Millions of young people in India, particularly young men, are discovering that education, either in high school or college, doesn't necessarily mean better jobs.

More than 600 members of Engineers Without Borders-USA will gather for an annual conference Thursday through Sunday on the University of Washington's Seattle campus.

A new grant funds doctoral students to work with Washington state tribes developing local sources of plant-based fuels. Possibilities range from forestry debris to paper-mill residue to waste associated with the state's wheat and apple crops.

Focus the Nation, a national teach-in next week on global warming solutions for America, involves the University of Washington and more than 1,500 other institutions across the nation - mainly colleges and universities. UW events Jan. 31 include a day-long program and a community/campus town hall meeting, for which more than 450 persons have already signed up

The UW's electrical engineering department hosts the first Halloween design challenge, in which students use their technical skills to create spooky decorations. Judging will take place Friday afternoon.

The annual statewide hunt for Washington's most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the University of Washington.

A pilot course at the UW forms the basis for a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers.

Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers. However, a three-week instructional program can normalize those connections.

More than 50 Washington students arrive today for the DO-IT Scholars Summer Study program. The 10-day camp is part of an award-winning program encouraging disabled high-school students to pursue careers in technology, science and engineering.

The newly established Center for Collaborative Technologies at the University of Washington will develop tools for distance learning. These tools let students anywhere watch lectures, participate in discussions, and even write on a virtual classroom blackboard.

The 2007 Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing, a nine-week academy teaching talented students the fundamentals of computer science, starts next week.

Two teams of UW undergrads took home the Outstanding Winner title in this year's international math modeling marathon.

"Inside the Undergraduate Experience" is the result of the first longitudinal assessment of learning among a large group of American college students.

More than 150 scholars, community leaders and activists will participate in the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies next Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23) on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.

Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don't fit the stereotype of unhappy 'nerds.' University of Washington research paints a totally different and positive picture of these gifted students.

The DO-IT Scholars is now accepting applications from Washington State high school sophomores and juniors who have disabilities for a college-preparation and mentoring program.

It's that time of year again when the UW's Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars looks for Washington's smartest young students.

Tracy Harachi is spearheading an effort to bring the field and practice of social work to Cambodian where there currently is no program at the college level to train students to become social workers.

The UW is among the nation's leaders in producing several categories of minority baccalaureates, notably those of Asian American students, acccording the journal Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Eight grants worth nearly $15 million give the University of Washington No. 1 ranking for foreign-study areas.