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The Faculty Senate is currently recruiting for two important positions in its organization — secretary of the faculty and vice chair of the senate.
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.
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.
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.
An informal discussion with Dr.
Be assured, the Denny Bell will ring again this year for Homecoming, on Nov.
The University will break ground Friday, Nov.
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.
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
Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne weren’t very hospitable houseguests.
Family, friends, and about 1,000 guests witnessed the presentation of the Gates Volunteer Service Award to Donald E.
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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.
Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.
In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center last week implanted for the first time in the world a new type of radioactive seeds in a prostate cancer patient.
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.
An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.
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.
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.
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.
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 Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.
“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.
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UW Job: Development Coordinator, School of Social Work Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Volunteer Activity: Forgotten Children’s Fund.
In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.
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.
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.
The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.
PARALYMPIC PRESS: The UW was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.
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Applications wanted
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 U.
The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.
Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner’s office and into the community.