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August 6, 2009
The Amgen Scholars Program: Encouraging a new generation of biomedical researchers
A chance encounter with a funny-looking rock when he was 8 years old helped launch Phillip Poonka’s lifelong interest in research.
Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
Researchers the world over are striving to develop organic solar cells that can be produced easily and inexpensively as thin films that could be used to generate electricity.
Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable ‘brain tumor painting’
Brain cancer is among the deadliest of cancers.
Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Sleep apnea, air pollution, vitamin D, Native Americans in science among UW’s research awards through federal stimulus package.
By Catherine O’Donnell and Vince Stricherz
News & Information
Help for people who suffer from sleep apnea.
Why paint fish green? 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.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
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.
School finances: Trimming teacher pay could reduce layoffs, larger classes
School districts faced with large budget gaps could avoid some or all teacher layoffs by rolling back salaries, a UW education researcher says.
Tina Albertson named 2009 St. Baldrick’s Scholar
Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
Chaos theory, ‘Ulysses,’ murder and more — Osher Institute for Lifelong Learning has lively classes for those 50 and up
As new director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the UW, Lois Lussier did what many new campus leaders do — she visited a few classes to get acquainted.
July 23, 2009
Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
National leader in healthy aging comes to UW
By Judith Yarrow
UW Health Promotion Research Center
What brings a national leader in healthy aging across the country to share an office at the UW for the summer?
“I came here because the Seattle area has a unique configuration of academic, community and health care professionals working collaboratively to figure out how to improve population health among older people,” said Nancy Whitelaw, senior vice-president of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and director of its Center for Healthy Aging.
Report: School districts should rethink pay bump for teachers with masters degrees
A new study from the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education and the education think tank the Center for American Progress questions whether extra pay for masters-level teacher experience improves student achievement.
‘U.S. News & World Report’ ranks UW Medical Center 12th among top hospitals
UW Medical Center (UWMC) is ranked among the nation’s top hospitals in U.
UW study of midlife cognitive changes, services for the blind benefit from federal stimulus money
Editor’s note: Federal stimulus money is starting to be distributed.
UW Medicine physicians among ‘Seattle’ magazine’s top docs
Sixty-five University of Washington faculty members were among the region’s top 386 physicians in Seattle magazine’s ninth annual top doctors survey.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Ancient sea lamprey dramatically transforms its genome
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.
‘You Are Here’ presents then-and-now views at campus AYPE sites
Can’t get enough of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition?
Well, here’s more: You Are Here, an exhibit by the AYP Rephotographic Project is on display at Architecture Hall through Sept 25.
Faculty, staff come together to help campus make way for ducklings — really!
In the 1941 children’s book, Make Way for Ducklings, Boston police decide to stop traffic so that a family of mallards can cross the road safely.
A rescue at sea, thanks to the UW’s Thomas G. Thompson
Robert Hamby was in a deserted part of the ocean, far from any shipping lanes and his boat was sinking.
Disaster tip of the month: What to have right at hand
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.
David Williams to read from ‘Stories in Stone’ July 29 at the Burke
Natural history writer David Williams, author of Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, will read from his work at 7 p.
Last week’s film mystery solved — Can you help identify the homebuilders in this one?
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.
UW blog profile: ‘Seattle Backyard Farm’ just plain good reading
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Screening for childhood depressive symptoms could start in second grade
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
Applied Physics Lab reaches out to middle-schoolers with freewheelin’ ‘Dylan Diatom’ animation
About to be eaten by a menacing, shrimp-like copepod, gentle Dylan Diatom is saved at the last second when an arctic cod slices up through the water and swallows the copepod with a satisfied snap of its mouth.
Etc: News & notes from around campus
TREE WISDOM: Forest Resources Emeritus Professor Reinhard Stettler has a new book just published by UW Press entitled Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society.
Official Notices
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
Four UW faculty win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Four members of the UW faculty have received the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.
Name that phone app
What do you call a mobile phone application that gives you the UW directory, an interactive campus map, Husky sports and yes, University Week?
Help The UW name its soon-to-be-released mobile phone application, and you could win an iPod Touch! Just submit your suggestion by 11:59 p.
Visiting Spanish filmmaker helps students tell their own screen stories
When Jason Dallas signed up for a course this summer, the Spanish major probably didn’t expect to be watching a music video of his favorite band, El Canto del Loco, in class.
Celebrate the Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th anniversary with parties July 30 and Aug. 6
Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th Anniversary Event Series will shift into full gear later this month and in early August with two summer soirees open to the general public.
Henry Director Sylvia Wolf curates ‘Inside-Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection’
For a new exhibition of photographic portraits from its own permanent collections, the Henry Art Gallery had a nationally known photography curator right at hand — its own director, Sylvia Wolf.
This article will self-destruct: A tool to make online personal data vanish
Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind.
Vanderbilt researcher, clinician named director of UW Autism Center
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification of and early intervention with children with autism, has been named the new director of the UW’s Autism Center.
UW lauded by Arbor Day Foundation for tree management, environmental stewardship
For a number of years, UW has been a three-campus university; well, now it’s a tree campus university too.
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