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Music of Bali, Persia featured in concert

Two visiting artists in the UW Ethnomusicology Department will perform in a concert titled “Music of Persia and Bali” at 7:30 p.

Benefits online: A new way to analyze options

Both new and longtime employees now have online tools that will make analyzing and selecting their benefits much easier.

Evening Magazine crowns EEU principal ‘most popular’ in Western Washington

With flowers and photo flashes, cheers and applause, Jennifer Annable, principal of the UW’s Experiment Education Unit, was surprised Tuesday by the crew of KING television and given the station’s award for Most Popular Principal in Western Washington.

Etc. – campus news and notes

WINNING VENTURE: Five UW students won the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Chapel Hill, N.

Mystery photo

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

An ocean of responsibility: Report urges better management of 3.4 million nautical miles

The United States now has sovereign responsibility under international law for much of the health and sustainable use of 3.

ALS-related gene mutation discovered

Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation associated with an inherited form of motor neuron disease in which symptoms first appear in childhood or young adulthood.

Additional teaching award winners named

Beth Kalikoff, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award at the UW Tacoma.

Transplant specialist coming from Pittsburgh

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UCLA’s Peter McLaren to speak

Professor Peter McLaren of the University of California at Los Angeles will give a lecture titled Capitalists and Conquerors: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Post-Democratic Times at 5:30 p.

Stem cell researcher to give Benditt Endowed Lecture

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Princeton’s C.K. Williams to present reading

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McNair scholars to present research at spring conference

The McNair Scholars/Early Identification Program and Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Spring Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1, at the South Campus Center.

Hutchings to speak at forum on teaching, learning

The spring Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning will feature Pat Hutchings, vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, giving a presentation titled Students and Faculty Learning Smarter: Lessons from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Friday Harbor research diver saves companion who lost consciousness in water

Two research divers with the UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories are safe and well this week after an underwater incident Thursday, April 15, where one lost consciousness and was brought to the surface and given emergency medical assistance by the other.

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Health Sciences open house April 23, 24

The UW community has a special invitation to the 2004 Health Sciences Open House this weekend.

Things mother never taught you: Presentation at Harborview on faculty consulting

The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will offer a program at Harborview Medical Center on Thursday, April 29.

Earthquake drill to hit campus

While most of us are going about our business today, about 40 University employees from about 15 units across campus will be responding to a major “earthquake.

New technique reveals previously unknown structure in retina

A new imaging technique used by a group of researchers at the UW and elsewhere has revealed a previously unknown cellular structure in the retinas of mice.

Flexing ‘Q’ muscles: April 26 meeting will seek input on new center to serve sexual minorities

A planned new resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, faculty and staff will start small but may have a big future, says Jennifer Self, the Social Work graduate student hired to run the center when it opens this fall.

Harborview study examines police-chase fatalities

Approximately 300 lives are lost each year in the United States as a result of vehicle crashes related to police pursuits, and one third of these fatalities occur to people not involved in the chase.

Education goes both ways in new outreach program

When Ed Taylor, associate professor, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, began a new outreach effort to principals of schools in South African townships, he set out to help them fulfill their mission to educate their students and build a new nation.

UW physics professor named to National Academy of Sciences

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Heart tissue regeneration not working with stem cells, Murry finds

Researchers at the UW School of Medicine have found that bone marrow stem cells do not convert into heart muscle cells in mice.

Women Studies comes of age with first retirement

It’s a notable milestone when any department experiences its first faculty retirement.

April 19, 2004

Gene mutation found for a form of juvenile-onset motor neuron disease

Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation associated with an inherited form of motor neuron disease in which symptoms first appear in childhood or young adulthood. The finding is slated for publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.</I.