UW Bothell starts up a biotech institute
The University of Washington Bothell said it's creating a Biotechnology and Biomedical Technology Institute to serve as a forum for the biotech industry in Bothell. (Puget Sound Business Journal   4/14/2008)

Colleges tied by strings donors attached to gifts
Institutions are shaped by the interests of donors, said Robert Durkee, vice president and secretary of Princeton University. (The Seattle Times  4/13/2008)

Dalai Lama Arrives for a Five-Day Conference in Seattle, Very Much His Kind of Town
The visit by the Dalai Lama, who arrived in Seattle Thursday afternoon on a flight from Japan, is his first to the United States since the onset of international protests over the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. (The New York Times  4/11/2008)

Regents OK $850 Million Plan for New Residence Halls
The UW Board of Regents approved an $850 million plan to expand student housing at the Seattle campus with a net gain of about 2,365 beds. The plan calls for three new residence halls and five new apartment buildings, each about six-stories tall, to be built in the southwest area of campus near Terry-Lander. (UW Alumni Association  4/9/2008)

Seattle institute aims to help cure world-health data disorder
As one of the world's top experts in tracking disease and monitoring health care, Christopher Murray, director of the University of Washington's new Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, is on a mission to stamp out bogus numbers. His institute's goals include providing reliable data on what works and what doesn't in the battle against sickness and death in the developing world. (The Seattle Times  4/9/2008)

UW hosts key players in global health effort
Christopher Murray and his colleagues at the University of Washington's new Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation are welcoming hundreds of key players in international health and development to Seattle for a two-day research conference aimed at trying to bring order to the still relatively chaotic and uncoordinated collection of projects aimed at fighting disease and improving health worldwide. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer  4/9/2008)

Effort underway to keep UW's cherry trees blooming
This time of year, people from all over converge on the University of Washington campus to see the famed cherry trees in bloom. But there's a looming doom for those trees. Now there's an effort underway to save a symbol of the school's tradition. KING 5's Elisa Hahn reports (King 5 News  4/3/2008)

Robot buoys are taking the ocean's pulse
The University of Washington oceanographer's torpedo-shaped robots are designed to measure ocean temperature, salinity and currents and beam the data back via satellite. Scattered around the globe, the probes are part of the first worldwide network to monitor the 70 percent of the planet covered with water. (Seattle Times  4/2/2008)

Centennial celebration to mark 1909 world's fair
Next year Seattle will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first world's fair with community festivals, a coast-to-coast vintage auto rally, and art and historic exhibits to celebrate both the region's history and its future. (Seattle Times  4/1/2008)

Helping the homeless with hands, heads, hearts
Thirty amateur architects, most of them University of Washington students, divided into five teams, met their nonprofits and got their assignments in this year's Design Build Challenge, a three-day competition in Seattle in which teams of amateur architects team up with local nonprofits to create innovative solutions to real-life problems. (The Seattle Times  3/30/2008)

UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 15th straight year
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UW study finds surprising genetic causes of schizophrenia
Researchers in Seattle and Long Island, N.Y., say individuals appear to develop schizophrenia from a varying smorgasbord of bad genes rather than common genetic flaws. The study was a collaboration that included the National Institute of Mental Health, the University of Washington and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer  3/27/2008)

Engineers Without Borders Focuses on Sustainable Engineering
Engineers Without Borders-USA will hold its annual conference Thursday through Sunday on the University of Washington's Seattle campus. More than 600 attendees will demonstrate how the group is creating a niche in the philanthropic community. (Marketwire  3/26/2008)

UW, WSU see applications from foreign students increase
Foreign students are applying in record numbers to student at the University of Washington and Washington State University, school officials report. Applications from abroad are up 40 percent to join next fall's UW freshman class, and at WSU foreign student applications have increased 32 percent. (Seattle Times  3/23/2008)

Quincy Jones to speak at UW commencement
Musician and composer Quincy Jones will deliver this year's commencement speech at Husky Stadium, the University of Washington announced. (The Seattle Times  3/20/2008)

One Gene Closer to Understanding Pancreatic Cancer
The New York Times talks with the UW's Terri Brentnall, associate professor of medicine, who has identified a gene that may be one cause of an inherited form of pancreatic cancer. (New York Times  3/18/2008)

UW engineers create 'bionic eye'
In a quiet research lab on the University of Washington campus, science fiction is becoming science fact. (King5.com  3/16/2008)

Helen Jackson honored by endowment for UW chair
A $1 million endowment to the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies will bring an increased focus on human rights issues and serve as a continuing tribute to a longtime Everett icon, Helen Jackson. (Everett Herald  3/12/2008)

Keeping College Affordable
In an op-ed piece, UW President Mark Emmert discusses the role of endowment funds at public universities. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer  3/6/2008)

Keeping Researchers and Undergraduates Happy
In a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast, Paul Fain interviews UW President Mark Emmert about how the University balances research priorities with the experience it offers undergraduates. (The Chronicle of Higher Education  3/4/2008)

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