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Encouraging Questions, Not Answers
At the Summer Institute in Life Science, offered by UW Biology Program, middle school teachers do a lot of hands-on learning--and gain ideas for their own classrooms.
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Aperture Fever Leads to Astronomy Fellowship
A childhood interest in astronomy, renewed in adulthood, led David Brooks to support postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Astronomy.
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Leading Biotechnology into the 21st Century
Art Levinson (1972), head of biotech firm Genentech, got his start working in a faculty lab as a UW student.
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A Living Collection of Medicinal Plants
The UW's Medicinal Herb Garden, home to hundreds of medicinal plants, has a long and colorful history.
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A Space Odyssey for A&S Alumni
Five A&S alumni who have been astronauts talk about their experiences.
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Scientists find elusive gas from post-starburst galaxies hiding in plain sight
Scientists once thought that post-starburst galaxies scattered all of their gas and dust — the fuel required for creating new stars — in violent bursts of energy, and with extraordinary speed. Now, a team led by University of Washington postdoctoral researcher Adam Smercina reports that these galaxies don’t scatter all of their star-forming fuel after all. Instead, data from the Chile-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ALMA, reveals a more complex process at work.
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In an astounding space scene, two galaxies pummeled through each other
Julianne Dalcanton, professor emeritus of astronomy, explains the dramatic deep space collision of two galaxies.