October 1, 2009
What’s it like to live and work in Antarctica, the world’s coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent on Earth? A new traveling exhibit coming to the Burke Museum called Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey explores the question through the dramatic, large-format photography of Joan Myers, who spent more than a year on the frigid continent.
Judith Yarrow
Health Promotion Research Center
For the past 10 years, Dr.
Two departmental chairs at the School of Dentistry have announced that they will be stepping down from their posts.
September 30, 2009
Tiny archaea play a huge role in the planet’s nitrogen cycle, according to new research.
September 25, 2009
While surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome in patients without an indication of severe nerve damage (denervation) provides better outcomes than non-surgical treatment, the clinical relevance of this difference is modest.
September 24, 2009
Less than a year ago a 91探花engineering lab was the first to generate ceramic objects in a 3-D printer. Now they’ve done it again, for glass.
September 23, 2009
On Thursday (Sept.
September 22, 2009
There is new evidence that depression, obesity and alcohol abuse or dependency are interrelated conditions among young adult women but not men.
September 21, 2009
Heather McHugh, Milliman Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Creative Writing Program of the English Department of the 91探花, has been named a 2009 MacArthur Fellow by the John D.
September 18, 2009
91探花scientists will evaluate the impact of climate change on human health in the Pacific Northwest
September 17, 2009
David Horsey, Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist, will be the featured speaker at the 91探花’s 26th Annual Freshman Convocation, which begins at 10:30 a.
Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, a 281-bed full service acute care hospital, will expand its program agreement with 91探花Medicine to become an integral part of the 91探花Medicine health system.
91探花was among 9 research institutions that operated multiple biomedical robots from sites in U.S., Europe and Asia.
September 16, 2009
When it comes to writing the pen apparently is mightier than the computer keyboard.
September 15, 2009
91探花 researchers at the 91探花Medicine Eye Institute have successfully used gene therapy to cure color blindness.
WHAT: An informal backgrounder for reporters on injury prevention and health protection in elite winter athletes.
The ancient city of Rome was not built in a day.
The 91探花 announced today that its annual trademarks and licensing royalties surpassed $1 million for just the second time in the history of the institution’s licensing program and the first time in over a decade.
Futurity. org covers the latest discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health, and more.
September 14, 2009
The number of students enrolled in global health programs in universities across the United States and Canada doubled in just three years.
September 10, 2009
More people in the West are without health insurance, too.
A 91探花 Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days, a record more than double that of any other underwater glider.
September 9, 2009
Medical and public health experts and students from the 91探花 have weighed in on a variety of health-care topics in recent months, including the primary care doctor shortage, public hospital financing, health-care co-ops and how to care for the uninsured.
September 8, 2009
WHAT: “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008” will be released this week by the U.
You’ve heard about flower power.
September 7, 2009
Rates of binge drinking were 37 percent lower among eighth-grade students in communities in seven states that used a prevention system designed to reduce drug use and delinquent behavior compared to teenagers in communities that did not use the system.
September 3, 2009
The 91探花’s new suite of mobile applications for the iPhone is now available for download.
September 2, 2009
Support comes from across the state and a wide variety of groups
Note: This fact sheet provides additional information about the Regional Scale Nodes project that is receiving money from the National Science Foundation through the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.
August 31, 2009
Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school.
August 30, 2009
It is now possible to count copies of duplicated genome sequences and assess their contents
August 26, 2009
It costs more just to get by in Washington. The self-sufficiency measure for Seattle rose 35 percent since 2001 and Spokane rose 28 percent.
August 24, 2009
WHAT: Press conference detailing the 2009 self-sufficiency standards for all of Washington’s 39 counties.
August 20, 2009
DUST OF DESTINY: For space enthusiasts, the lede of the recent Los Angeles Times story was pretty exciting: “Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of a comet.
A regional alliance will work to increase minorities in science and engineering programs
Woody biomass could be Washington’s best opportunity for biofuels and to reduce green house gas emissions and dependency upon imported oil.
Researchers have found a way to train tiny semiconductor crystals to display magnetic functions at room temperature using light as a trigger
This is the last issue of University Week for summer quarter.
Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles.