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San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum is facing misdemeanor marijuana charges following a traffic stop in his home state. Washington State Patrol spokesman Steve Schatzel said Thursday that the 2008 Cy Young Award winner and former University of Washington star was pulled over fo...

The Seattle Department of Transportation has released the following information on tomorrow's procession and memorial service for Officer Timothy Brenton: The city of Seattle reminds roadway users that a memorial procession along city streets for Seattle Police Officer Timothy B...

The lethal golden staph bacteria has been found in sand and water, at five public beaches along the coast of Washington. The germ MRSA, is methicillin-resistant Straphylococcus aureus. This hard-to-cure bug is very rarely seen outside hospitals. Still, the fear is that it has spread to lo...

Pacific Biosciences, a private company developing a disruptive technology platform for real-time detection of biological events at single molecule resolution, announced today that Evan Eichler, Ph.D. has joined its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr. Eichler is currently Professor of Ge...

The young men — most University of Washington grads — set out to set a new Guinness World Record by visiting 101 Seattle bars in slightly more than 15 hours.

Seattle police believe they have caught a burglar who has been stealing electronics from fraternities near the University of Washington.

By Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Washington at a formal academic convocation at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26. in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the UW campus in Seattle. As part of the convocation, B...

Premera Blue Cross applauds today’s announcement by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Group Health Research Institute, and the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Pharmacy. Those organizations announced four important projects backed by ap...

By Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) Washington has it own history of the people who have toiled in the state's fields and orchards for nearly a century and a half and those who tried to change existing conditions. That story has gone largely untold. That's no longer the case because a group of University of Washington students...

By birdie Two points of view: from students at the University of Washington(thanks vigilant readers) and from students at Princeton University

About 10,000 swine flu kits have been prepared for University of Washington students who start classes on Wednesday in Seattle.

By Mary Guiden (mguiden@u.washington.edu) Medical experts and students from the University of Washington have weighed in on a variety of health-care topics in recent months, including the primary care doctor shortage, public hospital financing, health-care co-ops, and how to care for the uninsured. As federal and state lawma...

By Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) The University of Washington is slated to receive approximately $126 million - of which $35 million is stimulus money - to begin installing nearly 500 miles of fiber-optic and power cable and seven science nodes on the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest. The cabled observatory will give...

By Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation's top hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's 2009 edition of America's Best Hospitals, and made the Honor Roll for its breadth of excellence in specialty care. The 2009 edition is accessible today online at www....

 WA Washington State University and the University of Washington, among scores of other public entities, are collaborating on the Communities Connect Network, an effort to make Washington a leader in “digital inclusion.” The project works to support sites ...

The plan ran into opposition from the University of Washington and other universities, who argue the state should do a better job of investing in existing ... and more »

AP Photo/Charles Krupa) The Washington State Cougar baseball team was able to shake off another short start by redshirt freshman David Stilley to defeat the University of Washington Huskies 10-5. The win completed a three-game sweep of UW and sent the ...

Washington Times  WA As part of a series of budget reduction measures, the University of Washington has discontinued its men's and women's swimming programs effective immediately, the school announced. It is expected to have a budget impact of up to $1.2 million, ...

The University of Washington got a 1-2 finish from Darren Wallace and Nick Taylor in the medalist competition and also captured the team title in the four-day Pacific-10 Conference Golf Championships that concluded Wednesday at Seattle Golf Club. ... Washington On Top After Day One Pac 10

The cross-state rivalry of the Apple Cup pits the University of Washington against Washington State University and the games have traditionally alternated between the schools' Seattle and Pullman home stadiums. The two programs could not reach an ...

 WA 3 ranked University of Washington dropped to 31-6 for the season, losing 2-0 in 11 innings to UCLA in Los Angeles on Andrea Harrison’s home run. The Huskies were held hitless through eight innings and finished with one single. ...

Voice of America city itself -- Seattle, which prides itself on its literacy, its digital tradition and its explosion of neighborhood blogs. When you think about it, SeattlePI.com isn't the only journalistic petri dish around; there's the University of Washington, ...

By Clare Hagerty (clareh@u.washington.edu) Bone loss in long-duration spaceflight has been identified for decades as a significant problem affecting astronauts. More recently, scientists have found that the absence of gravity is causing astronauts on the International Space Station to lose up to 10 times more bone mass in key r...

 wa - By Staff The following is a partial list of Sammamish students named to the Dean’s List at the University of Washington for Autumn Quarter. ...

By Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) Like a picture, an image can be worth a thousand words, and University of Washington autism researchers would like to capture images of the growing brains of more than a hundred infants in Washington and six other western states as part of a study examining changes in children's brains an...

By Nestor Bruins got a much needed win last night in Seattle. Even though it is clear what Washington is perhaps one of the worst teams in the history of the Pac-10 conference (along with Washington State), I think folks shouldn’t be dismissive of the effort our guys put together last night in Seattle.

By Andrew(noreply@blogger.com) When complete, University Link will run 3.5 miles underground from Westlake Center to the University of Washington, serving Capitol Hill along the way. The line is expected to open in 2016 and add at least 70,000 riders a day. The FTA's enthusiasm for University Link stems from the huge boos...

By Josh Fischman Called Reference Extract, the project is being developed by the Online Computer Library Center and the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington. OCLC is an international cooperative that shares resources among more than 69,000 libraries in 112 cou...

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By David Pescovitz Monkeys outfitted with neural implants have learned to control temporarily paralyzed muscles in their arms. So instead of controlling a robot arm with its mind, the monkey controls its own muscles that have become "disconnected" from its brain. The research, conducted by the Universit...

Until Gary Pinkel goes on the record saying he’s not interested in the Washington job, we’re going to follow the Huskies’ coaching search. Here’s what I’m hearing from Seattle — and I’m not talking about Pearl Jam: Texas: vs. C-USA, Dec. 30 (Houston)

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The study found that delaying treatment until a patient’s immune system is badly damaged nearly doubles the risk of dying in the next few years compared to patients whose treatment started earlier. Doctors have thought it would be better to spare patients the side effects of AIDS drugs as...

By CW 2005 2006 November 18, 2006: Washington knocks off in-state rival Washington State 35-32 in an exciting Apple Cup game to end the season.  The Huskies finish 5-7, the loss to otherwise winless Stanford leaving them one game shy of bowl eligibility. 

By Sarah Kuck University of Maryland Lund University Resources For more information about conservation biology, visit the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington and the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University.

By Michael From University of Washington press release: What was exciting about this direct stimulation, said Dr. Eberhard Fetz, University of Washington professor of physiology & biophysics and a researcher at the Washington National Primate Research Center at the UW, is that it avoids th...

By Andrew(noreply@blogger.com) Or maybe it's because her job performance as chief executive earned Washington an "A" grade from Pew Research's Grading the States project. (Washington was only one of three states to receive the prestigious "A"). Or maybe it's because (according to Forbes Magazine) Washington is the th...

The University of Washington football team is smarting from a 0-3 start. If the Huskies are to turn their fortunes around, it will take more than just the players and coaches. This week the UW named Scott Woodward as its new athletic director. KPLU's Gary Davis asked Art Thiel to tell us more ab...

By Reeves Wiedeman According to the lawsuit, filed in King County Superior Court, Northern Trust lent $750-million of the university’s money under a securities lending agreement beginning in April. But after learning on September 17 of a $750,000 loss as a result of the lending, the university tried to te...

One week into the college football season for the University of Washington, and there's lots of grumbling in Montlake. The Huskies dropped their season opener at Oregon last weekend, losing 44 to 10, prompting speculation that coach Ty Willingham's job may be in jeopardy. KPLU's Gary Dav...

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By alicetiara I’ve been following the Livejournal Content Strike with interest. For those of you who aren’t LJ nerds, LiveJournal was started by Brad Fitzpatrick, a computer science student at the University of Washington. It evolved into Danga, a small, independent company that (although a bit idea...

Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, proposes a new health and medicine TV network.

By Menelaus Neuheisel, a former UCLA quarterback, previously was the head coach at Colorado and at Washington.  He was fired by Washington based on allegations of participation in a March Madness betting pool, but a lawsuit resulted in a $4.5 million settlement from the NCAA and the University of Was...

By Chris Boots The country’s largest collegiate regatta, the Dad Vail played host to crews from over 100 schools in this weekend’s action on the Schuylkill River’s 2,000-meter sprint course. It serves as a national championship for smaller colleges and less established teams while heavy-hitters su...

By Seattle Young attended Mercer Island High School, and in his college days at University of Washington he was a young skate boarder interested in punk rock music. His mild interest and awareness of animal rights activism changed when a close friend told him about a chicken slaughterhouse in Seatt...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Cell phone text messages. Loudspeakers on towers. Cameras that detect suspicious activity. Colleges and universities are considering these and other measures in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, seeking to improve how they get the word out about emergencies to...

Betsy Wilson of the University of Washington suggested that collaboration would be the hallmark of the library of the future. I echoed that back in the wrap-up session referring to library science as the "interdisciplinary discipline"; I didn't think I was making that up (and a google se...

By alicetiara 10 years into information society, key tech not as well distributed as we might like p. 5-6: How cost of internet access spread around the world What do you see if you do spend money on internet? Amount of web content in each country: Iran, Brazil, America have a lot

Other American universities involved include Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Purdue, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, the University of California at Santa Cruz, the University of California at Los Angeles; the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Geo...