This RSS news feed from uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 30 UW news releases from all authors and subject categories. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnAllCategories&numToShow=30 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:00:18 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Certain bacteria cause chronic lung infections in people with cystic fibrosis. Surviving in this oxygen-poor, nitrate-rich environment makes the bacteria less susceptible to antibiotics. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55541 Health and Medicine Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55541 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:51:48 GMT A material derived from crustacean shell and algae supports the growth of new stem cells, offering a possible replacement to today's Petri dishes lined with animal byproducts. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55374 Science Health and Medicine Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55374 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:16:14 GMT Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering chemical makeup -- function in less than three dimensions and at the level of just a few atoms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55299 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55299 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT Research by nearly 80 students and faculty showing how the Great Depression radically transformed Washington can be viewed on a new Web page http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55294 Arts and Humanities Campus Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55294 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:15:38 GMT Baseball pitchers warm up in the bullpen and basketball players practice lay-ups before hitting the court. Will surgeons one day warm up to ensure they're better prepared for the equivalent of a big game? http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55252 Health and Medicine Mary Guiden (mguiden@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55252 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:58:18 GMT Depression increases the risk of kidney failure, blindness, heart attacks and stroke in people with diabetes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55228 Health and Medicine Rebecca Hughes () and Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55228 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:40:13 GMT UW research devises formula to examine just what types of change occur over time among complex and integrated structures. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55191 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55191 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:00:00 GMT University of Washington President Mark Emmert has written to both Washington senators expressing his strong support for the federal DREAM Act, which would allow some undocumented immigrant students to earn conditional permanent residency in exchange for completion of a college degree or two years of military service. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55154 Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55154 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:17:24 GMT University of Washington President Mark Emmert, senior administrators and students will be traveling to selected cities in Washington starting Monday, Jan. 25, to promote Husky Promise, which guarantees that full tuition will be covered by grant or scholarship support for low or lower middle-income students who are Washington residents. The visits are part of a statewide campaign to create awareness about the UW's commitment to remain available to students at all income levels. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55148 Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55148 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:33:53 GMT Civil engineers at the University of Washington and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Seattle office have taken a first look at how dams in the Columbia River basin, the nation's largest hydropower system, could be managed for a different climate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55131 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55131 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:18:40 GMT A five-year international multi-center clinical trial has found that acyclovir, a drug widely used as a safe and effective treatment taken twice daily to suppress herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which is the most common cause of genital herpes, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by people infected with both HIV and HSV-2. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55042 Health and Medicine Clare Hagerty (clareh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55042 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:01:48 GMT Uncertainty about the effects of haze particles clouds the understanding of climate warming. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54983 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54983 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:15:57 GMT From the Dachshund's stubby legs to the Shar-Pei's wrinkly skin, breeding for special canine characteristics has left its mark on the dog genome. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54922 Science Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54922 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:19:36 GMT New research solves nagging issues in the theory of how cold dark matter let the universe evolve into the galaxy-rich cosmos we see today. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT Greenroads, developed over the past three years by UW engineers and collaborators at the global engineering firm CH2M Hill, aims to do for road construction what the LEED system has done for the building industry. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54839 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54839 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:00:00 GMT The following statement is from University of Washington President Mark Emmert. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54842 Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54842 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:08:39 GMT On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast, varied group of understudies only too ready to step in when "star" microbes falter. Work led by the University of Washington provides the first evidence that microorganisms can be rare for long periods before completely turning the tables to become dominant when ecosystems change. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54801 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54801 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:47:28 GMT When scientists confirmed in October that they had detected the first rocky planet outside our solar system, it advanced the longtime quest to find an Earth-like planet hospitable to life. The rocky planet CoRoT-7 b is, however, a forbidding place. If its orbit is not almost perfectly circular, then the planet might be undergoing continuous, fierce volcanic eruptions, according to information presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54644 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54644 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:15:12 GMT Testing hair from Asian monkeys living close to people may provide early warnings of toxic environmental threats, such as lead exposure, to humans and wildlife. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54570 Health and Medicine Environment Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54570 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:48:54 GMT Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a biological regulatory mechanism in cells, died Monday, Dec. 21, in Seattle. The cause was complications from progressive heart failure. He was 91. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54500 Health and Medicine Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54500 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:22:13 GMT A new ground-breaking study from University of Washington researchers has found that air bags do not seem to elevate risk of most potential adverse outcomes during pregnancy. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54472 Health and Medicine Mary Guiden (mguiden@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54472 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:38:00 GMT The University of Washington faculty and staff have contributed more than $2 million to the Combined Fund Drive, the highest UW total in the 25 years of the statewide workplace donation campaign. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54471 Campus Robert Roseth (roseth@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54471 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:47:50 GMT For the first time scientists have seen molten lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor volcano, exploding into 35-foot-long streams of red and gold and rising as bubbles as much as 3 feet across. Volcanic rocks, especially pillow basalts, are one of the most common rock forms on Earth, and yet no one has ever seen them forming in the deep ocean before. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54413 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54413 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:45:49 GMT A Web tool that generates color maps of projected temperature and precipitation changes using 16 of the world's most prominent climate-change models is being demonstrated in Copenhagen, Denmark, in conjunction with the climate summit underway there. It also is the subject of a presentation Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54383 Environment Technology Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54383 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:17:03 GMT An analysis of data from more than 20,000 people has uncovered several DNA sequence variations associated with impaired lung function. The findings pave the way for a greater understanding of how various lung diseases develop and what makes some people more susceptible to lung damage from air pollution, smoking and other environmental agents. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54382 Health and Medicine Leila Gray (leilag@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54382 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:06:13 GMT UW scientists have discovered more small seismic tremor events lasting one to 70 hours that occur in somewhat regular patterns in a megathrust earthquake zone in Washington and British Columbia, http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54372 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54372 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:36:12 GMT Scientists are hunting for sites in the Seattle area to place special seismographs designed to be easily installed in urban areas and record moderate to strong shaking from earthquakes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54344 Science Community Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54344 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:16 GMT In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Social Science Technology Joel Schwarz (joels@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:09 GMT Dime-sized temperature sensors that were first built for the refrigerated food industry have been adapted to sense mountain microclimates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54337 Science Technology Environment Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54337 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:30:00 GMT In most of the world children must share computers. A new device lets up to four children share a computer screen to do interactive math problems, effectively quadrupling the number of computers available for such exercises. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54290 Technology Education Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54290 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:34:00 GMT