The On-Ramps into Academia workshop at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø aims to lure women researchers working in government, industry or as consultants to academic positions. Applications for the second workshop, this spring, are due Feb. 15.
Learning
Get an insider’s view of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine by registering for a series of free lectures and demonstrations on medical education, patient care and research. The Mini-Medical School is in session Tuesday evenings Feb. 1 to March 15.
Learn how to write easy-to-understand informed consents for research in this one-hour training.
A new type of educational partnership in the state of Washington was launched Jan. 19, when the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell and Bellevue College sign a memorandum of understanding to establish a cooperative admissions process for international students studying business in the United States
The Henry Art Gallery is inviting ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty to review how the museums resources can be used for research and teaching. The University Faculty Information Reception will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in the Reed Collections Study Center.
Ed Taylor, vice provost and dean of undergraduate academic affairs, shows how Martin Luther King Jr.s writings shed light on the crises of today.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine neurosurgeon suggests an easy-to-remember tip to check for a stroke, and tells why to summon help immediately if you suspect a ‘brain attack.’
Rigorous studies in science, technology, engineering and math, with industry mentoring for both students and teachers, and maybe even a longer school year — these are key features of a new five-year, $4.1 million grant for the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøs Institute for Science and Mathematics Education and several partner organizations.
Students in the Biorobotics Laboratory hacked the Kinect, a motion-based controller for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming system, for research on telerobotic surgery.
A recent study by researchers Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald of the Center for Education Data and Research at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell found that layoff decisions within the teaching profession are disproportionally determined by seniority and other factors unrelated to teaching effectiveness.
A seminar on diversity pedagogies is being sponsored by the Center for Curriculum Transformation, the Center for Teaching and Learning and the Simpson Center for the Humanities in winter and spring 2011. The series will convene faculty, graduate students and others with interest and expertise in the field to review and discuss current research.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø pharmacy students inform public leaders about the expanding role of pharmacists in disease prevention and health promotion.
The Women Who Rock Research Project provides courses and cross-academic discussion examining the politics of gender, race and sexuality generated by popular music.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma is part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation to transform how K-8 mathematics teachers can be trained as they face classrooms in which many students are not native English speakers.
The Forum on Science, Ethics and Policy will have its first general meeting of the year at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8 in 228 Mary Gates. The group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows provides an opportunity for dialogue about the impact of science in our world.
What does a philosopher, or a creative writer, have to say about an oil spill? Thats what a group of honors students have been finding out this quarter as they take Honors 100, the required first course in the new honors curriculum.
To make an informed choice, men should consider the limits of prostate cancer screening and what they would do if test results are positive.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will take the lead among seven institutions in a new five-year, $40 million national Head Start grant to discover and share best practices in teaching and learning for Head Start teachers and others.
Call it poetry in motion. An independent study class is taking the Common Book to the streets this quarter.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has received a $1 million grant from the Amgen Foundation to provide research experience to about 100 undergraduates through the Amgen Scholars Program.
The PEERs (Promoting Equity in Engineering Relationships) Program exposes undergraduates to issues of bias, both subtle and overt, within engineering disciplines.
On Nancy Hertzog’s first day of teaching, one of her students pulled the fire alarm and then vanished. She isn’t likely to have that experience here, as she brings her 30 years of experience to lead the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars.
Bothell principal preparation program is designed to accommodate busy teachers who have the ambition to become principals.
People kept asking to record Dance Professor Jennifer Salk’s presentations about anatomy for dancers. So she made her own DVD, containing eight lessons.