University of Washington

Dinner still needs to be cooked and the table cleared. There are birds to be identified each day in the backyard, and there are worries, too, about weakening knees, diabetes, money and driving at night. "I'm going to be 80, so I don't think too far...

Former state Labor Council President Lawrence Kenney was remembered last week for his advocacy for farmworkers at a time when such a stance took courage. "He was very committed to working the problems of farmworkers and did much to bring farm laborers...

There's only so much a student can learn within the confines of a classroom when it comes to automotive engineering. In order to better equip future generations of engineers with hands-on experience, the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors have...

Chicago - Ohio farmer Les Seiler has applied gypsum to his fields for the past five years. His farm is based in Fulton County, Ohio, 40 miles west of Toledo and near the Michigan border where Seiler says cold and wet spring weather is “guaranteed.”...

Newborns arrive in this world somewhat half-baked or, in the more measured words of evolutionary anthropologist Wanda Trevathan of the University of New Mexico, "a little unfinished, if you will." Parents declare them beautiful, these wailing bundles of...

A Frontier Middle School eighth-grader talked about his plans to become a computer engineer and came home with first place in the regional Gear Up Career Showplace competition. The 2013 competition drew 23 schools. Jah-Mali Jackson was required to...

The curtain to the new Shawnee Mission School District opens on a stage of cowboys and cowgirls rehearsing at Westridge Middle School. Something they call "positive risk" is in full play. For a troupe of nervous middle-schoolers learning the musical...

ANGELINA JOLIE WON NEW FANS -- some in unlikely places -- when she revealed Tuesday that she'd had a double mastectomy to ward off a very high genetic risk of breast cancer. "I've become a huge Angelina Jolie fan today," enthused Dr. Elizabeth Swisher,...

In attempting to bring "MOOCs" to the world of teacher training, the Silicon Valley company Coursera and its partners at universities and other institutions are courting a new and potentially vast audience, one that is becoming increasingly accustomed...

Lots of people convert their garages into home offices. But only Woody Sullivan painstakingly plotted 700 dots of sunlight on his garage ceiling at his Phinney Ridge home. The dots were the reflections from a 1-inch mirror, attached to a 6-inch pipe...

The stars aligned for the boy. When a 16-year-old suddenly collapsed from a heart attack during a P.E. class at Harbor High School in 2011, it happened under the best possible conditions. He was surrounded by classmates, who beckoned their teacher for...

In college athletics it's not uncommon for an incoming athlete to spend one year practicing with the team, bulking up and getting to know the program before actually competing. This strategy, known as "redshirting," will soon be incorporated into the...