UW Medical Center takes part in WHO surgical checklist initiative UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization's "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" campaign Wednesday, June 25. UWMC is the only U.S. site of eight sites around the globe participating in the pilot phase of the project, which involves the use of a checklist for care before, during and after surgery.
Penguins setting off sirens over health of world's oceans Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world's oceans, and the culprit isn't only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist.
June 25, 2008 ScienceTechnology Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere New software launched today lets blind and visually impaired people surf the Internet on the go. The UW computer science student who created the software, called WebAnywhere, says more accessibility tools must move from desktop machines to the Web.
Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper Fluorescent nanoparticles, called quantum dots, are dramatically better than existing methods for delivering a gene-silencing tool into cells. The quantum-dot chaperones help impede the cell's production of a given protein.
June 19, 2008 Campus Seattle high-tech leader selected to head UW TechTransfer A veteran executive of Seattle's high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of University of Washington research. Linden Rhoads, who has held senior management positions in Seattle-area companies for 20 years, becomes UW's vice provost for technology transfer Aug. 14.
June 12, 2008 Campus UW regents approve proposed College of the Environment The University of Washington Board of Regents yesterday approved the creation of a College of the Environment, a unit with the potential to be one of the nation's largest programs focused on environmental science, policy and management.
June 12, 2008 Science Like a rock: New mineral named for UW astronomer A new mineral, the first to be discovered inside a particle from a comet, has officially been named in honor of UW astronomy professor Donald Brownlee.
iRobot secures licensing agreement for UW's Seagliders University of Washington record-holding, ocean-observing robots that operate at sea for months at a time -- traveling thousands of miles at the behest of operators on land directing activities via a satellite phone network -- will be commercially produced by iRobot under a licensing agreement announced this week.
April 14 | Make no mistake about the Dalai Lama, by James K. Wellman, UW associate professor of American religion, chair of comparative religion program in the Jackson School of International Studies
Arctic Sea Ice Experts
University of Washington experts from the Applied Physics Laboratory and
atmospheric sciences give perspectives and reasons behind the 2007
record-setting ice-extent minimum in the Arctic Ocean.
'Puter Profs
Experts who can address a variety of computer-related issues
Biology and Belief
A list of faculty who can provide information to journalists working on stories about the controversy over the teaching of evolution and intelligent design.
