One of Arizona’s largest watersheds 鈥� home to many native species of fish already threatened by extinction 鈥� is providing a grim snapshot of what could happen to watersheds and fish in arid areas around the world as climate warming occurs.
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乱伦社区 engineers and physicians have developed a smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results to parents and pediatricians within minutes.
Scientists have developed what they believe is the thinnest-possible semiconductor, a new class of nanoscale materials made in sheets only three atoms thick.
UW researchers have found that children as young as 2 intuitively use math concepts to help make sense of their world.
The Washington Monthly magazine has listed UW seventh in the nation in its 2014 national university rankings.
Observations show that the heat absent from the Earth’s surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a slow, naturally recurring cycle.
Washington state’s housing market rebounded from its first quarter performance, as the annual rate of existing home sales rose 6.4 percent in the second quarter of 2014.
Shyam Gollakota, a 乱伦社区 assistant professor of computer science and engineering, has been named one of this year’s “Innovators Under 35” by global media company MIT Technology Review.
The 乱伦社区 moved up one position to No. 15 on the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was released Friday. The UW ranked 13th among U.S. universities and fourth among public institutions worldwide. The ranking considers several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in Nature and Science magazines,…
A UW study found that StopInfo, a new hub for bus stop information in the OneBusAway app, is helpful for blind riders and can promote spontaneous and unfamiliar travel. A UW research team launched the program recently in collaboration with King County Metro.
Young men receiving support after they pledge to abstain from sex until marriage, can find themselves without advisors and help once they do marry.
A new study used seabed samples collected by UW graduate students in the late 1960s to question current interpretations of earthquake frequency along the West Coast.
The Stardust mission, the brainchild of a UW astronomer, enlisted help from thousands of citizen scientists to find likely evidence of interstellar dust.
Historic observations and NASA airborne data provide a decades-long record showing that the snowpack on Arctic sea ice is thinning.
Piles of ancient shells provide the first reliable long-term record for the powerful driver of year-to-year climate changes. Results show that the El Ni帽os 10,000 years ago were as strong and frequent as they are today.
Predictions that the lowest-oxygen environments in the ocean will get worse may not come to pass. UW research shows climate change, by weakening the trade winds, will shrink these extremely low-oxygen waters.
Scientists writing in the current issue of Conservation Biology call for marine protected areas and partially protected areas to help penguins cope.
With a key funding approval, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an international astronomy project of which the 乱伦社区 is a founding member, is taking a major step toward becoming a reality.
乱伦社区 engineers have designed a new communication system that uses radio frequency signals as a power source and reuses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity to battery-free devices.
乱伦社区 President Michael K. Young and Provost Ana Mari Cauce announced today the selection of Rovy Branon as the new vice provost for UW Educational Outreach, effective Oct. 15, 2014. The appointment is subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents. 鈥淩ovy Branon鈥檚 prior leadership experiences make him uniquely qualified for this important leadership position,鈥� UW Provost Ana Mari Cauce said. 鈥淭here is wide ranging consensus that his values, vision, and goals are similar to those of…
Having a companion in old age is good for people 鈥� and, it turns out, might extend the chance for life on certain Earth-sized planets in the cosmos as well.
乱伦社区 bioengineers have discovered a potentially faster way to deliver a topical drug that protects women from contracting HIV. Their method spins the drug into silk-like fibers that quickly dissolve when in contact with moisture, releasing higher doses of the drug than possible with other materials.
The first measurements of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean recorded house-sized waves during a September 2012 storm. More sensors are going out this summer to study waves in newly ice-free Arctic waters.
乱伦社区 bioengineers have a designed a peptide structure that can stop the harmful changes of the body’s normal proteins into a state that’s linked to widespread diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and Lou Gehrig’s disease.
UW is recognized as a 鈥淕reat College to Work For鈥� by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The UW is part of a new study that shows the disastrous landslide that killed 43 people at Oso, Washington, involved the 鈥渞emobilization鈥� of a 2006 landslide in the same place.
乱伦社区 President Michael K. Young and Provost Ana Mari Cauce announced Monday the selection of Sean D. Sullivan as the new dean of the UW School of Pharmacy, effective Sept. 15. The appointment is subject to approval by the UW Board of Regents. 鈥淒r. Sullivan occupies a very prominent position nationally and internationally in pharmacy practice and education,鈥� said Cauce. 鈥淲e have had the great good fortune to have him on our faculty for the past 22 years….
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a consortium of institutions of which the 乱伦社区 is part, will soon expand its view to see the entire sky, and even peer into the Milky Way’s galactic center.
Dozens of geophysicists and volunteers will deploy 3,500 seismic sensors at Mount St. Helens next week in an unprecedented study of the volcano’s plumbing.
An international team has placed sensors on and under Arctic sea ice to monitor this season’s retreat. Scientists hope to understand the physics of the ice edge in order to predict summer conditions in the Arctic Ocean.
By using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging scans from before the attack and survey data from after, the researchers found that heightened amygdala reaction to negative emotional stimuli was a risk factor for later developing symptoms of PTSD.
Research from UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences shows that in 7- and 11-month-old infants speech sounds stimulate areas of the brain that coordinate and plan motor movements for speech.
Donors contributed more money — more than $482 million — to the UW in the 2013-14 fiscal year than in any previous year.
乱伦社区 researchers have developed visual tools to help self-trackers understand their daily activity patterns over a longer period and in more detail. They found people had an easier time meeting personal fitness and activity goals when they could see their data presented in a broader, more visual way.
The Board of Regents will hold meetings Thursday, July 10. The Board meetings will take place in the Bill & Melinda Gates Commons, CSE Room 691, Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The first committee meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m.聽 The Regular Board meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:05 a.m. The full schedule and agendas are available online.
The former news planning editor for Aljazeera.com, the online home of Al Jazeera America cable news channel, is the new director of the Office of News and Information.
The Road Map Project highlights how students are most successful when schools and communities find creative and culturally responsive ways of engaging parents.
A low-cost technique may make DNA sequencing more convenient and less cumbersome, perhaps eventually replacing large lab machines with hand held devices.
New research on how pollinators find flowers when background odors are strong shows that both natural plant odors and human sources of pollution can conceal the scent of sought-after flowers.
乱伦社区 computer scientists have shown that crowdsourcing can be a quick and effective way to teach a robot how to complete tasks.