May 30, 2007
UW researchers are using a statistical framework for analyzing social networks to explain how sexually transmitted diseases spread and how people find jobs. In social network analysis, each person in a particular network is represented by a node.

May 23, 2007
Imagine a world where employers could track the length of lunch breaks or find out what employees really do after calling in sick.

May 16, 2007
Imagine being able to recharge a laptop, iPod or cell phone without having to plug a battery into the wall.

May 9, 2007
UW scientists are developing a malaria vaccine that may be accessible to the developing world.

May 2, 2007
UW scientists are testing a new approach to drug and alcohol addiction treatments, called mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP), which melds Buddhist meditation techniques with traditional therapeutic approaches.

April 25, 2007
For decades, the Pap smear — a test in which cervical cells are examined under a microscope — has been the mainstay of cervical-cancer prevention in the United States.

April 18, 2007
Anyone who has taken a freshman physics class has used Newton's Second Law — that the force acting on an object is equal to its mass times its acceleration — on countless agonizing problem sets.

April 11, 2007
UW scientists have discovered "semi-identical" twins — twins that share identical DNA with their mother, but contain DNA from two different sperm, according to the April issue of the Journal of Human Genetics.

April 4, 2007

March 28, 2007
Some HIV subtypes may progress faster than others, according to a new study by UW researchers.

February 8, 2007
U.S. jobs may be requiring more intelligence than the labor force can provide, driving employers to automate low-paying service and manufacturing jobs.

February 7, 2007
We've all heard the message: If you have sex, you should get tested for STDs. But getting tested can be intimidating, confusing and expensive, especially for those without health insurance or money.

January 11, 2007
The UW was one of three schools awarded a $100,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration, for development of the e-mail program Pine and the IMAP mail server.

December 1, 2006
Not too long ago, virtual reality was the domain of techno-geeks and science fiction. Now, however, scientists at the Human Interface Technology Lab (HITL) at the UW have brought virtual reality, or VR, to the real world of children's medicine.