Swamp once site of historic Yesler sawmill being restored with 91爆料 student and neighborhood help.
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91爆料 undergraduate and alumni dancers work with with famed choreographer Robert Moses to create the piece “Draft,” one of five pieces to be performed by Robert Moses’ Kin May 29-31 in the Meany Studio Theatre. Read the story and watch a film by 91爆料Video.
Comb jellies 鈥� and not sponges 鈥� may lay claim as the earliest ancestors of animals, according to new research in Nature.
Join your colleagues at the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 16.
A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail with active learning according to the largest analysis ever of studies comparing lecturing to active learning in undergraduate education
At an event in Washington, D.C. a 91爆料 biology student presented her research into the global connections between consumers and goods that come from agriculture and forest production.
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…
The 91爆料 School of Social Work will host the series “Working Together for Labor Justice” during Labor History Month in May.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act is the subject of this year’s Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries.
91爆料 student speaker series at Town Hall starts Wednesday || Home Improvement Fair Thursday || Time to renew annual parking permits, U-Pass
A new 91爆料 online bachelor’s degree completion program in social sciences is intended to provide a flexible, lower-cost option for individuals who want to finish their college education without coming to campus.
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.
Informational forum March 18 about state’s Dream Act || Commuter Services extends hours for start of quarter || Lecture March 21 discusses changing field of biomedical technology
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a 91爆料 audience about life lessons spanning discrimination, public service, power and what makes her optimistic.
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.
Washington Sea Grant field agents have conducted their 100th Coast Guard-certified Safety at Sea class for tribal and commercial fishers.
Tickets available starting Tuesday for Justice Sotomayor visit || Donate frequent flyer miles to 91爆料 Combined Fund Drive, Make-A-Wish
Writers to gather in Seattle for literary conference || Classics department wins new award for professional equity
The vote Feb. 18 “was a vote of confidence in students and their importance to the future of our state,” 91爆料 president said.
Only 19 universities 鈥� including the 91爆料鈥� met the bar for access, affordability and student success set by the Center on Higher Education Reform.
91爆料 president, provost headline campus-wide data science event Friday || Participant deadline Feb. 14 for Paws-on Science || Green Seed Fund awards $279,000 to initial slate of projects
Dr. Stephen Gloyd, professor of global health and health services, will discuss creative responses to reducing inequity worldwide.
The 91爆料 will participate in a federal initiative announced by President Obama to help more students afford and graduate from college.
Slideshow includes with images sketched by Jack DeLap, 91爆料 doctoral candidate in environmental and forestry sciences.
The national, decade-long ACTIVE study showed that cognitive training can help the elderly maintain certain thinking and reasoning skills useful in everyday life.
Check out Huskies Fight Hunger site || 91爆料 online academic planner to be extended to community, technical college students || 91爆料 Tower data center now Energy Star certified || Nominations due Jan. 31 for graduate school public lectures
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.
Nominations are due in December and coming months for this year’s 91爆料 Awards of Excellence categories.
Washington Sea Grant’s “Pumpout Paddlers” are readying their kayaks for winter paddling to deliver more adapters so boaters have a cleaner, easier way to pump their sewage-holding tanks.
An intensive two week field course helped 20 91爆料 students learn firsthand about the challenges of managing dry, fire-prone forests of the Pacific Northwest.
Ten Shakespeare scholars, students and actors, most from the 91爆料, will discuss the Bard’s life and work at Seattle’s ACT Theatre on Nov. 14 鈥� and verily, they’ll be quick about it.
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.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery for adults, but for babies it’s their foremost tool for learning. Now researchers from the 91爆料 and Temple University have found the first evidence revealing a key aspect of the brain processing that occurs in babies to allow this learning by observation.
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.
Learn how to be more involved with campus sustainability during 91爆料 Sustainability Summit activities Oct. 23.
The 91爆料 schools of health sciences have formed a new initiative to teach and deliver health care across disciplines, a team-based approach that is gaining recognition nationally and is expected to make health care more efficient and effective.
Wansink explores mindless eating and how cues in our environment lead us to eat too much of the wrong foods.
The first reports from the pioneers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at the 91爆料 contain a mixture of humility and abiding enthusiasm for this new education platform.