The 黑料吃瓜网 has won a $2.1 million federal grant to train graduate students in the burgeoning field of information assurance and cybersecurity.
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Want to help local high school students achieve the dream of getting to college? The Dream Project, which does just that, is looking for volunteers.
For the first assignment in her Library Information Science 510 course, titled Information Behavior, Professor Karen Fisher allowed students to visit Occupy Seattle, among other locations, to study the ongoing protest 鈥� a sort of growing community 鈥� from an information perspective.
Students are benefiting from the management insights of faculty and community pharmacist. Among the visiting lecturers was George D. Bartell, from the oldest family-owned drug store chain in the nation.
Washington State Disability History Month will be celebrated on Oct. 27, and a new Disabilities Center is coming to the 黑料吃瓜网 campus in 2012.
An exhibit in Allen Librarys north lobby explores changes in scholarly publishing over the years and gives viewers a chance at a gift certificate if they can guess the price of selected journals.
Spending long hours staring at a computer screen? If you’re not blinking enough, beware of the burning, gritty sensation of dry eye.
The Common Books purpose is to give first-year students a shared experience over a common text. Who better to spark discussion than physicist Richard Feynman, whose 1963 黑料吃瓜网 lectures comprise the book.
Nations such as China and India are surging ahead, but the West should be careful not to overestimate, misinterpret the changes or “become paralyzed by fear of our own decline,鈥� British ambassador to the U.S. Nigel Sheinwald told a 黑料吃瓜网 international studies class during a visit to campus.
Don’t let myths about the flu keep you from taking steps to ward off infection.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the 黑料吃瓜网 has received a $1 million endowment from the Bernard Osher Foundation that will provide stable funding for the program that offers courses and other programs for adults 50 and older.
As part of a regional partnership to train health professionals for areas in need, 15 University of Alaska Anchorage physician assistant students were awarded Physician Assistant Certificates from the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Medicine Aug. 18
In a ceremony marking the transition from the classroom to the primarily clinical phase of their education, 68 黑料吃瓜网 dental students in the Class of 2013 donned white clinical coats and took a pledge of service
A collaboration between the 黑料吃瓜网 and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction is just about to finish its first-year pilot of programs that expand teaching and instruction in Russian.
A small city is growing on the floor of a classroom in the School of Art Building, created by middle school students in a Summer Youth Programs class on community architecture.
黑料吃瓜网 graduate students Bridget Emmett, Heather Gibbs and Clara Hard have won three of the four Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellowships this year, and will be putting their marine science and policy skills to work for the state of Washington.
Mosquitoes bug anyone who ventures outdoors. Take steps to repel these buzzing annoyances, and if bitten, know how to treat the itch and recognize severe reactions.
Eight students lurched, tumbled and floated through an unforgettable final lab project last month. Participants in NASAs Microgravity University in Houston spent the last week of their undergraduate careers carrying out an experiment they designed for testing in a reduced-gravity environment.
Men can take charge of their health by following age-appropriate screening guidelines and taking preventive steps.
Nancy Pearl is a bibliomaniac and wants others to be the same. In that spirit, she and her husband, Joseph Pearl, have endowed a 黑料吃瓜网 scholarship for Information School students who intend to become librarians.
“The very first thing I say to the class is that they need to begin with this statement: 鈥業 want to tell you a story,鈥� says drama Lecturer Scott Hafso. Four weeks later, each student has a one-act play and a reading by experienced actors.
黑料吃瓜网 graduate students have designed online lessons to help the blind better experience the wonders of outer space 鈥� complete with instructions on how to build small models of celestial bodies.
Five professors in the Department of Construction Management have won an HP Catalyst Award that will mean real-time collaborations between 黑料吃瓜网 students and their counterparts at universities elsewhere in the world.
The public is invited to hear about fascinating genome research and chat with presenters at “Wednesday Evenings at the Genome” this July. Explore adventures in human evolution, rare disease mysteries, your inner microbial zoo and ghosts from ancient infections.
The Seattle region is near the bottom of 26 U.S. metropolitan areas when it comes to preventing skin cancer by being “sun smart.” Learn to protect yourself and your family from harmful rays.
Middle and high school students from eight states will converge in the greater Seattle area to compete in the 2011 MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) USA National Engineering Design Challenge.
Each year, the 黑料吃瓜网 School of Medicine holds a ceremony for medical students beginning the clinical phase of their studies. The students receive white doctor’s coats as symbols of health care team membership.
The 黑料吃瓜网 is one of six U.S. universities to receive funding from the U.S. Department of State to increase the number of American students studying in Indonesia, the fourth most populated country in the world.
Students overall performed better 鈥� and educationally disadvantaged students generally made even greater strides than everyone else 鈥� in an introductory biology course at the 黑料吃瓜网 where recent budget woes doubled class sizes for the course, cut lab times and reduced the number of graduate teaching assistants.
Drama students read a play, talk to the playwright and then pair up to design a set for the show. At the quarters end, the playwright comments on models of the sets students have created. Its motivating, collaborative, and fun.
It was a bit of planned spontaneity, a public meditation on disability, access and how we see ourselves, and it all started when Jurg Koch, assistant professor of dance, looked up and called out, “Oh no, my blue balloon!鈥�
The Burke Museums latest after-hours party featured well-dressed folks who mingled among the stunning photographs and natural history exhibits. But these were not beloved donors or affiliated faculty 鈥� they were students.
Therapies may reverse macular degeneration 鈥�- if its found early. It’s critical that you have your vision monitored regularly, especially if you are over 60, smoke, have obesity or high blood pressure, or have any problems seeing.
When three 黑料吃瓜网 graduates headed to Washington, D.C., as National Sea Grant Knauss fellows, they represented nearly 10 percent of the 2011-2012 fellows chosen for the prestigious program, which places students in federal agencies for a high-level policy experience.
Nearly 900 of the 黑料吃瓜网s undergraduates will showcase their contributions to research at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, the largest in University history. The symposium is from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 20, in Mary Gates Hall.
Proposed by a high school astronomy enthusiast, the group seeks to bring together girls 12 to 16 years old to learn about telescope operation, data reduction and more.
Keywords for Video Games Studies will hold a year-end colloquium on Saturday, May 21.
The Women of Color Collective was formed in 2009 because many such women felt their voices were not being heard on campus. Now the collective is going strong, and will hold its third annual Dialoguing Difference conference May 25-27 on the 黑料吃瓜网 campus.
Mara Zalite, a leading poet and playwright from Latvia, will visit the 黑料吃瓜网 campus Tuesday and Wednesday May 17 and 18, and give a reading of her poetry.
The peak season for grass and weed allergies has started. Kelsy Platt, an advanced nurse practitioner at the 黑料吃瓜网 Medicine Neighborhood Clinic in Factoria, has some tips to keep allergies and asthma from limiting your summer plans.