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August 20, 2009
Personal stories of connection shine in staffer’s book, ‘Mentoring Moments’
For Susan Canfield, the creation of her book of interviews about the mentoring relationship, Mentoring Moments, is something of a dream come true.
Walking the walk: UW staffers to support Lifelong AIDS Alliance at annual Seattle AIDS Walk
Want to take a walk with your UW colleagues and raise some money for a worthy cause in the process? Then join the Seattle AIDS Walk on Saturday, Sept.
Gotta sing? UW Women’s Choir seeking members again
Faculty and staff women who like to sing are again being offered a chance to be part of a choir that practices once a week and performs several times a year.
Disaster tip of the month: Do you know how to shut off your home’s gas, water and electricity?
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
Dutch elm strikes: A dozen trees near Parrington Hall must be removed
About 12 elm trees between Parrington Hall and the William H.
Why a cat in a glass box? Help the library identify this week’s Lost and Found Film
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
A Facebook for poets? UW-connected Read Write Poem site is that and more
Poetry and technology aren’t usually thought of in relation to each other, but a new Web site with UW ties unites the two to create a “Facebook for poets.
UW blog profile: New music, DVDs, wry commentary on Libraries Media Center Blog
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Remodeled, retrofitted and ready: Savery Hall is open for business again
Savery Hall occupants are coming home this month to a building that looks cleaner and brighter on the outside and completely new on the inside.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Clark Hall remodeling to be showcased in Sept. 3 open house
The departments of military science, naval science and aerospace studies will hold an open house in their home base, Clark Hall, from 10 a.
Community premiere of animation by deaf and hard of hearing students planned Friday
Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.
‘Truly a learning community’: the UW Summer Institute for the Arts & Humanities flourishes
When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike.
How does a blind person use technology? UW Tacoma researchers put devices to the test
By Beth Luce
UW Tacoma
A study by UW Tacoma alumna Kristen Shinohara and Josh Tenenberg, a UWT Institute of Technology professor, made the cover of the August issue of Communications of the ACM.
UW wins new honors for sustainability efforts
The UW was ranked second in the country by Sierra Magazine for the University’s sustainability efforts, and it was also named to the 2010 Green Rating Honor Roll by the Princeton Review.
UW Club nominated for National Register of Historic Places
It’s part of the drill in luring fine scholars to be faculty members at the UW: Take ’em to lunch at the UW Faculty Club, show ’em around the building and encourage ogling out wall-to-wall windows at Lake Washington and the Cascade Mountains.
Etc: News and notes from around campus
YOUNG AND BRILLIANT: The UW’s Shwetak Patel, an assistant professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering, is one of 35 outstanding innovators under the age of 35 being honored by Technology Review magazine.
Hosts needed for international students as part of Homestay Program
One way to experience international travel and bring the world to your doorstep is by hosting an international UW student.
UW’s new mobile app named ‘m.UW’
The organizers of last month’s contest to name the UW’s new mobile application have announced a winner.
You can see ocean data through APL Web portal
A Web portal at the Applied Physics Laboratory now has more than 50 different kinds of ocean data being collected in Puget Sound and off the coast of Washington, Oregon and Northern California.
Official notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents Regular Meeting for August has been canceled.
Medal of Honor memorial to be constructed near WW I and WW II memorials
On the outside, the rock is plain and ordinary serpentine stone common to Washington State.
Organic electronics a two-way street, thanks to new plastic semiconductor
Plastic that conducts electricity holds promise for cheaper, thinner and more flexible electronics.
Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around
That palm tree magnet commemorating your last vacation is programmed for a simple function – to stick to your refrigerator.
From the Bering Sea to the Meany stage, federal stimulus funds support University’s work
By Sandra Hines & Catherine O’Donnell
UW News & Information
As of Aug.
Summer symphony takes stage tonight, Aug. 20
UW School of Music students Lauren Roth and Toby Penk are featured soloists for an performance tonight, Aug.
UW Bothell to offer electrical engineering
The UW Bothell has received approval from the state Higher Education Coordinating Board to launch a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering program (BSEE) in Winter, 2010.
Recruitment of new neurons slows when old brain cells kept from dying
Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones.
Washington forests may be solution to state’s green-energy quest
Wood is a popular fuel for heating homes in the Northwest but few people might see it as an important source of liquid fuels for motor vehicles.
University Week will return in fall
This is the last issue of University Week for summer quarter.
Newsmakers
DUST OF DESTINY: For space enthusiasts, the lede of the recent Los Angeles Times story was pretty exciting: “Showing that the ingredients for life in the universe may be distributed far more widely than previously thought, scientists have found traces of a key building block of biology in dust snatched from the tail of a comet.
August 6, 2009
UW takes multiple top honors at national pharmacy meeting
Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting in Boston.
UW researchers awarded Life Sciences Discovery grants
Two UW research teams have won the Life Sciences Discovery Fund’s inaugural winter commercialization grant competition to support commercial translation of health-related technologies.
Tina Albertson named 2009 St. Baldrick’s Scholar
Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
Israel Cancer Research Fund honors Nancy Maizels
Nancy Maizels, UW professor of immunology, has received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in recognition of her three years of service on the fund’s Scientific Review Panel.
David Acosta honored for leadership in multicultural education
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Adviser of the Year Balston enjoys helping students find their way
When Kay Balston graduated from high school 40 years ago, she didn’t head right off to college.
UW CareLink provides special workshop for continuing employees after a layoff
During the last few months, UW CareLink, the faculty and staff assistance program, has provided special workshops for employees who are continuing on the job after others were laid off.
Telling the UW story: Randy Hodgins takes on new challenge as vice president for external affairs
For the past five and a half years, Randy Hodgins has been telling the UW’s story to the Legislature as the director of state relations.
Crashing comets probably not the cause of Earth’s mass extinctions
Scientists have debated how many mass extinction events in Earth’s history were triggered by a space body crashing into the planet’s surface.
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