UW NewsLinks Home UWAA Home UW Home November 2004 VOLUME 3 ISSUE 8 CONTENTS Gilbertson Out as Football Coach; Search Begins for Replacement By Popular Demand: UW Nears Record Levels in Enrollments NCAA Levies Minor Penalties Over Gambling, Recruiting Incidents More Than 5,000 Celebrate by Coming Together for Washington Smart Dawgs: Student-Athlete Graduation Rate Exceeds National Average $13 Million Grant Helps Move Medical Breakthroughs to Average Patient Beam Me Out, Scotty: Propulsion System Could Mean High-Speed Space Travel Endless Campus Offers Career Help, Lectures and Special Events for Alumni Linkfest Trivia Contest About NewsLinks IN THIS ISSUE Gilbertson Out as Football Coach; Search Begins for Replacement UW Athletics Director Todd Turner announced Nov. 1 that Football Coach Keith Gilbertson will step down at the end of the season on Nov. 20 and that a search has begun for a replacement. The announcement came two days after a 31-6 loss to Oregon and a season that, at that point, had a 1-7 record, the worst since 1973. More... By Popular Demand: UW Nears Record Levels in Enrollments The UW's total 2004-05 enrollment in Seattle is near historic highs. The registrar's office reported 39,199 students at its Seattle campus, just under the record 39,216 students who attended in the fall of 2002. UW Tacoma has 2,100 students and UW Bothell has 1,608. More... NCAA Levies Minor Penalties Over Gambling, Recruiting Incidents The NCAA extended minor penalties on the UW athletic program after it looked into charges of gambling by some UW coaches and staff and investigated improper use of a boat for recruiting purposes, the NCAA announced Oct. 20. More... More Than 5,000 Celebrate by Coming Together for Washington On Oct. 15, the University of Washington hosted Come Together Washington, a celebration of community and University achievements that also marked the public launch of Campaign UW: Creating Futures, the UW's eight-year, $2 billion fund-raising effort. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke to more than 5,000 in a packed Hec Edmundson Pavilion. More... Smart Dawgs: Student-Athlete Graduation Rate Exceeds National Average According to the NCAA, 68 percent of all Husky student-athletes who entered Division I colleges and universities in 1997 graduated in six years. The UW rate is six percentage points better than the average of student-athletes at other Division I institutions. More... $13 Million Grant Helps Move Medical Breakthroughs to Average Patient Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology moves slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner's office. A new clinical research career development program at the UW, recently funded with a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, may help resolve this problem. More... Beam Me Out, Scotty: Propulsion System Could Mean High-Speed Space Travel A new method of space travel could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars, UW researchers announced in October. The new propulsion system could make humans a permanent fixture in space. With magnetized-beam plasma propulsion, or "mag-beam," quick trips to distant parts of the solar system could become routine. More... Endless Campus Offers Career Help, Lectures and Special Events for Alumni UW alumni can order a free guide to UW events held now through the end of the academic year as part of the Endless Campus program. Included in these offerings are lectures by distinguished faculty, a film series and career workshops. Endless Campus also has special discounts for those who are members of the UW Alumni Association. More... LINKFEST Off-beat and/or outstanding UW-related links: UW Homecoming Events Innovative Practices at Arts & Sciences Northwest Center for Public Health Practice UW Campus Crime Report - "What You Should Know" Don't forget: UW Home Page UW Alumni Home Page UW News and Information Page UW Athletics Home Page UW Calendar of Events UW Support UW NEWSLINKS TRIVIA CONTEST Except for the World War II era, the University of Washington was a male-dominated institution until the last half of the 20th century. Graduation records show that in 1960, two men graduated for every woman. 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