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Seattle Times
April 13, 2018
With a $42 million financial hole to fill, the University of Washington's dental school has laid off 22 people, triggering criticism over loss of specialty services. Also, Joel Berg, who had stepped down as dean but continued working at the UW, will be resigning on Sept. 15.
GeekWire
April 3, 2018
There are tens of thousands of open technology jobs in Washington state because there aren't enough candidates trained in the necessary skills to fill them. The University of Washington has been racing to close that gap for years and will pass a critical milestone in 2018, thanks to $3 million in new fundingÃâà...
UW Today
April 3, 2018
New research from the University of Washington suggests a milder youth for our planet. An analysis of temperature through early Earth's history, published the week of April 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, supports more moderate average temperatures throughout the billions ofÃâà...
UW Today
March 27, 2018
Dr. Benjamin Danielson, a 1992 graduate of the UW School of Medicine, a Children's Hospital pediatrician and director of the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic, will be the featured speaker at the University of Washington's Commencement exercises Saturday, June 9. Danielson, a man The Seattle TimesÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
March 7, 2018
Mark Smith, a political-science professor at the University of Washington, said as gun control has become a more partisan issue “it makes controlling the chamber that much more important.” The NRA did not return a message from the newspaper seeking comment. Across the country, state officials areÃâà...
UW Today
March 6, 2018
The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice sheets expanded around the planet. That may hold true for most of Europe and North America, but new research from the University of Washington tells a different story in the high-altitude, desert climates of Mongolia.
The Daily Herald
March 1, 2018
Dino Days are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 3 and 4 at Burke Museum, 4331 Memorial Way NE, Seattle, University of Washington campus. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, and until 8 p.m. on first Thursdays. Admission is $10 general, $8 senior and $7.50 student/youth. Admission is free for ages 4 and under,Ãâà...
Undercurrent News
February 28, 2018
Trident Seafoods' pollock promoting food truck, The Fork & Fin, is planning giveaways to students at the University of Washington as part of outreach to promote the species. Seattle, Washington-based Trident said in a press release that it will give out free samples of the fish from the truck, and in theÃâà...
UW Today
February 27, 2018
That's the main finding of a new University of Washington-led study published Feb. 27 in the journal Fish and Fisheries. The researchers analyzed nearly 40 years of data from hatchery and wild Chinook populations from California to Alaska, looking broadly at patterns that emerged over the course of fourÃâà...
UW Today
February 24, 2018
Blossoms on the iconic University of Washington Quad cherry trees will begin emerging soon, with full bloom expected the week of March 19, said UW arborist Sara Shores. Bloom timing varies each year and depends mostly on the amount of daylight and consistency of temperatures. If we have a stretch ofÃâà...
UW Today
February 20, 2018
The University of Washington ranked second in the country in producing Fulbright Scholars, according to a list published Sunday in The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government's flagship international educational exchange program. Fourteen scholars from the UW wereÃâà...
WJLA
February 10, 2018
UW President Ana Mari Cauce sent out a memo to students, faculty and staff on Friday and said the University of Washington Police Department has "obtained credible information that groups from outside the UW community" intend to join a planned protest on campus Saturday "with the intent to instigate violence.".
VICE News
February 9, 2018
The University of Washington will have to foot the bill for a far-right rally scheduled to take place on their campus this weekend after a federal judge ruled Friday that the university had acted unlawfully by charging a conservative on-campus group $17,000 to cover security costs. “The guidelines of how theÃâà...
UW Today
February 7, 2018
The University of Washington joins 12 other leading North American research universities in the new University Climate Change Coalition, or UC3, a group committed to leveraging its research and resources to help communities accelerate climate action. The coalition, which launched Feb. 6 at the 2018Ãâà...
UW Today
February 1, 2018
Many innovations of 21st century life, from touch screens and electric cars to fiber-optics and implantable devices, grew out of research on new materials. This impact of materials science on today's world has prompted two of the leading research institutions in the Pacific Northwest to join forces to researchÃâà...
UW Today
December 31, 1999
The following is a statement from Victor Balta, UW spokesperson, on the financial deficit in the University of Washington School of Dentistry: “The UW School of Dentistry's financial deficit is the result of several significant factors. It is a collective problem and will require collective actions. Scapegoating ofÃâà...
GeekWire
December 31, 1999
HERB was first built at Carnegie Mellon University and moved to Seattle after robotics expert Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa joined the University of Washington this fall after 18 years at CMU. Srinivasa is a leader in robotic manipulation and human-robot interaction who founded CMU's Personal Robotics LabÃâà...
UW Today
December 31, 1999
Now, engineers at the University of Washington have developed a new HD video streaming method that doesn't need to be plugged in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead. They do this using a technique called backscatter,Ãâà...
Crosscut
December 31, 1999
The University of Washington may have its share of ivy covered halls and scenic cherry blossoms, but recent rumblings about the possibility of a labor ... Just under two weeks until their contract is set to expire, academic student employees at the University of Washington plan to wield the threat of strikeÃâà...
Seattle Times
December 31, 1999
But on the University of Washington campus — where I worked for five years until this past August — our urban forest is getting hacked away with far too little publicity or pushback. Walking to and through the UW campus daily for the past several years, I watched scores of trees disappear. Most of the cuttingÃâà...
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