| 7/1/2008 | A&S on UWTV: Vision and the Brain Why do we need vision? As it turns out, there are two answers to this question. On the one hand, we need vision to give us detailed knowledge of the world beyond ourselves, knowledge that allows us to recognize things from minute to minute and day to day. You can view the video online. UWTV. | View | |
| 7/1/2008 | Penguin Decline Points to Climate Change Penguins are serving as a ``canary in the coal mine,'' and their declining numbers are evidence that people are altering the animals' environment, said Dee Boersma, a biology professor at UW, in a preview of the study that will be published in the July/August edition of the U.S. journal BioScience. Bloomberg.com | 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 | |
| 6/30/2008 | A Case for No-Till Farming Professor David R Montgomery argues that a fundamental drawback of conventional farming is that it fosters topsoil erosion. Tillage leaves the ground surface bare and vulnerable to runoff. Scientific American | View | |
| 6/26/2008 | New mineral named for UW astronomer The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a UW astronomer who revolutionized research on interplanetary dust entering Earth's atmosphere. University Week | View | |
| 6/26/2008 | Gift funds environmental justice studies Professor Devon Pena, who has a joint appointment in American Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, has spent his career working for environmental justice. Now he, along with his sister Tania Hernandez, is funding three endowed fellowships to support graduate students working in that area. Uweek | View | |
| 6/22/2008 | A Michael Dailey retrospective Seattle artist and former University of Washington professor Michael Dailey's work is in the spotlight in a long-due retrospective at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University in Salem, Ore. The Seattle Times | View | |
| 6/21/2008 | Proposed radar station gets a boost A congressional panel's support for a Doppler radar station on the Washington coast is a "huge start" — but just a start — toward a facility that could help predict the severity of approaching Pacific storms. The Seattle Times | View | |