The UW School of Music plans three concerts next week.
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When the Stardust sample return canister was opened at Johnson Space Center in Houston Tuesday, Donald Brownlee was delighted by what he saw.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Pilot project funding available
The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.
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Career Discovery Week is a three-ring affair this year, but it’s hardly a circus.
Scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston were excited and awed Tuesday by what they saw when the sample-return canister from the Stardust spacecraft was opened.
The University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine will establish a jointly-operated Department of Global Health, pending approval at the January meeting of the UW Board of Regents.
DUGWAY, Utah — Nearly seven years after setting off in pursuit of comet Wild 2, the Stardust return capsule streaked across the night sky of the Western United States early today, making a soft parachute landing in the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City.
UW Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to install a new-generation PET/CT imaging system designed to help physicians detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process.
University of Washington faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds and other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet, winter weather.
Consider, say, a quarterback and coach reviewing a play from last week’s football game.
Corporations like Enron that overemphasize outcomes such as profits might make their leaders blind to ethics and limit their abilities to recognize ethical or moral issues when they surface, according to a UW study.
The Ford Foundation has selected the UW as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and constructive dialogue on campus.
Scientific insights come at the darnedest times.
The UW is in the top 10 among schools identified as good values in education by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.
Meany Hall for the Performing Arts will be a busy place over the next week as it is visited by an acrobatic troupe, a string quartet and a dance company.
A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in stopping breast cancer before it gets a toehold.
The tiny rabbitlike American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best “canaries in a coal mine” for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin.
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The College of Forest Resources kicks off its Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series today with presentations by Court Stanley, senior vice president and chief forester at Port Blakely Tree Farms; and Sue Joerger, executive director of Puget Soundkeepers alliance.
Polyester aside, the disco dancers of the ’70s may have been on to something.
UW School of Music faculty violist Melia Watras will host violists of all ages at Viola Day, Saturday, Jan.
Partnership for Youth is looking for about 50 volunteers to participate in the annual count of those living on the streets in the University District.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds.
Hannah Wiley was trained as a dancer and later became a teacher and choreographer, but now she finds herself creating DVDs, thanks to a grant from the UW’s Royalty Research Fund.
Helping the public better understand the relationship between human health and the oceans, such as the environmental factors at work when shellfish develop toxic compounds that cause people to become ill or die if they eat the contaminated shellfish, is the initial focus of the new UW-based Center for Ocean Science and Education Excellence.
More than 550 volunteers – faculty, staff and students — will participate in some 45 projects on Jan.
The American West was a place of greater racial diversity and complexity than depicted in most mainstream histories, with Latino influences mixing with African American, and Asian American and other cultures.
The Missing Story of Ourselves is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan.
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When a personal finance magazine named the 100 public universities that provide a stellar education at a relatively low cost, the University of Washington made the top 10.
Corporations like Enron that overemphasize outcomes such as profits might make their leaders blind to ethics and limit their abilities to recognize ethical or moral issues when they surface, according to a University of Washington study.
The Stardust landing will be covered live on UWTV2, which will be broadcasting from NASA-TV starting at 1:30 a.
Last summer, University Week sent out e-mail to all the faculty and staff we could find who have worked here for at least 35 years.
A GRAND FILM: A group of UW Tacoma students won the short-film contest sponsored by the city’s Grand Cinema right before the break, producing a five-minute film in just 72 hours with only a few actors, minimal sets and equipment, and a clunky required line of dialogue.
Academic opportunities
Participants wanted for Continuums of Service conference
Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium announce the dates, location, theme, and call for proposals for the Ninth Annual Continuums of Service Conference.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Starting this quarter, students will be able to work toward a minor in diversity at the UW.