December 6, 2001
Notices
Payroll notices
Check the address on your paycheck
Check the address listed on your paycheck.
November 29, 2001
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Etc.
PHILANTHROPIC FAMILY: Ellen Ferguson, community relations director for the Burke Museum, and her family were recently honored at National Philanthropy Day ceremonies in Seattle as the state’s outstanding philanthropic family.
Notices
Legal Notice
Notice of Possible Rule Making – Preproposal Statement of Inquiry – (per RCW 34.
Newsmakers
LANGUAGE LEARNING: The co-director of the UW’s Center for Mind, Brain and Learning says that babies learn to distinguish sounds made in their native language from sounds in other languages long before they learn to speak.
Sorting it out
Clyde Washington, left, and Herold Eby sort through some of the tons of recyclable materials the UW generates on a regular basis.
Are ‘fortresses’ necessary in wake of Sept. 11?
Since Sept.
Bridgman film showing Dec. 7
Jon Bridgman’s Pearl Harbor: Parallels and Perspectives, a documentary that explores the people and events leading up to World War II, will premiere at 7:30 p.
Nominees sought for annual awards
Letters will go out next week to solicit nominees for several of the University’s annual awards.
Book examines religious roots of American media
By Steve Hill
University Week
Despite widely held public perception to the contrary, criticism from conservatives, and journalists’ own claims to objectivity and skepticism, the American press corps operates from a religious foundation, according to a UW researcher.
Katz lecturer shows relevance of early Japanese culture
UW Professor Susan Hanley of the Jackson School of International Studies will speak on Japan’s Traditional Lifestyles: Reflections in 2001 as the fall Solomon Katz Lecturer in the Humanities.
Faculty Senate to consider two Class B measures
The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.
Authentic life is workshop topic
Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, will be offering a one-day workshop at the UW on Jan.
Health Sciences Brief News
Martin edits Web site
Dr.
Could heart tissue be regenerated?
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
Every week on “E.
Rescheduled Strauss Lecture will be Dec. 7
The Department of Surgery’s annual Strauss Lecture, rescheduled from its original date of Sept.
Hand washing: The fine points
Dr.
Speaker to discuss work in behavioral neurogenetics
By Laurie McHale
Center on Human Development and Disability
Behavioral neurogenetics research is a new method of scientific inquiry that focuses on the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with specific genetic conditions, contributing to an improved understanding of brain disorders in children.
UW research group awarded almost $19 million as part of NIH Protein Structure Initiative
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
While the Human Genome Project and its controversy have gobbled up space in the science news, some local researchers have been awarded a cool $18.
Ready to go
From left, Laura Marshall, Jeremiah Trammell, Vivian Schmidt, Yann Novak and Megan Rasley are ready to greet customers at the HUB’s new food service, etc.
Something fishy?
One might say UW gardeners were up to something fishy.
November 15, 2001
Etc.
RESEARCH/TEACHING HONOR: Gretchen Kalonji, Kyocera Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was among seven university educators nationwide to be honored with a new National Science Foundation award during a ceremony in Washington, D.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Visiting Professorships at the University of Bergen, 2002-2003
The UW-University of Bergen Faculty Exchange Program announces its annual competition for Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Bergen, Norway, for a minimum term of one quarter.
You guessed it…
Most entrants this week were not fooled by our shot of the roof of Fluke Hall.
Unfurling the flag
The UW’s Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps sponsored a flag pole dedication to all United States armed forces veterans last week at the east side of Husky Stadium.
Answering medication questions
UW Pharmacy student Tiffany Tennant, left, and UWMC pharmacist Yvonne Mark answer Sharlene Aldrich’s questions at a booth set up at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt to provide information on medications and general health tips.
Dr. Elders at Children’s
Former U.
Grant to help K-12 educators expand math teaching strategies
By Steve Hill
University Week
It seems that old saying, “as easy as 1-2-3” might not be so easy after all.
Does fallout from Sept. 11 threaten rights we take for granted?
Since Sept.
Staffer relishes CFD roles
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Fee committee accepting tech project proposals
The Student Technology Fee Committee will be accepting proposals from the Seattle campus for student technology related projects for the 2001-02 proposal cycle beginning Nov.
Health sciences brief news
Kid’s headaches
Pediatric neurologist Sarah Cheyette has written a parents’ guide to understanding children’s headaches.
Team Transplant
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
A unique team of UW Medical Center staff and faculty, transplant recipients and donor family members will run and walk as part of the Seattle Marathon on Nov.
Public Health organizes forum focusing on bioterrorism and other threats
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
The campus community and public can learn more about bioterrorism at a community forum featuring public health experts planned from 7 to 8:30 p.
November 8, 2001
Etc.
OYSTER FEVER: “What, then, draws oyster farmers to the water’s edge at dawn or in the dead of night? What makes them work so hard, often in miserable weather, to keep their oysters fat and fit? What makes the rest of us clamor for that small tidbit of flesh, cradled by the smooth inner nacre of an oyster’s thickly sculpted shell? One answer’s obvious: the ambrosial taste of the world’s most edible shellfish.
Notices
Legal Notices
Notice of Possible Rule Making – Preproposal Statement of Inquiry
(per RCW 34.
Council active, with range of issues
The Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs (FCFA) shall be responsible (as described in Section 42-33) for all matters of policy relating to the interests of the faculty, such as appointment, tenure, promotion, professional leave, compensation (including salary and fringe benefits), academic freedom, standards of academic performance, and professional ethics.
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Briefly
Memorial service planned to honor architecture professor
A Dec.
Construction site
The Eye Center at UW Medical Center won the award for “most constructive” pumpkin as part of the annual Halloween decorating contest, judged last week.
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