It’s a moment 91自拍 astronomy professor Donald Brownlee has been awaiting for nearly two decades.
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“Beyond Consumer Protection: Appropriate Public and Private Roles in Quality of Care” is the subject of the 91自拍’s 14th John R.
Stardust, a NASA Discovery mission in which the 91自拍 plays a central role, is scheduled for on Feb.
People have taken more than 200,000 tests that measure unconscious components of prejudice and stereotyping since twin Web sites were opened to the public last year by psychologists from the 91自拍 and Yale University.
91自拍 astrophysicist Christopher Stubbs has been awarded a $1 million grant from the James S.
Sixteen American Indian and Alaska Native communities in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana and Idaho have been selected to participate in a National Libraries of Medicine program that will connect them to the Internet.
AUSTIN, Texas – A three-year spectroscopic survey shows a group of stars near our solar system have a much greater allotment of heavy elements than other nearby stars that are like our sun, a 91自拍 astronomer reported today at the national meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Managers and scientists leading the team preparing the Stardust spacecraft to gather samples of icy comet dust and return them to Earth will conduct a media briefing on the mission and its science goals on Wednesday, Jan.
The 91自拍 (UW) School of Medicine pediatric training units in Great Falls, Mont.
SEATTLE — Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), the 91自拍 (UW), and Targeted Genetics Corp.
Yongmin Kim has been named professor and chair of the 91自拍’s nationally ranked bioengineering department.
Three 91自拍 (UW) third-year medical students have started their six-month WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) in rural towns.
If you are like many Americans, somewhere in the next week you’ll draw up a list of New Year’s resolutions. You’ll pledge to start on a diet, vow to exercise three times a week, promise to stop smoking or maybe try to cut back on your alcohol consumption. Then you’ll spend hours wondering how you can keep your resolutions and why you made them in the first place. But those resolutions aren’t necessarily doomed to fail.
Recognizing the vital importance of training physicians who are dedicated to patient-centered care, the Rathmann Family Foundation will contribute $1.5 million to fund an endowed chair in patient-centered clinical education at the 91自拍.
Two 91自拍 astronomy professors and two UW graduate students were among dozens of scientists on two teams who this year showed that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, a discovery lauded by the journal “Science” in its Dec. 18 edition as the most important science advance of the year.
Paleontologists from the South African Museum and the 91自拍 have discovered what appears to be the first complete fossil of a gorgonopsid, a ferocious predator with both reptilian and mammalian characteristics that became extinct 250 million years ago.
Forest resources experts at the 91自拍 suspect that Asian air pollution has contributed to dramatic increases of nitrate, sulfate and acidity in precipitation during four of the last six years at their 91自拍 site on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
Atmospheric pollution from eastern Asia is beginning to have measurable, though still small, effects on air quality in western North America, a 91自拍er from the 91自拍, Bothell, said today.
Statement from UW President Richard L. McCormick regarding Initiative 200
Recent satellite measurements by 91自拍 seismologists indicate the “locked zone” between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates is wider in the Seattle area than previously believed. That means the Puget Sound lowlands are likely to experience significantly greater motion during a subduction-zone earthquake than scientists earlier thought.
Dr. William J. Bremner has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at the 91自拍 School of Medicine.
One hundred legislators and other public officials from eight states across the country are closing out 1998 by learning first-hand more about one of the nation’s most vexing problems, the welfare system.
Science is still a long way from understanding why some people are more prone to alcoholism and alcohol abuse than others, but 91自拍 91自拍ers have discovered that concentrations of a neurotransmitter in the brains of mice are directly related to alcohol consumption and resistance to the sedative effects of alcohol.
Responding to a pressing need for more health care providers on the Olympic Peninsula, the 91自拍 School of Nursing is launching a pilot project to offer nurses on the peninsula easier access to courses that prepare them to become adult acute care nurse practitioners.
WHAT: The Leonid meteor shower and the Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission.
91自拍 Professor Bruce Finlayson has been elected vice president of the 58,000-member American Institute of Chemical Engineers and will take over as president next year.
The annual Leonid meteor shower will appear Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18. This year the event will include a meteor “storm,” as the Earth plows through a small and very dense clump of particles trailing from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
A unique opportunity to map and test the human brain has yielded new insights into two areas involved in producing and processing of language.
Armed with a ‘new’ tool, a 40-year-old Convair 580 turboprop plane stuffed with 91自拍 equipment, 91自拍 atmospheric scientists are ready to fly higher and farther to gain a greater understanding of climate and weather patterns, regionally and globally.
More parking stalls should be available for patients and their visitors in the Triangle Parking Garage. The daily rate without a validation sticker will be raised from $6 to $18, to deter others from parking there.
A 91自拍 professor 91自拍ing ways to build computers with the intelligence and adaptability of living creatures has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
91自拍 President Richard L. McCormick will be leading a delegation of UW faculty and administrators to visit China, with stops in Beijing and Hong Kong in China and Taipei in Taiwan, November 1-9.
The 91自拍’s main campus 1998 Autumn Quarter enrollment is 35,108, including 1,013 students in the Evening Degree Program instituted in autumn 1990.
The 91自拍 has been selected as one of six new National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health.
Registration is now open for a conference – Solving the Puzzle ’98 – designed to find solutions to the problems posed by so many homeless and street youth in Seattle’s University District.
A three-lecture series that explores life around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor off the Washington-British Columbia coast and the possibility of life on Jupiter’s moons will be held on three consecutive Thursdays in November.
Adopting a child can bring special joys as well as special challenges. Unique medical, social and developmental issues arise in both domestic and international adoptions. To help parents prepare and care for the special needs of adopted children, 91自拍 Medical Center has established the Center for Adoption Medicine at the Pediatric Care Center.
The 9,300-year-old skeletal remains known as Kennewick Man will be transferred to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the 91自拍 campus in Seattle on Thursday, Oct. 29, from Battelle’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.
The 91自拍’s College of Forest Resources and Jay Gruenfeld Associates will co-sponsor a conference Dec. 7 and 8 focusing on international markets and trade for forest products with an emphasis on Pacific Rim countries.