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Man with restored sight provides new insight into how vision develops
Fifteen years after a pioneering stem cell procedure to restore a man's sight, UW researchers are improving our understanding of how vision develops.04/15/2015 -
Extinction of Experience: Does it Matter?
University of Washington ecopsychologist Peter Kahn describes our diminishing experiences with nature.04/14/2015 -
Museums hammer out details for farm-labor cabin displays
Last month, Erasmo Gamboa, a UW professor of history and Latin American studies, returned to his hometown of Sunnyside to salvage the walls and rooftops of three farm-labor cabins.04/14/2015 | Yakima Herald-Republic -
Violent methane storms on Titan may solve dune direction mystery
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is one of the most Earthlike places in the solar system. As the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft examines Titan over many years, its discoveries bring new mysteries.04/13/2015 -
Ivan Doig, history alum who chronicled the American West, dies
Ivan Doig, a history department alumnus whose books set in his native Montana made him one of the most respected writers of the American West, has died. He was 75.04/10/2015 | Seattle PI -
UW baby talk expert wins prestigious neuroscience award
UW researcher Patricia Kuhl's research into the social foundations of language learning has earned her one of the top awards in her field.04/10/2015 -
UW students search for El Salvador children
KING 5 reports on the work of students who are helping search for children disappeared in El Salvador during violent conflict in the early 1980s.
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UW Mathematics Professor Tatiana Toro awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Toro one of two mathematicians this year to receive the honor for research in geometric measure theory,harmonic analysis, and partial differential equations.04/09/2015 -
UW astronomer named 2015 Sagan Fellow
A UW postdoctoral scientist is among six nationwide recipients of the 2015 Carl Sagan Exoplanet Postdoctoral Fellowships.04/08/2015 -
Great Scott! Reverse-Causality Research Ends in a Quantum Muddle
One of the longest-running and weirdest examples of a crowdfunded scientific experiment is finally reaching the end of the road.04/08/2015