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October 25, 2007
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Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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SIMPLY BRILLIANT: Popular Science magazine chose Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, for a spot on this year’s “Brilliant 10” list.
Lowney survives cancer to become athlete, CFD donor
Name: Susan Lowney
UW Job: Buyer II, in the Purchasing Department.
Burke outdoor learning program lauded
The Burke Museum helps Seattle’s urban students get out of the classroom and into nature with its Magnuson Outdoor Learning Laboratory, and now the program has been honored by the Environmental Education Association of Washington with the association’s 2007 Community Catalyst Award.
Adding value: Chair wants Faculty Senate to tackle big issues
Dan Luchtel would like the Faculty Senate to be seen as a body that “adds value to our shared governance.
Robinson Center celebrates birthday, begins campaign
How time flies and things grow.
Michelle Williams wins public health’s Lilienfeld Award
Michelle Williams, UW professor of epidemiology, has won the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Abraham Lilienfeld Award that recognizes excellence in teaching of epidemiology during the course of her career.
UW earns A- in sustainability
The UW has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
UW researchers to advance human genome project
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded University of Washington researchers $10.
Open enrollment begins next week
Increased annual coverage limits, the removal of lifetime benefit caps and some different plans are among changes coming in UW employees’ medical and dental insurance for 2008.
UW Division of Rheumatology receives $3.2 million bequest
The UW Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, has received a $3.
Clarinetist offers concert Oct. 26
English clarinetist Gareth Davis will perform at 7:30 p.
Derek Jackson named 2007 Pisacano Scholar
Derek Jackson, a fourth-year UW medical student, has been named a 2007 Pisacano Scholar by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation, Inc.
ArtsLink: Helping students connect
When students come to the UW, many have general ideas about what to study and how to prepare for future careers, but they are often unaware of which University major, program or classes will best help them reach their educational and career goals.
October 18, 2007
Dawg TV? Public, ‘private’ faces to UW both part of iTunes presentations
Wanted: UW videos and other multimedia materials of interest to people aged 18 to 35.
Green living in the green room: KUOW embraces composting
Even as KUOW, the UW’s National Public Radio affiliate, asks for green from its listeners in its pledge drives, the station’s staff and volunteers are going green by recycling and composting, especially in — you guessed it — the green room.
Improved forecasting of volcanic eruptions is part of Malone’s legacy
When Steve Malone retired earlier this month, he could take satisfaction in the great strides that have been made in forecasting volcanic eruptions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
UW early contributor to Nobel prize-winning work by climate group
Within years of its inception, UW faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
Leonard Hudson to receive HMC Mission of Caring Award
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Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Angelosante joins Health Sciences Administration
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Then and now: Searching the skies for life
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
In brief
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
Marvelous maples
Mary Levin The UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by UW staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m….
Faye Wattleton to give 18th Hogness Symposium Oct. 31
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
Photographers Group presents annual show
The UW Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
UW, state join to monitor climate change impact on humans
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
Peer Portfolio
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
UW-initiated biosolids project wins national clean water award
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Official Notices
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
Disability and Society: Examining disability in context
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
Delaney to speak on ‘environmental renaissance’
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, baby boomers headline Engineering Lecture Series
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how UW engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
Author/researchers describe their ‘Fieldwork Connections’
Suppose you went through a series of engaging events with two people from another country.
October 11, 2007
Undergrads find 1,300 asteroids
Undergraduate astronomy students at the UW combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
‘Common Book’ author Kolbert warns of coming catastrophe brought by global warming
Elizabeth Kolbert tells scary stories, the kind that stick in your head long after you’ve finished her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
New garden makes Pacific Connections
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs — some as tall as 30 feet — and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
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