July 9, 2009
New director of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences on the job at UW Tacoma
Larry Knopp arrived at UW Tacoma recently to head Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the largest of UW Tacoma’s academic programs.
Western Washington appears poised for another extremely dry summer
If you feel as if Western Washington has had an unusually dry start to the summer this year, you’re not mistaken.
Longevity pill on the horizon?
While applauding findings that an Easter Island compound extends the lives of middle-aged mice, University of Washington longevity researchers caution that healthy people shouldn’t start taking the drug in the hopes of extending their own life spans — at least not yet.
July 8, 2009
Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress
Ask any mother and she’ll tell you that raising a preschooler is no easy task.
July 7, 2009
Media advisory: University of Washington clinic hosts ‘Kruzin’ Kent’ kids
WHO: Kent elementary school students, UW Medicine physicians and UW Medical Center dietitian Diane Javelli
WHAT: UW Medicine Kent/Des Moines clinic is taking part in a <A href="www.
July 6, 2009
Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is processed in mammalian brain
Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain.
July 2, 2009
Survival rates for elderly patients receiving in-hospital resuscitation did not improve from 1992 to 2005
A study of elderly patients receiving CPR in the hospital shows that rates of survival did not improve from 1992 to 2005.
June 30, 2009
Stirred, not shaken: Bio-inspired cilia mix medical reagents at small scales
The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing.
Earth’s most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
June 29, 2009
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft.
June 26, 2009
Media advisory: Aquatic robots, autonomous planes at UW robotics conference
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June 25, 2009
If the shoe flits, duck: A real-life example of humans’ dual vision system
It’s rare when real-world events perfectly mirror experiments that scientists are conducting.
Afghan archivists at UW for three-week workshop
Three archivists from Radio Afghanistan are spending three weeks at the UW in a National Endowment for the Arts-funded summer residency workshop on archiving.
Play ball! Husky Night with the Mariners is July 10
Junior’s back and Ichiro’s hitting — it’s a great time to head to Safeco Field for some major league baseball.
Disaster tip of the month: Plan for temporarily reduced public services
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
New Graduate School Making a Difference staff award a nice surprise for UW Press designer
Ashley Saleeba, senior designer with UW Press, got a nice surprise last Thursday — she was named the recipient of the Graduate School’s first-ever Making a Difference staff award.
New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system’s habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet’s water in liquid form.
School of Music leadership changes from McCabe to Karpen
On July 1 the School of Music will experience its first change in top leadership since 1994.
More room to romp: New play courts open at the Experimental Education Unit
There were a few official remarks, some hearty applause, and then it was time to scamper and play!
The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) opened two new play courts on Wednesday, June 10, with the help of a few friends — and a bunch of youngsters really ready to romp.
Have your say — University Week now taking comments
Want to have your say about University Week stories and photos? Beginning with this issue, you’ll be able to.
Capstone projects offer solutions to real-world problems
Problem: Hikers sometimes see trail damage such as downed trees, rock slides or vandalism before trail maintenance crews but can’t always remember or document precisely where they saw the damage.
Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites.
Toward a better basket: UW lecturer travels Nicaragua to promote ergonomic reform for coffee harvesters
By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
As Seattle coffee drinkers sip their brew, they may not realize that Nicaraguan coffee harvesters risk injury to bring the precious beans in for processing.
Following the money to measure global health spending worldwide
By William Heisel
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Nirmala Ravishankar wanted to track every dollar spent to improve people’s health in developing countries — from the person who wrote the check to the person who ultimately spent it.
UW to get six cell phone towers, part of new Strategic Mobile Initiative
Coming soon to the UW: improved cell phone coverage, as well as sizable discounts for individuals and offices that use either T-Mobile or AT&T.
Obsidian ‘trail’ provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands.
Professor wants to promote decades of UW innovation with science museum — on campus or online
Bob Charlson is holding an intergrating nephelometer and dreaming of a future where such key UW innovations are given their just historical due.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW researchers along as ‘Around the Americas’ vessel circumnavigates North and South America
UW scientists are leads for five of the eight science projects on board a 64-foot boat that is sailing 25,000 miles all the way around North and South America.
Berg elected to American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry post
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Hall Health wins Qualis Health Award of Excellence
By Steve Butler
News & Community Relations
Doing more with less seems to be the mantra of the day, and few in health care do that as well as the Hall Health Primary Care Center on the UW campus.
Harborview named lead center for brain injury project in state
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has been named the State Lead Center for Washington as part of a national network of health care institutions in one of the largest collaborative efforts in the history of pediatric medicine.
UW Medical Center attains 500 for heart, lung transplants
UW leaders, surgeons, physicians, social workers and other staff celebrated two recent transplant patients Tuesday, June 9, at a press conference.
Sports Concussion Program to open at Harborview and Seattle Children’s
Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
In October 2006, Zackery Lystedt, 13, suffered a traumatic brain injury after making a tackle at the very end of the first half of a middle-school football game.
Genome Sciences hosts public lecture series in July
The UW Department of Genome Sciences will present its summer public lecture series, Wednesday Evenings at the Genome, in July.
Lost and found films: Can you help UW Libraries learn more about these vintage screen gems?
You can almost hear the old-style projectors rattle along as you view these vintage films.
Etc: Campus news & notes
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Official notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.
Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious, or implicit, preference for white people compared to blacks.
UW Libraries offers AYPE Exhibit tours
The public is invited to attend tours of the UW Libraries exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by Carla Rickerson, exhibit curator and head of Special Collections Public Services.
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