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November 20, 2003
Welcome to the Baahaus: Staffer cares for neglected animals
Glenda Pearson lives with a cow named Cathy, and a couple of house pigs called Annie and Lewis, and some hogs named Hazel and Ruby, not to mention assorted rabbits ducks, llamas, geese and more pigs.
Things your mother never taught you:Success with patents and licenses
“Successful Biomedical Patents and Products” is the topic for the next presentation in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.
Virtual secret agent encourages healthy behavior
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil — just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
Mars landers create opportunity for Web-linked sundials around the world
Woodruff Sullivan, a University of Washington astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, “the science guy,” and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams.
Health Sciences News Briefs
Named to commission
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Find King County photos on new Web site
A unique collection of historical images of King County is now available online, the result of a collaboration involving the UW and 11 other cultural heritage organizations.
Air Force ROTC group named top gun
For the first time since 1991 the Huskies are No.
CFD: She helps cancer patients and their families cope
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive, which wraps up this week, University Week has featured UW employees who volunteer at CFD agencies.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Learning more about how serotonin works
The way you feel right this moment, your ability to remember where you parked the car and even whether you get stressed out when you pay the bills are all dependent on the way your brain produces and releases serotonin.
Retired Navy captain named to lead Department of Endodontics
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Program presents annual minority business awards
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state were honored last evening at the 2003 UW Minority Business of the Year Awards.
Quake experts: It’s location, location, location
Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
Third hormone could affect songbirds’ breeding patterns
Scientists have known for many years that auditory cues such as song can influence hormone release and the growth of gonads in songbirds, but how the brain picks out specific sounds, interprets them correctly and translates them into hormonal and behavioral signals has remained a mystery.
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WEATHERING CHANGE: The reading at University Book Store on Nov.
November 19, 2003
Science wed with policy key to using, protecting ocean resources
Dealing with pressing issues of the nation’s 3.4 million square miles of ocean and the wise use of marine resources elsewhere around the world requires the integration of natural and social science with policy decisions, according to Professor Thomas Leschine, the new director of the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs.
State’s top minority-owned companies honored for economic contributions
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state will be honored this evening at the 2003 University of Washington Minority Business of the Year Awards.
November 18, 2003
Digital secret agent asks students’ help in battling evil, beating heart disease
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil – just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
November 17, 2003
Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
It’s a long-held tenet of avian biology that songbirds have just two types of a key reproduction hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and only one actually triggers a seasonal “puberty” each spring in preparation for reproduction. But the new research shows a third form of the hormone, called lamprey GnRH-III-like hormone because it was first identified in lampreys, is also present in songbird brains.
November 13, 2003
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
CFD: Alumni Relations staffer not satisfied with just one volunteer gig
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. The UW recently received a $450,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a digital archive of Pacific Northwest cultural and historical items and to produce six online exhibitions over two years as the foundation for an online community museum. Recent evidence suggests that oxygen levels were suppressed worldwide 175 million to 275 million years ago and fell to precipitously low levels compared with today’s atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude. U-Match is probably not the place to find the next love of your life, nor is it some corporate moneymaking scheme. The UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state. The UW, Tacoma will host an event on Tuesday to commemorate the history of the Japanese Language School building, slated to be torn down this winter. The Westfield State College board of trustees in Westfield, Mass. Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes. Hummingbirds visited nearly 70 times more often after scientists altered the color of a kind of monkeyflower from pink — beloved by bees but virtually ignored by hummingbirds — to a hummer-attractive yellow-orange. When jazz violinist Regina Carter visited the School of Music last week, it was just one more opportunity for students at the school to have a lesson — in public. November 12, 2003 Researchers writing in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature say perhaps it was a major change or two, such as petal color, that first forged the fork in the evolutionary road that led to today’s species of monkeyflowers that are attractive to and pollinated by hummingbirds and separate species of monkeyflowers that are pollinated by bees. The University of Washington has received an award of $5.86 million for a research center to study fragile-X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation. November 10, 2003 The University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state. November 6, 2003 Academic Opportunities Grant Applications Available The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States. The UW has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium. A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS. Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health – the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the UW School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program. An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new UW Medicine brand and logos. Genome ethics It’s as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice.
Virtual museum to ‘bridge distance,’ bring peninsula culture to broader audience
Breathtaking: Evidence suggests that low O2 levels led to mass extinction, birds’ breathing system
U-Match: Boosting community, not romance
Best young scholars in Washington sought
University to commemorate Japanese Language School
UW Tacoma chancellor departs for Massachusetts
Some large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their location
Major mutations might lead way to new species, study shows
Master classes offer chance to see musicians in the making
Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
UW receives almost $6 million to study common cause of cognitive disability
Washington’s brightest fifth to eighth graders sought by UW
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One of five centers for bariatric surgery research here
Researchers join forces to develop HIV vaccine
Project uses Internet as tool
for diabetes management
UW Medicine Style Guide now online with logos
Health Sciences News Briefs
“Understanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy” is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other UW programs.
Let’s ‘Dance’: Staffer’s new CD offers healing messages
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