Heather Krasna, director of career services at the UW Evans School of Public Affairs, has written "Jobs that Matter."

A team largely composed of UW undergraduate students has been selected as one of the recipients of a $100,000 Gates Foundation "Grand Challenges Explorations" grant. They will use the money to travel to Uganda to test their novel system for portable maternal ultrasound.

Colleges and universities may be failing their students at a time when research skills and collaborative learning are becoming more and more important. In today's information-driven workplace, people spend much of their time formulating questions, finding relevant information and drawing conclusions, often working in virtual teams scattered across the globe.

In "Profit of Education," UW economics Professor Dick Startz says America's public school system can be fixed if we raise teacher salaries 40 percent, an increase that can pay for itself nine times over.

Many handouts give more direction about mechanics than appropriate ways to conduct research.

Associate Professor Tom Stritikus, who currently serves as associate dean of academic programs, has been selected by Provost Phyllis Wise to be the next dean of the University of Washington College of Education, effective Sept. 16. The appointment is subject to approval bythe board of regents.

University of Washington engineers are developing the first device able to transmit American Sign Language over U.S. cellular networks. The tool is just completing its initial field test by participants in a UW summer program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

The site lets kids --and adults --explore just about every aspect of the nervous system in people and animas through games, experiments, puzzles, trivia, songs, edible anatomic models and a host of other participatory activities

Undergraduate student William Johnson of Seattle has been named a Putnam Fellow, scoring in the top five out of more than 4,000 undergraduates who took the prestigious competition.

Eight of 10 students said that to get their research underway, they often go to Wikipedia for background information.

On Monday from 10:30 to 12:30, undergraduate students will present accessibility tools they built for mobile phones running the Android platform.

In most of the world children must share computers. A new device lets up to four children share a computer screen to do interactive math problems, effectively quadrupling the number of computers available for such exercises.

The University of Washington's DO-IT Scholars program invites applications from Washington state high school sophomores and juniors with disabilities who are interested in preparing for college and challenging careers.

Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when using a pen than a keyboard to compose essays, according to new research.

Reporters and photographers are invited to attend the UW's Brain Awareness Week open house on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The University of Washington's DO-IT Scholars program is now accepting applications from Washington state high school sophomores and juniors with disabilities who are interested in preparing for college and challenging careers.

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.

More than 50 college-bound high school students with disabilities will gather on the University of Washington campus next month to participate in an annual summer study program designed to give them a technological edge in achieving college and career success.

The short, intriguing history of the Black Panthers in Seattle will come to life again when the Black Panther History and Memory Project Web site is unveiled Saturday at a public event at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center.

When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the same way they skirted discussions about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools.

Nearly 700 fifth through eighth graders from around the state have been honored for outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities by the University of Washington.

Several nationally-known experts on how media can affect the health of young people and how media literacy can minimize these effects, will speak at a two-day conference at the University of Washington.

Before and after brain images of individual children with dyslexia show that the human brain can change and normalize in response to spelling instruction.

A new study indicates that schools adopting programs that target antisocial behavior are also likely to improve their students' academic performance.

America's charter schools serve a larger percentage of minority and low-income students than do the nation's traditional public schools, according to a comprehensive new study of the growing charter movement.

UW professors can add perspective for stories on the scientific basis of evolution theory and the religious, educational and legal controversies in the news.

A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that's why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations will spend the next week learning way to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages

More than 2,700 students from small rural schools in the Yakima and Skagit valleys, as well as the community of Goldendale, will get help preparing for college through a $2.2 million-a-year federal grant received today by the University of Washington.

The nation's main program for educating the disadvantaged, Title I, is hampered by loopholes that prevent it from fulfilling its mission, according to a UW study.

More than 1,100 fifth through eighth graders from across Washington will be honored Saturday on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington for their oustanding verbal and/or mathematical talents.

Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a location on chromosome 2 that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords.

The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one crucial and time-consuming element -- work. More than half of high school seniors surveyed by UW sociologists said they were working in the spring of their final year of school.