March 22, 2001
Celebrate 50 years of ocean discoveries at UW open house March 31
Tour one of the nation’s most sophisticated oceanographic vessels, learn more about deep-sea vents where superheated water billows out of the seafloor feeding whole communities of unusual microorganisms and learn about the latest University of Washington efforts to explore the world’s oceans at an open house the last weekend of March.
March 20, 2001
Workshop will talk about aging and exercise
Older adults are invited to a half-day seminar, “Exercise, Health and Aging,” that will offer plenty of practical tips about exercise. The seminar will take place from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, April 3, at the Shoreline Center. Speakers will include Mary Ann Wilson, whose exercise program “Sit and Be Fit” is a fixture on public television.
UW astrobiology research gets huge boost from $4.9 million NASA award
The University of Washington’s research into understanding and finding life in the universe received a major boost today with a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and membership in NASA’s Astrobiology Institute.
Seismic network uses schools, public facilities to chart ground shaking
While the Puget Sound region was being shaken by the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, George Thomas and his University of Washington team were preparing for the next temblor – and the one after that.
March 19, 2001
Animal model for Alzheimer’s illuminates mysterious neurotransmitter
The creation of a new transgenic mouse that makes a mysterious brain chemical may lead to better understanding of why people with Alzheimer’s disease lose their memory.
Phyllis Campbell of U.S. Bank to speak about changing economy
The crashing stock market. The Northwest’s impending recession. An increase in mortgage-loan and credit-card delinquencies. All vital issues facing businesses in the slowing economy. Phyllis Campbell, president of U.S. Bank, Washington, will speak about a business leader’s role in the midst of such a fast-changing economy at the University of Washington Business School Dean’s Breakfast Lecture Series talk at 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 21 in the Husky Union Building’s West Ballroom on the UW campus. A continental breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m.
March 16, 2001
New revenue forecast may be too optimistic, UW analysis shows
This morning’s state revenue forecast – which normally guides lawmakers through key spending decisions – may not fully account for an impending economic slowdown, according to a University of Washington analysis.
Nisqually quake moved Puget Sound region to the southwest
The ground in the Puget Sound region didn’t just shake during the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, it moved — literally.
March 15, 2001
Nancy ‘Rusty’ Barcel?lected as vice president for minority affairs
University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick has selected Nancy “Rusty” Barceló to be the next vice president for minority affairs, effective July 1. She also will have an affiliate faculty appointment in the Department of American Ethnic Studies.
March 14, 2001
UW study indicates follow-up care by phone helps reduce risk of relapse into serious depression
Several brief office visits along with continuing telephone calls or even e-mailed notes can help prevent relapse into depression among patients known to be at risk. A University of Washington study showed that interventions spaced throughout a 12-month follow-up period after an acute episode helped patients at risk of a relapse into major depression, also known as dysthymia, show a significant improvement in their adherence to an anti-depressant medication program.
March 13, 2001
Washington’s Schools selected as partner in Next Generation Internet
Washington is one of five states selected to be a pioneer in developing and bringing the next generation of Internet materials, applications, and tools to K-12 schools and colleges.
March 12, 2001
Students from 15 countries to compete at Global Business Challenge, April 1 – 7
At a time when new technology is continually increasing the need to understand international commerce, students from 15 countries will join together to learn about each other and to compete during the University of Washington Business School’s third annual Global Business Challenge case competition, April 1 – 7.
March 9, 2001
UW student named Computing Research Association undergrad of year
Kevin Zatloukal, a senior in the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering, is one of two winners of the Computing Research Association’s 2001 “Outstanding Undergraduate” award. Zatloukal, whose work as an undergraduate has resulted in three publications and one patent, will be honored this Sunday at an awards banquet in San Jose, Calif.
March 6, 2001
So-called earthquake ‘predictions’ only scare people, UW scientists say
The Puget Sound region is being plagued by rumors that another major earthquake is imminent, but University of Washington scientists say the rumors are being fueled by people who have no scientific basis for their far-fetched claims.
Finding fragments of the Northwest’s past
Long before dot-com millionaires and wealthy Californians rediscovered the San Juan Islands as an ideal place to build fancy summer homes, the Coast Salish people inhabited the area for more than 11,000 years. But little visible evidence remains of their long occupation of the land.
March 5, 2001
Having a regular doctor protects children from a variety of ills
Children who see the same doctor repeatedly are likely to stay healthier than children who see different doctors, according to a University of Washington study. Children with a regular doctor are considerably less likely than their peers to find themselves in an emergency room or admitted to a hospital.
Physicists hope to strike scientific gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota
A committee of leading physicists today advocated the renovation of the 125-year-old Homestake Gold Mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a unique underground science laboratory.
University Libraries earthquake update
The rolling 6.8 earthquake that hit the Puget Sound region the morning of February 28, 2001 knocked tens of thousands of books off the shelves, damaged stack ranges, and impacted service in a number of University of Washington Libraries units. A student in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library was hit by a piece of falling ceiling tile but was not seriously hurt. We are extremely fortunate that more people were not injured and that the Libraries did not suffer greater physical damage to its facilities and collections.
March 2, 2001
MEDIA ADVISORY: UW, USGS scientists plan news conference to dissect quake information
Seismologists, geologists and engineers from the University of Washington, the United States Geological Survey and the private sector discuss specific information about Wednesday’s magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, including results from the strong-motion network; after-effects such as landslides and liquefaction; potential economic impact; current damage; and hazards that might lie ahead
March 1, 2001
W.H. ‘Joe’ Knight Jr. selected as dean of School of Law
W.H. “Joe” Knight Jr., a professor at the University of Iowa, has been selected to be dean of the University of Washington School of Law
UW scientists find signs of liquefaction from Wednesday’s earthquake
University of Washington scientists today were finding evidence of liquefaction in areas south of downtown Seattle, some of them heavily damaged in Wednesday’s major earthquake.
Takuji Yamashita ceremony moved to Tacoma
Today’s ceremony posthumously admitting Takuji Yamashita as an honorary member of the state Bar will proceed, but the venue has been moved to the U.S. Courthouse in Tacoma (the old Union Station), at 1717 Pacific Ave. The ceremony was moved because of earthquake damage at the Temple of Justice in Olympia. The ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. as originally planned.
February 22, 2001
UW receives $3.6 million for studies in new field of space medicine
University of Washington researchers are expected to receive $3.6 million over three years as part of a national consortium of institutions studying space medicine in hopes of someday sending men and women to Mars.
February 21, 2001
Retiring Microsoft chief operating officer to speak
Retiring Microsoft Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Robert Herbold will speak at the University of Washington Business School Dean’s Breakfast Lecture Series at 8 a.m. tomorrow in the Douglas Forum Seminar Room on the fourth floor of the Seafirst Executive Education Center on the northeast side of campus. His topic will be “The Wild Information Technology Industry: What Next?”
UW’s Ed Lazowska elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Ed Lazowska, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science and chairman of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
February 20, 2001
UW study indicates possible drug-gene interaction associated with heart
With the completion of a study by researchers at the University of Washington, the relationship between hormone replacement therapy and myocardial infarction (heart attacks) is a little clearer. The study, published in the Feb. 21 edition of the Journa of the American Medical Association, shows a possible link between the presence of a genetic variant associated with blood clotting and the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) in hypertensive women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT).
February 18, 2001
Genetic therapies for aging will face many challenges
Efforts to help humans live longer will face big challenges: a genetic evolutionary system that has no particular interest in helping people live past their peak productive years, and thousands of genes that can go wrong in different ways in different people.
February 17, 2001
Beyond Viagra: other phosphodiesterase inhibitors are candidates for potential therapies
The same basic process used by the popular pharmaceutical Viagra may someday help people suffering from a variety of conditions, from allergies to diabetes. Viagra’s success has raised interest in the growing study of phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors, says Joseph Beavo, Ph.D., a professor of pharmacology at the University of Washington School of Medicine.
February 15, 2001
Rival robots go head-to-head in practice meet for national competition during University of Washington Robotics Festival
University of Washington engineering students and students from Tacoma’s Bellarmine Preparatory School, and three other area high school teams have built robots for a national competition.
February 14, 2001
Sustainable timber harvests, habitat in Washington is topic Feb. 28
The Washington Department of Natural Resources is in the process of re-calculating the amount of timber that might be sold from state timber lands and is expected to revise the 650 million board feet per year that has been used as a target since 1996. The environmental, economic and technical considerations when calculating a sustainable harvest level will be considered by five regional experts in Seattle Feb. 28, from 1 to 5 p.m., as part of the Denman Forestry Issues Series offered by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.
Business School applications rise as economy falters
Recent layoffs and talk of a continued downturn in the nation’s economy appear to be sending many people to school for an advanced business degree.
Conference to focus on the healing power of art
Art collections and healing gardens will grow out of the conference being presented April 19-21 by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare and coordinated by University of Washington Medical Center Art Program. Artists, art students and health-care facility staff, as well as architects and designers are invited to the three-day event, titled “Tools for the 21st Century: Building the Arts,” to be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in downtown Seattle.
Who takes out the garbage? 200 gay, lesbian, straight couples sought for study of household chores
Division of household chores long has been a source of friction for married couples, but less is known about how large a problem it is for gay, lesbian and unmarried heterosexual couples.
February 12, 2001
Takuji Yamashita: State’s leaders honor a man once rejected because of his race
A University of Washington Law School graduate will soon be admitted to the practice of law — 99 years after passing his bar exam.
February 9, 2001
UW Business School dean kicks of lecture series
University of Washington Business School Dean Yash Gupta this month begins a “Dean’s Business Breakfast Lecture Series” featuring the Puget Sound’s leading business executives and the school’s faculty.
February 8, 2001
UW Hall Health Primary Care Center accredited by national body
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has accredited the University of Washington’s Hall Health Primary Care Center for three years. In the letter of notification, AAAHC President William H. Beeson said, “The dedication and effort necessary to achieve accreditation is substantial. UW Hall Health Primary Care Center is to be commended for this accomplishment.”
February 6, 2001
Million dollar grant by the Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research to University of Washington medical scientist program
The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research has given a $1 million grant to support the University of Washington’s Medical Scientist Training Program.
February 5, 2001
UW study offers a method to keep physicians up-to-date
Technology may hold the key to helping physicians and other medical professionals stay on top of the rapidly growing literature in the health-care field — and thus provide better care for their patients.
February 2, 2001
UW’s HIT Lab gets international award for medical/virtual reality work
Imagine a world in which the borders between medical practice and virtual reality begin to blur: physicians hone their surgical skills by suturing a virtual wound, feeling the resistance when needle meets skin and the give when it punches through. They practice removing a gall bladder using laparoscopic instruments — and repeat the procedure until they get it just right.It’s already happening in The University of Washington’s Human Interface Technology Laboratory, which has received an international award for its work using virtual reality for medical applications.
February 1, 2001
UW researchers show that the human genome is helpless in the face of chocolate
Knowing that extreme sensitivity to some bitter tastes is genetically-driven, researchers in the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine tried to find out if genetic taste markers might prevent some women from enjoying bitter chocolate or bitter espresso coffee. Dr. Adam Drewnowski, director of the school’s Nutritional Sciences Program, says the study by graduate student Agnes Ly and himself showed that any aversion to bitter taste, genetic or not, was easily overcome by the addition of a little sugar or a lot of fat. The study was published in the January issue of Chemical Senses, an Oxford University Press journal.
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