July 9, 2009
By Clare Hagerty & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
Airlift Northwest (ALNW) will again base one of it helicopters at the Friday Harbor airport this summer to expedite emergency services for residents and visitors in the San Juan Islands.
The 91爆料 Medicine Eye Institute officially opened last week.
Back pain affects an estimated 8 in 10 people, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body.
July 8, 2009
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task.
July 7, 2009
WHO: Kent elementary school students, 91爆料 Medicine physicians and 91爆料 Medical Center dietitian Diane Javelli
WHAT: 91爆料 Medicine Kent/Des Moines clinic is taking part in a <A href="www.
July 6, 2009
Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.
July 2, 2009
A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005.
June 30, 2009
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing.
June 29, 2009
New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft.
June 26, 2009
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June 25, 2009
Enjoy live music with your art this summer when the Henry Art Gallery and the 91爆料 School of Music present “Summer Sounds at the Henry.
Hall Health Primary Care Center at the 91爆料 has launched a Web site to facilitate communication with the 91爆料 community about its building renovation project, providing updates and news about the progress of the renovation as they become available.
Occupants of Cunningham Hall and Johnson Hall Annex are moving out this month, and Cunningham itself will be moving later this summer to make way for the new Molecular Engineering Building on the site.
A college, three schools and departments, several centers and programs, and an institute will be combined July 1 as the inaugural units of the 91爆料’s College of the Environment.
The public is invited to attend tours of the 91爆料 Libraries exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by Carla Rickerson, exhibit curator and head of Special Collections Public Services.
In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious, or implicit, preference for white people compared to blacks.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.
Charles Johnson, who holds the S.
You can almost hear the old-style projectors rattle along as you view these vintage films.
The 91爆料 Department of Genome Sciences will present its summer public lecture series, Wednesday Evenings at the Genome, in July.
Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
In October 2006, Zackery Lystedt, 13, suffered a traumatic brain injury after making a tackle at the very end of the first half of a middle-school football game.
91爆料 leaders, surgeons, physicians, social workers and other staff celebrated two recent transplant patients Tuesday, June 9, at a press conference.
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has been named the State Lead Center for Washington as part of a national network of health care institutions in one of the largest collaborative efforts in the history of pediatric medicine.
By Steve Butler
News & Community Relations
Doing more with less seems to be the mantra of the day, and few in health care do that as well as the Hall Health Primary Care Center on the 91爆料 campus.
91爆料 scientists are leads for five of the eight science projects on board a 64-foot boat that is sailing 25,000 miles all the way around North and South America.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Bob Charlson is holding an intergrating nephelometer and dreaming of a future where such key 91爆料 innovations are given their just historical due.
Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands.
Coming soon to the 91爆料: improved cell phone coverage, as well as sizable discounts for individuals and offices that use either T-Mobile or AT&T.
By William Heisel
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Nirmala Ravishankar wanted to track every dollar spent to improve people’s health in developing countries 鈥� from the person who wrote the check to the person who ultimately spent it.
By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
As Seattle coffee drinkers sip their brew, they may not realize that Nicaraguan coffee harvesters risk injury to bring the precious beans in for processing.
Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites.
Problem: Hikers sometimes see trail damage such as downed trees, rock slides or vandalism before trail maintenance crews but can’t always remember or document precisely where they saw the damage.
Want to have your say about University Week stories and photos? Beginning with this issue, you鈥檒l be able to.
There were a few official remarks, some hearty applause, and then it was time to scamper and play!
The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) opened two new play courts on Wednesday, June 10, with the help of a few friends 鈥� and a bunch of youngsters really ready to romp.
On July 1 the School of Music will experience its first change in top leadership since 1994.
As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system’s habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet’s water in liquid form.