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Denny Bell to ring again

Be assured, the Denny Bell will ring again this year for Homecoming, on Nov.

UW Bothell, Tacoma, plan major growth

Both UW Bothell and UW Tacoma, in self studies mandated by the state legislature, plan dramatic growth over the coming decade to meet the higher education needs of their communities.

Ground to be broken on new kind of building

The University will break ground Friday, Nov.

Faculty to jazz up Meany

A jazz concert, like a traditional wedding, usually has four components: something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

Two profs are AAAS Fellows

An emeritus UW atmospheric sciences professor and a chemistry professor who left the university last week are among 308 scientists nationwide to be named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Online accident-reporting system (OARS) debuts

As online technology grows at the UW, paperwork is reduced and communication becomes more immediate and effective.

Tacoma prof left New York seeking to raise consciousness

UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Beverly Naidus created a series of digital paintings using images of Buddhas, boddhisattvas, pagan gods, goddesses, and yoga poses, breathing in a wide variety of landscapes and spaces

Faculty Senate seeks vice-chair, secretary

The Faculty Senate is currently recruiting for two important positions in its organization — secretary of the faculty and vice chair of the senate.

Hurricanes spark memory of great NW storms past

Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne weren’t very hospitable houseguests.

Petersen named winner of Gates volunteer award

Family, friends, and about 1,000 guests witnessed the presentation of the Gates Volunteer Service Award to Donald E.

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INTERNATIONAL FLAIR: Five UW professors have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and/or do research abroad.

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Faculty Senate position announcement
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three UW campuses for the vital position of secretary of the faculty.

Allen started her volunteer career in high school

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Creating patent strategies and portfolios

Developing patents from research work will be the topic for the next program in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.

Investigating cholesterol oxidation and artery disease

Some functions of the human body that worked effectively for survival when people had short life spans, living only long enough to reproduce and raise their young, may have long-term consequences that catch up with us as we live longer lives.

Lecture inaugurates endowed chair in pain research

Dr. Allan Basbaum, professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California at San Francisco, will give the first Allan and Phyllis Treuer Lecture in Pain Research on Thursday, Nov. 18. He will speak on “The Neurobiology of Pain: From Molecules to Circuits” at 2:30 p.m. in room T-733 of the Health Sciences Center. This lecture inaugurates the Treuer Chair in Pain Research in the Department of Pharmacology.
Basbaum is an international leader in pain research, focusing on the neurobiological basis of pain and its control. He studies the actions of neurotransmitter molecules used by the sensory neurons to transmit pain stimuli into the central nervous system and the processing of pain information by nerve cells in the spinal cord.
He has discovered several important new aspects of the changes that occur in nerve cells, and in the neurotransmitters that they use to signal pain stimuli, during the development of chronic pain in mouse models of injury. His research combines high-resolution microscopy, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, and behavioral testing in a coordinated way to learn about pain mechanisms and the effects of drug treatments at the molecular, cellular, and whole-animal levels.
Basbaum is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. After postdoctoral research at University College London, he joined the University of California at San Francisco as a senior postdoctoral fellow, was appointed assistant professor in 1977 and assumed his present position in 1997. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pain, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Pain Research.

Charles Chavkin named to hold Treuer Endowed Chair

Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.

October 29, 2004

Democrats outgunning GOP in e-mail wars, researchers find

In the closing weeks of a tight presidential race, the Democratic National Committee has been out-e-mailing its Republican counterpart, a research team of University of Washington students has found.

Russell McDuff becomes director of UW School of Oceanography

An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.

October 28, 2004

Grant to help UW lessen impact of natural disasters

The University of Washington was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.

Human Resources: 300 more UW staffers eligible for overtime

The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.

Graphics for the blind: UW to help make Web images tactile

The UW has been awarded a $749,188 grant from the National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering and mathematical books, papers and digital formats for use by students with visual impairments.

President appoints members to provost search committee

President Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.

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New technology for elders

“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.

Childhood memories prompt her volunteer work

Name: Kristina Hansen

UW Job: Development Coordinator, School of Social Work Office of Development and Alumni Relations

Volunteer Activity: Forgotten Children’s Fund.

The Day Before: Boosting election awareness on campus

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The Day Before: Boosting election awareness on campus

David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the UW campus in these days before the general election on Nov.

October 26, 2004

UW Medical Center to implant first-ever Cs-131 brachytherapy seeds to treat prostate cancer

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.

October 25, 2004

Crash injuries result in large and potentially preventable productive losses to U.S. workers

More than 6.

October 21, 2004

Mystery object isn’t a star or a brown dwarf

A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn’t resemble any known star type.

Travel guru urges Americans to experience, not judge

Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won’t be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.

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Charter school cost modest, study says

Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.

Diana Cardenas elected to Institute of Medicine

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Work/Life: Now helping employees on the Web

Juggling work and the rest of your life has never been easy, but the University’s Work/Life office, a division of Human Resources, has been trying to help ever since its creation in 1988.

‘Weekly’ ad promotes UW’s public events

The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.