How to choose a profession in the state of Washington? What to consider when choosing a career? On these and other questions this article will help to get the answer, which contains information on the most popular areas in the state that the most revenue and contribute to a successful ...
The most developed industries in Washington
Posted On Thursday, January 16, 2014 By USAEducation. Under WASHINGTON
How to choose a profession in the state of Washington? What to consider when choosing a career? On these and other questions this article will help to get the answer, which contains information on the most popular areas in the state that the most revenue and contribute to a successful ...
Snow Melts Faster Under Trees Than in Open Areas in Mild Climates
Posted On Friday, November 15, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Cedar River Municipal Watershed, Jessica Lundquist, Susan Dickerson-Lange, University of Washington
It’s a foggy fall morning, and University of Washington researcher Susan Dickerson-Lange pokes her index finger into the damp soil beneath a canopy of second-growth conifers. The tree cover is dense here, and little light seeps in among the understory of the Cedar River Municipal Watershed about 30 miles east ...
Caryn G. Mathes selected as general manager for KUOW
Posted On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Caryn G. Mathes, Diane Rehm Show, executive of Caryn’s talent, Joan Enticknap, listeners weekly, National Public Radio
Caryn G. Mathes, general manager of WAMU in Washington, D.C., since 2005, has been selected as the general manager of KUOW, effective Jan. 2, 2014.
“We are thrilled to have a public radio executive of Caryn’s talent and abilities coming to the station, the UW and our community to lead this ...
UW Combined Fund Drive’s Charity Fair and Silent Auction Oct. 16
Posted On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Charity Fair & Silent Auction, HUB north ballroom, Northwest Burn Foundation, UW Combined Fund Drive
The UW Combined Fund Drive, part of the state’s workplace giving campaign, kicks off with a Charity Fair & Silent Auction on Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the HUB north ballroom.
This annual event is free and open to UW faculty, staff, students and retirees. Learn ...
Pioneering MOOC Instructors Remain Enthusiastic
Posted On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: abiding enthusiasm, Collaborative Applications, MOOCs, poster explores explores, UW Information Technology, UW’s offerings
The first reports from the pioneers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, at the UW contain a mixture of humility and abiding enthusiasm for this new education platform.
Academic and Collaborative Applications, a unit within UW Information Technology that makes and provides user-centered applications for the UW community, interviewed four ...
History Lecture Series to Explore Slavery in Making of America
Posted On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: 2013 lecture series, Civil War, Emancipation Proclamation, History lecture series, University of Washington, UW faculty
Many Americans think of slavery in the context of the 19th century, when it brought the nation to civil war. But as speakers in the University of Washington history department’s 2013 lecture series note, the practice dates back to America’s founding and did not abruptly end with Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 ...
Cognitive Rehabilitation Improves Brain Function in Cancer Survivors
Posted On Sunday, September 22, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: anti-cancer medications, Cancer survivors, chemotherapy, Cognitive rehabilitation, Life Sciences, memory aids, Monique Cherrier
Cancer survivors who experience memory and thinking problems may benefit from cognitive rehabilitation, according to a new study led by Monique Cherrier, a UW associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
The study, published Sept. 16 in Life Sciences, found that participants experienced improved cognitive function and a decrease in perceived ...
Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery
Medical tourism is one of the growing trends across the world. Due to high increase in the cost of health care facility, individual as well as companies are providing incentives to travel across the countries to get the surgeries they need. While travelling other countries for the medical tourists not ...
Neighborhoods and UW team up to measure diesel exhaust pollution in South Seattle
Posted On Saturday, September 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Dr. Julie Fox, Seattle’s Duwamish Valley, South Park neighborhoods, University of Washington
The residents of the Georgetown and South Park neighborhoods in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley now know how much diesel exhaust they are exposed to. The data were collected by the University of Washington School of Public Health and Puget Sound Sage, a nonprofit coalition in Seattle. A report on findings from ...
Pico-World Dragnets: Computer-Designed Proteins Recognize and Bind Small Molecules
Posted On Saturday, September 7, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: computational biology, Engineering, Environment, Health and Medicine, Nature paper, News Releases, Research, Science, Technology, University of Washington
Computer-designed proteins that can recognize and interact with small biological molecules are now a reality. Scientists have succeeded in creating a protein molecule that can be programmed to unite with three different steroids.
The achievement could have far wider ranging applications in medicine and other fields, according to the Protein Design ...
UW Student Archaeologists Wind up Summer at Tel Dor site
Posted On Friday, August 30, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Alexander the Great, Roman jewelry, Sarah Stroup, unearthed a rare gemstone, UW student archaeologists
The UW Tel Dor Archeological Excavation and Field School — whose students in 2009 unearthed a rare gemstone with the image of Alexander the Great — has completed another summer’s excavation work.
And this year’s biggest find, in which UW student archaeologists played a support role as excavators and soil samplers ...
Physicists Pinpoint Key Property of Material that both Conducts and Insulates
Posted On Friday, August 23, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Bell Laboratories, David Cobden, Jae Hyung Park, Physicists pinpoint, University of Washington
It is well known to scientists that the three common phases of water – ice, liquid and vapor – can exist stably together only at a particular temperature and pressure, called the triple point.
Also well known is that the solid form of many materials can have numerous phases, but it ...
Wireless Devices Go Battery-Free With New Communication Technique
Posted On Friday, August 16, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: ambient backscatter, battery-free, communication technique, Wireless devices
University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.
The new communication technique, which the researchers call “ambient backscatter,” takes advantage of the TV and cellular transmissions that already surround us around the ...
Abused Children Found to Smoke More as Teens and Adults
Posted On Thursday, August 8, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: adults, Journal of Adolescent Health, smoke, teens, University of Washington
Researchers have long suspected some kind of link between childhood abuse and smoking. But in an interesting twist, a new study from the University of Washington finds a connection not between whether or not abused children will ever begin smoking but to how much they smoke once if do start.
“In ...
Summer Undergrad Research Tracks Natural Gas Leaks
Posted On Thursday, August 1, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Alex Lambdin, materials engineering, National Science Foundation, natural gas pipelines, REU programs, Washington State University
PULLMAN, Wash. - While some college students spend their summers tracking down the perfect vacation spot, Alex Lambdin spends his tracking down methane emissions leaking from natural gas pipelines.
Lambdin, a senior in civil engineering, is one of more than 60 students from around the country and Washington State University participating ...
Pain of Artificial Legs Could be Eased by Real-Time Monitoring
Posted On Thursday, July 25, 2013 By USA Education News. Under WASHINGTON Tags: Christian Redd, College of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Joan Sanders, Ron Bailey
When Ron Bailey lost his right leg below the knee 10 years ago after a head-on collision, he was fitted with a prosthetic leg and began learning to use it in his daily life as a real estate agent in Federal Way, Wash.
For a couple of years after the amputation, ...
