The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one crucial and time-consuming element -- work.
In the UW's first Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, students have been asked to explain how they'll improve the quality of life and reduce poverty in developing countries. Their plans have to show social and financial returns on investments.
A murder in Alaska and images of Julia Roberts and President Bush all play roles in a new study that explores the limits of the human visual system and eyewitness testimony in the courtroom.
The Columbia River Basin, one of the nation's largest river basins, has experienced six multiyear droughts between 1750 and 1950 that were much more severe than anything in recent memory because they persisted for years, including one that stretched for 12 years.
Researchers at the University of Washington have blended the past with the present in the fight against cancer, synthesizing a promising new compound from an ancient Chinese remedy to selectively target cancer cells.
In a study that sheds new light on how consumers choose between pleasurable or practical products, a University of Washington researcher has found that people are more likely to buy fun products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases.
As the death toll from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami climbed above 200,000 a University of Washington psychologist just back from Indonesia warned of a new danger -- a mental health crisis among the survivors.
For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a University of Washington scientist disputes that notion.
An analysis of more than seven decades of inaugural and State of the Union addresses shows that no president has invoked God as often as George W. Bush.
Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, which erupted with devastating force in June 1991, is proving to be an ideal laboratory for studying the "hydrologic aftermath" of a volcanic eruption.
An elementary school intervention program that taught children impulse control and gave their teachers and parents better management skills has long-lasting effects extending into early adulthood, showing that the children are more productive and well-adjusted members of society at age 21.
Despite a ban by their leaders on private Internet use, ultra-Orthodox Israeli Jews who otherwise shun the modern world turn out to be avid and creative Web surfers, according to a new study.
Some of the Pacific Northwest major environmental struggles may have their origins in the sometimes conflicting policies of the Hudson's Bay Company, the dominant outside force in the region during the early years of the 19th century, according to a study for the National Park Service.
Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history. New research shows the most recent of these broke through its ice barrier between 600 and 900 AD, causing massive torrents of water to pour through the Himalayas into India from Tibet.
A study finds that the nation's electoral system is ill-equipped to determine the outcome of very close races.
The connection between species richness and area, recognized for years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level.
Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior.
Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America's school-age children. It is so prevalent that 65 percent of children report that, by the age of 7, they have had an imaginary companion at some point in their lives, according to a new study.
With increasing global warming, Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus' reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
A new interpretation for satellite data published earlier this year raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that the lower atmosphere is warming as fast as the Earth's surface. Now, another study, using data from other scientists, has validated the original finding.
By today's standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day's work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night or learning to read and write may seem to be pretty tame infractions. But for slaves in the American south such activities were dangerous, daring and far more common than previously believed.
Contrary to predictions that third-party candidates would seize the Internet as a powerful tool for challenging the status quo, such candidates lagged far behind their Republican and Democratic foes this year in using the Web.
University of Washington experts on topics raised by the 2004 elections, including the recount in the razor-thin Washington state governor's race.
In at least one aspect of political campaigning, the Democratic Party has an edge over the Republicans: it's been spinning out e-mails faster and more aggressively.
When women engage in a technique called emotion coaching, even in families where there is domestic violence, their children are less aggressive, depressed and withdrawn, researchers have found.
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
Paying attention to what customers do, not what they say, is key in the creation and development of new products that can best satisfy customers needs and desires.
The first ever genomic map of a diatom, part of a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth's most important inhabitants, has yielded surprising insights about the way they may be using nitrogen, fats and silica in order to thrive.
An interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers has been awarded $12.4 million by the National Science Foundation to establish a center to investigate how humans learn and to create environments that will help prepare people for future learning.
Substantially more men than women favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born, according to a recent University of Washington survey, but the surprise to researchers is that the percentage of men favoring such testing wasn't higher.
Despite a ban on ivory trade, African elephants continue to be killed in large numbers for their prized tusks. A team headed by a University of Washington biologist has devised a means of determining the geographic origin of ivory to help identify poaching hot spots for increased enforcement.
What the public usually hears about trial lawyers and lawsuits is distorted, according to researchers who analyzed two decades of press coverage in national newspapers.
Americans had a strong need for spiritual support and a positive outlook in coping with the aftermath of the 911 attacks, and a new study also found what appears to be a spiritual-psychological pathway linking the so-called faith factor with post-crisis mental health.
Using previous unavailable census data,geographers have found that residents of one of America's largest metropolitan areas are far less racially and ethnically segregated at work than they are in their home neighborhoods.
New research shows that common assumptions about sea urchin reproduction don't hold true for all species of the invertebrate creature. The work could lead to better understanding of fertilization among mammals, including the potential to solve some Human reproductive problems.
Participants in a survey reported that they were much more likely to misfile and lose track of paper information than information stored on a computer.
A new national research center is being established at the University of Washington with the aim of finding easier, more powerful and more environmentally friendly ways of manipulating the strong chemical bonds found in most materials, from petroleum products to pharmaceuticals.
A new study shows that consumers find it easier to rationalize a bad outcome after paying for an item with their time than with their wallets.
A songbird species known as the Townsend's warbler, which lives in forests of Western North America, has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, for thousands of years. New research suggests higher androgen levels might be the reason.
Over the last two decades, thousands of American women have donated eggs to help themselves or other women bear children. But little is known about what motivated these women to become egg donors and what, if any, physical and psychological effects results from their experience.
Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle's air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast.
Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the enivronmental movement.
Like skillful dipolmats from developing nations seeking funds, American Indian tribal leders exploited ambiguities and contradicts in federal policy over the last three decades to gain new authority and access to the federal decision-making process.
An analysis of hundreds of Bush administration pronouncements and subsequent coverage by the news media reveals a pattern of religious imagery frequently echoed by the press in a way that helped promote Bush's policies.
A recent strategy alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals has sparked hope of stopping the spread of antibiotic resistance. But a new model shows that the practice of cycling "“ alternating between two or more classes of antibiotics as often as every few months "“ probably will not work.
Two major physics breakthroughs in the last decade are the discovery that neutrinos have mass and that universe expansion is accelerating. Three physicists are suggesting the two discoveries are integrally linked through one of the strangest features of the universe: dark energy.
A small fish with a remarkable hearing system that enables females to zero in on the love hums broadcast by males during the breeding season is providing scientists with clues that someday might provide a treatment for people with high-frequency hearing loss.
On two occasions, separated by four years and thousands of miles and in very different conditions, raindrops were measured at sizes similar to or greater than the largest ever recorded. The largest ones were at least 8 millimeters in diameter and were possibly a centimeter.
People who began binge drinking at age 13 and continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to be overweight or obese and almost 31â„2 times as likely to have high blood pressure when they were 24 years old than were people who never or rarely drank heavily during adolescence.
When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, hundreds of brick chimneys in two neighborhoods were heavily damaged. New research suggests the shaking in these areas might have been intensified by the Seattle fault, even though it was not the source of the earthquake.
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