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Recent grad earns prestigious scholarship

Kiera Clarke, who earned a B.

Visitor center now at Odegaard

For those who have been around the UW campus for a while, the Visitors Information Center isn’t where it used to be.

Students broaden medical horizons in rural communities

“How did you spend your summer vacation?” will be among the frequently-asked questions overheard on campus in the coming weeks.

Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Allen Center art is all in the (UW) family

The UW community no doubt knows the Paul G.

Conference on male contraception set for Sept. 27-28

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Genius in our midst: Matsuoka wins coveted MacArthur

Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University, has been named one of this year’s MacArthur Fellows.

Four new chairs in engineering

Nearly half of the 10 departments in the College of Engineering are ushering in changes at the top.

Zheng to present New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture

Ning Zheng, associate professor of pharmacology, will present Protein Ubiquitination: From Plant Biology to Human Diseases at noon on Wednesday, Oct.

ETC: campus news & notes

LEADING WOMEN: Three UW staffers are among 13 women being honored for having “not only set the standard or raised the bar in their professions and/or community leadership, but also having established legacies, including the mentoring of other women of color to take over and surpass their achievements.

Safe at home/safe at work: Strategies for personal preparedness

Getting ready for the next disaster is a bit like tying your shoelaces: If you don’t, you’ll probably trip.

58th Annual Strauss Lecture set for Sept. 28

John Hunter, Mackenzie professor and chair of the Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, will present the 58th Annual Strauss Lecture at 4 p.

UW Press teams up with Frye Art Museum on reading series, book

This fall the Frye Art Museum and the UW Press are initiating a series of quarterly readings by writers who will explore the stylistic relationships between visual art — both in the Frye Collection and in special exhibitions — and the literary arts.

Brooklyn Building being vacated

It’s the last call for Brooklyn, the UW office building, that is.

Health Sciences News Briefs

HMC changes to ‘744’ telephone prefix

Harborview Medical Center is migrating telephone numbers with the 731 prefix to the 744 prefix.

Child care help, enhanced counseling offered

UW faculty and staff can get extra help finding childcare and dealing with diffiicult issues in their lives, thanks to one new and one enhanced service offered by UW Human Resources.

Business continuity during an emergency: People first, then systems

Scott Preston and his colleagues at UW Emergency Management help departments and units plan responses to disasters such as fires, earthquakes, pandemics and plain old human error.

Old dances new again: Chamber Dance Company performs classic choreography, now more accessible

The UW Chamber Dance Company will kick off the academic year by presenting a new concert and providing an opportunity for the general public to see portions of its old ones.

To prepare and protect: UW Emergency Management at work

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ASL ‘spoken’ here: New class offered

This quarter for the first time, the UW will be offering American Sign Language (ASL) for credit.

Get UW arts information with one click

From the stage, to the digital studio, to the gallery, the Arts at the University of Washington present creative cultural experiences that are open to everyone.

Technology Review honors 3 UW engineers

If you pick up a copy of Technology Review magazine this month, you’ll see this year’s winners for the top 35 young innovators.

New major offered: American Indian Studies is approved after five-year effort

Starting this year, UW students will be able to major in American Indian Studies for the first time.

Guitarist Partington to perform Oct. 7

Award-winning British guitarist Michael Partington, a UW School of Music alumnus and a new faculty member, presents his debut recital at 7:30 p.

September 26, 2007

NW Kidney Centers, Kirin-Amgen to establish endowed UW professorship in kidney research honoring kidney physician – the late Dr. Joseph W. Eschbach

The not-for-profit Northwest Kidney Centers (NKC) based in Seattle, WA, and California biotechnology joint venture Kirin-Amgen have announced an honorary gift to the University of Washington (UW) Division of Nephrology to establish the Joseph W.

September 25, 2007

City birds better than rural species in coping with human disruption

Birds that hang out in large urban areas seem to have a marked advantage over their rural cousins — they are adaptable enough to survive in a much larger range of conditions.

September 24, 2007

Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen

A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington’s 7.

Victimization for sexual orientation increases suicidal behavior in college students

The film and television series “M*A*S*H*” featured the song “Suicide is Painless,” but new research refutes that idea and indicates that being victimized because of sexual orientation is a chief risk factor for suicidal behavior among gay, lesbian and bisexual college students.

UW computer engineer wins MacArthur Foundation ‘genius’ award

Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, has been named one of this year’s <A href="http://www.

University of Washington and state agencies join to forecast and respond to human health effects of climate change in Washington state

Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.

September 21, 2007

Experts list: Arctic sea ice minimum for 2007 sets new record

The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

September 19, 2007

Collapsing structures to be tested in revamped UW engineering lab

Just as Minneapolis now finds itself in the middle of a national debate on bridge safety, so the Puget Sound area was some 70 years ago.

September 18, 2007

NIH funds University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences

The University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).

September 17, 2007

Cell death in sparrow brains may provide clues in age-related human diseases

A remarkable change takes place in the brains of tiny songbirds every year, and some day the mechanism controlling that change may help researchers develop treatments for age-related degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson’s and dementia.

Research overturns accepted notion of neutron’s electrical properties

For two generations of physicists, it has been a standard belief that the neutron, an electrically neutral elementary particle and a primary component of an atom, actually carries a positive charge at its center and an offsetting negative charge at its outer edge.

September 12, 2007

A rose is a rozsa is a 薔薇: Image-search tool speaks hundreds of languages

From the fall of the Tower of Babel to the Esperanto global language movement, many humans have dreamed of sharing a common tongue.

September 7, 2007

UW honors The Foster Foundation’s philanthropy with new name for Business School

University of Washington president Mark A.

September 5, 2007

David Kopay, alum and gay athlete, donates $1 million to UW’s Q Center

David Kopay, a University of Washington alumnus who was the first American professional team athlete to come out as gay, has pledged $1 million to the UW’s Q Center, whose mission is to create an inclusive and celebratory environment for people of all sexual orientations.

September 4, 2007

Having the right timing ‘connections’ in brain is key to overcoming dyslexia

Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers.