Archive
May 23, 2000
Northwest Coast Indian information available on Web
A unique collection of information about the Northwest Coast Indians is now available on the Web as a result of a University of Washington Libraries-led project, under a grant from the Library of Congress and Ameritech.
May 22, 2000
Gender switching on the Internet isn’t as common as believed
When it comes to gender switching, the Internet appears to be a far tamer frontier and much more conventional than many critics have claimed.
UW partners with Advanced Tissue Sciences and others in $10 million grant to ‘grow’ human heart tissue
Bioengineering researchers at the University of Washington will lead a multi-million-dollar effort to grow functional human heart tissue, an undertaking that could lead to tissue-engineered replacement hearts and set in place the technology to grow other major organs in the laboratory.
May 19, 2000
UW program wins national substance abuse prevention award
Reconnecting Youth, a substance abuse prevention program from the University of Washington School of Nursing, was one of two Washington programs that won an Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award for 1999, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announced this week.
May 18, 2000
UW to launch Technology Management MBA
A new kind of University of Washington MBA will offer rising technology professionals the knowledge and skills to become corporate leaders, Business School Dean Yash Gupta announced today.
Kennewick Man not affected by minor Burke Museum flood
A pipe burst in a freezer system at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the University of Washington campus early this morning causing minor water damage
May 16, 2000
Student foresters bring annual celebration back to Seattle campus
Undergraduates from the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources will be explaining the range of careers possible in forestry today and competing in logger sports using chain saws, crosscut saws and axes during “Garb Day.”
UW School of Nursing receives record endowment from Bellingham couple
Bob and Jean Reid of Bellingham have made a $5 million donation to the University of Washington School of Nursing—the largest gift in the school’s history.
May 15, 2000
Mutant mice voluntarily drink more alcohol, recover faster from its sedative effects
Researchers trying to unravel the causes of alcoholism have discovered that mice voluntarily drink significantly more alcohol when a gene that encodes a key brain protein is missing.
May 12, 2000
Groundbreaking course helps future teachers get art into classrooms
Some future teachers have spent their final quarter at the University of Washington on center stage, with a paintbrush and pallet in hand, while considering music theory.
May 11, 2000
Five Seattle scientists selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
Five Seattle researchers — three from the University of Washington and two from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — have been selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
Patricia Wasley selected as dean of College of Education
Patricia Wasley, who currently is dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College in New York, has been selected to be dean of the University of Washington College of Education, effective Sept. 1, 2000.
May 10, 2000
Dean of Dentistry Dr. Paul B. Robertson to Step Down; Will Remain on Faculty
Dr. Paul B. Robertson, one of the nation’s leading dental educators and dean of the University of Washington School of Dentistry since 1992, has announced that he will step down as dean as soon as a successor is recruited.
Gun Safety Editorial by Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng: Common Ground in the Gun Debate
Published in the Tuesday, May 9, 2000 edition of the Seattle Times.
UW family practice residents research gun ownership, gun safety practices and gun safety counseling
University of Washington (UW) third-year family practice residents took on a year-long community project to learn whether gun safety was a health issue for their patients
May 9, 2000
Key DNA enzyme can tolerate more mutations than expected
A new study from University of Washington researchers shows that a DNA polymerase — an enzyme — commonly used for scientific study can tolerate many different mutations and remain functional.
Educational Opportunity Program banquet May 17
“Celebration 2000,” the 30th Annual Educational Opportunity Program scholarship banquet, will be held Wednesday, May 17 at Ballroom 6-E, Washington State Convention and Trade Center.
Influential journalist to speak May 16 on Taiwan and China at crossroads
Just days before Taiwan inaugurates its new president and Congress votes on China trade, one of Asia’s leading journalists will come to the University of Washington to discuss the impact of these dramatic events on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations.
Women who have Caesarean or assisted vaginal delivery are more likely to be rehospitalized
Women who have Caesarean or assisted vaginal delivery are at a higher risk of rehospitalization than women who have unassisted vaginal delivery, say University of Washington researchers.
May 8, 2000
Third Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 12
More than 240 undergraduates will participate in the third Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will be held noon to 6 p.m. Friday, May 12 in Mary Gates Hall and the HUB.
From virtual to real: UW and Japanese students to meet face-to-face after cyberspace collaboration
You might call it real virtuality. That’s how some University of Washington freshmen are describing the chance to finally meet Japanese students from Tohoku University with whom they collaborated fall quarter via cyberspace on a series of engineering projects. The teamwork was part of a new class designed to introduce beginning college students to hands-on engineering in the international arena.
May 6, 2000
‘Opto-chips’ are high-speed communications breakthrough
New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies.
May 2, 2000
Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
Jerry Franklin was one of the first ecosystem scientists to visit Mount St.
Two UW scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences
Two UW faculty members, Dr. Stanley Fields and Dr. Sen-itiroh Hakomori, are among 60 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Results were announced Tuesday, May 2.
Evans School hosts leaders in global humanitarian relief and development
The chiefs of the world’s major humanitarian relief and development agencies will convene in Seattle Saturday through Monday to coordinate their response to changing economic and political conditions and discuss with Northwest corporate leaders ways to collaborate in the fight against poverty and disease.
May 1, 2000
Real-world job training cuts the odds of returning to prison
The right kind of job training can reduce the odds of returning to a life of crime, University of Washington researchers have found.
May 8 dedication of Mary Gates Hall marks new era
The dedication of Mary Gates Hall May 8 will commemorate the creation of a unique facility at the University of Washington focusing on undergraduate learning.
April 29, 2000
UW physicists find more precise gravity number — and weigh the Earth
It’s a smaller world after all – that is, if new measurements by University of Washington physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth’s mass came from work that could establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton’s gravitational constant.
April 27, 2000
Center for Law, Commerce and Technology fights for public interest on the Internet
University of Washington students and professors are aiding Attorney General Christine Gregoire in her newly announced initiative to protect consumers online.
April 26, 2000
UW Business School launches e-business management program
Hastening to meet industry demand for Internet-savvy managers, the University of Washington Business School this fall will launch its first program in e-business, Dean Yash Gupta announced today.
Engineering from A to Z: Opportunities for learning abound at more than 100 exhibits at UW College of Engineering Open House
Engineering from A to Z: Opportunities for learning abound at more than 100 exhibits at UW College of Engineering Open House
Make a comet, see the stars at second UW astronomy open house
WHAT: Second annual University of Washington Astronomy Department open house.
April 25, 2000
MEDIA ADVISORY — UW Business School to announce technology program and gift
Announcement of a new program to prepare the next generation of managers to lead today’s Internet-driven business world, and a gift to launch the program.
April 24, 2000
UW study finds many farm children are exposed to pesticides
A University of Washington study suggests that pesticides are finding their way into the bodies of pre-school children in agricultural communities at a higher level than previously thought.
Twenty years after big blast: Mount St. Helens leaves legacy of more accurate eruption predictions
Steve Malone began studying Mount St. Helens in 1973. He didn’t know that just seven years later he would be tracking swarms of earthquakes signaling that the mountain was about to blow its top.
April 20, 2000
Making life compute: Volunteers spend weekends helping minority students learn computing skills at the University of Washington
Since January, volunteers with Black Data Processing Associates, a national non-profit organization, have been meeting with local high school and middle school students, providing them with a forum in which to nurture computer skills.
Harborview opens Gamma Knife Center for new-generation treatment of neurological problems
Patients with brain tumors, cancers, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and other neurological abnormalities can now be helped at Harborview Medical Center by the Gamma Knife C, a non-invasive alternative to traditional surgical methods.
April 19, 2000
UW’s Arbor Day Fair named one of best in the nation by National Arbor Day Foundation
More than 2,200 first-, second- and third-graders and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.
April 18, 2000
Brazilians top students from 13 nations in UW’s Global Business Challenge
Four undergraduates from Sao Paulo, Brazil, took first prize in last weekend’s Global Business Challenge, which has emerged in its second year as the world’s largest such competition.
UW honors distinguished alum who resisted World War II internment
Social scientist, humanist and human rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi will be honored by his alma mater, the University of Washington, in ceremonies May 9. The event will culminate a series of activities that week focused on Hirabayashi and the Japanese American experience.
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