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March 31, 2005
UW Tacoma formalizes commitment to transfer students
With the state poised to allow the first freshmen at UW Tacoma in 2007, a new agreement promising transfer students nearly three-quarters of UWT’s undergraduate seats has been signed by UW President Mark Emmert and representatives from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges and the Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Dancers with and without disabilities to blend talents in innovative summer program
Most of us, when we think of a dancer, are likely to think of someone gliding across the stage with ease and grace.
Burke Museum to expand gallery space
The Burke Museum’s popular 2001 exhibit about the Antarctic voyage of Ernest Shackleton and his ship The Endurance was realistic for reasons both good and unfortunate, remembers Roxana Augusztiny, the museum’s interim director.
New Kane collection spotlights artists of color
The UW and the Washington State Arts Commission’s Art in Public Places Program will dedicate a new collection of artworks by nine artists of color at 6 p.
Missouri dean, Seattle native to head UW Graduate School
UW President Mark Emmert has selected Suzanne Trager Ortega, vice provost for advanced studies and dean of graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as dean and vice provost of the UW Graduate School, effective Aug.
Sylvan Theater undergoing needed restoration
Work in the Sylvan Theater, originally scheduled for last October, is now in full swing.
Separate genes influence speed, accuracy in decoding written words in dyslexia
Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a location on chromosome 2 that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords.
March 30, 2005
Immigration has become hallmark of America’s image at home and abroad
PHILADELPHIA — Even though the American government and people have not always embraced immigrants with open arms, the image of the United States as a land of opportunity and refuge has become the focal point of the nation’s identity at home and around the world, says the incoming president of the Population Association of America.
March 29, 2005
Continents, colleges converge at UW Global Business Challenge
Mitja Gorenak was born on the day the torch for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was carried through his birth city, Celje.
UW students win national, international awards
While the UW men’s basketball team was doing its part for national recognition, UW students were winning more than their share of prominent national and international awards and competitions on an unprecedented scale.
Chancellor of UW Bothell to step down
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March 28, 2005
Economist finds that Cuba’s state-run baseball league doesn’t go to bat for players
On the brink of a U.
March 24, 2005
Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
A pair of leading scientists who study songbirds as models for understanding the human brain and how humans acquire language say it’s time for the burgeoning field to begin singing a different tune and study a wider variety of species.
Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
Contradicting previous assumptions, new fisheries research shows that allocating catch among vessels reduces the amount of fish discarded at sea.
March 23, 2005
Ice core ‘dipstick’ indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed
Rising sea levels 20,000 years ago, as the last ice age was beginning to wane, often are attributed in part to melting in West Antarctica.
March 21, 2005
Pregnant women face risk after motor vehicle crashes regardless of the presence of injuries
Pregnant women who are hospitalized following motor vehicle crashes are at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, even if they are not seriously injured or not injured at all.
Exotic physics finds black holes could be most ‘perfect,’ low-viscosity fluid
In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn’t existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that started the universe.
Exhibit of emerging architectural ideas offers ‘glimpse of future’
WHAT: “Headlines: Emerging Architectural Ideas.
March 18, 2005
Suzanne Trager Ortega selected as dean of the UW Graduate School
University of Washington President Mark Emmert has selected Suzanne Trager Ortega, vice provost for advanced studies and dean of graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as dean and vice provost of the UW Graduate School, effective Aug.
March 16, 2005
Researchers find evidence of dark energy in our galactic neighborhood
Astrophysicists in recent years have found evidence for a force they call dark energy in observations from the farthest reaches of the universe, billions of light years away.
UW alum first recipient of award for outstanding achievements in biomaterials
A University of Washington alumnus who invented more than 30 biomedical devices, including a shunt that made kidney dialysis practical, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Northwest Pioneers of Biomaterials and Medical Devices Award.
March 15, 2005
Answer from ‘dusty shelf’ aids quest to see matter as it was just after big bang
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don’t mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
March 10, 2005
Life in ‘Lost City’
The hydrothermal vents were miles from where anyone could have imagined.
Health Sciences News Briefs
Local neuroscience meeting
The Pacific Cascade and Vancouver, B.
Almost Famous: Staffer seeks screen success
Peg Cheng may look like a responsible adult, but for more than a year her mind has been on high school.
Predicting water needs is center’s specialty
Are farmers in southeast Idaho likely to start irrigating in early May, in late May, or somewhere in between?
Private power producer PacifiCorp, for one, wants to know so it can prepare for less water being available and more power being needed when agricultural producers start pumping earlier in the year.
Council looks at UW ties with community
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of columns by chairs of the Faculty Senate’s councils and committees.
Bloom time: Quad’s cherry trees go online
Nature may still dictate their delicate display, but the famous cherry trees on the Quad, in keeping with the times, have gone online.
Professorship honors Wayne Crill
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Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Rushmer lecturer to speak on ‘Engineering the Heart’
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, a world leader in heart and lung transplant surgery and research, will speak at the 17th annual Rushmer Lecture, sponsored by the UW Department of Bioengineering.
Prions: From the lab to the barnyard and wildlife
Transmissible brain diseases among livestock and wild game have become a growing concern in veterinary medicine, agriculture, and public health.
Scientist from one of top prion labs will explain ‘amazing’ biology
Prions, which have been identified as the causative agent in mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie, a disease of sheep and goats, were identified, named and characterized by Dr.
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ACTIVE RETIREMENT: If you have seen the most recent Taco Time commercial on TV, or heard it on the radio, you’ve been tuning in on the post-professorial career of Otto Reinert.
Recycling system saves millions of gallons at Consolidated Laundry
The UW Consolidated Laundry in Seattle’s Rainier Valley has installed a water recycling system that is expected to conserve approximately 18 million gallons a year.
Notices
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Grant applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning scholarly projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
Program covers basics of starting a company at UW
“Starting a Company While Keeping Your Day Job at the UW” is the title for the next presentation in the series “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Industry Relations Office.
David Baker and colleagues receive award for article in Science
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March 9, 2005
Mock named injury prevention center director
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March 8, 2005
Scientists search for seafloor eruption
The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano.
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