May 15, 2003
Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun’s heat away from Earth and into space, are in air pollution, in plumes of smoke from forest fires and in ash clouds from erupting volcanoes. A new study says the cooling effect of man-made aerosols could throw a monkey wrench into the current understanding of climate change.
Retrieving the second year-round mooring ever used at the North Pole was among the challenges faced April 21 to May 9 during North Pole Environmental Observatory work led by James Morison, an oceanographer with the 乱伦社区’s Applied Physics Laboratory.
May 13, 2003
Four- and 5-year-old children who are extremely active, oppositional, fidgety, squirmy, temperamental or have difficulty maintaining their attention are being sought by 乱伦社区 researchers to participate in a pilot study.
May 9, 2003
The resilience of sockeye salmon runs in Alaska鈥檚 Bristol Bay -鈥� after a century of fishing they’re as healthy as they’ve ever been 鈥� is about strength in numbers.
May 8, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The UW Bothell has announced the appointment of two women to administrative positions.
The resilience of sockeye salmon runs in Alaska鈥檚 Bristol Bay 鈥� after a century of fishing they’re as healthy as they’ve ever been 鈥� is about strength in numbers.
Last week, 75 UW faculty and staff from 30 departments took a day out of their normal schedules, piling onto buses and heading to the Yakima Valley to learn more about current UW partnerships in that region and to think about potential future partnerships.
Sabah Al-Dhaher, the subject of a feature story in the May 1 edition of University Week, recently received good news.
What may be the nation’s first university graduate course on Information In Sports is quietly introducing 30 future librarians this spring to, among other things, the infield fly rule.
Steven Charvat has been selected as the first director of the newly created Emergency Management Office.
As mothers anticipate the annual holiday celebrating their maternal bond, a study to be published next week reveals that major aspects of a single mom’s life are influenced by whether her child is a boy or a girl.
Four UW faculty members, a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) with an affiliate faculty appointment, and a member of the Board of Regents are among those elected Fellows of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced this week.
President George W. Bush has selected a 乱伦社区 computer scientist as co-chair of the President鈥檚 Information Technology Advisory Committee, the White House announced today.
May 7, 2003
Murder often begins at a terrifyingly young age.
May 5, 2003
As mothers anticipate the annual holiday celebrating their maternal bond, a study to be published next week reveals that major aspects of a single mom’s life are influenced by whether her child is a boy or a girl.
May 2, 2003
What may be the nation’s first university graduate course on Information In Sports is quietly introducing 30 future librarians this spring to, among other things, the infield fly rule.
May 1, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Eleven UW scientists participated in the planning of a new national vision for genome research unveiled earlier this month.
On the morning of Dec.
He was there during the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein鈥檚 iron-fisted government.
When we meet our colleagues in Seattle, one of the most common questions we get is, 鈥淪o, what鈥檚 going on at UW, Bothell?鈥� Rather than continuing to give the usual glib reply (鈥渁 lot鈥�), we thought we would use this article as a forum to describe the inspiring people who surround us.
Irregular heartbeats that put people at higher risk of stroke are more common than patients and doctors might think, according to a report in a recent issue of Circulation, published by the American Heart Association.
A UW study of patients across the nation who had gall bladder removals, a procedure known as cholecystectomy, shows that a major error during these operations can be cut by close to half by use of a simple test.
Living with stroke 鈥�
Harborview Medical Center is sponsoring an event for stroke survivors, their families and friends on Saturday, May 3 from 8:45 a.
New Driver Guidelines
15-Passenger Van Driver Guidelines – Effective April 15, 2003
New policy and procedure guidelines have been published by the Office of Financial Management (OFM) Risk Management Division (70.
PENNY PINCHING: The University of Michigan, responding to health care expenditures that have doubled in the last five years, will force employees to pay a share of the costs beginning in January 2004.
There are still openings in the summer programs for kids sponsored by UW Educational Outreach.
The rapidly advancing Internet, where things happen in 鈥渞eal-time,鈥� will have to endure a moment of reflection next month.
Students aspiring to secure seed money to nurture future ventures showcased their brightest ideas last week during the investment round of the UW Business School鈥檚 Center for Technology Entrepreneurship (CTE) Business Plan Competition.
Three UW scholars have won prestigious fellowships from two different foundations.
The UW and three other organizations are joining forces to build a world-class telescope to search the heavens for supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, near-Earth asteroids and dark energy, the mysterious force behind the expansion of the universe.
Pacific Islander Partnerships in Education (PIPE) and the Center for Multicultural Education are being honored with the 2003 Jeff and Susan Brotman Diversity Award.
An oceanographer striving to find the limits of life, a marine policy expert helping resource managers and citizens prepare for global climate change and a neurobiologist investigating the mechanism underlying the sense of smell became the 乱伦社区鈥檚 newest members of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
It’s a fact of life that everyone gets older, but everyone may not get the same health care as they age, suggests research from the Institute of Medicine.
April 29, 2003
An oceanographer striving to find the limits of life, a marine policy expert helping resource managers and citizens prepare for global climate change and a neurobiologist investigating the mechanism underlying the sense of smell became the 乱伦社区’s newest members of the National Academy of Sciences today.
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The annual Arbor Day Fair for first-, second- and third graders.
April 28, 2003
A group students in the 乱伦社区 Department of Mathematics 鈥� all but one of them local residents and most products of public education 鈥� have taken top honors in an international mathematics competition, edging out teams from such math powerhouses as MIT, Harvard and Harvey Mudd College.