Many newly elected or appointed officials arrive knowing next to nothing about public finance. That’s why Justin Marlowe of the Evans School of Public Affairs wrote this basic guide to public finance.
Education
Forty-nine students from eight states are part of the inaugural group of Huskies in the 91爆料’s first online bachelor’s degree completion program in early childhood and family studies.
The Road Map Project highlights how students are most successful when schools and communities find creative and culturally responsive ways of engaging parents.
Creative letters written by 91爆料 undergraduates who studied last summer in Bangalore, India, are gathered in a new book, “T.I.P.S. for Study Abroad.”
A record 5,300-plus graduates and an audience of more than 40,000 are expected to attend the 139th 91爆料 commencement ceremonies June 14.
Interviews from the 1990s by Seattle-area activist Gary Greaves on how the area changed after the 1962 World’s Fair are now offered online by 91爆料 Libraries.
Swamp once site of historic Yesler sawmill being restored with 91爆料 student and neighborhood help.
Join your colleagues at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 16.
The Board of Regents heard an update Thursday on implementing recommendations from a task force on sexual assault prevention and response on all three 91爆料 campuses.
Hadi Partovi of Code.org will talk May 8 at 91爆料’s Seattle campus about the impact of the Hour of Code and what parents, educators and policymakers in Washington state can do to prepare students for science, technology, math and engineering jobs.
The Super Bowl of high school marine studies, the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, takes place this weekend on the 91爆料 campus. The theme of this year’s event is ocean acidification.
91爆料 political scientist John Wilkerson has matched data visualization with the study of lawmaking to create a new online tool for researchers and students called the Legislative Explorer. Think of it as big data meeting up with How a Bill Becomes a Law. “The goal was to get beyond the ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ narrative and let users discover the lawmaking process for themselves,” said Wilkerson, 91爆料 professor of political science and director of the 91爆料’s Center for American Politics…
In her lecture 鈥淎re We There Yet? The Four Directions in Native American Higher Education,鈥� Metoyer will talk about the historic development of Native Americans in higher education.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be the speaker at this year’s 91爆料 commencement exercises June 14.
As the United States puts ever-greater emphasis on science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to keep competitive in the global economy, schools are trying to figure out how to improve student learning in science. 91爆料 researchers think music may be the answer for some students.
The 91爆料 School of Medicine plans to establish Spokane as the center of an effort called “Next Generation WWAMI.”
Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Gershwin 鈥� the names alone are enough to quicken the pulse of any classical music lover. Those greats and many more are represented in a gift of rare classical music scores to the 91爆料 Music Library.
The official announcement of the results of the National Residency Matching Program is an annual rite of passage for 91爆料 medical students and their peers across the United States. The wait is over.
Many 91爆料 students will greet spring break next week from a warm sandy beach, but 69 of them will instead spend their week off helping young students in rural communities learn about art, literacy and the environment. In turn, these 91爆料 students will learn about life, culture and education in rural Washington.
U.S. News & World Report’s new rankings give high marks to 91爆料 programs in medicine, education, law, business and engineering and rate the medical school No. 1 overall for primary care.
Kenyon Chan, former chancellor of the 91爆料 Bothell, has been named interim chancellor of the 91爆料 Tacoma.
The national, decade-long ACTIVE study showed that cognitive training can help the elderly maintain certain thinking and reasoning skills useful in everyday life.
The 91爆料’s new “Future of Ice” initiative includes several new research hires, a new minor in Arctic studies and a free winter lecture series.
Samantha’s dream career is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nursing. One day last week the nurses in the 91爆料 Medical Center NICU warmly welcomed her to their world of caring for babies and their families.
Independent film producer Louis Stanislaw will present “Living on the Edge” at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 9, in the Harborview Medical Center Research & Training Building. The showing will be followed by a panel discussion of individuals living with epilepsy and 91爆料 Medicine professionals who treat seizure disorders.
This year, in an annual trek to the Nevada desert, 91爆料 students deliberately launched rockets from altitude directly into a dry lakebed. These were early tests of a concept that eventually could be used to collect and return samples from an erupting volcano, a melting nuclear reactor or even an asteroid in space.
The first order of business for the 91爆料’s new degree in musical theater is not greasepaint or tap shoes but public outreach and finding talented, committed students.
Students from the various health sciences schools worked together on a fictional case to solve the patient’s list of problems from different perspectives.
91爆料 faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a panel discussion on the 鈥淎ffordable Care Act: How You Can Make a Difference,鈥� from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Hogness Auditorium at the 91爆料 Health Sciences Center.
91爆料 students are being greeted by a spiffy new version of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library following a nearly $17 million makeover, the first in the library’s 41-year history.
The winning smiles of the 91爆料 Huskies will be protected on the football field with customized mouth guards from 91爆料 Pediatric Dentistry.
Can a book be a sculpture? Sure 鈥� at 91爆料 Summer Youth Programs, it’s all part of the creative process.
Ninety-one 91爆料 pharmacy students became certified in TB screening through collaborative training from the State Department of Public Health, the Washington State Pharmacy Association and the 91爆料 School of Pharmacy.
Other Galleries 91爆料 Bothell 91爆料 Tacoma The 91爆料 celebrated its 138th Commencement on June 15, 2013 at CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle. Jon Huntsman, former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, U.S. Ambassador to China, and Governor of Utah, was the featured speaker. Photos by Mary Levin / 91爆料
“The Return,” a dreamlike account of a Native woman and her baby, is an allegory for passing environmental health values to the next generation.
91爆料 Seaglider technology is licensed commercially; Richard Whitney, emeritus professor of fisheries, will deliver a talk about the Boldt decision; U. of Minnesota president and former 91爆料 faculty member Eric Kaler will deliver a talk about challenges facing research institutions.
A rural family medicine group is an example for other community physicians seeking to wean themselves from pharmaceutical industry influence.
The 91爆料 announced May 21 a new partnership with edX, the Massive Open Online Course provider from Harvard/MIT.
The recently updated K-12 science education learning goals outline a vision for what all U.S. citizens should know about science. Philip Bell, director of 91爆料’s Institute for Science and Math Education, talks about what’s new about the goals.
The 91爆料 in collaboration with Washington State University is developing an “academic redshirt” program that will bring dozens of low-income, Washington state high school graduates to the two universities to study engineering in a five-year bachelor’s program.