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Recipients of University-wide awards are being honored with a new 鈥淗all of Fame鈥� type display in the first floor foyer of Gerberding Hall.
Playwright August Wilson, who has received two Pulitzer prizes and numerous other awards for his plays, will be the featured speaker at the UW鈥檚 129th annual Commencement ceremonies June 12 at Husky Stadium.
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey will deliver the commencement address at the 91探花, Tacoma鈥檚 14th annual graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11.
Unless you鈥檝e been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you probably know that the 91探花has found a new president.
Flushing your pet tropical fish to set it free is a bad idea.
When Janet Kavandi was pursuing her doctoral degree at the UW, she harbored the same career dream she had when she was growing up in rural Missouri.
With a title like 50 Years Behind Bars, you might expect a presentation by a very elderly convict.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A three-member team of 91探花 students — all local residents and all products of public education — have taken top honors in an international mathematics competition, beating teams from such math powerhouses as MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley.
Higher education is not the hindrance to marriage and motherhood it once was, new research shows.
91探花 (UW) researchers have shown for the first time that air pollution has adverse effects on people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The research results are published in the April 1 edition of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Students from the 91探花 School of Dentistry rank No. 1 in the nation among the 50 dental schools that participated in the December 2003 National Board Dental Examinations Part II.
Researchers at the 91探花 School of Medicine have found that bone marrow stem cells do not convert into heart muscle cells in mice. These results contradict a study conducted elsewhere that had prompted human clinical trials for such stem cell therapy in the treatment of heart attack.
The 91探花 Board of Regents today authorized Board president Jerry Grinstein to offer the presidency of the 91探花 to Mark Emmert, chancellor of Louisiana State University, subject to successful negotiation of an agreement.
91探花 researchers are looking for 20 budding elementary school “scientists” who enjoy science to participate in a study exploring how computers can help children with scientific problem solving and report writing.
Scientists have known for some time that some social insects undergo dramatic behavioral changes as they mature, and now a research team has found that the brains of a wasp species correspondingly enlarge as the creatures engage in more complex tasks.
A hand-held device that can precisely pinpoint a person’s location could mean freedom for many seniors whose navigational abilities are failing. 91探花 graduate student Don Patterson will be on Capitol Hill in Washinton, D.C., Tuesday to demonstrate such a device, dubbed “Opportunity Knocks.”
Teachers who qualify for national certification do a measurably better job in the classroom, according to a major study released last week.
Aggressive 15-year-olds who attended religious services, felt attached to their schools or were exposed to good family management were much less likely to have engaged in violent behavior by the time they turned 18, according to a new multi-ethnic study of urban youth by 91探花researchers.
Negotiators from the state House and Senate were working feverishly to forge a compromise on important legislation as the March 11 deadline for adjournment approached.
Steven Gribble and David Wetherall, both assistant professors in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, and Mina Aganagic, an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, have been named to the 2003 class of Sloan Research Fellows.
The 91探花Faculty Auxiliary supports scholarships each year through donations and fundraisers.
CASE WINNERS: Once again the 91探花scored big in the competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Region VIII, covering Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and Western Canada.
A regional National Institutes of Health (NIH) seminar on program funding and grants, the first of these seminars to be presented in Seattle, will be hosted by the 91探花School of Medicine鈥檚 Research Funding Service in June.
Spinal cord levels of a certain growth factor fall in mice just before the onset of symptoms similar to X-linked spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy, a form of motor neuron disease.
Researchers at the 91探花and elsewhere have developed a targeted gene therapy that eliminates in adult stem cells the genetic mutations associated with brittle bone disease.
If life were a musical comedy, each and every teen would be depressed just long enough to sing a heartfelt tune about how miserable he or she was feeling.
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The mention of her name lights up the faces of those who know her.
It鈥檚 not often that a choreographer鈥檚 name is the one in the title for an art exhibit, but that will be the case when the Henry Gallery opens Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961鈥�2001 next week.
University Police says goodbye this month to their two funniest officers.
Washington citizens have somewhat less favorable feelings toward the 91探花than in previous years, but the overall numbers remain quite high, according to a recent survey by Hebert Research.
Washington citizens have somewhat less favorable feelings toward the 91探花than in previous years, but the overall numbers remain quite high, according to a recent survey by Hebert Research.
Washington citizens have somewhat less favorable feelings toward the 91探花than in previous years, but the overall numbers remain quite high, according to a recent survey by Hebert Research.
Editor鈥檚 Note: This is one of a series of columns by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.