By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
Orin Smith, retired Starbucks president and chief executive officer, has donated $5 million for the UW’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.
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Gail Stygall, chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2006–2007 year, believes strongly in the idea of shared governance, and says openness and cooperation have grown tremendously at the UW in recent years.
By Claire Dietz
News & Community Relations
Other summers, Araceli Vasquez had worked with her family in the beet fields of southern Idaho.
When Sindiwe Magona was a little girl in South Africa during the ’40s and ’50s, she anxiously looked forward to the days when white folks’ threw out books because they eventually came to her, and she was delighted.
Leila Gray
News & Community Relations
For each operating room procedure at UW Medical Center, supplies are carefully selected and set out on a sterile tray, easy to reach during critical moments.
Sharing information on successful strategies for mentoring and retaining underrepresented students in the sciences is the goal of a symposium that is expected to draw participants from more than 30 institutions to campus this weekend.
What group of UW employees is 6,200 strong, crucial for keeping the University functioning, and largely invisible? Professional staff.
By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine
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Huntington’s disease includes a metabolic disorder, not just the brain effects seen in the disease, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers.
“Neuroscience for Kids,” an educational Web site created by a UW neuroscientist, has received an award in recognition of its value as an online teaching resource.
Medical/Dental open enrollment continues through Nov.
The Amgen Foundation has announced its partnership with the UW and nine other of the nation’s premier universities to provide hundreds of undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in a fully-funded, hands-on research experience each summer.
A capacity crowd of faculty, staff and students generally agreed that incentives for conducting interdisciplinary research and teaching need to be increased, while some substantial barriers need to be lowered.
A celebration of the life of Denice D.
If you dine at campus eateries, frequent the espresso stands or use the convenience stores, the Department of Housing and Food Services is interested in learning what you think about food and beverages on campus.
Beginning in January of 2007, UW Parking Services will discontinue accepting personal checks for daily parking.
Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
The Learning for Leadership Council (LLC) is seeking proposals from graduate and professional students who have ideas for student-led projects that create opportunities for professional development and leadership experience.
By Peter Lewis
News & Information
Imagine a toxic garbage dump the size of the U-District inhabited by thousands of people who survive by picking through other people’s garbage.
The UW Photographers Group is holding its annual group show through Nov.
Nominations sought for Senate Vice Chair
Nominations for vice chair of the Faculty Senate are being sought.
An earthquake swarm — a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events — over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St.
More and more, Congressional candidates are turning to the Web as a tool to mobilize their base and build credibility with undecided voters, according to findings in a new book by a University of Washington researcher.
“Americanese,” the film based on a novel by University of Washington professor Shawn Wong, is going big time.
The Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington are looking for Puget Sound men and women who have an opiate addiction and women with suicidal behavior to volunteer for two studies designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for people who have trouble regulating their emotions.
Researchers at the University of Washington are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement.
Once consumers buy an item, it is often difficult for them to get rid of it, even if it makes rational sense to do so.
Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
Natural and manmade disasters, including the terrorist attacks of Sept.
The state’s single most valuable resource, its smartest young students, are wanted by the University of Washington as it embarks on its annual hunt for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across Washington.
If you think Pacific Northwest winters are gray and rainy now, just wait.
A novel look at the brains of adults with autism has provided new evidence that various brain regions of people with the developmental disorder may not communicate with each other as efficiently as they do in other people.
The UW School of Drama is presenting Black Snow, a Russian comedy by Mikhail Bulgakov, which runs through Oct.
Homecoming activities kick off this weekend on campus.
Chicken with Plums, the new book by Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, will be the topic of conversation at the new International Book Club, which will have its first meeting at 2 p.
Come January, Dance Professor Hannah Wiley and some of her dancers will be appearing on Japanese TV.
Open enrollment, the time for UW employees can make changes to their health care options, will be from Oct.
“Place Matters: Seeking Equity in a Diverse Society” is the title of a conference slated for Oct.