Harmful effects of bullying are profound for youth struggling with identity and self-worth, and can lead to depression and thoughts of suicide.
Research
Joe Janes of the 91探花Information School reached back two centuries to pre-revolutionary France for the latest installment of his podcast series, “Documents that Changed the World.”
New 91探花research shows that, in recent decades, fall is the only time of extensive warming over the entire Antarctic Peninsula, and it is mostly from atmospheric circulation patterns originating in the tropics.
More than 1,000 undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the 16th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 17 in Mary Gates Hall. Some presentations will also occur in Johnson Hall and Meany Studio Theater. In conjunction with the symposium, another 50 undergraduates from 91探花and nine other universities will present results from research collaborations through the McNair scholars and other such programs, May 16 to 18. The 91探花Undergraduate Research…
The maternal genetic information passed down through many generations of mitochondria is still present in modern-day residents of the Lassithi plateau of Crete.
91探花 engineers have created a synthetic substance that fully resists the body’s natural attack response to foreign objects. Medical devices such as artificial heart valves, prostheses and breast implants could be coated with this polymer to prevent the body from rejecting an implanted object.
The 91探花report recommends ways to protect the health of Native American tribes and others affected by the cleanup.
Oceanographers are using a growing number of seafloor seismometers, devices that record seafloor vibrations, to carry out inexpensive and non-invasive studies of endangered whales.
New study suggests dietary nicotine may protect against this disorder, which results from the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells.
New research shows bacteria may draw other bacteria to an infection site by laying down trails of a 鈥渕olecular glue鈥� that attract free-swimming individual bacteria.
The UW’s Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies shows Washington state’s housing market improved in the first quarter of 2013 for the third consecutive quarter.
Dr. Alisa Hideg, who teaches 91探花medical students, is grateful for the chance to move science forward toward a future with more options for other patients.
This week marks the 1000th cruise for the UW’s Clifford A. Barnes research vessel, a converted tugboat that has spent decades exploring Puget Sound and Pacific Northwest waters and is now reaching the end of its 91探花career.
A new device will give hospitals and research labs a much easier way to separate DNA from human fluid samples to help with genome sequencing, disease diagnosis and forensic investigations.
A yearlong project to learn how 91探花students were being challenged academically in their majors attracted volunteers from 33 degree-granting departments and programs.
The Erasmus virus resets 207 genes in lung cells to hamper the cells’ ability to launch an antiviral reaction. Available drugs might correct this sabotage.
Low pituitary hormone levels can mimic symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome, but are easily treated.
New 91探花 research shows it’s much more environmentally friendly to leave the car parked at home and opt for groceries delivered to your doorstep.
A 91探花astronomer is using Earth’s interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host.
Drops forming on the outside of your drink don’t just make the can slippery. Experiments show that in hot, humid weather, condensation heats a drink more than the surrounding air.
Concrete is used to build streets, bridges, buildings, dams and driveways 鈥� and it lasts a very long time 鈥� but what if concrete could be made with a 50 percent smaller carbon footprint?
Engineering Discovery Days is April 26-27 at the 91探花campus and will feature exhibits and demonstrations from engineering departments and student groups.
A 91探花 astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope.
A substance implicated in several mass extinctions could greatly enhance plant growth, with implications for global food supplies biofuels, new 91探花research shows.
Engineers at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory are under pressure to build and test parts for installation this summer in the world’s largest deep-ocean observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts.
Researchers found that a protein in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract can lose their functionality when exposed to sugar.
In recent decades the thinning of glaciers at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated, but new UW-led research indicates the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers money, particularly for some soap products.
At Friday Harbor Labs, students are conducting a three-week study on the effects of ocean acidification using a strategy that’s midway between a controlled lab test and an open-ocean experiment.
Latest research findings suggest the possibility of reverting TB hyper-susceptibility to TB hyper-resistance.
A few questions for Richard Kirkendall, 91探花professor emeritus of history and editor of the new book, “Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman.”
Neurosurgeon Eric Holland has been recruited to establish a preeminent brain cancer program at 91探花Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute.
A 91探花physicist has used new satellite data to update his decade-old recreation of the sound of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.
Astronauts could be a step closer to a fast journey to Mars using a unique manipulation of nuclear fusion devised by 91探花scientists and those at a Redmond company.
The UW’s Climate Impacts Group is part of a national report and first-ever national meeting on adapting to the effects of a changing climate.
The genetic variants disturb the functioning of the same brain signal receptors affected by hallucinogenic drugs.
Diversity training programs lead people to believe that work environments are fair even when given evidence of hiring, promotion or salary inequities, according to findings by 91探花psychologists.
UW-developed screening for debilitating, often-fatal genetic conditions has drawn interest from companies that could use it in tests distributed nationally and around the world.
In partnership with Fisher Communications, 91探花Medicine Health will provide information on healthy living and on the latest treatments and medical breakthroughs
Bacteria speed up their evolution by positioning specific genes along the route of expected traffic jams in DNA encoding. Collisions can result in mutations.