The 91̽»¨ has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.
December 19, 2006
December 19, 2006
The 91̽»¨ has lured a highly accomplished and popular political science professor from Stanford to head up Diversity Research Institute and help recruit and retain minority faculty members.
December 18, 2006
The next time you’re in the market for a new camera, it might be best to read about the product’s capabilities in a brochure rather than taking it for a test-run in an interactive, computer-generated virtual world.
December 14, 2006
A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.
Contrary to a popular scientific notion, there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun’s sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets.
A classic science-fiction scene shows a person wearing a metal skullcap with electrodes sticking out to detect the person’s thoughts.
December 12, 2006
An international group of researchers has discovered that the mutated form of a gene called Palladin causes familial pancreatic cancer.
December 11, 2006
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded $10.
December 7, 2006
Although there’s often a gulf of perception between the worlds of art and science, many artists use science for their creations and some scientists find art in their work.
Heather McHugh, a poet and English professor at the UW, has been awarded $50,000 in the inaugural round of United States Artists Fellowships.
Invasive Northwest marine species, a house by Frank Lloyd Wright and the bungalows of Seattle are among topics covered by several books by 91̽»¨faculty or about the Seattle area soon to be published by University Press.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The front desk came from the law school, the carpeting in the back from Housing and Food Services.
By Sibrina Collins
The Graduate School
This fall the University took a step toward its goal of building relationships with minority-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities when it hosted Andrew Williams, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga.
For their 25th wedding anniversary, Douglas Louie surprised his wife, 91̽»¨Tacoma Professor of Education Belinda Louie, with an elaborate, expensive gift she can’t wear, drive or even touch.
Most college term papers don’t make the national news.
Editor’s note: This is the last in a series of profiles University Week has run of 91̽»¨staff members volunteering for agencies that receive funding through the Combined Fund Drive.
The first-ever wall calendar featuring the beauty of Washington Park Arboretum’s magnificent plant collection is now available at all eight PCC Natural Markets, at the Arboretum Shop, and online at <A href="http://www.
With their own recognized association and a dedicated office on campus, postdoctoral scholars — “postdocs” for short — are raising their professional profile at the UW.
We won’t let snow get in the way of giving.
Class title: Anthropology 469, “Metropolis: Anthropology of the Modern City,” taught by Chris Brown.
91̽»¨faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about the 91̽»¨Police Department are invited to apply for the 91̽»¨Police Citizens’ Academy.
You can bring the family and experience the charm of a 19th century technology that was the forerunner of motion pictures at the Burke’s holiday event, “Magic Lanterns and the Birth of Photography,” from 10 a.
The 91̽»¨ Press, working with the Department of Scandinavian Studies, has launched two new book series that include Scandinavian co-publishers.
A 91̽»¨team will lead a new $15 million U.
A number of researchers in recent years have reported perplexing findings of water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change.
Seismometers in the right place at the right time detected the growing swarm of tiny undersea earthquakes that culminated in a volcanic eruption last January off the coast of Mexico.
The traditional idea that immigrants cluster together in neighborhoods with their countrymen after coming to the United States and move away after achieving economic success is far from universal.
The 91̽»¨Libraries have partnered with communities on the Olympic Peninsula to create an unusual online museum that provides access to much historical material that previously was in private hands.
December 6, 2006
The 91̽»¨ Press, working with the Department of Scandinavian Studies, has launched two new book series that include Scandinavian co-publishers.
The traditional idea that immigrants cluster together in neighborhoods with their countrymen after coming to the United States and move away after achieving economic success is far from universal.
December 5, 2006
A 91̽»¨ team will lead a new $15 million U.
November 30, 2006
A number of researchers in recent years have reported perplexing findings of water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds high in the atmosphere, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change.
Attention: The 91̽»¨Police are coming to Kane Hall.
Editor’s note: Karin Dalesky, an admissions specialist in Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at 91̽»¨Tacoma, has twice gone to New Orleans to tend to pets who are victims of the hurricanes.
Immigrants from Asia have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other native-born Americans, according to the first national epidemiological survey of Asian Americans in the United States.
A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
For many of the students in Patricia Campbell’s class, Music for Children, the trip to Toppenish loomed as a scary experience they weren’t sure they could succeed at.