By Dr.
November 29, 2007
Author: News and Information
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By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
Former patient Annette Rivlin-Gutman gave birth to son Jory three years ago at UW Medical Center with the help of UW midwives and obstetrician Dr.
UW School of Medicine alumnus Dr.
By Suzette Riley
HIPRC
Dr.
Leroy Hood, UW affiliate professor of genome sciences, immunology, and bioengineering, has joined an elite group of people who have been elected to all three National Academies, the societies recognizing the nation’s scientists, physicians, researchers, and engineers.
Debra Schwinn, UW professor and chair of anesthesiology, has been awarded the American Society of Anesthesiologists Award for Excellence in Research for her outstanding research advancing the science of anesthesiology.
The Chiara String Quartet will perform at 8 p.
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Thursday, Nov.
OPEN KIOSK: Most university employees work at computers all day, but not all.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
By the end of this week, the roof will be off of the old Playhouse Theatre on University Way.
Class Title: English 121– Composition: Social Issues, “Service Learning, Sonic Culture and Media Activism,” taught by Jentery Sayers.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Voices will be raised in song at the School of Music in the week following Thanksgiving — in art songs, arias and songs of celebration in keeping with the coming season.
By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
Senior Genetic Counselor Robin Bennett was honored on both the local and national levels in recent months.
The International Beginning of U.
The UW Dance Program will offer its annual Faculty Dance Concert Nov.
Early viewing of violent television programs is linked to later aggressive and anti-social behavior in boys and doubles the risk of future childhood attention problems, according to a pair of news studies published Monday in the November issue of Pediatrics.
STUDENTS FOR SERVICE: A team of UW landscape architecture students has been selected from hundreds of national and international entries for an award in the community service category from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Kathrine Handford will perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Bartok and others at an organ concert Sunday, Nov.
With the change of seasons it’s time to familiarize yourself with the University policies that apply during periods of severe weather, and in the event of a temporary suspension of nonessential operations.
Tuition early on was $10 a semester and courses ranged from wood technology — including learning how to recognize the commercial timbers of the United States and know their properties — to forest protection, which mainly concerned how to thwart fungi, insect pests and forest fires on timberlands.
Name: Laurie Rossnagel
UW job: Administrator for Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems.
A documentary film on solar power, the brainchild of Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn, will be shown Nov.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
“Addressing Faculty and TA Questions about Safety and Our Students” is the title of a workshop to be held from 3 to 5 p.
As the plot of Arabian Nights, the next play from the UW School of Drama, is slowly revealed, so will the specially created floor covering begin to show its true pattern.
Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town meeting at 3:30 p.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
By Kathy Hall
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Richard Fenske, professor and associate chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, has been recognized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA) for his contributions to the assessment and mitigation of human exposure to chemical hazards.
By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
UW Medical Center took ownership of the Collegiana, a small former inn located across 12th Avenue N.
PRODUCTIVE FACULTY: Forty-two areas of study at the UW have been rated in the top 10 on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, and three of those have been rated number one.
By Dana Robinson Slote
School of Dentistry
Rosana Bishai, UW School of Dentistry student, has been selected as the 2007 Academy of Dentistry International Terry T.
Wendy Thomas, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, will give the New Investigator Science in Medicine Lecture Wednesday, Nov.
UWMC’s Krabak and Kaufman to discuss musculoskeletal issues on Patient Power radio program Nov.
Have an interest in capturing the night skies on film? A class at 6:15 p.
Nominations are now being solicited for the University’s annual awards, which honor outstanding teachers, staff, mentors and those engaged in leadership and public service.