January 23, 2003
HS News Briefs
Two new online teaching tools, the Portfolio Tool and Virtual Case, will be described in a presentation by Mark Farrelly of the UW’s Catalyst Initiative from 4 to 5 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 11, in room CD-150 at the Center on Human Development and Disability building on campus. The Portfolio Tool allows instructors to guide students in developing a digital portfolio that can include images, text, presentations and other elements. Virtual Case is a Web-based application that allows instructors to set up online case studies in which students interact with each other to solve complex problems. No registration is necessary and there is no charge for the training session. For more information, contact Mark Hariss at CHDD, mharniss@u.washington.edu or 685-0289, or see the Catlayst Web site at http://catalyst.washington.edu/home.html
Dr. Dennis Turk, John and Emma Bonica professor of anesthesiology and pain research, has been elected president-elect of the American Pain Society. He will assume the presidency in March 2004.
Dr. Ann Marie Kimball, professor of epidemiology and health services, has been elected to the Rotary Service Foundation Board of Rotary Seattle.
Robin Bennett, senior genetic counselor and clinic manager for the UW Medical Center’s Genetics Clinic, has been elected president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors for 2003. Bennett is the author of The Practical Guide to the Genetic Family History, published in 1999, and was recently in the news as author of a paper on the relatively low risks to children born of unions between cousins. She has been at the UW since she graduated from the Sarah Lawrence Human Genetics Program in 1984.
Sally Kempton, a noted New York journalist and feminist in the 1960s and ’70s, spent 20 years traveling the world as a leading teacher of Siddha yoga meditation. She will speak at the UW next week about how to set up a rewarding practice of medatation. This “Alternative Brown Bag” presentation will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 28, in room T-661 of the Health Sciences Center. Everyone is welcome. Additional presentations are planned later, all sponsored by the School of Nursing’s Complementary and Alternative Medicine Training Grant.
