The Human Subjects Division is either moving to a new place or coming home to an old one, depending on how you look at it.
December 2, 2004
December 2, 2004
The Human Subjects Division is either moving to a new place or coming home to an old one, depending on how you look at it.
The UW Police Department will be offering a free 10-week Citizen鈥檚 Academy beginning Jan.
PRESS ON PREZ: If you missed UW President Mark Emmert鈥檚 speech on Tuesday, you have another chance to hear him as he sits for an interview with Seattle Times higher education reporter Sharon Chan and executive editor Michael Fancher.
The world鈥檚 fastest glacier, Greenland鈥檚 Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth鈥檚 surface.
Preparations for new facilities to house the UW Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
December 1, 2004
With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus’ reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
Preparations for new facilities to house the 91自拍 Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
November 29, 2004
Researchers at the 91自拍 have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.
WHAT: Panel discussion about Grid West, a proposed nonprofit corporation that would manage key features of the Northwest’s electric-power system.
November 22, 2004
By today’s standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write, or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.
November 18, 2004
Neuroscience for Kids, a Web site established and maintained by Dr.
Name: Ann Spangler
UW Job: Administrative Assistant, Office of Institutional Studies
Volunteer Activity: Brownie, Junior and Cadette Girl Scout Leader
Organization鈥檚 main mission: To give young people leadership skills and training to be used currently and as they move through life.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
It鈥檚 a novel about the founder of a sect of assassins driven by an extreme interpretation of Islam.
Geography Professor Katharyne Mitchell has been named to a professorship that will give her time to do some concentrated 91自拍 and writing.
Toshiaki Namiki takes the hand of his friend and colleague Sharon Lindsey, and places it on top of her head.
While President Bush and Sen.
FUNNY THING, HUMOR: What鈥檚 in a laugh? Richard Gonzalez, chair of the University of Michigan鈥檚 department of psychology (and formerly of the UW), intends to find out, with access to of one of the best cartoon archives in the world.
Extra Zero
Correction: An item in the Nov.
Two nonprofit leaders in tissue banking, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) and Northwest Tissue Center, announced a new agreement this month to make MTF鈥檚 proprietary tissue grafts more accessible to patients in hospitals served by the Tissue Center.
Bone marrow produces cells that not only help fight infection but also permanently heal wounds, according to 91自拍 at the 91自拍.
The UW School of Pharmacy and the Everett Clinic have been awarded a $1 million grant by the U.
A UW study comparing the two most favored techniques for sequencing the human genome has shown that one of the techniques, now the most widely used, gives an oversimplified view of the genome.
Plans to create a new UW Department of Global Health, with shared governance between the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, were announced last week in a memo from Dr.
The Burke Museum will play host to an extraordinarily diverse Smithsonian Institution exhibit of fossils, 鈥淭he Burgess Shale: Evolution鈥檚 Big Bang,鈥 from Nov.
Academic Opportunities
Faculty Senate position announcement
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three 91自拍 campuses for the vital position of secretary of the faculty.
鈥楥ONNECTIONS鈥 CONNECTS: When four young women head off to college with a $10,000 Nordstrom Celebration of Cultural Diversity Scholarship, three of them can thank the UW for contributing to their success.
In the world of e-mail, it鈥檚 getting so you can鈥檛 even trust your own friends.
The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world鈥檚 oceans is giving scientists a look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the world鈥檚 biodiversity.
Major-party candidates wield the Web, but many challengers stay offline
Contrary to predictions that third-party candidates would seize the Internet as a powerful tool for challenging the status quo, minor candidates remained far behind their Republican and Democratic foes this year in using the Web.
Nominations are now being solicited for the University鈥檚 annual awards 鈥 awards that honor outstanding teachers, staff, mentors and those engaged in public service.
The 91自拍 Board of Regents today (Nov.
Contrary to predictions that third-party candidates would seize on the Internet as a powerful tool for challenging the status quo, such candidates lagged far behind their Republican and Democratic foes this year in using the Web.
November 16, 2004
The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world’s oceans is giving scientists a look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the Earth’s biodiversity.
November 15, 2004
While society expresses great respect for mothers, there is often little social or emotional support, let alone preparation, for the role of mothering.
November 10, 2004
UNICO Properties, the Seattle-based firm wishing to build a six-story retail, residential and office building at 42nd Street and 15th Avenue Northeast, has issued new designs that address neighborhood concerns about the project, which is called University Square.