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On the one-year anniversary of Japan’s great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, 黑料吃瓜网 scientists said the devastating event has some important lessons for the Pacific Northwest 鈥� most notably, that a similar event will happen here, and this region is much less prepared than Japan.
Environmental health researchers will assess the effects of the proposed cleanup on people who use or live on South Seattle’s polluted Duwamish River.
See the new 黑料吃瓜网 Neighborhood Northgate Clinic from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, March 3.
For its second “(un)conference,鈥� March 2-3, the 黑料吃瓜网-based Women Who Rock Collective is expanding and going multimedia as it continues to explore the unheralded roles of women 鈥� especially women of color 鈥� in music. But dont expect the participants to rock any less, because thats just not part of the plan.
Learn about polar bears and penguins. Center a two-foot tusk on your forehead and imagine youre a narwhal exploring your icy-ocean home. For these activities and more, grab the kids and head for Polar Science Weekend, March 1 to 4, sponsored by the 黑料吃瓜网’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Pacific Science Center.
The 黑料吃瓜网 School of Dentistry wants to make dental care affordable to people affected by state cutbacks in coverage.
The plight of the tiger 鈥� none of the worlds 350 protected areas in the tigers range is large enough to support a viable population 鈥� is the subject of the 黑料吃瓜网s “Sustaining our World鈥� lecture March 1. Eric Dinerstein, the World Wildlife Funds chief scientist and a 黑料吃瓜网 alum, will speak on “All Together Now: Linking Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species Conservation and Local Livelihoods鈥� at 6 p.m., in Kane 220.
Schoolchildren came in droves for the popular Family Science Days Feb. 18-18 during the American Association for Advancement of Science meeting in Vancouver, BC. 黑料吃瓜网 faculty and students were there offering hands-on demonstrations at the National Science Foundations booth .
Design should begin this spring, with construction scheduled to start in the summer of 2013, for Intellectual House, a longhouse-style facility on the 黑料吃瓜网 campus that will be a resource for the university, tribal and surrounding communities.
In a Peruvian desert slum, 黑料吃瓜网 faculty, students and the local community created a garden and park on a vacant sand dune.
Its a little-known secret on the 黑料吃瓜网 campus that if you ask really nicely, robots may come out and dance in Red Square. Such was the case Friday, Feb. 10, for an 11-year-old boy named Alex.
Washingtons housing market in the final quarter of 2011 saw the highest seasonally-adjusted sales since the second quarter of 2010, according to the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the 黑料吃瓜网.
A business incubator unveiled today is one element in a larger commercialization initiative announced by 黑料吃瓜网 President Michael Young that will double the number of startups produced by the university 鈥� from an average of 10 a year to 20 鈥� during the next three years.
The 黑料吃瓜网 community will honor the life of Sgt. William (Will) Stacey in a public funeral service at 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, in Meany Hall. An informal reception will follow in the lobby.
Like dominoes, two of Seattles signature oaks in the Washington Park Arboretum toppled under Januarys heavy snows. It turned out that the root balls of each tree had not pulled out of the ground and thus began an effort to pull a 60-foot oak tree, estimated to weigh more than 8,000 pounds, back into the upright position in order to save both trees.
A retired longtime 黑料吃瓜网 staff member gives a donation to 黑料吃瓜网 Libraries Special Collections that helps document the experience of immigrants from China in the “second wave,” between the 1930s and 1960s.
One of the world’s most densely settled places, Hong Kong is restructuring pharmacy practice to meet the healthcare needs of its populace.
The First Lady praised academic institutions for dedicating resources and reinforcing their commitment to the health needs of veterans.
The psychology departments annual public lecture series will cover the relationships between brains and behavior, exploring hearing, vision and memory.
The 黑料吃瓜网 Tacomas Russell T. Joy Building has earned LEED Platinum certification, the highest, most rigorous certification under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design system.
It’s a new round of News and Informations Lost and Found Film clips, where readers help identify historic bits of film from the 黑料吃瓜网’s Audio Visual Materials Library. This time, a 1960 film about campus parking — so then why is a referred to as a “basketball” film?
黑料吃瓜网 Bothell launches its first Innovation Forum, Feb. 13 to 16, to encourage discourse between the university and the community
In a Town Hall meeting at the 黑料吃瓜网 on Jan. 25, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson told a packed auditorium that President Barack Obamas push for green jobs and protecting the environment can also help rebuild the economy.
The 黑料吃瓜网 ranked second among large universities in producing volunteers for the Peace Corps in 2011.
The latest census shows the highest American poverty levels since 1993. Why is that the case? Faculty from the Evans School of Public Affairs will discuss this in a discussion titled “The Changing Face of American Poverty” on Feb. 1.
An oral history of the career of William D. Ruckelshaus, the first and fifth administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, whose career parallels the growth of the environmental movement in the United States, is now available in three locations in the state of Washington.
Domke heads to South Carolina with students, colleagues 鈥� and cartoonist David Horsey 鈥� for on-the-ground coverage of the 2012 campaign.
The Office of Minority Affairs and Diversitys new Ethnic Cultural Center will be named in honor of the late Samuel E. Kelly, the founding vice president for the office and a pioneer for diversity on campus.
As the result of a deal with Amazon.com, at least 12 of Nancy Pearls favorite novels will soon be back in print, and a portion of sales will benefit the 黑料吃瓜网 scholarship Pearl and her husband endowed in 2011.
Harborview Medical Center and the 黑料吃瓜网 Health Sciences have each scheduled events and service activities to honor the memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ceremonies are open to all.
Gertrude Peoples, a special assistant with the 黑料吃瓜网 football program and the former director of the Student-Athlete Academic Services, is the 2012 recipient of the 黑料吃瓜网 Charles E. Odegaard Award.
Decades of wild swings in crab populations dramatize the myriad issues surrounding questions of sustainable fisheries, said David Armstrong, director of aquatic and fishery sciences, in his talk “Claws, causes, climate and corps: A cavalcade of true crab sagas.鈥�
Staff member Bob Edmistons quest was to cut both the time and cost of his daily commute.
David Domke, a 黑料吃瓜网 professor known nationally as a scholar in politics, religion and communication, will deliver five lectures on the 2012 election beginning Jan. 11.
Suyama will discuss his work in the 2012 Deans Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the 黑料吃瓜网 College of Built Environments, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, in 120 Kane Hall. Afterward, he will sign copies of “Suyama: A Complex Serenity,” written by Grant Hildebrand, a 黑料吃瓜网 emeritus professor of architecture, and published in March by the 黑料吃瓜网 Press.
The School of Social Work will host a public reception Jan. 11 at 4-6 p.m. to kick off an art exhibit featuring about 20 paintings and drawings by homeless youths in the University District.
Ali Tarhouni, on leave as a senior lecturer at the 黑料吃瓜网 Foster School of Business, spoke at a news conference regarding his work so far as a leader of the Libyan revolution and the country’s new government.
When the 黑料吃瓜网 lines up against Baylor in the Alamo Bowl on Dec. 29, Political Science Professor Tony Gill will have divided loyalties. After all, though he works at the 黑料吃瓜网, Baylor sponsors his weekly podcast, “Research on Religion.”
This weeks film 鈥� and the last one for a while 鈥� shows what appears to be the 黑料吃瓜网s Friday Harbor Laboratories in 1958. People walk between buildings and some kind of experiment is undertaken on a small motorboat. Know any more?