The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s new eScience Institute will help keep the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø competitive as research projects become ever more reliant on computation and on the analysis of massive amounts of data.
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Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
In the United States, as many as 10 in 100 young women suffer from an eating disorder.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell is expecting two literary guests in the next week.
Choose a name for the Husky mascot! The current mascot, “Spirit,” will retire in November.
In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Celebrity and amatueur drummers in nine cities in the United States and Canada will attempt the world record for the number of drummers playing the same tune at the same time in the same place via the Internet at <A href="http://www.
Armon Dadgar was surprised by the amount of stuff King County Elections wants him to know on Election Day, Nov.
Imagine you’re on your own, a new student in a foreign land.
Where others have a dining room, Joan Hanson has a quilting room.
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Saying, “This is no time to accept the status quo,” Dean Martha Somerman affirmed the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility and patient care, progressive oral health training and research leadership in her annual State of the School speech on Oct.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø TechTransfer, the department responsible for commercial applications of academic research, is bringing new blood and new programs to help ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers who want to start new companies.
Two images seem to compete when westerners think of sexuality in the Islamic world — belly dancers and harems on the one hand and shrouds and restrained, even repressed sexuality on the other.
The seventh Annual ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Photographers Group show will be in the HUB Gallery through Nov.
When the Women Painters of Washington’s Waters Alive! show opens Nov.
A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004.
Editor’s note: Every other week through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø community who help make the campaign a success.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Class title: CHID 498: Poetics of Play in Digital Role-playing Games, taught by Terry Schenold, doctoral candidate in English.
This year’s Common Book, The Devil’s Highway, brings U.
Interested in starting your own company? Want to take your knowledge beyond the academic setting? Have a great idea for a product but don’t know what to do next? Next week, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) will host the second annual EntrepreneurWeek, a five-day series of talks, events and networking opportunities focused on starting new companies.
Matt Kaeberlein, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø assistant professor of pathology, and Weiqing Li, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø assistant professor of biological structure, have received the Ellison Medical Foundation’s New Scholar Award in Aging for 2008.
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery recently presented Distinguished Service Awards to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members Albert L.
Five ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have received $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research.
Irwin Bernstein will receive the fifth annual Inventor of the Year Award and Babak Parviz and Tueng Shen will share the first Emerging Inventor of the Year Award.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has been awarded two grants to pursue research projects on multiple sclerosis (MS), and aging with a physical disability.
By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations
Consider the roughly 35-square-inch area of anatomy that comprises the face.
Seattle’s only Egyptian mummy, nicknamed “Nellie,” will make a rare public appearance at the Burke Museum during the “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt” family event from 10 a.
You take the stage, surrounded by the orchestra.
The learning of science and math is a civil rights issue, and schools should give students broad participation in those areas as early as possible, says Philip Bell, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø associate professor of learning sciences.
DIGITAL HISTORY: The recently developed Civil Rights Digital Library (<A href="http://www.
October 27 through November 30 marks the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s annual open enrollment period for medical and dental insurance as well as other benefits.
A group of public officials from Hunan Province in China is visiting the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø this week to learn about how Washington state’s Freedom of Information law works, particularly in regard to records held by large public universities.
Recent Work by Zhi Lin: Unheard, Forgotten and Disregarded Stories will be presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Oct.
Jazz for vibraphone and piano, world premieres on viola and eerie, Halloween-friendly organ music are among events offered by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Music in coming days.
Playing French Seattle, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø student organization, is presenting two plays and two staged readings of work by José Pliya — in French.
Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.
DETOX SCAM: Late-night television ads promote a product called Kinoki Cleansing Detox Pads, which are often applied to the feet, and claim to remove toxins from the body.