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As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.

An analysis of emergency medical services–treated cardiac arrest outcomes in 10 areas in North America finds a five-fold difference in survival rates, according to a study in the Sept.

David Montgomery, a 91̽»¨ professor of Earth and space sciences noted for his study of how soil and rivers shape civilizations, has been named one of 25 new MacArthur Fellows.

91̽»¨ architecture and urban planning is renamed College of Built Environments

The University has selected a new Song of Washington, with lyrics by Catherine Henderson, a senior in the UW’s evening degree program in the humanities.

The 91̽»¨ Board of Regents, by unanimous vote today (Sept.

According to research conducted at the 91̽»¨, manufacturing firms can increase shareholder value by transitioning to services, but there are some important caveats.

91̽»¨ President Mark A.

Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed.

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.

The 91̽»¨ Board of Regents will be asked to approve honorary doctorate degrees for three members of the Gates family at the board’s meeting Sept.

Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be the featured speaker at the 91̽»¨’s 25th Annual Freshman Convocation, which begins at 10:30 a.

91̽»¨Medicine will host free Fall Prevention Fairs beginning Sept.

When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now.

Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.

The first study to include a significant number of aggressive girls with conduct problems indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes.

Clarita Lefthand, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the 91̽»¨, will receive the second annual Bullitt Environmental Prize at an awards dinner to be held Sept.

While implantable heart defibrillators reduce the risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest in patients with mild to moderate heart failure, patients who receive defibrillator shocks for rhythm disturbances have a higher future risk of death, primarily from heart failure, a new study has found.

New research shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina’s victims were black.

The 91̽»¨ will acquire an electron beam lithography machine, a key instrument required to build devices at the nanometer scale.

Having studied the physiology of algae for more than 30 years, Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced the plant life found in oceans and ponds can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from cars and lawn mowers to jet airplanes.

Latino voters favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 3-1 margin in the key battleground states of New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, according a new poll released today by Latino Decisions and the National Association of Latino Elected Officials.

Documentary on the struggles of small businesses in New Orleans

The newest space telescope is the payoff for years of work for a 91̽»¨physicist.

The 91̽»¨ was ranked the 11th best public university in the most recent edition of America’s Best Colleges released today by U.