UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.
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President Emmert has supplied one-year pilot money for an effort to create leadership and professional development opportunities for graduate and professional students.
UW President Mark Emmert and UWT Chancellor Patricia Spakes will host the the 15th anniversary celebration for UW Tacoma on Oct.
The UW’s World Dance Series begins a new season with Blueprint of a Lady: The Once and Future Life of Billie Holiday, a multi-arts performance piece based upon the life and legacy of the late jazz vocalist Billie Holiday.
The CEO of Sonosite, a firm headquartered in Bothell that produces handcarried diagnostic ultrasound devices and revenues of more than $100 million, is the Oct.
Airlift Northwest is holding a memorial service today, Oct.
UW Recycling is continuing its Stop-Think-Recycle campaign this week.
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Friends, family and colleagues of Anthony Qamar, UW professor of Earth and Space Sciences, will gather in a special memorial service at 7 p.
Vince Gallucci, whose work includes developing mathematical and statistical models to link biological studies to future population changes and management options, has been named director of the UW’s Center for Center for Quantitative Science in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife.
Provost Phyllis Wise has appointed a committee to develop a vision and goals for the UW undergraduate experience on the Seattle campus.
The UW’s Seattle campus will have access to wireless connections within three years, under the UW Wireless Initiative, a plan developed through discussion among campus technology advisory committees and the Board of Deans.
Buying tickets through the UW Arts Ticket Office just got easier.
Robert Straub took eight years to get his bachelor’s degree from the UW in 1965.
UW President Mark A.
The Jewish Studies Program in the Jackson School of International Studies at the UW has received a commitment for a $10 million gift from prominent Seattle philanthropist, Althea Stroum.
Bike safety featured at HUB on Oct.
The UW’s Publications Services Department has announced that due to a federal suspension of mail to and from some Gulf areas, UW mail also will be suspended in those areas.
BEST BOOKS: Two UW professors have won Washington State Book Awards.
A HELPING HAND: An article in the July 22 Chronicle of Higher Education under the headline “Family Science” took up the matter of ways in which institutions can help faculty members whose professional lives are being threatened by life changes and challenges.
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The Search Advisory Committee for the University of Washington, Bothell Chancellor is holding stakeholder forums during the candidate identification period.
SMART COMMUTING: Roads and highways would be far less congested and rush hours more bearable if everyone adopted the commuting habits displayed by recent Latino immigrants, say researchers at the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, at the University of California at Los Angeles.
More than 70 charities — from social, health, and human service agencies, to environmental organizations, and the arts — will participate in the first Combined Fund Drive Charity Fair at the University of Washington, on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 from 11 am to 2 pm in the HUB Ballroom Last year the Combined Fund Drive raised more than $1.
Elections for employee representatives to the 11 Health and Safety Committees are beginning.
A series of presentations for clinical researchers will begin on Tuesday, Oct.
Sean Kassim, a senior fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, hands out tasting strips to find out which people are able to detect certain harmless substances — the ability to detect some tastes is genetically determined — at the UW Medicine booth for the South Lake Union Block Party, held Friday and Saturday, Sept.
AIDS symposium planned for Oct.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
CSSS Seed Grant Program
The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants for the year 2005-6.
Dear UW Faculty, Staff, and Students:
Hurricane Katrina has wreaked a level of destruction unprecedented in any natural disaster in our history.
Students graduating this June from the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine have selected Dr. Paul Crosby for the 2004 WWAMI Distinguished Teacher Award.
Neutrinos are about the tiniest things in existence, but developing a greater understanding of what they are and how they function is likely to have a huge impact in the next few years.
For years, organic electro-optic polymers have held the promise of vastly improving technologies such as communications, data processing and image displays. Now it appears scientists are on the verge of breakthroughs that will bring dramatic progress.
A new imaging technique used by a group of researchers at the University of Washington and elsewhere has revealed a previously unknown cellular structure in the retinas of mice.
Tiny microheaters that can prompt chemical changes in surrounding material may provide the means to more easily grow replacement tissue for injured patients and form the basis for medical sensors that could quickly detect pathogens.
The economy’s recent slump prompted growing numbers of top U.S. college graduates to hunker down in graduate school, new data show.
Motor vehicle crashes are the single largest killer of children 4-8 years old, and 55 percent of all child passenger injuries are in this group.
KeyBank is contributing $250,000 to help fund the University of Washington’s new biotechnology and medical research hub that will be located in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.
Eighty-four percent of political campaigns last year used Web sites designed to encourage participation in the political process, according to a University of Washington researcher. That’s up from less than 70 percent of campaign sites in 2000 that offered opportunities for involvement.
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University Week
Journalists covering the Sept.