Booster seats protect children from serious injury in motor vehicle crashes, yet research shows that parents are inconsistent in using booster seats to protect children 4-8 years of age.
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Multiracial adolescents in middle school are significantly more likely to engage in such problem behaviors as violence and substance use than single-race young people, according to a new study.
When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the same way they skirted discussions about sex 20 years ago.
Provost Phyllis Wise tackled a wide range of subjects last week when she held a town hall meeting open to the whole University community.
What was the longest-running television show with an African-American cast? Why was the popular early situation comedy Amos ‘n’ Andy cancelled after just two years? What made a 1968 Petula Clark television special a memorable event in the televised history of race relations?
These are a few of the historical nuggets to be found in the Historical Dictionary of African-American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, recently published by Scarecrow Press.
Rusty Barceló leaves her friends and colleagues at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø with these words of advice: Never fear change.
Humans, like all life, both alter their environment and are altered by it.
From comet dust to a classic rock musical, open houses in sciences, arts and medicine, guided tours and student reunions — the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s three campuses will bloom with events for all ages during Washington Weekend, today through Saturday.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic has received a $97,250 grant from the Internal Revenue Service.
Here’s a little-known fact: When a big research university and a small community college become friends and start working together, the results can benefit both institutions, not just the smaller one.
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members — David Baker and Barbara Reskin — have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professors have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Translational research, or research that moves discoveries from the laboratory bench into practical use with patients, will be the focus of this year’s clinical research conference, organized by the School of Medicine’s Office of Clinical Research.
A global health forum and free film screening will be highlights of the Health Sciences Open House, set for this Friday and Saturday.
Learning the Violin in Public: Does Traditional Surgical Training Meet the Needs of the Modern Specialist? is the topic for Dr.
Seventy years ago during the Depression, some unemployed craftsmen made a set of teaching tools for a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor.
An item in the Health Sciences portion of the April 20 University Week calendar incorrectly noted the speaker for the Hans Neurath Lecture, which is taking place at 4 p.
It is a marvel of nature that a creature such as a caterpillar changes into something quite different, a butterfly.
Room and board at Harvard costs $9,578.
Many faculty members say that they’d like to use instructional technology more in their classrooms.
The scientific theory of evolution and the faith-based belief in intelligent design continue to be the subject of heated debate nationwide.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students and staff consume close to 5,000 coffee and tea beverages every day.
CASE CHAMPIONS: The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø did quite well at the regional award competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, picking up 21 awards in a variety of categories.
Sheila Edwards Lange has been selected interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity, effective May 15.
Last summer, University Week contacted employees who have worked here 35 years or longer and asked them for their reminiscences about the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø over the years.
ON JAPAN: It was, the Christian Science Monitor stated, “a Godzilla moment” for Japan when the Nikkei lost nearly $400 billion in value over three days of wild selling in January.
Now through the end of April, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will host hundreds of visitors as part of the Arbor Day and Washington Weekend events.
The University community will have a chance to hear from the co-chair of the Bring Back New Orleans Commission when Barbara Major comes to town Thursday, April 27.
For Anne Eskridge, it started with the need for a different kind of house.
“They call their project the North Pole Environmental Observatory, but that name gives the impression that it’s some exotic domed facility,” writes New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin.
Lili Angel’s art is like a Buddhist monk’s sand painting — she spends days or weeks creating it, and then it’s gone.
A new partnership between the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, South Seattle Community College and South Seattle neighborhoods will be celebrated with a day trip to that area, available to all, on May 3, guided by community leaders and faculty advisors from both institutions.
As he looked forward to painting a portrait of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark Emmert last week, German painter Stefan Budian said his main plan was to have no plan at all.
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“Remembering Japanese American Redress: A Symposium on History, Incarceration, and Justice” will be presented from 9 a.
Syria is the focus of a forum and a concert next week on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus.
Well known author (Loving What Is) Byron Katie will be coming to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø on Thursday, May 11 for two events — one for students in the Psychology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Departments and one for the general public.
Online e-mailing and working wifi connections can be very convenient, but is the electrononic point-and-click world all it’s cracked up to be?
The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Information School and the The Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security are teaming up to sponsor a discussion about technology and privacy titled Privacy: Reconciling Reality from 6 to 9 p.
English soprano Jane Eaglen will conduct a master class with four School of Music voice students at 3:30 p.