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Solutions to Enrich People's Lives
 The University of Washington
is one of the oldest state-supported institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is one of the preeminent research universities
in the world. The UW educates a diverse student body to become responsible global citizens and future leaders, and faculty and students discover timely
solutions to the world's most complex problems and enrich people's lives throughout our community, the state of Washington, the nation and the world. |
Seven University of Washington researchers are coauthors of a paper published in Nature Genetics by more than 120 scientists from Europe and North America who make up the Autism Genome Project. An international team of researchers from 19 countries, including lead project investigators Gerard Schellenberg and Geraldine Dawson of the UW, has identified one gene and a previously unidentified region of another chromosome as the location of another gene that may contribute to a child's chances of having autism. » READ MORE |
The UW has created a new research center that will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide. Directed by Dr. Christopher Murray, a world-renowned health economist, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation will be supported by a new $105 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and $20 million from the UW. Its goal is to help guide international policymaking by providing high-quality data and analysis on health needs and outcomes, and assessing the performance of health programs. » READ MORE |
Starting fall of the 2007-08 academic year, the University of Washington"s new scholarship program, called "Husky Promise," will begin supporting some 5,000 state-resident students from low- and lower-middle-income families. The new program guarantees full tuition and fee scholarships for students attending the University who are residents of Washington state and who qualify for Pell Grants or State Need Grants. » READ MORE |
A team of University of Washington scientists is moving forward with detailed engineering specifications for a cabled underwater research facility project to be built off the coast of Washington and Oregon. The proposed facility will be the world's first ocean observatory to span a tectonic plate. It will provide a constant stream of data in real time from throughout the water, on the seafloor and below the seafloor across the Juan de Fuca plate. » READ MORE |
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a rate unprecedented since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989, University of Washington biologist Samuel Wasser says. The problem is so serious that the giant creatures might be on the path to extinction unless western nations reinstate strong enforcement efforts that all but halted black-market ivory trade in the four years immediately after the ban was enacted, said Wasser, director of the UW Center for Conservation Biology. He is the lead author of a paper detailing the problem published the week of Feb. 26 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. » READ MORE |
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