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Space launchers, robotic fish will be on display at Engineering Open House

It’s somewhere between a carnival and a trip to a mad scientist’s lab.

April 19, 2007

ThINK: Subject Recruitment and Retention, April 25 & May 8

The Investigator Needs to Know (ThINK) seminar presents a two-part lecture series, Subject Recruitment and Retention: Strategies that Work, Wednesday, April 25, and Tuesday, May 8, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.

Oceanographer flags dangers of ocean warming, acidification in April 23 lecture

The one-two punch of global warming and a chemical change in ocean waters because of human-caused carbon dioxide is the topic of the lecture Monday, April 23, titled Global Warming and Ocean Acidification: Double Trouble for Marine Ecosystems.

Iraqi casualty research lecture April 20

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Lecture series focuses on early childhood development

Beyond cooing and cuteness, early childhood is absolutely critical to every human being’s development.

Genome Symposium: ‘Pests, Plagues & Plants’ April 25

The UW’s Sixth Annual Genome Sciences Symposium takes place all day Wednesday, April 25, at the W.

Raymond Jonas named to Costigan endowed professorship

UW History Professor Raymond Jonas, an expert in the field of European and African history, has been named the inaugural Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor in History.

Community Celebration, honoring faculty and staff, is part of annual Washington Weekend April 26-28

John Marmor
Alumni Association

A special UW Community Celebration for faculty and staff is one of the highlights of the third annual Washington Weekend, which will take place from April 26 to 28 at all three UW campuses

Washington Weekend is the time every spring when the UW offers a long weekend of open houses, lectures, hands-on exhibits and more.

Karina Walters to give Samuel E. Kelly Lecture April 26

Karina L.

Two UW profs named Guggenheim Fellows

Two UW professors are among 189 artists, scholars, and scientists chosen as Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Official notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Applications Invited

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.

Kenyon Chan chosen as UWB chancellor

UW President Mark A.

Northwest company rolls out toothbrush invented at the UW

A new product developed from technology invented at the UW aims to change the way you brush your teeth.

Travels with Raven: UW surgical robot going undersea in simulation

This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the UW, leaves for its first trip to the Atlantic Ocean.

A week of variety from the School of Music

Latin Caribbean music, Indian music, J.

Staging Stoppard’s ‘Arcadia’

The UW School of Drama will present Tom Stoppard’s multiple award-winning Arcadia, directed by Tamara Fisch, April 22 through May 6 in the Playhouse Theatre.

Real and important work: Keystone projects connect UW grad students to pressing regional environmental issues

Will Mari
University Week intern

Graduate school is often thought of as a place for lofty thoughts and ethereal intellectual experiences, but the Program on the Environment (PoE) offers a Keystone course that is anything but abstract.

UW scientists advance macaque genome research

An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the genome of the rhesus macaque, a species of non-human primate that is widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections.

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Debra Schwinn to chair Dept. of Anesthesiology

Debra Schwinn, a leading physician scientist in medical genomics, molecular pharmacology, and cardiac anesthesia, has been named the new chair of the UW Department of Anesthesiology, effective May 1.

Basu on front lines of social justice fight

For Sutapa Basu, fighting for social justice has been a constant refrain ever since her childhood in India.

Ceremony honoring Robert Petersdorf April 30

A ceremony scheduled for April 30 will honor the late Robert G.

Champion of the environment: Law school’s Bill Rodgers to be celebrated Earth Day weekend

By Shari Ireton
Law School

It probably comes as no surprise that the person regarded as a pioneering leader in environmental law has spent most of his career in Seattle.

Katterman Lecture April 28: Pharmacy Revolution

The 28th Annual Katterman Lecture, Profitability and the Pharmacy Revolution: Keys to Profitability in Traditional Pharmacy Practice and the Growing Clinical Services Sector, will be presented by the UW School of Pharmacy Saturday, April 28, from 8:30 a.

Prof uncovers humanity’s dirty little secret in new book

Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon.

Innovation, patients at heart of vascular research

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Kavanagh to head transport services

Joshua Kavanagh, associate director of Parking and Transportation Services at the University of New Mexico, has been named the director of Transportation Services at the UW.

Strandness found new way to diagnose vascular disease

In the 1960s, Dr.

Vice chancellor for academic affairs named at UWT

By Sandra Sarr
UW Tacoma

Beth Rushing has been named vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the UW Tacoma.

Cardiothoracic surgery welcomes Dr. Larry Kaiser April 20

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Teaching, learning methods on display at symposium

Too many students in Biology 180 were floundering, so instructor Scott Freeman and his colleagues made the students and the course a research project.

Stephen Harrison to give Neurath Lecture May 3

The 23rd Annual Hans Neurath Lecture will be given by Stephen C.

Mystery photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.