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November 19, 2003
Science wed with policy key to using, protecting ocean resources
Dealing with pressing issues of the nation’s 3.4 million square miles of ocean and the wise use of marine resources elsewhere around the world requires the integration of natural and social science with policy decisions, according to Professor Thomas Leschine, the new director of the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs.
State’s top minority-owned companies honored for economic contributions
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state will be honored this evening at the 2003 University of Washington Minority Business of the Year Awards.
November 18, 2003
Digital secret agent asks students’ help in battling evil, beating heart disease
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil – just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
November 17, 2003
Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
It’s a long-held tenet of avian biology that songbirds have just two types of a key reproduction hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and only one actually triggers a seasonal “puberty” each spring in preparation for reproduction. But the new research shows a third form of the hormone, called lamprey GnRH-III-like hormone because it was first identified in lampreys, is also present in songbird brains.
November 13, 2003
CFD: Alumni Relations staffer not satisfied with just one volunteer gig
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. When jazz violinist Regina Carter visited the School of Music last week, it was just one more opportunity for students at the school to have a lesson — in public. Hummingbirds visited nearly 70 times more often after scientists altered the color of a kind of monkeyflower from pink — beloved by bees but virtually ignored by hummingbirds — to a hummer-attractive yellow-orange. The Westfield State College board of trustees in Westfield, Mass. The UW, Tacoma will host an event on Tuesday to commemorate the history of the Japanese Language School building, slated to be torn down this winter. The UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state. U-Match is probably not the place to find the next love of your life, nor is it some corporate moneymaking scheme. Recent evidence suggests that oxygen levels were suppressed worldwide 175 million to 275 million years ago and fell to precipitously low levels compared with today’s atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude. The UW recently received a $450,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a digital archive of Pacific Northwest cultural and historical items and to produce six online exhibitions over two years as the foundation for an online community museum. Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes. November 12, 2003 Researchers writing in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature say perhaps it was a major change or two, such as petal color, that first forged the fork in the evolutionary road that led to today’s species of monkeyflowers that are attractive to and pollinated by hummingbirds and separate species of monkeyflowers that are pollinated by bees. The University of Washington has received an award of $5.86 million for a research center to study fragile-X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation. November 10, 2003 The University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state. November 6, 2003 Dr. It’s been in all the newspapers, so you know it’s true: The style pages all tell us that the 70s and 80s are back. The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. The UW Speakers Bureau is making it easier for people in the community to find campus speakers and also for faculty and staff to register with the bureau. Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. A new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia that was released, appropriately enough, on Halloween, indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective. Thirty picket-wielding protesters shouted at the loggers cutting down a forest of mature spruce trees. It’s as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice. Genome ethics An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new UW Medicine brand and logos. Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health – the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the UW School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program. A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS. The UW has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium. Academic Opportunities Grant Applications Available The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States. Visiting Las Vegas anytime soon? If so, the UW Alumni Association in that city is interested in talking to you. DIET GURU: When Mother Earth News needed a dietitian to talk about good nutrition in their Guide to Real Health, they turned to Judy Simon, a staffer at UWMC Roosevelt. Voting for elected representatives to the UW organizational Health and Safety Committees is now in progress. The UW’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2003 is 39,136, including 1,652 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach. Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Noted historian and professor Robin Kelley of Columbia University will discuss black history at 7 p. Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by UW researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
Mystery Photo
Master classes offer chance to see musicians in the making
Major mutations might lead way to new species, study shows
UW Tacoma chancellor departs for Massachusetts
University to commemorate Japanese Language School
Best young scholars in Washington sought
U-Match: Boosting community, not romance
Breathtaking: Evidence suggests that low O2 levels led to mass extinction, birds’ breathing system
Virtual museum to ‘bridge distance,’ bring peninsula culture to broader audience
Some large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their location
Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
UW receives almost $6 million to study common cause of cognitive disability
Washington’s brightest fifth to eighth graders sought by UW
Mark Groudine named to Institute of Medicine
New findings on platelet development and disorders
Collaboration at UW lab led to obesity gene findings
Mystery Photo
New Web site helps find UW speakers
CFD: ‘Centro’ meets variety of community needs
Touching may reduce spider fear, study shows
Students help town control destiny
Let’s ‘Dance’: Staffer’s new CD offers healing messages
Health Sciences News Briefs
“Understanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy” is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other UW programs.
UW Medicine Style Guide now online with logos
Project uses Internet as tool
for diabetes management
Researchers join forces to develop HIV vaccine
One of five centers for bariatric surgery research here
Notices
Vegas alumni seek
campus speakers
Etc.
Voting for health, safety posts now under way in campus units
Fall quarter enrollment up; minority count increases
Scientists learn more about January 1700 quake, deadly tsunami
First Walker-Ames Lecture in Tacoma Nov. 13
Quake affected most area businesses
