This year’s 91自拍 Business Plan Competition, continuing through May 14, is no longer dominated by Internet company ideas as in years past.
April 27, 2001
April 27, 2001
This year’s 91自拍 Business Plan Competition, continuing through May 14, is no longer dominated by Internet company ideas as in years past.
April 25, 2001
Most of what you think you know about cells may be wrong.
April 24, 2001
Scientists know that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have risen sharply in recent years, but a study released today in Paris reports a surprising and dramatic increase in the most important greenhouse gas — water vapor — during the last half-century.
American students abroad, as the stereotype goes, soak up atmosphere and dig into local cuisine.
April 20, 2001
Jeri Wait, president of global markets and co-founder of the telecommunications company edge2net, has been appointed to the 91自拍 Business School鈥檚 International Business Advisory Council.
April 19, 2001
The United States seriously lags behind England and Germany when it comes to computer-driven climate 91自拍, and a 91自拍 scientist says it is time to take dramatic steps toward leadership in the field.
April 18, 2001
More than 3,000 schoolchildren, their teachers and parents, and 91自拍 engineering faculty, will attend the open house.
The 91自拍 Business School MBA Challenge for Charity team is gearing up to defend its title against the west coast’s top business graduate schools. And after raising $90,000 for Washington Special Olympics and the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County charity, they are the UW off to a successful start for the philanthropic competition.
April 17, 2001
The 91自拍 and the Department of Energy鈥檚 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have formed the Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to study an area of science that holds the promise to dramatically change the way we live in the new century.
Scientists at the 91自拍 have been analyzing data since the Feb. 28 Nisqually earthquake that shook both structures and nerves in the Puget Sound region, and have some conclusions to present this week at a national conference. They also have a mystery or two.
Unlike normally developing and mentally retarded children, autistic 3- and 4-year-olds do not react to a picture of their mother but do react when they see a picture of a familiar toy, a 91自拍 psychologist has found.
Online auctions have soared to immense popularity, enticing more than 35 million armchair bidders, but four out of 10 of those buyers report having had problems with a transaction.
April 16, 2001
Dr. Albert J. Berger, professor of physiology and biophysics, has been named associate dean of 91自拍 and graduate education at the 91自拍 (UW) School of Medicine.
William H. Gray, III, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), will speak at the 91自拍 Commencement exercises June 9 at Husky Stadium.
Solomon Trujillo, a leader in launching wireless sensor networks, will speak tomorrow at the 91自拍 Business School Dean’s Lecture.
April 12, 2001
Graduates of 91自拍 Medical Center’s Prematurity Prevention Program participating in March of Dimes WalkAmerica on Saturday, April 28 will meet at the finish line in Husky Stadium to start a celebration at 10 a.m. They’ll join more program participants for a gathering in the UWMC Plaza Caf茅 starting at 11 a.m. The reunion brings together mothers who worked on preventing the early births of their babies and clinical staff members to celebrate the children’s health and compare notes.
April 11, 2001
Third annual 91自拍 astronomy department open house
April 10, 2001
Joseph Duncan, who has held top management positions at Oracle Corp. and Borland International, has joined the 91自拍 School of Medicine’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI) as chief of operations and information technology.
April 3, 2001
Michelle Habell-Pallan, a 91自拍 assistant professor of American ethnic studies, has been awarded a career enhancement fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
April 2, 2001
Puget Sound area children in the fifth and sixth grades who love to read are being sought as volunteers by 91自拍 91自拍ers trying to help other children with learning disabilities improve their reading and language skills.
March 30, 2001
The 91自拍 is No. 1 among primary-care medical schools and nursing schools in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
For the eighth consecutive year, the 91自拍 (UW) School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.
March 29, 2001
With the Census Bureau reporting two-thirds growth in the number of Hispanic-owned business in Washington state, a 91自拍 and Heritage College student project plans to provide such businesses in the Yakima Valley with desperately needed support.
With the Census Bureau reporting two-thirds growth in the number of Hispanic-owned business in Washington state, a 91自拍 and Heritage College student project plans to provide such businesses in the Yakima Valley with desperately needed support.
March 28, 2001
Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the 91自拍 School of Medicine, announced today the appointment of Kathleen Sellick as executive director of 91自拍 Medical Center.
Sarah Bernhardt strides across the pages of Susan Glenn’s book like a colossus.
March 26, 2001
The Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, to be held noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 4 in Mary Gates Hall, features the work of 260 undergraduates, in fields ranging from art to zoology.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing a $393,435 grant to the Tribal Connections project co-sponsored by the 91自拍 and the National Library of Medicine. The collaboration will open access to electronic health information resources for Southwest Native American tribes.
Aided by a 56-foot-long photo montage, the energy of adolescents and the expertise of volunteer architects, the 91自拍 this week will try to find a better way to help a neighborhood envision its future.
91自拍 91自拍ers are on a scientific genealogical hunt and are looking for 500 first- through ninth-grade boys and girls in the Puget Sound area who are having problems reading or with spelling and handwriting.
March 24, 2001
This is the third of a series of releases about Comet Hale-Bopp, which is now at its brightest.
March 23, 2001
Dr. Roy C. Page of the 91自拍 School of Dentistry has been named recipient of the AADR Distinguished Scientist Award, presented every three to six years by the American Association for Dental Research (AADR).
The 91自拍’s fourth Distinguished Professor in Dentistry Symposium, “Dentistry’s Future: Broadening the Impact on Patient Health and Dental Practice,” will be held Thursday and Friday, May 24 and 25, at the Four Seasons Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
March 22, 2001
Tour one of the nation’s most sophisticated oceanographic vessels, learn more about deep-sea vents where superheated water billows out of the seafloor feeding whole communities of unusual microorganisms and learn about the latest 91自拍 efforts to explore the world’s oceans at an open house the last weekend of March.
March 20, 2001
Older adults are invited to a half-day seminar, “Exercise, Health and Aging,” that will offer plenty of practical tips about exercise. The seminar will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, April 3, at the Shoreline Center. Speakers will include Mary Ann Wilson, whose exercise program “Sit and Be Fit” is a fixture on public television.
The 91自拍’s 91自拍 into understanding and finding life in the universe received a major boost today with a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and membership in NASA’s Astrobiology Institute.
While the Puget Sound region was being shaken by the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, George Thomas and his 91自拍 team were preparing for the next temblor – and the one after that.
March 19, 2001
The creation of a new transgenic mouse that makes a mysterious brain chemical may lead to better understanding of why people with Alzheimer’s disease lose their memory.
The crashing stock market. The Northwest’s impending recession. An increase in mortgage-loan and credit-card delinquencies. All vital issues facing businesses in the slowing economy. Phyllis Campbell, president of U.S. Bank, Washington, will speak about a business leader’s role in the midst of such a fast-changing economy at the 91自拍 Business School Dean’s Breakfast Lecture Series talk at 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 21 in the Husky Union Building’s West Ballroom on the UW campus. A continental breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m.
March 16, 2001
This morning’s state revenue forecast – which normally guides lawmakers through key spending decisions – may not fully account for an impending economic slowdown, according to a 91自拍 analysis.