September 18, 2001
Firefighter Jason Emhoff Speaks to Media Thursday, September 20
Jason Emhoff, the firefighter burned in the Thirty Mile Fire in Okanogan County, will speak to the media Thursday, September 20 at 10 a.m.
September 13, 2001
List of UW faculty with insights into terrorist attacks, aftermath, now available on the Web, being regularly updated
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President McCormick’s statement to UW community regarding day of remembrance Sept. 14
President Bush has declared Friday, September 14 to be a national day of mourning for the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Governor Locke has announced a statewide day of prayer and remembrance, highlighted by an observance at Westlake Center from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Joining Governor Locke will be King County Executive Ron Sims, Mayor Paul Schell and religious leaders. At sites around the state, sirens will sound at 12:29 in honor of fallen emergency response personnel, followed by a minute of silence and concluding at 12:31 with the ringing of bells.
Statement of UW President Richard L. McCormick regarding plane crash in Mexico
The University of Washington suffered a terrible, sad loss yesterday when a number of very good friends and supporters went down in a plane crash in Mexico.
September 11, 2001
World Trade Center architect was Seattle native, UW graduate
Minoru Yamasaki, designer of New York’s World Trade Center, was born in a Seattle tenement and put himself through the University of Washington by working in Alaskan fish canneries. His most famous work was destroyed today by terrorist attacks, 35 years after the twin towers were completed.
Statement of UW President Richard L. McCormick in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks
The unspeakable attacks this morning are an assault on America and on civilized society everywhere. These acts come from a source that combines hatred, ignorance and remorseless violence.
September 10, 2001
Northwest forecasts hurt by too few Doppler radar sites, UW professor says
Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a University of Washington scientist says.
UW Freshman Convocation Sept. 30
At least two thousand freshmen, their parents and guests are expected to attend the 2001 UW Freshman Convocation, to be held at noon, Sunday, September 30 in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. The annual event officially marks the beginning of the new academic year, with classes starting on Monday, October 1.
September 6, 2001
Business School moves up five spots in U.S. News & World Report rankings
Today’s U.S. News & World Report 2002 rankings of undergraduate business programs at public and private universities in the United States moves the University of Washington Business School up five notches from 21 to 16.
September 5, 2001
Ground-breaking study to target investment gap hindering minority entrepreneurs
While the U.S. Census Bureau reported earlier this year that the number of African American- and Hispanic-owned businesses are on the rise, such businesses still do not receive equal access to the venture capital crucial to staying competitive, according to a University of Washington researcher.
UW receives two major grants for human genome research
The University of Washington has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.
September 4, 2001
Dorothy Van Soest to become dean of UW School of Social Work
Dorothy Van Soest, professor and associate dean of the School of Social Work of The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, UW President Richard L. McCormick announced today.
Digital mammography research study enters trials at UW with faster imaging technique
The University of Washington Medical Clinic-Roosevelt, at 4245 Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle, is the only local site for an international study of the use of digital imaging in mammography. The research study currently recruiting about 2,500 patients will examine the ability of digital mammography to find breast cancer as compared it to current film-based techniques.
September 2, 2001
Many Washingtonians work longer hours just to keep pace
Growing numbers of Washington state residents are working extra hours and multiple jobs just to keep up with the cost of living, according to a new University of Washington study.
August 31, 2001
Boeing gift of $1 million to fund new chair at UW Business School
The University of Washington Business School will announce a gift today of $1 million from The Boeing Co.
August 28, 2001
Whale of a Puget Sound problem lures researchers
As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound’s orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals’ plummeting population.
August 27, 2001
Paychecks & power: Husbands lose household control when they retire, study finds
Society may honor the homemaker, but it’s the family wage-earner who is more likely to control household spending.
August 21, 2001
Researchers make key genome public on the Internet
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, DuPont and the University of Campinas in Brazil, with partial funding from the National Science Foundation, have sequenced the genome of an important organism, Agrobacterium, and made it freely available on the Internet.
August 17, 2001
Columbia River trumps Pacific Ocean when conditions are right
About three quarters of the water pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the West Coast comes from the Columbia River.
August 13, 2001
Nanoscience workshop to cover big range of small topics
The University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will hold their first nanoscience workshop since joining forces in the spring to form the Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
August 8, 2001
Tee up Sept. 10 for the annual Harborview Medical Center Classic!
The 2001 Harborview Classic golf tournament is set for Monday, September 10
August 7, 2001
Microsoft gives $7.2 million for new computer science building at UW
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced today that the company has given $7.2 million toward a new building to house the University of Washington’s nationally ranked Department of Computer Science & Engineering.
200 expectant couples sought for Baby Makes Three study, free workshop on improving marital satisfaction
If marriage counselors made predictions like weather forecasters they might describe the impact of a new baby on a marriage this way: The arrival of a little bundle of sunshine to be followed by stormy weather and frequent declining marital satisfaction.
August 3, 2001
Firefighter Jason Emhoff is Upgraded to Satisfactory Condition
Jason Emhoff, the firefighter burned in the Thirty Mile Fire in Okanogan County last month, was upgraded yesterday afternoon to satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Emhoff was transferred out of the Burn Intensive Care Unit to the Acute Burn Center patient floor. If all goes as planned, his next surgery by Harborview surgeons will involve removing his left hand from the abdominal pocket and applying allograft, and autografting his ears and neck.
August 1, 2001
Cell Systems Initiative and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will jointly probe mysteries of the cell’s inner workings
Two of the Northwest’s largest research institutions, the University of Washington and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have agreed to jointly study the biological process that could hold the key to longer and better life.
Dr. Stephen Petersdorf named first holder of Endowed Chair in Cancer Care
Dr. Stephen H. Petersdorf, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology at the University of Washington (UW), has been named the first holder of the Endowed Chair in Cancer Care.
July 31, 2001
MEDIA ADVISORY: UW Astrobiology program to host its first national conference
An astrobiology conference is being hosted by the University of Washington’s Center for Astrobiology and Early Evolution.
Alcohol-related problems among high-risk college-age drinkers significantly reduced by brief intervention program
A brief non-confrontational intervention program administered to high-risk college-age drinkers when they entered college had long-lasting effects that persisted over four years in reducing the number of alcohol-related problems.
Grant program reaches out to women who have fetal alcohol syndrome
The Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP) at the University of Washington has received funding from the March of Dimes Washington State Chapter for a project called “Prevent Double Jeopardy” that will provide services to women who have a birth defect. The goal is to protect the next generation of children from this same debilitating birth defect.
July 30, 2001
UW ‘Robodawg’ soccer players ready for international competition
A team of robot dogs programmed by University of Washington computer science students to kick, pass and head-bump their way to victory on a small-scale soccer field is undergoing final preparations for an international competition in Seattle that begins at the end of the week.
July 27, 2001
Seattle-area middle and high school students to take part in physics research
Some Seattle-area middle school and high school students and their science teachers soon will be assisting University of Washington scientists in a major effort aimed at solving one of the most vexing puzzles in physics.
New campus-wide center for technology entrepreneurship to combine research with real-world learning
A new cross-campus center at the University of Washington Business School will provide research faculty and students with the opportunity to study the real-world problems involved in turning leading-edge technology into viable companies.
July 26, 2001
How babies acquire building blocks of speech affects later reading and language ability, UW researcher tells White House Summit on Cognitive Development
One of the scientists leading the effort to understand exactly how infants go about learning language told a White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development today that the fundamental steps in language acquisition later play a critical role in the ability to read.
Descendants of Takuji Yamashita endow scholarship in human rights
Descendants of Takuji Yamashita yesterday donated $65,000 to endow a University of Washington School of Law scholarship in international law and human rights, a century after the start of Yamashita’s own quest for justice.
July 23, 2001
Press Conference Regarding Firefighter Jason Emhoff
Today, Monday, July 23, Jason Emhoff underwent his second surgery to skin graft the majority of his burns and evaluate his hands to see if further skin grafts are needed.
July 20, 2001
UW program shows students with disabilities they can DO-IT
A summer camp of a different stripe will begin later this month at the University of Washington. More than 40 college-bound high school students with disabilities from Washington and other states will gather at the UW campus in Seattle for the summer study sessions of the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Program.
450 children with reading, spelling or handwriting problems needed for study seeking genetic markers for learning disabilities
One of the joys of summer is finding a great new book to read. But it’s a pleasure that eludes millions of children and adults who have difficulty reading because of dyslexia. Because so many children have trouble reading, as well as with spelling or handwriting, researchers at the University of Washington’s Learning Disabilities Center have launched a major effort designed to find a genetic marker that will allow for the early identification of youngsters with dyslexia and specific writing disability.
July 19, 2001
Keck Foundation funds major new initiative into deep-sea quakes, life
New kinds of instruments and experiments — made possible with a just announced $5 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles — could give scientists the best way yet to study the rich microbial life that flourishes wherever the seafloor twists and buckles, and which is part of a biosphere beneath the Earth’s surface that may dwarf all life on land or in the sea.
July 16, 2001
Dr. Robert Rushmer, diagnostic ultrasound pioneer, dies at age 86
Dr. Robert F. Rushmer, a pioneer in applying engineering advances to the creation of new instruments for medical research and patient care, died in Redmond, Wash., Friday, July 13, after a long illness. He was 86.
July 13, 2001
UW Medical Center ranked 12th among nation’s Best Hospitals
University of Washington Medical Center moved up a notch in its ranking among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2001 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” which was updated in its July 23 issue, available July 16.
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