July 10, 2008
Making faces: Theatrical makeup class draws majors and nonmajors alike
Every summer quarter, the School of Drama opens up its course in theatrical makeup to nonmajors.
Bankers, boomerangers, rockers and more — a summer of conference guests at the UW
Bankers and boomerangers, football players and first-year students, computer programmers and cheerleaders.
Tickets still available for Mariners game July 18
A thousand UW faculty, staff and alumni have signed up to watch the Seattle Mariners battle the Cleveland Indians on July 18 — but there are 500 tickets still available.
Hawaiian park reborn, thanks to UW students
For Iain Robertson, a UW landscape architecture professor, Kahalu’u Beach Park turned out to be one of the most fascinating projects he’s ever worked on.
Stayin’ alive: Researchers foil seasonal programmed brain cell death in living birds
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
Mystery Photo
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Etc. Campus news & notes
SHE’S GOLDEN: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and its NSF Science of Learning Center, was awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal, its highest award.
Everyone’s invited to grand opening of waterfront
Welcome to the grand re-opening of the UW’s southwest waterfront.
Understanding salmon as ecosystems in action
The collapse of the Sacramento River chinook salmon run may be another lesson on the importance of coming to grips with the biocomplexity behind successful salmon runs.
Penguins sounding climate change alarm
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist.
Medical center lauded again as top environmental performer
UW Medical Center’s Tim Nguyen, manager of Waste Operations, and Sheila Lockwood, Environmental Health and Safety, accepted in May UWMC’s second consecutive Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth.
Tremendous losses shape ‘interesting’ life
By Cynthia Salzman
Rehabilitation Medicine
Aditya Ganapathiraju uses the word “interesting” to describe his life so far.
UW Medicine lands top information technology award
The Cerner/ORCA CIS Replacement (CISR) project has been named IT Project of the Year by Advance for Health Information Executives, an industry publication for health care executives.
UWMC takes part in WHO safe surgery checklist initiative
UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.
Exploring stigma and health
By Jean Patterson
School of Social Work
Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health, a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, is groundbreaking in exploring links among stigma, prejudice, and discrimination and their impact on health, as well as implications for public health practice.
July 9, 2008
Reseachers foil seasonal programmed brain cell death in living birds
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
July 2, 2008
UW Medical Center takes part in WHO surgical checklist initiative
UW Medical Center (UWMC) took part in an international broadcast and global launch of the World Health Organization’s “Safe Surgery Saves Lives” campaign Wednesday, June 25.
June 30, 2008
Penguins setting off sirens over health of world’s oceans
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a University of Washington conservation biologist.
June 26, 2008
Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods — land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages — in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.
Like a rock: New mineral named for UW astronomer
The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a UW astronomer who revolutionized research on interplanetary dust entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Teenagers attending college less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior
Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college, according to the first study to directly compare the two groups.
Mystery Photo
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Official Notices
Online asbestos training required for UW employees
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) requires the UW to provide general asbestos awareness training to all UW employees.
‘John Brown’: Jacob Lawrence’s dramatic series in residence in Allen Library for five years
A special work by artist Jacob Lawrence arrived at the University this week, but it won’t be found in a gallery.
Educational outreach honors standout teachers
Three regular UW faculty members are among six instructors named by UW Educational Outreach as recipients of a 2008 Teaching Excellence Award.
Tool lets the blind surf Web anywhere
Visions of future technology don’t involve being chained to a desktop machine.
Capturing a fading world: ‘The Last Polar Bear’ at the Burke Museum
It’s just not enough to say that wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski’s work capturing polar bears on film was a labor of love.
Gene silencer, quantum dots reduce protein production
More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks.
Ounce of prevention: Communities that Care plan helps middle school kids
Seventh-grade students in U.
Photographers display alternate methods in exhibit
When Kodak introduced its modestly priced and readily accessible box camera in 1888, the company’s slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest,” proposed that anyone could become a photographer.
Chinese paper cuttings at Suzzallo
There are chase scenes in Room 102 of Suzzallo Library just now.
Parking, U-PASS rates are going up July 1
You know it has to happen: U-PASS rates are increasing as of July 1.
UW second in grad student Peace Corps volunteers
In a newly created ranking, the UW is listed second among 54 colleges and universities nationwide in the number of graduate students serving in the Peace Corps.
Regents OK new college, tuition hike
The UW Board of Regents approved the creation of a College of the Environment, as well as a tuition increase for undergraduates, at its June meeting.
Football tickets discounted for faculty, staff
Faculty and staff can enjoy an exciting seven-game home football schedule this fall, including BYU, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, among others, by purchasing season tickets.
Agreement creates exchange with Australian university
The UW has signed an agreement with the University of Queensland, in Australia, that will provide new opportunities for academic exchanges, joint research projects and coordination of science outreach to K-12 students.
Veteran high-tech executive named to head TechTransfer
A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of UW research.
Etc: Campus News and Notes
FALCON CREST: Employees in Creative Communications have enjoyed watching a family of peregrine falcons that is hunting from and feeding its young on the roof of their building lately.
Prof’s gift funds environmental justice studies
Devon Pena has spent his career working for environmental justice.
Welcome back, Broken Obelisk
Broken Obelisk returned to campus June 19 after a little more than two months in the shop for repairs.
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