January 31, 2002
Understanding burn scars: Surgeon Nicole Gibran tries to learn how hypertrophic scars might be reduced or prevented
| Pamela Wyngate |
| HS News & Community Relations |
After a suffering a severe burn, some patients develop hypertrophic scars—a distinct and excessive growth of tissue with increased numbers of blood vessels and multiple nerves.
Cosmetic Surgery Center opens: Refractive surgery also moves to UWMC-Roosevelt building with easy access
| Craig Degginger |
| HS News & Community Relations |
UW Medical Center-Roosevelt has opened three significant new areas on the second floor this month — the Cosmetic Surgery Center, Refractive Surgery Center and Ambulatory Surgery Center.
Open House 2002: Planning well under way for event in late April
Exhibitors are signing up to reserve space for the 2002 Health Sciences Open House, the honorary chair has been named and a theme has been chosen.
Take a couple more hours of sleep and see how you feel in the morning
You’re worn out all the time, you get tired very easily, that new weight-loss plan just isn’t working and you suspect you fell asleep as you were driving home after work last week.
Buehler Lecture on abdominal wall surgery
Dr.
Free art exhibit in the HUB
Mark Ondrake, a fiscal specialist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Environmental Health, will be sharing his collection of materials with examples of art from earlier times used for advertising, magazine covers and book covers.
January 24, 2002
Notices
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
ADAI research grants available
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
Mystery photo
Mystery Photo Winners:
1.
Digging it up for the IMA
It may look like an archaeological dig, but it’s actually the construction site for the addition to the IMA.
Health Sciences/UW Medical Center hold tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Genome Project subject of Faculty Lecture
| Walter Neary |
| Health Sciences News & Community Relations |
Only a year ago, you couldn’t get away from the word “genetics.
Lecture to focus on nouveau book bindings
The Art Nouveau Bindings of the Works of Louis Couperus is the title of a talk to be given by H.
Faculty Senate meeting slated
The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.
Wootton Professorship: Mary Austin-Seymour named to new radiation oncology post
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Surgery’s Schilling Lecture:University of Toronto expert on shock and fluids to speak Feb. 1
The Department of Surgery’s eighth annual Helen and John Schilling Lecture next week will feature Dr.
‘Women Docs’ on TV Sunday: UW-affiliated physicians featured in program that moves from Seattle to Alaska
The next episode of Lifetime television’s “Women Docs” is scheduled to air at 11 p.
Preeclampsia: Frequent blood-pressure checks are important to find early signs of potentially dangerous condition
| Pam Sowers |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Soon-to-be mothers hope for an uneventful pregnancy.
January 17, 2002
Etc.
BEST BOOK: The UW’s Sam Wineburg was recently presented the Frederic W.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
ADAI Research Grants
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
Mystery photo
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Newsmakers
MAPPING EVOLUTION: As better genomic information becomes available with the resolution of the Human Genome Project, a UW scientist thinks a clearer picture of human evolution, might result.
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‘Man Who Stayed Behind’ to speak at Burke lecture
Sidney Rittenberg, the man who went to China in the Army in 1945 and ended up staying for 35 years, will lecture on China’s Cultural Revolution: A Turning Point in History at 7 p.
$1.8 million saved in energy costs
The UW avoided $1.
Harvard professor to lecture on human nature
Who Owns `Human Nature’? is the title of this quarter’s Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, scheduled for 7:30 p.
Nominees for awards sought
Outstanding Public Service
Nominations are now being accepted for the Outstanding Public Service Award, which recognizes the contributions of a faculty or staff member to improving the quality of life locally, nationally or internationally through public service.
Old and New
A totem pole near the Burke Museum offers a stark contrast to the construction cranes looming in the background.
Health and Sciences Brief News
Preventing blindness
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded a grant of $110,000 to the UW Department of Ophthalmology to suport research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
Memory neurons pinpointed during surgery
By Walter Neary
An investigation of the activity of individual human nerve cells during the act of memory indicates that the brain’s nerve cells are even more specialized than many people think—no pun intended.
Reading the genome: Biochemistry chair investigates how cells manage to express genes and replicate at the same time
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
Stretch the DNA contained in one human cell from end-to-end, and it would be about one yard long.
MEDCON awards
Physicians honored for answering regional calls
Ten UW physicians have been honored for outstanding service as MEDCON consultants during 2001.
Bonica Lecture Jan. 29 features expert on cancer pain management: Mark Lema of Roswell Park Cancer Institute to speak
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Donating your ‘extra’ kidney: What’s involved?
By Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations
What can you possibly give someone that would be more valuable to them than lavish jewelry, a trip to the city of their dreams or even a $100,000 Lamborghini? It’s something you already have and the expense to you will be minimal.
School of Dentistry awards first Rothwell teaching prize to Eugene Natkin
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January 10, 2002
Etc.
FEEL LIKE DANCIN’: When renowned choreographer Pat Graney presents a retrospective of her work over the next two weeks at the Moore Theater, there will be some UW representation on the stage.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Funding available
The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.
Mystery photo
Where are we? Okay, you’ve convinced us that you’re experts on the campus.
Culinary cash
Joel Waller, the University’s catering coordinator, displays some of the Husky Den Dollars that visitors used to “purchase” free food at the renovated facility in the HUB.
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Burke welcomes storytellers
“Stories of Exploration and Adventure” is the theme for this year’s Winter Storytelling Festival at the Burke Museum, to be held on Thursday evenings and weekend days throughout January.
Psychological Services and Training Center
Unit Head: Corey Fagan, director
Location: Guthrie Annex 1
Number of Employees: Eight paid staff members plus approximately 30 graduate student staff therapists who provide services as part of their training in the clinical psychology doctoral program.
Hilborn opens lecture series
Most solutions to fisheries problems have been shortsighted and don’t provide the right incentives for fishermen, resource managers or scientists, according to Ray Hilborn, UW professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences and lead speaker for this year’s Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries.
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