| 8/6/2008 | UW study examines decline of snowpack Despite previous studies suggesting a warmer climate is already taking a bite out of Washington's snowpack, there's no clear evidence that human-induced climate change has caused a drop in 20th century snow levels, according to a controversial new study by University of Washington scientists. The Seattle Times. | View | |
| 8/5/2008 | Penguins Setting Off Sirens Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says Dee Boersma, a University of Washington biology professor and an authority on the flightless birds. UW News Links. | View | |
| 8/1/2008 | The fight for the soul of the Northwest The "evangelicals" of James K. Wellman Jr.'s new book know there's only one way to God, and it's their way. Dr. Wellman is chairman of the comparative religion program at the Henry Jackson School of International Studies. Seattle Times. | View | |
| 7/30/2008 | Presumed dinosaur flesh may just be bacterial Remember when scientists announced three years ago that they had found the soft tissue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a 70-million-year-old fossil? Never mind. New evidence suggests those findings, which startled the scientific community, might be bogus. Researchers led by Thomas Kaye, a paleontologist at the University of Washington, report that slimy bacterial colonies mimic the fleshy residues allegedly recovered from a fossilized bone. Scientific American. | View | |
| 7/30/2008 | Asteroid named for aeronautics prof Holsapple The Planetary Science Institute has named a recently discovered asteroid for University of Washington Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Keith Holsapple. He didn't discover 20360 Holsapple but is being recognized for his long record of research on asteroids. The Olympian. | View | |
| 7/25/2008 | Want to calculate a carbon footprint? A recent University of Washington study found that when the same values were used with 10 different online calculators, the results varied greatly. In one category, the bottom line for a typical American homeowner varied by more than 32,800 pounds of carbon produced per year. The Seattle PI. | View | |
| 7/17/2008 | UW mulls adding more slots for freshmen University of Washington President Mark Emmert wants to expand the university's freshman enrollment by 1,700 students over the next decade, a plan he says will help temper the university's increasingly competitive admissions process. Seattle PI. | View | |
| 7/1/2008 | A&S on UWTV: Northwest Indian Art Using over 100 photographs of artworks, Professor Emeritus This month on UWTV,Bill Holm examines how Northwest Coast Native American Art has been perceived over the generations and what is going on today to understand it. You can view the video online. UWTV. | View | |