July 24, 2003
When the National Urban League released its report on the 鈥淪tate of Black America鈥� July 23, it included the voice of Carolyn West, associate professor of psychology at UW Tacoma, a scholar who is rapidly gaining prominence for her pioneering work studying African American families.
Each year, students in the Master of Fine Arts program in the School of Art show their work at the Henry Art Gallery just about the time they鈥檙e picking up their degrees.
Daniel Chiu does research at the tiniest scales, but he hopes he can help unlock some of medical science鈥檚 biggest puzzles.
Now that the UW Board of Regents and the city of Seattle have removed the 鈥渓ease lid鈥� that limited UW leases outside of campus boundaries, there is not likely to be an immediate move for the University to lease off-campus properties.
Medal of Merit
Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW professor of genome sciences, was one of four Washingtonians to receive the state鈥檚 highest civilian honor, the Medal of Merit, this month.
UW Medical Center has achieved a top 10 ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.
You鈥檝e been drinking a lot of sodas and eating more candy than usual, thanks to job stress, family stress and traffic stress.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today (July 24) announced a $30 million grant to the UW School of Medicine for an unprecedented study at 10 sites in Africa, India, and Latin America to determine whether suppressing genital herpes can significantly reduce HIV transmission.
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LIFETIME OF LANDSCAPE: Richard Haag, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, received the ASLA Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
When internal waves up to 300 feet first form they cause a mighty churning of ocean waters 鈥� something invisible to and unfelt by anyone at the surface.
The students in Kathleen Poole鈥檚 school face different challenges than their peers at some of the other elementary schools in the Bellevue School District.
The UW鈥檚 College of Education and College of Arts and Sciences were awarded a $5 million grant and designated one of 11 鈥淭eachers for a New Era鈥� schools today.
While Seattle city officials considered the lease lid, UW students worked to enhance the neighborhood surrounding their campus.
The UW Summer Arts Festival, which has graced the campus each July for the past four years, will not be returning next year.
July 23, 2003
The staying power of seafloor hydrothermal vent systems like the bizarre Lost City vent field is one reason they also may have been incubators of Earth’s earliest life, scientists report in a paper published in the July 25 issue of Science.
July 18, 2003
The group that proposed creating a National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at a closed South Dakota gold mine has completed a detailed engineering plan for the conversion, replacing the initial proposal sent to the National Science Foundation two years ago.
July 17, 2003
天美影视传媒 Medical Center has achieved a top 10 ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.S.News & World Report’s 2003 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” which will be updated in its July 28 issue, available July 21.
Research from the Univerity of Washington’s Washington Kids Count project shows the emotional well-being of Washington children is strongly linked to their parents’ mental health. In turn, parents’ mental health is profoundly sensitive to their children’s emotions and behavior.
July 14, 2003
Social interaction apparently plays a far more important role in how infants learn language than previously believed, according to three related studies conducted by researchers at the 天美影视传媒’s Center for Mind, Brain & Learning (CMBL).
July 10, 2003
This summer, the School of Dentistry is again teaming up with the Washington Dental Service Foundation (WDSF) to conduct dental camps for junior high school students from across the state.
This year, as players kicked the first balls around Grass Lawn Park鈥檚 $1.
The UW has commissioned a major sculptural work for the area north of Parrington Hall.
To strengthen our capacities for interdisciplinary work at the UW Bothell campus, 33 faculty and academic staff joined teaching and research circles during the 2002-03 academic year.
The UW鈥檚 Department of Computer Science & Engineering has started to move across campus into the department鈥檚 new building 鈥� a transition that will take one of the nation鈥檚 top 10 computer science programs to a state-of-the-art facility where it can expand on its tradition of leadership.
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Researchers and doctors in the Northwest who wonder if a blood or tissue sample has West Nile virus will no longer have to send samples to the East Coast for testing.
Residency training programs across the nation have undergone significant changes in residents鈥� duty hours to comply with new accreditation standards.
The 2003 Biomedical Research Integrity Series, an annual summer offering that includes lectures and discussion groups, will begin on Tuesday, July 22.
Board of Regents
The 天美影视传媒 Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.
The first-ever study at the UW to investigate perceptions, uses and expectations of educational technology shows the challenges ahead in meeting the desires of students and engaging more faculty.
Through many decades, stories about earthquakes raising or lowering water levels in wells, lakes and streams have become the stuff of folklore.
RESEARCH STAR: UW鈥檚 Research-Channel will be featured in an Internet2 Virtual Briefing from 10 to 11:30 a.
The Summer Arts Festival returns to campus July 16鈥�19, with its many events built around the theme of 鈥淪pheres.
Given only a fraction of a second to respond to images of men popping out from behind a garbage dumpster, people were more likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object such as a flashlight rather than a gun.
On selected Saturdays this summer, Tlingit carver Stephen Jackson will demonstrate the art of totem pole carving within the temporary exhibition, Out of the Silence: The Enduring Power of Totem Poles.
The UW, Tacoma has announced plans to pull down what remains of the historic Japanese Language School building and hopes the news of this decision will generate ideas for how best to preserve the heritage of the school, which with Tacoma鈥檚 Japan Town became a casualty of World War II.
July 8, 2003
Given only a fraction of a second to respond to images of men popping out from behind a garbage Dumpster, people were more likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object such as a flashlight rather than a gun.
This summer, the 天美影视传媒 School of Dentistry will again team up with the Washington Dental Service Foundation (WDSF) to conduct dental camps for junior high school students from across the state.
July 3, 2003
The 天美影视传媒鈥檚 Department of Computer Science & Engineering has started to move across campus into the department鈥檚 new building.