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Fall Quarter Starts With Extra Newcomers - Katrina Evacuees
UW news release - updated September 28, 2005
The University of Washington has opened its doors to scores of students displaced by the immense devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Special daylong orientation sessions for these students were held on Thursday, Sept. 22 and Friday, Sept. 23, in Mary Gates Hall on the UW's Seattle campus.
The students-62 undergraduates, 22 graduate students and 9 law students-have been enrolled at the UW on a nonmatriculated exchange basis, and will be billed for tuition by their home institutions. Most attend class on the Seattle campus, but the UW's campuses in Bothell and Tacoma also are taking in those displaced by Katrina.
The visiting students come from the University of New Orleans, Tulane, Xavier and Dillard universities in New Orleans, and from two campuses of the University of Southern Mississippi, in the cities of Hattiesburg and Long Beach.
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Purple Hearts: UW Community Reaches Out to Help Hurricane Evacuees
The city of nearly 60,000 souls that is the University of Washington responded quickly and compassionately to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states. And that response continues to grow. Across the UW's campuses, many emergency and medical workers mobilized and moved out to the Gulf region to help; staffers sprang into unprecedented fund-raising action and researchers brainstormed ways to study the hurricane's terrible effects and to improve communication and organization during such natural disasters.
Saving Katrina Victims-"The Hardest Thing I've Done"
"It was exhausting, heartbreaking, exhilarating, overwhelming and inspiring simultaneously," said Kathleen Jobe, medical director of the emergency department at UW Medical Center, one of several UW faculty and staff deployed to New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina. "It was probably the hardest thing I've done as a physician."
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