Table of Contents
uwnews.org top RSS news feeds
RSS news feeds by UW School, Department, or Unit
RSS news feeds by UW expert
Introduction: What is RSS?
How is RSS better than regular web browsing?
What programs and tools do I need to read RSS?
I have a great idea for a new uwnews.org newsfeed. Can I get it listed?

uwnews.org top RSS news feeds

Recent UW News           (all categories)

Arts and Humanities

Business

Education

Health and Medicine

Social Science

Science

Technology

Environment

Law and Policy

Politics and Government

Community

Campus

Bothell and Tacoma

uwnews.org RSS news feeds by school, college, department or unit
You can subscribe to RSS feeds that cover specific UW colleges, schools, departments, and offices. Most University of Washington organizational units are reflected in the list below, though not all units yet have active RSS feeds. All of the feeds in the list below are currently available for subscription via RSS.

If you do not see a UW subunit on this list and you believe it should be covered by RSS, please send e-mail to kenfine@u.washington.edu. Please include the official name of the unit, a description, and its parent organization (if any.)

Accounting, Department of	Administrative Procedures Office	Aeronautics and Astronautics
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute	American Ethnic Studies	American Indian Studies
Anthropology	Applied Mathematics	Applied Physics Laboratory
Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, School of	Architecture and Urban Planning, College of	Arts and Sciences, College of
Asian Languages and Literature	Astrobiology	Astronomy
Atmospheric Sciences	Autism Center	Biochemistry
Bioengineering	Biological Structure	Biology
Biostatistics	Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture	Business School
Business UWB	Canadian Studies	Cardiology
Center for Nanotechnology	Center for the Study of Demography and Ecology	Center on Human Development and Disability
Chemical Engineering	Chemistry	China Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering	Climate Impacts Group	Commencement Exercises
Communication, Department of	Computer Science and Engineering	Dance Program
Dentistry, School of	Earth and Space Sciences	Economics
Education, College of	Educational Psychology, Department of	Electrical Engineering
Endocrinology	Engineered Biomaterials Research Center (UWEB)	Engineering, College of
English	Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences	Epidemiology
Evans School of Public Affairs	External Relations	Family Medicine
Forest Resources, College of	Friday Harbor Labs	Genome Sciences
Geography	Global Health, Department of	Graduate School, The
Harborview	Health Services	Health Services Administration
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies	History	Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab)	Industrial Engineering	Information School
Institute for Brain and Learning Sciences	Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine	Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences UWB
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences UWT	International Studies	Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans
Laboratory Medicine	Law, School of	Linguistics
Marine Affairs, School of	Materials Science and Engineering	Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering	MEDEX Northwest Physician Assistant Training Program	Medical History and Ethics
Medicinal Chemistry	Medicine, Department of	Medicine, School of
Microbiology	Minority Affairs and Diversity	Molecular and Cellular Biology
Music	Nephrology	Neurobiology and Behavior
Neurology	Nursing, School of	Nutritional Sciences
Obstetrics and Gynecology	Ocean and Fishery Sciences, College of	Oceanography, School of
Office of Educational Assessment	Office of Minority Affairs	Office of the President
Oral Biology	Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery	Pathology
Pediatrics	Pharmacology	Pharmacy, Department of
Pharmacy, School of	Physics	Physiology and Biophysics
Political Science	Provost, Office of the	Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychology	Public Health and Community Medicine, School of	Quaternary Research Center
Radiation Oncology	Radiology	Rheumatology
Robinson Center For Young Scholars	Scandinavian Studies	Seismology Laboratory
Social Development Research Group	Social Work, School of	Sociology
Southeast Asian Studies	Spanish and Portuguese	Speech and Hearing Sciences
Student Affairs	Student Affairs UWB, Office of	Surgery
Technical Communication	University of Washington, Bothell	University of Washington, Tacoma
University Press	Urban Horticulture	UW Botanic Gardens
UWMC	Washington National Primate Center	Washington Park Arboretum
Washington Sea Grant (OMERP)	Women's Studies	WWAMI

uwnews.org RSS news feeds by UW expert
The following UW experts have active uwnews.org RSS news feeds available for subscription. Other UW experts will appear on this list as content about them is added to the uwnews.org archive.

Eric Agol  |   agol@astro.washington.edu
Joshua Akey  |   akeyj@u.washington.edu
Bethany Albertson  |   balberts@u.washington.edu
Theodore Anderson  |   tadand@atmos.washington.edu
Thomas Anderson  |   tom@cs.washington.edu
Richard Anderson  |   anderson@cs.washington.edu
Virginia Armbrust  |   armbrust@ocean.washington.edu
Martin Bader  |   mbader@u.washington.edu
Katie Baird  |   kebaird@u.washington.edu
Marcia Baker  |   baker@ess.washington.edu
David Baker  |   dabaker@u.washington.edu
Marcia Baker  |   marcia@ess.washington.edu
Magda Balazinska  |   magda@cs.washington.edu
Bruce Bare  |   bare@u.washington.edu
John Baross  |   jbaross@u.washington.edu
Matt A.  Barreto  |   mbarreto@u.washington.edu
Andrew Becker  |   becker@astro.washington.edu
Carl Bergstrom  |   cbergst@u.washington.edu
George Bertsch  |   bertsch@phys.washington.edu
Catharine Beyer  |   cbeyer@u.washington.edu
Jeffrey Bilmes  |   bilmes@ee.washington.edu
Cecilia Bitz  |   bitz@atmos.washington.edu
Dee Boersma  |   boersma@u.washington.edu
Neil Bogue  |   bogue@u.washington.edu
Susan Bolton  |   sbolton@u.washington.edu
Derek Booth  |   dbooth@u.washington.edu
Rajendra Bordia  |   bordia@u.washington.edu
Gaetano Borriello  |   gaetano@cs.washington.edu
Jody Bourgeois  |   bourgeois@u.washington.edu
Brian Boyle  |   bboyle@u.washington.edu
William  Bradford  |   bradford@u.washington.edu
Toby Bradshaw  |   toby@u.washington.edu
Donald Brownlee  |   brownlee@astro.washington.edu
Harry Bruce  |   harryb@u.washington.edu
Roger Buick  |   buick@ess.washington.edu
Aurel Bulgac  |   bulgac@phys.washington.edu
Sheryl Burgstahler  |   sherylb@u.washington.edu
Wylie  Burke  |   wburke@u.washington.edu
Mary callahan  |   mpc@u.washington.edu
William Calvin  |   WCalvin@U.Washington.edu
Guozhong Cao  |   gzcao@u.washington.edu
Christopher  Carlson  |   csc47@u.washington.edu
Robert Charlson  |   charlson@chem.washington.edu
Eric Cheney  |   vaalbara@u.washington.edu
Daniel Chiu  |   chiu@chem.washington.edu
Andrew Connolly  |   ajc.atwork@gmail.com
Howard Conway  |   conway@ess.washington.edu
Brad Cookson  |   cookson@u.washington.edu
Marilyn Cox  |   mcox@u.washington.edu
John Cramer  |   cramer@phys.washington.edu
Kenneth Creager  |   creager@ess.washington.edu
Tim Crone  |   tjc@u.washington.edu
Eric D'Asaro  |   dasaro@apl.washington.edu
Julianne Dalcanton  |   jd@astro.washington.edu
Beverly Dale  |   bdale@u.washington.edu
Thomas Daniel  |   danielt@u.washington.edu
Victor Debattista  |   debattis@astro.washington.edu
John Delaney  |   jdelaney@u.washington.edu
Denice Denton  |   denton@engr.washington.edu
Matt DePies  |   depies@phys.washington.edu
Pedro Domingos  |   pedrod@cs.washington.edu
David Domke  |   domke@u.washington.edu
Michael Dorschner  |   mod@u.washington.edu
Sharon Doty  |   sldoty@u.washington.edu
Adam Drewnowski  |   adamdrew@u.washington.edu
Susan Eggers  |   eggers@cs.washington.edu
Theo Eicher  |   te@u.washington.edu
Evan Eichler  |   eee@gs.washington.edu
Michael Eisenberg  |   mbe@u.washington.edu
Keith Elkon  |   elkon@u.washington.edu
Mark  Ellis  |   ellism@u.washington.edu
Timothy Essington  |   essing@u.washington.edu
Oren Etzioni  |   etzioni@cs.washington.edu
Kern Ewing  |   kern@u.washington.edu
Ferric Fang  |   fcfang@u.washington.edu
Martha Ferguson  |   mferg@u.washington.edu
Brian Flinn  |   bflinn@u.washington.edu
David Fluharty  |   fluharty@u.washington.edu
Albert Folch  |   afolch@u.washington.edu
Dean  Forbes  |   dforbes@fhcrc.org
Qiang Fu  |   qfu@atmos.washington.edu
Christopher Fuller  |   fullercw@u.washington.edu
Daniel Gamelin  |   gamelin@chem.washington.edu
Jacqueline Gardner  |   jsgardne@u.washington.edu
John Gastil  |   jgastil@u.washington.edu
Anthony Geist  |   tgeist@u.washington.edu
Michael Gelb  |   gelb@chem.washington.edu
Jason Goblat  |   jgobat@apl.washington.edu
Warren Gold  |   wgold@u.washington.edu
Joan Gomberg  |   gomberg@usgs.gov
Anne Goodchild  |   annegood@u.washington.edu
Anthony Greenwald  |   agg@u.washington.edu
Thomas Grenfell  |   tcg@atmos.washington.edu
Steven Gribble  |   gribble@cs.washington.edu
Rick Gustafson  |   pulp@u.washington.edu
Teal  Hallstrand  |   tealh@u.washington.edu
Blake Hannaford  |   blake@u.washington.edu
Erika Harnett  |   eharnett@ess.washington.edu
Deborah Harper  |   djharper@u.washington.edu
Wick Haxton  |   haxton@phys.washington.edu
Donald Hellmann  |   hellmann@u.washington.edu
Ray Hilborn  |   rayh@u.washington.edu
Paul Hill  |   bicycle@u.washington.edu
Tom Hinckley  |   hinckley@u.washington.edu
Hunter Hoffman  |   hunter@hitl.washington.edu
Craig Hogan  |   hogan@u.washington.edu
Michael honey  |   mhoney@u.washington.edu
Kathryn Hoppe  |   hoppe@ess.washington.edu
Robert Houze  |   houze@u.washington.edu
Philip  Howard  |   pnhoward@u.washington.edu
Bruce Howe  |   howe@apl.washington.edu
Vandra Huber  |   vandra@u.washington.edu
Raymond  Huey   |   hueyrb@u.washington.edu
Christine Ingebritsen  |   ingie@u.washington.edu
F. Isik  |   isik@u.washington.edu
Dan Jaffe  |   djaffe@u.washington.edu
Morison Jamie  |   morison@apl.washington.edu
Alex Jen  |   ajen@u.washington.edu
James  Jiambalvo   |   jjiambal@u.washington.edu
Ron Johnson  |   ronj@u.washington.edu
Paul Johnson  |   johnson@ocean.washington.edu
Bryan jones  |   bdjones
Lisa Jones-Engel  |   jonesengel@bart.rprc.washington.edu
Ian Joughin  |   ian@apl.washington.edu
Ian Joughin  |   irj@u.washington.edu
Andreas Karch  |   karch@feynman.phys.washington.edu
James Karr  |   jrkarr@u.washington.edu
Wayne Katon  |   wkaton@u.washington.edu
Michael Katze  |   honey@u.washington.edu
Joel Kaufman  |   joelk@u.washington.edu
Rick Keil  |   rickkeil@u.washington.edu
Deborah Kelley  |   kelley@ocean.washington.edu
Mary-claire King  |   mcking@u.washington.edu
Yoshi Kohno  |   yoshi@cs.washington.edu
Beth Kolko  |   bkolko@u.washington.edu
Leroy  Korb  |   korb@u.washington.edu
Arvind Krishnamurthy  |   arvind@cs.washington.edu
Kannan Krishnan  |   kannanmk@u.washington.edu
Patricia  Kuszler  |   kuszler@u.washington.edu
Richard Ladner  |   ladner@cs.washington.edu
Henry Lai  |   hlai@u.washington.edu
Charles Laird  |   cdlaird@u.washington.edu
Robin Lake  |   rlake@u.washington.edu
Eric Larson  |   ebl@u.washington.edu
Ed Lazowska  |   lazowska@cs.washington.edu
Dawn Lehman  |   delehman@u.washington.edu
Terje Leiren  |   leiren@u.washington.edu
Thomas Leschine  |   tml@u.washington.edu
Hank Levy  |   levy@cs.washington.edu
Sandra Lier  |   lier@u.washington.edu
Yongmin Lim  |   ykim@u.washington.edu
Ron Lindsay  |   lindsay@apl.washington.edu
Jim Luby  |   jcl@u.washington.edu
Ruth Ludwin  |   rludwin@u.washington.edu
David Mabberley  |   davidjm@u.washington.edu
Stephen Malone  |   steve@ess.washington.edu
Phil Malte  |   malte@u.washington.edu
Alexander Mamishev  |   mamishev@ee.washington.edu
Nate Mantua  |   mantua@atmos.washington.edu
David Martin  |   dmartin@apl.washington.edu
Cliff Mass  |   cliff@atmos.washington.edu
Anna  Mastroianni  |   amastroi@u.washington.edu
Yoky Matsuoka  |   yoky@cs.washington.edu
Emilio Mayorga  |   emiliom@u.washington.edu
Russell McDuff  |   mcduff@u.washington.edu
Heather mchugh  |   hmch@earthlink.net
Todd McLeish  |   tmcleish@uri.edu
Jim Mercer  |   mercer@apl.washington.edu
Steele Mike  |   mas@apl.washington.edu
Ed Miles  |   edmiles@u.washington.edu
Gerald Miller  |   miller@phys.washington.edu
Samuel  Miller  |   millersi@u.washington.edu
Brooks Miner  |   miner@u.washington.edu
Christen Mirth  |   mirthc@u.washington.edu
Thomas Mock  |   mockt@u.washington.edu
Dave Montgomery  |   dave@ess.washington.edu
Randall Moon  |   rtmoon@u.washington.edu
Dick Moritz  |   dickm@apl.washington.edu
Jim Morrow  |   morrow@math.washington.edu
Philip Mote  |   philip@atmos.washington.edu
Paul Muchowski  |   mucho@u.washington.edu
Christopher Murray  |   lindaett@u.washington.edu
Charles Murry  |   murry@u.washington.edu
Robert Naiman  |   naiman@u.washington.edu
Debbie  Nickerson  |   debnick@u.washington.edu
Sue Nicol  |   snicol@u.washington.edu
David Notkin  |   notkin@cs.washington.eu
Jeff Nystuen  |   nystuen@apl.washington.edu
Kevin O'Brien  |   cardiac@u.washington.edu
Jeffrey Ochsner  |   jochsner@u.washington.edu
Fumio Ohuchi  |   ohuchi@u.washington.edu
Erica Okada  |   emokada@u.washington.edu
Maynard Olson  |   mvo@u.washington.edu
Mari Ostendorf  |   mo@ee.washington.edu
Tapan Parikh  |   tapan@cs.washington.edu
Babak Parviz  |   babak@ee.washington.edu
Dorothy Paun  |   dap@u.washington.edu
Ted Pietsch  |   twp@u.washington.edu
Robert Plotnick  |   plotnick@u.washington.edu
Zoran Popovic  |   zoran@cs.washington.edu
Vikramaditya Prakash  |   vprakash@u.washington.edu
Jaakko Putkonen  |   putkonen@u.washington.edu
Thomas Quinn  |   tquinn@u.washington.edu
Rajesh Rao  |   rao@cs.washington.edu
Buddy Ratner  |   ratner@uweb.engr.washington.edu
Sarah Reichard  |   reichard@u.washington.edu
Jeff Richey  |   jrichey@u.washington.edu
Lynn Riddiford  |   lmr@u.washington.edu
Mark  Rieder  |   mrieder@u.washington.edu
Ignatius Rigor  |   ignatius@apl.washington.edu
James Riley  |   rileyj@u.washington.edu
Gerard Roe  |   gerard@ess.washington.edu
Charles Roeder  |   croeder@u.washington.edu
Roger Rosenblatt  |   rosenb@u.washington.edu
Marguerite Roza  |   margroza@u.washington.edu
Justin Rubinstein  |   justin@ess.washington.edu
Jennifer Ruesink  |   ruesink@u.washington.edu
Walter Ruzzo  |   ruzzo@cs.washington.edu
Eric Salath?nbsp; |   salathe@atmos.washington.edu
Sanjay Sane  |   sane@u.washington.edu
Edward Sarachik  |   sarachik@atmos.washington.edu
Mehmet Sarikaya  |   sarikaya@u.washington.edu
Martin Savage  |   savage@phys.washington.edu
Daniel Schindler  |   deschind@u.washington.edu
Daniel Schwartz  |   dts@u.washington.edu
C. Scott  |   crscott@u.washington.edu
Jim Seeb  |   jseeb@u.washington.edu
Lisa Seeb  |   lseeb@u.washington.edu
Gary segura  |   gmsegura@u.washington.edu
Eric Seibel  |   eseibel@u.washington.edu
Steve Seitz  |   seitz@cs.washington.edu
Bruce Shapiro  |   bruce.shapiro@dartcenter.og
Roger Simpson  |   newsboy@u.washington.edu
Ronald Sletten  |   sletten@u.washington.edu
Steven  Smith  |   srsmith@u.washington.edu
Rienk Smittenberg  |   smitten@u.washington.edu
Amy Snover  |   snover@atmos.washington.edu
Amy Snover  |   aksnover@u.washington.edu
Pat soden  |   patsoden@u.washington.edu
Evgeni Sokurenko  |   evs@u.washington.edu
Mani Soma  |   manisoma@u.washington.edu
Maya Sonenberg  |   mayas@u.washington.edu
Jane St. Germain  |   jstgerm@u.washington.edu
John Stamatoyannopoulos  |   jstam@u.washington.edu
Dick Startz  |   startz@u.washington.edu
Patrick Stayton  |   stayton@u.washington.edu
Bill Steele  |   bill@ess.washington.edu
Eric Steig  |   steig@ess.washington.edu
William Stein  |   wstein@u.washington.edu
Harry Stern  |   harry@apl.washington.edu
Christine stickler  |   castick@u.washington.edu
Cristi Stoick-Cooper  |   cstoick@u.washington.edu
David Stokes  |   dstokes@u.washington.edu
John Storey  |   jstorey@u.washington.edu
Stuart Strand  |   sstrand@u.washington.edu
Richard Strathmann  |   rrstrath@u.washington.edu
Eric Stuve  |   stuve@cheme.washington.edu
Joshua Tewksbury  |   tewksjj@u.washington.edu
Wendy Thomas  |   wendyt@u.washington.edu
Luanne Thompson  |   luanne@u.washington.edu
Keiko Torii  |   ktorii@u.washington.edu
Kathy Troost  |   ktroost@u.washington.edu
James Truman  |   jwt@u.washington.edu
Frantisek Turecek  |   turecek@chem.washington.edu
Mark Tuttle  |   tuttle@u.washington.edu
Shahram Vaezy  |   adasi@u.washington.edu
John Vidale  |   vidale@gmail.com
John Vidale  |   vidale@u.washington.edu
John Wallace  |   wallace@atmos.washington.edu
Peter  Ward  |   argo@u.washington.edu
Tim Washburn  |   timwash@u.washington.edu
Samuel Wasser  |   wassers@u.washington.edu
Lara Whitely Binder  |   lwb123@u.washington.edu
William Wilcock  |   wilcock@u.washington.edu
John Wilkerson  |   jfw@u.washington.edu
Sean Willett  |   willett@ess.washington.edu
Walter Williams  |   wwms@u.washington.edu
John Wingfield  |   jwingfie@u.washington.edu
Robert Winglee  |   winglee@ess.washington.edu
Shawn Wong  |   homebase@u.washington.edu
John Wott  |   jwott@u.washington.edu
Paul Yager  |   yagerp@u.washington.edu
Richard  Yalch  |   ryalch@u.washington.edu
Miqin Zhang  |   mzhang@u.washington.edu
Jing Zhang  |   zhangj@u.washington.edu

 

Introduction: what is RSS?
RSS is a method of publishing headlines, links, and article summaries that appear on Web sites. By using a special news reader or aggregator, you can subscribe to content "feeds" of particular interest, and be notified when new content becomes available on a feed you're subscribed to. It's easiest to explain with a few pictures:

Speed reading the web with RSS, using the free SharpReader RSS aggregator. RSS readers combine a web browser with summary listings of articles and RSS feeds. The left-hand pane shows subscribed newsfeeds. The upper right window shows summary listings of a selected feed or feeds. The lower right-hand window shows the selected web page. (Enlarge view.) Note that SharpReader and similar RSS readers allow you to look at your RSS listings at whatever level of detail you prefer. You can focus on headlines from just one news feed (for example, "uwnews.org | education", or you can easily aggregate many RSS feeds in to a single view by clicking on a category folder in the left hand pane (for example, "News") See this example of a group view.

How is RSS better than regular web browsing?
RSS lets you "speed read" the web by allowing you to focus on topics and articles that are most interesting to you. You can read article summaries before clicking through to a webpage, which allows you to make the most of your browsing time.

RSS readers can also alert you when new content becomes available on RSS feeds that you've subscribed to, much like how e-mail readers notify you when a new message arrives.

What programs do I need?
To get the most out of RSS, you'll need an RSS reader or aggregator, which combines a web browser with a tool that summarizes the content of subscribed newsfeeds.

There are many RSS readers available. Some are installed as applications on your computer, while others can be used through a web browser.

SharpReader RSS Aggregator for Windows computers is easy to use and free. You'll need to get the free .NET framework before installing SharpReader.

RSS readers have also been created as extensions of Mozilla Firefox, a free open-source web browser which is available for Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX computers. The Sage RSS aggregator for Firefox can be downloaded from the project homepage.

RSS readers are also available as web-based tools, similar to how you can read e-mail online through websites like gMail and Hotmail. Bloglines and Feedster are among the more popular web-based RSS readers.
If you maintain a web page, you can set your page up so that it is automatically updated by an RSS feed originating on another computer. You can use RSS to exchange data automatically between several computer systems.

I have a great idea for a new uwnews.org newsfeed. Can I get it listed?
Write the uwnews.org webmaster at kenfine@u.washington.edu to offer suggestions for new newsfeeds. If your idea is of general interest, we'll try to put it in place.