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October 30, 2008
Danger, massive amounts of data ahead; eScience Institute can help
The UW’s new eScience Institute will help keep the UW competitive as research projects become ever more reliant on computation and on the analysis of massive amounts of data.
Rob Brown: Helping make the Combined Fund Drive a success
Editor’s note: Every other week through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the UW community who help make the campaign a success.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Is your teenager hiding an eating disorder?
In the United States, as many as 10 in 100 young women suffer from an eating disorder.
Class Notes: Games class combines work and play
Class title: CHID 498: Poetics of Play in Digital Role-playing Games, taught by Terry Schenold, doctoral candidate in English.
UW Bothell hosts two authors at campus library
The UW Bothell is expecting two literary guests in the next week.
Common Book event and photo exhibit bring border to life
This year’s Common Book, The Devil’s Highway, brings U.
Name that dawg
Choose a name for the Husky mascot! The current mascot, “Spirit,” will retire in November.
EntrepreneurWeek UW features variety of events Nov. 3-7
Interested in starting your own company? Want to take your knowledge beyond the academic setting? Have a great idea for a product but don’t know what to do next? Next week, the UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the UW’s Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) will host the second annual EntrepreneurWeek, a five-day series of talks, events and networking opportunities focused on starting new companies.
Like rest of society, doctors implicitly favor whites over blacks
In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Woodstick 2008 to benefit hearing research at UW
Celebrity and amatueur drummers in nine cities in the United States and Canada will attempt the world record for the number of drummers playing the same tune at the same time in the same place via the Internet at <A href="http://www.
UW students to work at polling places election day
Armon Dadgar was surprised by the amount of stuff King County Elections wants him to know on Election Day, Nov.
‘In good hands’: Foundation for International Understanding Through Students celebrates 60 years of welcoming newcomers
Imagine you’re on your own, a new student in a foreign land.
A quilting life: Even after many years, staffer finds comfort in quilts
Where others have a dining room, Joan Hanson has a quilting room.
Environmental Health & Safety’s VanDusen bids farewell to UW
“The name Karen Ann Jenkins was recently added to the former masculine ranks of Environmental Health Specialists.
Somerman affirms School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Saying, “This is no time to accept the status quo,” Dean Martha Somerman affirmed the UW School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility and patient care, progressive oral health training and research leadership in her annual State of the School speech on Oct.
Health disparities linked to poor physician communications
A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.
Machala brings spirit of entrepreneurship to UW
UW TechTransfer, the department responsible for commercial applications of academic research, is bringing new blood and new programs to help UW researchers who want to start new companies.
UW and WSU researchers target the science behind infectious diseases
It’s not unusual to see news headlines related to salmonella outbreaks, avian flu concerns or mad cow disease.
A look behind the veil at sexuality in Islam — second of four in the Centennial Lecture Series
Two images seem to compete when westerners think of sexuality in the Islamic world — belly dancers and harems on the one hand and shrouds and restrained, even repressed sexuality on the other.
October 23, 2008
Jazz for vibes, viola virtuosity and spooky organ music coming from School of Music
Jazz for vibraphone and piano, world premieres on viola and eerie, Halloween-friendly organ music are among events offered by the UW School of Music in coming days.
French plays, in French, offered by student group
Playing French Seattle, a UW student organization, is presenting two plays and two staged readings of work by José Pliya — in French.
Kaeberlein, Li land new scholar awards in aging
Matt Kaeberlein, UW assistant professor of pathology, and Weiqing Li, UW assistant professor of biological structure, have received the Ellison Medical Foundation’s New Scholar Award in Aging for 2008.
Hurricane Gustav changes UW professor’s plans for film about that other hurricane
Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of UW Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.
Merati and Weaver honored by otolaryngology group
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery recently presented Distinguished Service Awards to UW faculty members Albert L.
Centennial Lecture Series kicks off with lecture by Anand Yang
The Henry M.
UW researchers receive Gates Foundation Explorations grants
Five UW researchers have received $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research.
Newsmakers
DETOX SCAM: Late-night television ads promote a product called Kinoki Cleansing Detox Pads, which are often applied to the feet, and claim to remove toxins from the body.
Bernstein, Shen and Parviz selected Inventors of the Year
Irwin Bernstein will receive the fifth annual Inventor of the Year Award and Babak Parviz and Tueng Shen will share the first Emerging Inventor of the Year Award.
You can review your insurance or start a flex plan during Open Enrollment Oct. 27 to Nov. 30
Some costs will rise, of course, but some coverage levels will, too.
Stamatoyannopoulos to head epigenome mapping center
John A.
Child abuse increases risk for later sexually coercive behavior in some men
Boys who experience childhood physical or sexual abuse are more likely to use sexually coercive behavior against an unwilling female partner when they are adolescents and young adults.
Department of Rehabilitation receives two national grants
The UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has been awarded two grants to pursue research projects on multiple sclerosis (MS), and aging with a physical disability.
UW Bothell to offer MBA in Bellevue
The UW Bothell recently received approval from the Higher Education Coordinating Board to extend its MBA Program southward to Bellevue.
Trauma, burn cases sharpen oculofacial surgeons’ nips and tucks
By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations
Consider the roughly 35-square-inch area of anatomy that comprises the face.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Mummy comes out for Family Day
Seattle’s only Egyptian mummy, nicknamed “Nellie,” will make a rare public appearance at the Burke Museum during the “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt” family event from 10 a.
New Faculty Senate Chair David Lovell sees busy year ahead
Washington state Speaker of the House Frank Chopp will be in attendance at the first Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year today.
Students bring their best 15 minutes to the annual Concerto Competition
You take the stage, surrounded by the orchestra.
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