The series on 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You,鈥� sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Office of Industry Relations and open to everyone, has scheduled a presentation on new National Institutes of Health policies that encourage sharing information and resources.
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The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center has been re-funded for an additional four years by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
91探花Medicine鈥檚 Office of Clinical Research and Children鈥檚 Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) have launched a Web-based 鈥淕ood Clinical Practice鈥� (GCP) training program.
The 91探花has a new magazine, but you won鈥檛 find it on the newsstands.
Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format?
The answer 鈥淎bsolutely nowhere 鈥� you must be dreaming鈥� is wrong, actually.
An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the UW鈥檚 School of Oceanography.
The 91探花Faculty Senate 鈥� which holds its first meeting Oct.
A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn鈥檛 resemble any known star type.
Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won鈥檛 be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A panel discussion entitled “Humanity in the Midst of War” will be presented at 7 pm Thursday, Oct.
Big city school districts will have a hard time reforming and meeting new accountability demands without more help from businesses, nonprofits and philanthropists, according to a new book from the Brookings Institution.
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The 91探花’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2004 is 39,199, including 1,691 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.
Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new 91探花working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the 91探花 could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
When women engage in a technique called emotion coaching, even in families where there is domestic violence, their children are less aggressive, depressed and withdrawn, researchers have found.
A group of promising cancer-fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, the 91探花 announced today.
Five finalists in the running to serve as 91探花Tacoma chancellor
Five finalists have now been selected from a field of nearly 90 applicants for the chancellorship of the 91探花, Tacoma.
U-CALL: Students helping students, over the phone
Sometimes, students just need someone to talk to who won鈥檛 judge them or tell them what to do. U-CALL is a new service that does just that, at times when other counseling isn鈥檛 available. It鈥檚 not therapy, just someone to lend an ear, and make referrals if necessary.
Two 91探花computer scientists are part of a team that has discovered a pair of rare, naturally occurring RNA 鈥渟witches鈥� in a class of bacteria that work cooperatively to manage the amino acid glycine.
The physical space for the University鈥檚 new Q Center isn鈥檛 complete yet, but in spirit, the center鈥檚 work is already well under way.
This year鈥檚 Costco Scholarship Breakfast raised $2.
Once again the 91探花is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout Washington.
Emotional coaching from mom helps, even in tough circumstances
Children are less likely to encounter behavioral problems in life if they have been coached by their parents on how to handle their emotions, 91探花researchers found. And that鈥檚 true even when the home has low levels of domestic violence.
A group of promising cancer-fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, the 91探花has announced.
Environmental Health & Safety and Computing & Communications have collaborated to produce MyChem, a new web tool that replaces the Laboratory Safety System (LSS).
In her debut recital Oct.
91探花World Series starts tonight, with some lineup changes (and no, it鈥檚 not baseball)
Sometimes world politics gets in the way of worldly performers. An excellent New York ballet company has replaced a Spanish dance troupe as the opener of the 91探花World Series. It鈥檚 at Meany Hall, and it鈥檚 tonight.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the 91探花 could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
Once again the 91探花 is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout Washington.
The most successful way to develop new products is to emphasize satisfying needs consumers aren’t even aware they have, according to new research conducted by the 91探花 and Colorado State University.
Two 91探花 computer scientists are part of a team that has discovered a pair of rare, naturally occurring RNA “switches” in a class of bacteria that work cooperatively to manage the amino acid glycine.
Other people celebrate New Years on Jan.
The 91探花is holding a party for thousands of its closest friends to celebrate the accomplishments of students, faculty and staff and their contributions to the region and society.
How do you recruit faculty for a program that is not able to offer lavish support or huge salaries, that won’t likely generate articles in prestigious journals, and that probably involves more work than your average class?
You offer them an opportunity to work with some of the smartest undergraduates in Washington.
The Professional Staff Organization is at a crossroads.