September 25, 2008
All welcome at UWPD Open House Wednesday afternoon
The UW Police Department is welcoming all faculty, staff and students to its annual open house, from 2 to 4 p.
August 21, 2008
African American surgeons exhibit comes to UW
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F.
Extraordinary response to global health request for proposals
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
In response to a campuswide invitation for concept proposals for interdisciplinary global health initiatives and centers, the Department of Global Health received an impressive 41 proposals from faculty representing all 17 UW colleges and schools.
Sherr wins Young Investigator Award for HIV/AIDS work
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
Kenneth Sherr, UW clinical assistant professor in global health working at Health Alliance International (HAI), was one of five scientists worldwide honored with a Young Investigator Award at the 2008 Global AIDS Conference in Mexico City earlier this month.
Pharmacy student receives fellowship to target Uganda’s health
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy Ph.
Burke to host photo exhibit of birds from the Arctic Sept. 13–Dec. 31
Migration is one of nature’s great wonders; each year millions of birds travel great lengths — sometimes across the globe — to find feeding and breeding grounds.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
‘Rising from Ruins’: UW filmmaker traces recovery struggle
Bruce Foret has spent the three years since Hurricane Katrina struggling to rebuild Oak Street Hardware in New Orleans.
Space flyers to land in Seattle Sept. 15–20
Dozens of space flyers will land in the Northwest next month.
UW employees can rent at Radford Court
Did you know UW employees can rent apartments at Radford Court, the University housing that sits right up against Magnuson Park and Lake Washington? Plus, if the employee is taking a class (matriculated or nonmatriculated) at the UW, the lower Public Student Rate applies.
Hearing impaired students to show animation work Friday
Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.
Mystery Photo
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UW ranked 16th among 500 schools
In time for the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show UW ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
Tuscany provides backdrop for pharmacy education
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
Later this month, a group of UW School of Pharmacy faculty and staff and practicing Washington pharmacists will travel through the Tuscan region of Italy to learn about global practices in pharmacy.
Fairs set for Fall Prevention Awareness Day Sept. 18
Gov.
Science in Medicine Lecture Sept. 25
Dr.
UW Medicine & Seattle Public Library series launches Sept. 3
Dr.
UW to study Hispanic achievement gap
Frances E.
August 7, 2008
Jack Thompson leaves public health leadership post
Jack Thompson, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP), has stepped down from this leadership position, effective July 15.
Consortium to help reshape Thai pharmacy practices
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The UW School of Pharmacy recently joined a group that is helping transform the pharmacy system in Thailand.
Eileen Whalen appointed HMC executive director
By Clare Hagery & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
After a national search, Eileen Whalen has been appointed executive director for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, effective Oct.
Governor calls for fuel reduction, hiring freeze
Gov.
Rock, Paper, Scissors event at Henry Aug. 9
The Henry Gallery is celebrating ingenuity, creativity and originality at an event it calls Rock, Paper, Scissors from noon to 4 p.
Fellowships for Canadian study come to UW
The Killam Fellowships Program, which is based in Ottawa, has expanded to the western United States, and the UW is one of the first partner institutions.
Mystery Photo
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Husky Band leader a director of Beijing Olympic Orchestra
When Brad McDavid led the Husky Marching Band on a tour to China in 2001, little did he realize that the performances were also an audition.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting scheduled for August has been cancelled.
Etc: Campus news and notes
FOUNDING HONOR: Social Work Professor Biren “Ratnesh” Nagda was at the University of Michigan recently, accepting an award as one of the founders of intergroup dialogue — a technique he and several other graduate students developed at Michigan 20 years ago.
Public Health Informatics 2008 set for Sept. 18-19
The second annual Public Health Informatics 2008 Conference, Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies, will take place Sept.
July 24, 2008
UW professors coordinate NGO code of conduct
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
More than 25 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to pursue practices that bolster public health practices in the countries in which they work, as part of an international nongovernmental organization code of conduct developed by UW professors working for Health Alliance International in Seattle.
What happened to the ducks?
The whole campus has been quacking over the duck family that was featured on the cover of the last issue of University Week.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
A STORM OF RECOGNITION: Sutapa Basu, director of the UW Women’s Center, was one of four women honored during the Seattle Storm’s Women of Inspiration Night recently.
Catalano is Dobb Professor
By Jean M.
UW Tower is home to new cafe
If you’re looking for a new and different campus eatery, you might want to try Housing and Food Service’s most recent addition, the Tower Café, located in the UW Tower.
Deaf educator to talk about technology
Harry Lang, a Deaf professor in the Department of Research and Teacher Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, will be giving a public lecture on the subject of technology and how it impacts the Deaf community at 7 p.
Chinese studies librarians at UW for conference
Dozens of Chinese studies librarians have converged at the UW for the Summer Institute on Chinese Studies Librarianship in the Electronic Environment, hosted by UW Libraries.
Mystery photo
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Increase in freshman enrollment proposed
UW President Mark A.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents regular public meeting, which was scheduled for Thursday, Aug.
July 10, 2008
Exploring stigma and health
By Jean Patterson
School of Social Work
Stigma, Prejudice, Discrimination and Health, a special issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, is groundbreaking in exploring links among stigma, prejudice, and discrimination and their impact on health, as well as implications for public health practice.
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