While central Puget Sound voters were debating the merits of and then defeating the $18 billion package of roads and other transit projects called Proposition 1 last month, a smaller group of citizens was putting together its own proposals to improve the region’s congested transportation network.
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FRIDAY, DEC.
The first multidisciplinary study to examine the status of doctoral students in the social sciences at least five years after receiving their degree concludes that doctoral programs need to be brought into the 21st century.
This school year, University Week, the 91爆料 campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
The biennial 91爆料 Theatre and Concert Hall Tour to London, led by English Professor John Webster, has been so popular that in 2006, more than 70 percent of the tour’s participants were repeat clients.
Earth tremors not linked to volcanic activity first turned up in seismic observations several years ago, but those tremors were almost exclusively in subduction zones such as the Cascadia region off the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
For more than a decade geoscientists have detected what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes under Western Washington and British Columbia on a regular basis, about every 14 months.
With an investment of $15,000, Snohomish County became a founding partner of the Business Development Center (BDC) at 91爆料 Bothell recently.
The 91爆料 Women’s Vocal Jazz and Vocal Jazz I ensembles, directed by Dave Cross, will present a program at 7:30 p.
TYPE IT UP: Karen Cheng, 91爆料 associate professor of design in the School of Art, has entered a competition sponsored by the Linotype company, which markets and licenses fonts for designers and typographers.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A team of scientists working with people who were profoundly disabled and unable to communicate in the usual way wanted to find out if some of them could learn to perform simple tasks using adaptive technology.
On Saturday, Dec.
Until recently, a student solving a calculus problem, a physicist modeling a galaxy or a mathematician studying a complex equation had to use powerful computer programs that cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Women are strongly represented among the 91爆料’s central administration but less well represented among the Seattle campus’ deans and department chairs, especially the latter.
Ana Mari Cauce calls her new job as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences neither a move up nor a move down nor a move laterally.
MARATHON MEN (AND WOMEN): Bob Crutchfield, professor of sociology, and the Graduate Students First Team tackled the Seattle Marathon Nov.
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) has announced that Ben Larson, a 91爆料 graduate student in Oceanography, as the initial recipient of its new Science Writing Fellowship.
The Combined Fund Drive (CFD), the state of Washington’s workplace giving campaign, runs this year from Oct.
Ted Van Dyk, who spent decades working in national politics and policy, has written a memoir called Heroes, Hacks & Fools: Memoirs from the Political Inside and will discuss the book at 7:30 p.
Maybe you’ve read about Martha Groom.
POT DOSES: Washington state law allows medical marijuana patients to possess up to a 60-day supply of pot for their personal needs.
A gift from a 91爆料 librarian has spawned a three-phase oral history project, chronicling the influx of South Asians to the Seattle area from post-World War II to the 1990s.
91爆料 graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes honoree.
Got a midday errand? If you could bike there, would you do it?
Next question: Would you be more likely to use a bike for that errand if it was one you didn’t necessarily have to pedal?
Think it over, because come next fall, you’ll likely have such a choice on the 91爆料 campus.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The University’s newest singing group is, in a way, also one of its oldest.
“Don’t poke the ink sack.
Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
91爆料 Medical Center has always taken patient safety seriously.
In the mood for some music? There are many opportunities this week.
The 91爆料 Collegium Musicum, an early music ensemble, will present a concert of medieval music in the Commons of Mary Gates Hall on Saturday evening, Dec.
Certain white blood cells, called phagocytes, engulf and destroy harmful bacteria.
By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
Former patient Annette Rivlin-Gutman gave birth to son Jory three years ago at 91爆料 Medical Center with the help of 91爆料 midwives and obstetrician Dr.
91爆料 School of Medicine alumnus Dr.
By Suzette Riley
HIPRC
Dr.
The Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR) presented the 2007 Malcolm Peterson Award to Dr.