcy this week, UW Business School research is questioning the recent claim that stock option compensations benefit executives to the detriment of shareholders.
Starting in January 2003, UW Training and Development classes will take place in the new Roosevelt Commons building, located at 4311 11th Ave.
For 12 hours on Dec.
ARCHITECTURAL HONORS: The UW Bothell and Tacoma campuses each took design-excellence honors at the 51st annual American Institute of Architects Seattle Honor Awards for Washington Architecture recently.
Susan Jeffords, divisional dean for the social sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, will give the next Solomon Katz Lecture in the Humanities on Sins of the Father: American Culture in a Time of Terror.
Nominations are now being sought for the University’s Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.
Beginning in January, University Week will accept paid display advertising.
Visiting Faculty Housing Service to close
The Visiting Faculty Housing Service which finds housing for visiting faculty and staff will be closed from Dec.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $9 million grant to the UW to support the newly formed Center for Functional Genomics and Hepatitis C Virus-Associated Liver Disease.
With health-care cost increases at their highest rates in a decade and funding for public insurance programs in crisis, many people feel the current health system can no longer be sustained.
At least half of older adults with hypertension do not have their blood pressure controlled to normal levels, according to a survey of 5,888 patients around the country.
They worked at the UW, some for many years.
Laboratory safety has taken on a whole new meaning since Sept.
On the wall in Don Wulff’s office is a framed photograph of a tiny schoolhouse in Montana.
There’s been no sighting of Big Brother or his infamous Thought Police just yet, but the UW’s Art Building will get an Orwellian face-lift during the upcoming winter break.
When the College of Arts and Sciences was looking for some top-notch designers, it didn’t have to search very far.