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VOLUME 4 ISSUE 2 |
New State Budget Boosts Enrollments, Supports Core Funding
When the Washington State Legislature passed its 2005–07 budget April 24, it included $704 million in general state funding for the UW. Add that to tuition revenue estimated at $438 million, and the core education total for the University comes to $1.142 billion - an increase of 10 percent. The UW will receive almost 1,000 new enrollments for its three campuses. "For the first time in several years, we can look to a future where we should not lose ground on the competition," says President Mark Emmert, '75.
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Governor Signs Bill Making Tacoma, Bothell Four-Year Campuses
Gov. Christine Gregoire, '69, '71, visited the UW Tacoma campus today (May 4) to sign a historic bill that makes UW Tacoma and UW Bothell the first new, public four-year universities in Washington state in 35 years.
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 Former Treasury Secretary Rubin Is Commencement Speaker
Robert E. Rubin, who was President Bill Clinton's secretary of the treasury from 1995 to 1999, will be the speaker at the University of Washington's 130th Annual Commencement Ceremonies June 11 at Husky Stadium. As secretary of the treasury, Rubin was the principal architect of the Clinton administration's economic policy. He was a key figure in major policy issues such as balancing the federal budget, global trade policy and ameliorating financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia.
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Antibiotics Fail as Possible Heart Disease Treatment
In 1999, the National Institutes of Health and the Pfizer Corp. launched an $11-million study to see if treatments with antibiotics could stem heart disease and asked the UW to head the effort. In April the UW released the first results of the study - and the verdict so far for this particular bacterium is "not guilty." Taking antibiotics weekly for a year does not reduce the risk of a heart attack for patients with stable coronary artery disease, according to the article published in the April 22 New England Journal of Medicine.
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 Low Oxygen Likely Made 'Great Dying' Worse, Greatly Delayed Recovery
The Great Dying - the biggest mass extinction in the history of Earth - took place 251 million years ago. New research by two University of Washington scientists suggests that a sharp decline in atmospheric oxygen levels was likely a major reason for both the elevated extinction rates and the very slow recovery.
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Lessons from South Asia Tsunamis May Be Forgotten, Says UW Expert
The tsunami that devastated South Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans. Such reminders have been delivered periodically, sometimes several decades apart, during the last half-century. But the lessons have been largely ignored or forgotten by most people who didn't suffer direct consequences, says Jody Bourgeois, an Earth and space sciences professor who studies historic and prehistoric tsunamis.
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WWII Lecture Series Probes 'Definitive Event' of 20th Century
It's no exaggeration to call World War II the definitive event of the 20th century. Beginning May 10, the UW Alumni Association, the UW Department of History and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation will mark the 60th anniversary of the war's end with an important lecture series, concluding with a special event featuring former Speaker of the House Tom Foley, '51, '57, in August.
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| UW NEWSLINKS TRIVIA CONTEST |
The UW recently announced that former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin would be the speaker at the commencement ceremonies held June 11 in Husky Stadium. Which of the following political figures was NOT a UW commencement speaker?
1. President John F. Kennedy
2. Speaker of the House Thomas Foley
3. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
4. U.S. Senator Brock Adams
5. U.S. Representative William H. Gray III
Answer this month's question
Last Month's Answer
Last month's trivia question asked how much NIH funding the UW School of Medicine received in fiscal year 2004.
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