August 21, 2008
Like a deep-sea bloodhound, Sentry 鈥� the newest in an elite group of unmanned submersibles able to operate on their own in demanding and rugged environments 鈥� has helped scientists pinpoint optimal locations for two observation sites of a pioneering seafloor laboratory being planned off Washington and Oregon.
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators.
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same.
In time for the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show UW ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.
This issue of University Week is the last of the summer.
Beginning this fall, the University will be greeting its new recruits face to face once again.
Did you know UW employees can rent apartments at Radford Court, the University housing that sits right up against Magnuson Park and Lake Washington? Plus, if the employee is taking a class (matriculated or nonmatriculated) at the UW, the lower Public Student Rate applies.
Dozens of space flyers will land in the Northwest next month.
Bruce Foret has spent the three years since Hurricane Katrina struggling to rebuild Oak Street Hardware in New Orleans.
A group at the UW has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.
For the last two winters, Jennifer Salk’s students have brought the joy of dance to a group of middle and high school students in Central Washington.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Migration is one of nature鈥檚 great wonders; each year millions of birds travel great lengths 鈥� sometimes across the globe 鈥� to find feeding and breeding grounds.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
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By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
Kenneth Sherr, UW clinical assistant professor in global health working at Health Alliance International (HAI), was one of five scientists worldwide honored with a Young Investigator Award at the 2008 Global AIDS Conference in Mexico City earlier this month.
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
In response to a campuswide invitation for concept proposals for interdisciplinary global health initiatives and centers, the Department of Global Health received an impressive 41 proposals from faculty representing all 17 UW colleges and schools.
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F.
Twenty-eight UW physicians working at UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have achieved recognition in diabetes care from the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
August 19, 2008
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same.
August 17, 2008
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities.
August 11, 2008
New UW research shows that bugs — both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope — are responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
August 8, 2008
In time for the start of the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show 糖心原创 ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
August 7, 2008
Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems.
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.
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989.
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 UW Summer Day Camp can make that boast with pride.
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.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting scheduled for August has been cancelled.
A week can make all the difference.
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before.
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 UW Women’s Choir, which is currently looking for new members.
A new program for secondary education teachers at UW Bothell is aimed not just at producing certificated teachers but also change agents.
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.
Leon Preston has been an athlete all his life, but he’s going to the Olympics this year as an official, not a competitor.
The UW 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.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.