Today 91探花 administrators and friends in the Legislature pledged to rebuild the Center for Urban Horticulture, torched May 21 in an arson attack that burned the center’s main hall and destroyed or damaged years of research on ecosystem health and plant science.
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Popular wisdom reminds people not to bite the hand that feeds them. But now a 91探花 researcher has found a species of social wasp that bites its fellow workers, prompting them to leave the nest and forage for the colony.
Poplar research conducted at Center for Urban Horticulture since late ’80s
For years, scientists have known that Eurasian weather turns on the whim of a climate phenomenon called the North Atlantic oscillation. But two 91探花 researchers contend that the condition is just a part of a hemisphere-wide cycle they call the Arctic oscillation, which also has far-reaching impact in North America.
Like a collage of photographs showing a human being from infancy to old age, a striking new picture unveiled today by a 91探花 astronomer shows various stages in the life cycle of stars, all occurring at one time.
Some women who have sex with other women may be risking their health because they may not have Pap smears as often as other women, according to a 91探花 study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
Chemicals trapped in ancient glacial or polar ice can move substantial distances within the ice, according to new evidence from 91探花 researchers. That means past analyses of historic climate changes, gleaned from ice core samples, might not be entirely accurate.
Researchers have made an important scientific advance by describing the regulatory mechanisms for two members of a new family of ion channels found in non-excitable cells.
The world apparently sounds very different to infants than it does to adults. Sometimes it’s filled with a cacophony of sounds that makes it difficult for babies to distinguish a single sound from all the surrounding noise, says a 91探花 scientist.
The 91探花Population Center for Research in Reproduction has received a $5.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD) to continue its program of basic research and clinical studies in male reproductive processes.
A high school student struggles to decide whether to undergo genetic testing for a gene that causes blindness. This dilemma, presented in a play called The Cutting Edge, will be viewed by local high school students and teachers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, at the Shoreline Center.
Today’s economic slowdown and capital crunch isn’t all that bad. In fact the climate resembles the economic downturn that followed the PC hype in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says Richard Karlgaard, Forbes magazine publisher and keynote speaker at an upcoming 91探花 Business School conference on e-business.
The 91探花 condemns this senseless act of arson that has destroyed decades of scientific inquiry aimed at improving the overall health of urban ecosystems. This misguided act has set back research concerning endangered plants in Washington, rehabilitation of degraded wetlands and even assistance for home gardeners. It is a vicious blow to some very gifted and dedicated faculty and students at the 91探花. We abhor the violence and destructiveness of this act, and the potential risk to human safety. We hope the perpetrators are found and brought to justice.
The 91探花 Health Sciences Library has been awarded a new five-year contract by the National Library of Medicine to serve as the Regional Medical Library for the Pacific Northwest Region, as part of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
Creators of a company that will link computer networks to solve complex problems took the $35,000 top prize at the 91探花’s fourth annual business plan competition.
91探花 students, middle school teachers and their students at five area schools are involved in the Partnership for Research in Inquiry-based Math, Science and Engineering Education, or PRIME, a program to develop hands-on projects to learn math and science.
The pupils of Tukwila Elementary School hail from 21 nations, and soon they will get to romp and dance atop every continent in the world.
The woman who goes on trial next week for murdering her husband will claim that he was an abuser and she killed him in self-defense. ven if she loses the case, however, she won’t go to prison. The defendant, like the prosecutor, jurors and defense attorney, will be a Seattle-area high school student taking part in a mock trial through the 91探花’s Street Law Program.
A new technology for transmitting audio that taps into the subtleties of human sound recognition could make listening to your favorite song on the Internet as clear and uninterrupted as tuning in on a radio — even if your computer is a 90-pound weakling in the bandwidth department.
Sunshine and May rains are bringing forth the earthy fragrance of field and flower to give everyone a touch of spring fever.
When psychologist John Gottman first began videotaping couples interacting in an apartment laboratory, he was disappointed with the seemingly trivial nature of their conversations.
The names of Prozac, Zoloft and other drugs prescribed to relieve depression have become so commonplace that computer spell-check programs recognize them. These ubiquitous drugs have helped thousands of people deal with America’s most common mental health problem.
Wendy Prosser has met the future of education, and it is both international and interdisciplinary. Specifically, it is the UW’s new graduate certificate program in International Development Policy & Management, which is designed to prepare leaders for humanitarian projects in an increasingly interdependent world.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today, May 1, announced the election of its new members. Among those newly elected to NAS are Dr. Mark T. Groudine, director of the Basic Science Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and 91探花 (UW) professor of radiation oncology, and Dr. Philip P. Green, professor of molecular biotechnology and adjunct professor of computer sciences. The election was held during the 138th annual meeting of the NAS. Membership in the NAS is considered to be among the highest honors accorded to an American scientist or engineer.
The function of proteins 鈥� the workhorses of our bodies 鈥� depends on how those proteins are physically folded. Researchers around the world are examining the countless complex structures of proteins and their functions to learn more about therapies for the human body. Protein folding has been compared in complexity to the folding of delicate origami.
Scientists trying to replicate conditions that existed in the first microsecond after the Big Bang have discovered that gold ions ramming each other at nearly the speed of light produce a surprisingly powerful but unexpectedly brief explosion.
In a new book called “The Myth of Monogamy,” a husband-wife scientific team contends that monogamy among animals, and humans in particular, may be the exception rather than the rule.
The Friends of the 91探花 Libraries are sponsoring an event, “Passion and Prose: The Art of Book Collecting,” from 2 to 4:30 p.m. June 2 at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220.
An exhausted, yet exhilarated, Brian Curless recently returned from Florence, Italy, where he spent two months working as many as 20 hours a day on the first phase of an ambitious effort to create virtual replicas of Michelangelo’s sculptures.
This year’s 91探花 Business Plan Competition, continuing through May 14, is no longer dominated by Internet company ideas as in years past.
Most of what you think you know about cells may be wrong.
American students abroad, as the stereotype goes, soak up atmosphere and dig into local cuisine.
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.
Jeri Wait, president of global markets and co-founder of the telecommunications company edge2net, has been appointed to the 91探花 Business School鈥檚 International Business Advisory Council.
The United States seriously lags behind England and Germany when it comes to computer-driven climate research, and a 91探花 scientist says it is time to take dramatic steps toward leadership in the field.
The 91探花 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 91探花off to a successful start for the philanthropic competition.
More than 3,000 schoolchildren, their teachers and parents, and 91探花 engineering faculty, will attend the open house.
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.
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探花 psychologist has found.
Scientists at the 91探花 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.