2004 | UW News

October 28, 2004

New technology for elders

“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.

President appoints members to provost search committee

President Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.

Graphics for the blind: UW to help make Web images tactile

The UW has been awarded a $749,188 grant from the National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering and mathematical books, papers and digital formats for use by students with visual impairments.

Human Resources: 300 more UW staffers eligible for overtime

The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.

Grant to help UW lessen impact of natural disasters

The University of Washington was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.

The Day Before: Boosting election awareness on campus

David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the UW campus in these days before the general election on Nov.

October 26, 2004

UW Medical Center to implant first-ever Cs-131 brachytherapy seeds to treat prostate cancer

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.

October 25, 2004

Crash injuries result in large and potentially preventable productive losses to U.S. workers

More than 6.

October 21, 2004

Diana Cardenas elected to Institute of Medicine

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Mystery Photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Travel guru urges Americans to experience, not judge

Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won’t be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.

Mystery object isn’t a star or a brown dwarf

A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn’t resemble any known star type.

Faculty Senate: A new year of cooperative work

The UW Faculty Senate — which holds its first meeting Oct.

McDuff named director of School of Oceanography

An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the UW’s School of Oceanography.

Freshman seminars: The rewards go both ways

Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format?

The answer “Absolutely nowhere — you must be dreaming” is wrong, actually.

UW’s new magazine invites the public into ‘our house’

The UW has a new magazine, but you won’t find it on the newsstands.

Free Web-based training now available for clinical researchers

UW Medicine’s Office of Clinical Research and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) have launched a Web-based “Good Clinical Practice” (GCP) training program.

Rural Health Research Center funded for additional four years, new projects

The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center has been re-funded for an additional four years by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

New NIH sharing policies explained

The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and open to everyone, has scheduled a presentation on new National Institutes of Health policies that encourage sharing information and resources.

$13 million grant funds clinical research training

Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner’s office and into the community.

Combined Fund Drive continues through Nov. 24

The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.

Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the U.

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PARALYMPIC PRESS: The UW was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.

‘Weekly’ ad promotes UW’s public events

The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.

Work/Life: Now helping employees on the Web

Juggling work and the rest of your life has never been easy, but the University’s Work/Life office, a division of Human Resources, has been trying to help ever since its creation in 1988.

Charter school cost modest, study says

Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.

October 20, 2004

UW Bothell Professor and Snohomish County Red Cross present panel on Humanity in War

A panel discussion entitled “Humanity in the Midst of War” will be presented at 7 pm Thursday, Oct.

October 19, 2004

How to make schools better? Bring in outside help, experts say

Big city school districts will have a hard time reforming and meeting new accountability demands without more help from businesses, nonprofits and philanthropists, according to a new book from the Brookings Institution.

October 18, 2004

2004 Autumn Quarter enrollments

Seattle Campus Information

The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2004 is 39,199, including 1,691 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.

October 15, 2004

Charter schools would add little to state education costs, study predicts

October 14, 2004

New propulsion concept could make 90-day Mars round trip possible

A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.

Mystery Photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

UW World Series opens tonight — with some changes

UW World Series starts tonight, with some lineup changes (and no, it’s not baseball)
Sometimes world politics gets in the way of worldly performers. An excellent New York ballet company has replaced a Spanish dance troupe as the opener of the UW World Series. It’s at Meany Hall, and it’s tonight.

Duet with a computer is part of violist’s debut

In her debut recital Oct.

Chemical hazard information now Web based

Environmental Health & Safety and Computing & Communications have collaborated to produce MyChem, a new web tool that replaces the Laboratory Safety System (LSS).

An ancient remedy reborn: UW licenses potential wormwood treatment for cancer

A group of promising cancer-fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, the UW has announced.

Emotional coaching can help children overcome impacts of family violence

Emotional coaching from mom helps, even in tough circumstances
Children are less likely to encounter behavioral problems in life if they have been coached by their parents on how to handle their emotions, UW researchers found. And that’s true even when the home has low levels of domestic violence.