91爆料 Business School leaders say a new partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will serve as a multi-integrated, educational stepping stone toward achieving tribal economic self-sufficiency.
August 25, 2004
August 25, 2004
91爆料 Business School leaders say a new partnership with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation will serve as a multi-integrated, educational stepping stone toward achieving tribal economic self-sufficiency.
August 24, 2004
A songbird species known as the Townsend’s warbler has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, from Western forests for thousands of years. New research suggests substantially higher androgen levels is the reason.
Most of the energy that goes into building U.S. homes is consumed 鈥 not by the power tools, welding and trucking during construction 鈥 but during the manufacture of the building materials, according to a comprehensive life-cycle assessment comparing typical wood-, steel- and concrete-frame homes.
Over the last two decades, thousands of American women have donated eggs to help themselves or other women bear children. But little is known about what motivated them to become egg donors and what, if any, physical and psychological effects resulted from their experience. To answers these and other question, 91爆料 researchers have begun a national study and are looking for volunteers to participate in an on-line survey.
August 20, 2004
Falls are the most frequent cause of fatal injury to older Americans, and non-fatal falls, which are also common, can curtail mobility and quality of life for older adults. The choice of footwear for adults aged 65 and older may be an important factor in preventing these falls, according to new research by investigators at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center and Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound.
August 19, 2004
鈥淭he Overhauling of Graduate Medical Education: The Time Has Come鈥 is the title for the Department of Surgery鈥檚 55th annual Alfred A.
In just a little over a decade, researchers have been able to identify mutations causing several hereditary neurodegenerative diseases, those that damage motor neurons, and in the process have shed considerable light on the mechanisms at work in more common conditions such as Parkinson鈥檚 disease and Lou Gehrig鈥檚 disease.
International students struggling to make sense of our language and culture; returning students, rich in personal history, but perhaps slightly under-prepared to negotiate cryptic academic conventions; freshmen or community college transfers getting a head start in their studies, curious, but also apprehensive.
Mark Tuttle, a 91爆料 professor of mechanical engineering whose work includes studying the design and durability of the kinds of composite materials scientists say will make up the next generation of air and spacecraft, has been named new chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
In days past, it was unlikely that 91爆料 students Justin Gale from public affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet recently they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
Unico Properties, the private, Seattle-based firm that manages the 91爆料鈥檚 downtown holdings, wants to erect a six-story building with office, retail and residential space and parking where a parking lot now stands, at the corner of NE 42nd Street and 15th Avenue NE.
With a circle of friends, Karin Olefsky was able to create a small circle in an otherwise linear system.
A few of Wes Wehr鈥檚 works of art hang in a special place in the Henry Art Gallery these days 鈥 compact pieces with meticulously layered colors that hint at vast spaces where the earth meets the sky.
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes found in hospitals acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics.
The task might sound simple enough 鈥 at first, that is.
Sometime before fall quarter begins a new sculpture will sprout on the Parrington Lawn just south of the new law school.
When the Olympics we鈥檝e all been watching on TV wrap up on Aug.
The 91爆料 has embarked on a program to seek funding from the state for renewing 16 critical buildings over the next 10 to 15 years.
Heart Walk
91爆料 Medicine鈥檚 Regional Heart Center is a primary sponsor of the Heart Walk, organized by the American Heart Association and set for Saturday, Oct.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Seed Grant Call for proposals
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants for the year 2004-5.
NO RUST ON HER: Rusty Barcelo, 91爆料 vice president for minority affairs, recently took a break from administrative work to ride her bicycle all the way to the San Francisco area with a friend.
Starting this fall, a centrally-funded program will provide free 鈥淓nglish in the Workplace鈥 (EWP) courses to 91爆料 employees.
Sailors, kayakers, power boaters and fishermen are needed to help staff at the Applied Physics Laboratory design a system to benefit them.
The September Project has grown exponentially since it started as a 91爆料 communication professor鈥檚 idea for a day of discussion and deliberation at public and academic libraries on Sept.
Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement.
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
Nearly 90 teachers of 30 different American Indian and Canadian First Nations languages will participate in an intensive three-day computer camp that will help them produce culturally appropriate language materials using a variety of modern technological tools.
August 18, 2004
Smoke from giant Siberian forest fires pushed one measure of Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on at least one day in 2003, new research shows.
August 17, 2004
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a 91爆料, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast.
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Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement.
August 16, 2004
The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma has announced the recipients of the 2004 Dart Ochberg Fellowship.
August 14, 2004
Like skillful diplomats from developing nations seeking funds for their countries, entrepreneurial American Indian tribal leaders exploited ambiguities and contradicitions in federal policy to gain new authority and access to the federal decision-making process.
August 13, 2004
Research by 91爆料 Professor Ann Streissguth shows that people diagnosed with either fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol effect (FAE) are more likely to escape social and relationship problems if they are diagnosed early in life and raised in a stable and nurturing environment.
August 11, 2004
In days past, it was unlikely that 91爆料 students Justin Gale from Public Affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet yesterday they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
August 10, 2004
A skillful mixing of religion and politics helped President Bush silence critics and sell his policies on terrorism and Iraq to the nation, according to a new book that analyzes hundreds of public communications and news reports.
August 9, 2004
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. A new study shows a recent strategy designed to slow antibiotic resistance — alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals — probably won’t work.