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The Student Technology Fee (STF) helps supplement the availability of technology to UW students, providing one-time funding for innovative facilities and projects that require capital investment. Proposals to the STF Committee may now be submitted; the deadline is January 13, 2010. Details are online.

Students at UW Seattle can borrow a laptop as well as a digital camcorder, camera, or voice recorder, projector, audio system, and more. Checkout is three business days; some can be loaned for seven days. See the detailed list of equipment and photos online. UW Bothell and UW Tacoma run similar equipment loan programs.

This fall, the School of Medicine began supporting first- and second-year courses online with two Catalyst Web Tools, CommonView and GradeBook. Faculty have found the tools flexible and easy to use, and students have benefited from a consistent experience across courses. Read the full story.

Look for exciting programming changes on UWTV this month. UWTV’s new schedule lets you explore a different side of the UW from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. every day. Tune in Wednesday nights for science and technology programs, including computer science topics with UW researchers.

Printed reports from UW administrative systems are down 42 percent, thanks to the Office of Information Management, UW Technology, and central business units. This annual savings since 2008 equals three million sheets of paper, or a stack as high as three UW Towers. See the November OIM Highlights.

Volunteer a few hours a year to be on a Client/User Engagement (CUE) team and have a voice in Catalyst Web Tools development. Sign up for the Technology Spaces CUE team to weigh in on the evolution of Learning & Scholarly Technologies' computer labs, collaboration studios, and videoconferencing and audio/video editing facilities.

BizJournals brings you headlines about local companies and industries in 40 local major metropolitan areas across the country. This UW-restricted subscription through the UW Libraries includes the Puget Sound Business Journal and its Book of Lists, a great source for local industry rankings.

The UW is the first educational institution to provide campus information on BlackBerry handheld devices. The UW’s new m.UW BlackBerry app - like the iPhone app already available - offers course catalogs, campus directories, maps, news, photos, and sports scores in a format optimized for that device.