Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica.
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Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research that apparently showed that soft, pliable tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, a major finding that would substantially widen the known range of preserved biomolecules.
The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The 91探花will participate for the first time in the Officer in Residence Program, in which a Central Intelligence Agency officer spends two years as a visiting researcher at a United States college or university.
Leon Preston has been an athlete all his life, but he’s going to the Olympics this year as an official, not a competitor.
When Brad McDavid led the Husky Marching Band on a tour to China in 2001, little did he realize that the performances were also an audition.
A new program for secondary education teachers at 91探花Bothell is aimed not just at producing certificated teachers but also change agents.
Where can you get weekly singing lessons, perform three times a year and meet a lot of women who love music as much as you do? The answer is the 91探花Women’s Choir, which is currently looking for new members.
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before.
A week can make all the difference.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting scheduled for August has been cancelled.
FOUNDING HONOR: Social Work Professor Biren 鈥淩atnesh鈥� Nagda was at the University of Michigan recently, accepting an award as one of the founders of intergroup dialogue 鈥� a technique he and several other graduate students developed at Michigan 20 years ago.
Not many student artists can say their work has hung in the prestigious Jacob Lawrence Gallery 鈥� but thanks to a clever connection, the elementary school-age members of the 91探花Summer Day Camp can make that boast with pride.
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989.
The second annual Public Health Informatics 2008 Conference, Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies, will take place Sept.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
One of the first AIDS research centers in the country has been awarded $16.
91探花Medical Center (UWMC) has ranked 10th in U.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
More than 25 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to pursue practices that bolster public health practices in the countries in which they work, as part of an international nongovernmental organization code of conduct developed by 91探花professors working for Health Alliance International in Seattle.
On July 17 the 91探花Foundation announced that more than $2.
The whole campus has been quacking over the duck family that was featured on the cover of the last issue of University Week.
The School of Dentistry and the 91探花Athletics Program kicked off a new collaboration on Wednesday, July 9, with 130 student athletes visiting 91探花dental clinics to be fitted for mouthguards.
A STORM OF RECOGNITION: Sutapa Basu, director of the 91探花Women’s Center, was one of four women honored during the Seattle Storm’s Women of Inspiration Night recently.
By Jean M.
Jean-Paul Willynck, a senior Urban Studies student at the 91探花Tacoma, has been appointed to a one-year term as the 91探花student regent by Gov.
If you’re looking for a new and different campus eatery, you might want to try Housing and Food Service’s most recent addition, the Tower Caf茅, located in the 91探花Tower.
Harry Lang, a Deaf professor in the Department of Research and Teacher Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, will be giving a public lecture on the subject of technology and how it impacts the Deaf community at 7 p.
Some people might describe Research1 as “YouTube meets Facebook in a research project setting.
Staffers in the 91探花Libraries have been enjoying fresh produce this summer, thanks to a new program they’ve signed up for called Farm Fresh@Work.
Dozens of Chinese studies librarians have converged at the 91探花for the Summer Institute on Chinese Studies Librarianship in the Electronic Environment, hosted by 91探花Libraries.
Growing international interest in the Arctic led the 91探花in June to become a member of the University of the Arctic.
A 91探花study of top-selling laundry products and air fresheners found the products emitted dozens of different chemicals.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Quick quiz: It’s hot out and you’ve bought a cool drink at a 91探花campus caf茅.
91探花President Mark A.
The Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, known for work on plant systematics and botanical collecting, is getting into the ecosystem restoration business.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents regular public meeting, which was scheduled for Thursday, Aug.
It all started in 2007 when a resident of Fircrest School wanted to grow pumpkins.
By Jean Patterson
School of Social Work
Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health, a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, is groundbreaking in exploring links among stigma, prejudice, and discrimination and their impact on health, as well as implications for public health practice.
91探花Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.