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January 19, 2006

Three School of Music concerts planned next week

The UW School of Music plans three concerts next week.

UW custodians use products, methods easy on the environment and themselves

Move over Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Comet dust from seven-year project is paydirt for UW astronomer

When the Stardust sample return canister was opened at Johnson Space Center in Houston Tuesday, Donald Brownlee was delighted by what he saw.

Official Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES


Pilot project funding available


The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.

Mystery Photo

WHERE ARE WE? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Career Discovery Week set for Jan. 23–30

Career Discovery Week is a three-ring affair this year, but it’s hardly a circus.

January 18, 2006

UW astronomer hits cosmic paydirt with Stardust

Scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston were excited and awed Tuesday by what they saw when the sample-return canister from the Stardust spacecraft was opened.

UW to establish Department of Global Health with $20 million Gates Foundation grant

The University of Washington School of Medicine and the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine will establish a jointly-operated Department of Global Health, pending approval at the January meeting of the UW Board of Regents.

January 15, 2006

Stardust parachutes to soft landing in Utah with dust samples from comet

DUGWAY, Utah — Nearly seven years after setting off in pursuit of comet Wild 2, the Stardust return capsule streaked across the night sky of the Western United States early today, making a soft parachute landing in the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City.

January 13, 2006

UW Medical Center first in nation to install next-generation PET/CT scanner

UW Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to install a new-generation PET/CT imaging system designed to help physicians detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process.

Rainfall records falling: Background experts available on flooding, landslides

University of Washington faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds and other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet, winter weather.

January 12, 2006

Video Traces: A flexible new medium for instruction

Consider, say, a quarterback and coach reviewing a play from last week’s football game.

Profit-driven corporations can make management blind to ethics, study says

Corporations like Enron that overemphasize outcomes such as profits might make their leaders blind to ethics and limit their abilities to recognize ethical or moral issues when they surface, according to a UW study.

Ford Foundation grant focuses on Southeast Asian American students, communities

The Ford Foundation has selected the UW as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and constructive dialogue on campus.

Army ants marching: Capturing large prey may be origin of their cooperative behavior

Scientific insights come at the darnedest times.

UW in top 10 for value


The UW is in the top 10 among schools identified as good values in education by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

One week, three shows at Meany

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts will be a busy place over the next week as it is visited by an acrobatic troupe, a string quartet and a dance company.

Malaria drug may help prevent breast cancer, study shows

A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in stopping breast cancer before it gets a toehold.

The plight of the pika: Small species heading for extinction

The tiny rabbitlike American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best “canaries in a coal mine” for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin.

HUB Open House slated Jan. 18

On Wednesday, Jan.

Forestry seminar series begins

The College of Forest Resources kicks off its Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series today with presentations by Court Stanley, senior vice president and chief forester at Port Blakely Tree Farms; and Sue Joerger, executive director of Puget Soundkeepers alliance.

Symmetry and skill: Dancing quality matches mate quality, study shows

Polyester aside, the disco dancers of the ’70s may have been on to something.

Viola Day planned Jan. 14

UW School of Music faculty violist Melia Watras will host violists of all ages at Viola Day, Saturday, Jan.

Volunteers needed for annual homeless count

Partnership for Youth is looking for about 50 volunteers to participate in the annual count of those living on the streets in the University District.

Mystery Photo

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

Exercise for weight loss? Not if you’ve got a stomach ache, study shows

Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds.

Dance DVDs celebrate historic choreographers and their work

Hannah Wiley was trained as a dancer and later became a teacher and choreographer, but now she finds herself creating DVDs, thanks to a grant from the UW’s Royalty Research Fund.

New UW center to help citizens learn about the oceans





Helping the public better understand the relationship between human health and the oceans, such as the environmental factors at work when shellfish develop toxic compounds that cause people to become ill or die if they eat the contaminated shellfish, is the initial focus of the new UW-based Center for Ocean Science and Education Excellence.

UW honors Martin Luther King Jr. with day of service

More than 550 volunteers – faculty, staff and students — will participate in some 45 projects on Jan.

Lessons of the past: A&S history lectures to focus on African American contributions to history

The American West was a place of greater racial diversity and complexity than depicted in most mainstream histories, with Latino influences mixing with African American, and Asian American and other cultures.

Odegaard exhibit focuses on poor who gained from education

The Missing Story of Ourselves is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan.

Notices: Reference update

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