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August 19, 2004
Strauss Lecturer to speak on overhauling residencies
“The Overhauling of Graduate Medical Education: The Time Has Come” is the title for the Department of Surgery’s 55th annual Alfred A.
New UW Inventor of the Year award to be celebrated at Sept. 14 event
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Health Sciences News Briefs
Heart Walk
UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is a primary sponsor of the Heart Walk, organized by the American Heart Association and set for Saturday, Oct.
Renewal of critical buildings sought
The UW has embarked on a program to seek funding from the state for renewing 16 critical buildings over the next 10 to 15 years.
Going for the gold: UW lecturer plays soccer in Paralympics
When the Olympics we’ve all been watching on TV wrap up on Aug.
Artist wants sculpture to ‘hide in plain sight’
Sometime before fall quarter begins a new sculpture will sprout on the Parrington Lawn just south of the new law school.
American Indian language teachers will begin three-day computer ‘camp’
Nearly 90 teachers of 30 different American Indian and Canadian First Nations languages will participate in an intensive three-day computer camp that will help them produce culturally appropriate language materials using a variety of modern technological tools.
Bloedel’s Forest Resources library to fold into Allen’s Natural Sciences Library
The task might sound simple enough — at first, that is.
Cycling antibiotics ineffective, study shows
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes found in hospitals acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics.
2004-05 University of Washington Undergraduate Scholar award recipients
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
Campus friends remember the inimitable Wes Wehr
A few of Wes Wehr’s works of art hang in a special place in the Henry Art Gallery these days — compact pieces with meticulously layered colors that hint at vast spaces where the earth meets the sky.
Circle of life: Food to compost to garden to food
With a circle of friends, Karin Olefsky was able to create a small circle in an otherwise linear system.
New building proposed for U district
Unico Properties, the private, Seattle-based firm that manages the UW’s downtown holdings, wants to erect a six-story building with office, retail and residential space and parking where a parking lot now stands, at the corner of NE 42nd Street and 15th Avenue NE.
Research shows protests get action on the environment
Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement.
New program dedicated to helping after emergencies
In days past, it was unlikely that UW students Justin Gale from public affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet recently they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
August 18, 2004
UW Bothell Professor shows world wide air quality links
Smoke from giant Siberian forest fires pushed one measure of Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on at least one day in 2003, new research shows.
August 17, 2004
Protests more help in passing environmental laws than working on ‘inside’
Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement.
Tuttle named new head of UW mechanical engineering department
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Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle’s air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast.
2004-05 University of Washington National Merit Scholarship recipients
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
2004-05 University of Washington President’s Scholarship recipient
Vice President for Student Affairs Ernest R.
August 16, 2004
Dart Center names 2004 Fellows
The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma has announced the recipients of the 2004 Dart Ochberg Fellowship.
August 14, 2004
Indian tribes gained power by exploiting ambiguities in federal policies
Like skillful diplomats from developing nations seeking funds for their countries, entrepreneurial American Indian tribal leaders exploited ambiguities and contradicitions in federal policy to gain new authority and access to the federal decision-making process.
August 13, 2004
New hope for fetal alcohol syndrome shown in study
Research by University of Washington Professor Ann Streissguth shows that people diagnosed with either fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol effect (FAE) are more likely to escape social and relationship problems if they are diagnosed early in life and raised in a stable and nurturing environment.
August 11, 2004
Unlikely partners join forces to speed aid to world’s disaster zones
In days past, it was unlikely that UW students Justin Gale from Public Affairs and Kate Hulpke from the College of Engineering would cross paths during their graduate studies, yet yesterday they drove together through the upland savanna of northern Mozambique.
August 10, 2004
Research details use of religion to help sell war on terror, Iraq
A skillful mixing of religion and politics helped President Bush silence critics and sell his policies on terrorism and Iraq to the nation, according to a new book that analyzes hundreds of public communications and news reports.
August 9, 2004
UW Libraries to help preserve agricultural literature
The University of Washington Libraries is part of a national project to preserve agricultural literature on microfilm.
Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won’t work, study shows
Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. A new study shows a recent strategy designed to slow antibiotic resistance — alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals — probably won’t work.
Binge drinking, harmful drinking linked to U.S. death rates
Binge drinking and harmful drinking, including both medium to high levels of regular alcohol consumption, account for a substantial number of deaths each year in the United States.
August 5, 2004
UW hiring enters the digital age
The University gets about 6,100 job applications and resumes every month, each one representing the career hopes of a would-be employee.
Local couple work to make the coffee they love even better
Susan and Charles Jackels love their coffee.
Subatomic neutrinos linked to speed of universe’s expansion
Two of the biggest physics breakthroughs during the last decade were the discovery that wispy subatomic particles called neutrinos actually have a small amount of mass and the detection that the expansion of the universe is actually picking up speed.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
University, unions continue ‘cooperative’ contract talks
University and union negotiating teams continue weekly bargaining sessions, according to Patti Carson, vice president for human resources, in an atmosphere of cooperation and commitment that is “evident to all involved.
Gene therapy for muscle tissue successful in mice
Researchers have found a delivery method for gene therapy that reaches all the voluntary muscles of a mouse – including heart, diaphragm and all limbs – and reverses the process of muscle-wasting found in muscular dystrophy.
UW Extension offers new songwriting program
Songwriting is experience filtered through words, melody and rhythm.
New position will support clinical research billing policies
Sue Clausen has been appointed as director of the Clinical Research Compliance Office in the School of Medicine’s Office of Research and Graduate Education.
Heritage to get new home, new name
A new home is coming for the community outreach programs the UW shares with Heritage College, in Toppenish, Wash.
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FOR THE CAUSE: Jacqueline Brown, assistant vice provost for Information Technology Partnerships at the UW, will be honored with the 2004 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession at the association’s annual conference this October.
Peer Portfolio
FOR LOVE OF PIXIE: The love a pair of poodle owners had for their show dog Pixie has translated into a major donation that will pay for a new endowed faculty chair in comparative oncology next year at the University of Minnesota, according to the UMNews Web site.
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