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ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center moved up one place in its ranking among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center Surgery Pavilion has reached the halfway point, with one year of construction completed and another still to go before the facility opens in 2003.
The nursing shortage in Washington state will be the subject of a legislative meeting at the Health Sciences Center next week.
MBA MASTER: Master’s in business administration students voted Ali Tarhouni, senior lecturer in business economics, as their favorite teacher — really.
The Assisted Cognition Project is a collaborative effort by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Intel Computers and Elite Care, a private company developing a state-of-the-art retirement community in the Portland area that utilizes so-called ubiquitous computing to keep tabs on residents’ needs.
The dust has been piling up in Earth’s attic for billions of years, and now some scientists want to sift through the accumulation to see if they can find evidence of the planet’s earliest life.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Dentistry is teaming up with Washington Dental Service Foundation and GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) to conduct a “Dental Camp” for junior high students from across the state on July 25, Aug. 8 and Aug. 29.
The National Cancer Institute will provide $10.5 million in funding to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø), the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) over five years for study of the progression and treatment of prostate cancer.
It can be a numbing and confusing experience for parents who receive a diagnosis that their child has autism and then must sort through the wide variety of treatment approaches available. Helping parents deal with this experience is why two leading researchers, Sally Ozonoff and Geraldine Dawson, have written “A Parent’s Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism,” which has just been published.
El Niño is coming! El Niño is coming!
But this time, the climate anomaly that usually brings warmer and drier winters to the Pacific Northwest might not have such a noticeable impact, say two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø climatologists
A study published by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø shows a significant drop in the number of deaths involving heroin and cocaine since 2000.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center moved up one place in its ranking among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2002 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” which was updated in its July 22 issue, available July 15.
With more than 40 events packed into five days, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Summer Arts Festival continues to be perhaps the most ambitious display of the arts on campus.
Office works to ensure Husky products aren’t made in sweatshops.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma recently named Carol Van Natta as director of development and alumni relations.
Top-gun educators work on their skills during a summer retreat.
WORLD ROBOCUP: While the U.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Make no mistake about it, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø sociologist Pepper Schwartz’s new book is the print version of a “chick flick.
RAISING THE DEAD: The dead rhino, that is.
Top national genetics leader expected to arrive in
January from St. Louis
Some people may find it surprising, but biology laboratories and the experiments conducted there have long been resistant to computerization.
A newly discovered gene plays a dramatic role in diabetes among rats, and is also present in nearly identical form in humans, according to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers and their colleagues.
The winds of the Great Plains won’t stop two Montana tribes from making their newest buildings out of straw.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has won a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for programs to support undergraduate biology education, to help prepare future faculty and to develop K-12 outreach programs.
Dr. Robert H. Waterston, one of the world’s leading genome scientists, has been named chair of the Department of Genome Sciences at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, announced Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine.
A little more than half of Western Washington physicians listed in the latest edition of The Best Doctors in America are faculty physicians who practice at institutions managed by, or affiliated with, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, including Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Harborview Medical Center, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System.
Make no mistake about it, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø sociologist Pepper Schwartz’s new book is the print version of a “chick flick.” The book, “The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book,” is targeted at women, and for a good reason.
A newly discovered gene plays a dramatic role in diabetes among rats, and is also present in nearly identical form in humans, according to researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and their colleagues.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Center For Urban Horticulture has spent the past year re-creating and reconnecting — work that’s far from done even many months after the May 21, 2001, arson attack damaged the center’s main building, rendering most if it beyond repair.
Lawn mowers can be dangerous. That’s the message from physicians at the Harborview Medical Center after serious injuries to children this spring and summer.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø have learned that something most people take for granted is not true: that the force of fluids within the human body helps to break the adhesive bonds of invasive bacteria and counterbalance infection.
Enrollments for summer quarter continue to rise at all three campuses.
Climate change seminar will cover the issues and put reporters in touch with campus experts.
The University’s official policies are moving to a new, smaller volume.
The second annual faculty awards for Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning were presented yesterday by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Educational Outreach.
Beginning Monday, July 1, Mailing Services will decrease its daily service from twice a day to once a day to most ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø box numbers.