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Secretary of the Faculty Applicants Sought

Faculty Senate Leadership, in collaboration with the President, seeks applications for the position of Secretary of the Faculty.

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DISSENTING VOICE: A recent story in the Columbus Dispatch examined the controversy surrounding genetically altered grass.

Artist Gary Smoot has a thing for wiener dogs — the kind made out of balloons (note the drawing on his shirt).

A faculty development workshop on “Leadership and Institutional Change” has been scheduled from 8:30 a.

Sylvia Burns, a licensed massage practitioner (LMP) in the Exercise Training Center at Roosevelt, is the UW Medical Center’s “entrant” in the Winter Olympic Games now under way in Salt Lake City.

Students in the UW School of Dentistry are finding a new and high-tech way to communicate with patients and plan comprehensive treatment.

Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2001-2002 academic year.

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The latest crime data from the UW Police Department show an 8 percent increase in reported crimes for 2001.

The College of Education is accepting reservations for a colloquium designed to help facilitate partnerships between K-12 and the UW campus.

The School of Music will help romantics celebrate Valentine’s Day with a concert tonight at 7:30 in Meany Theater.

The UW’s Chamber Dance Company will explore the impact of humanism and expressionism on modern dance during its annual winter concert.

PHOTO OP: If you like color photos of the natural world, the Campus Public Art Office has a deal for you.

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HUB Hall of Fame

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2002 HUB Hall of Fame Activities Award.

This academic year, Brad Holt, the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Vice-Chair Sandra Silberstein, and the Senate Executive Committee made plans to increase communication between the Senate and faculty.

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DOUSING THE FLAME: Citing continued concerns for safety, plus rising costs and issues of liability, Texas A&M University President Ray M.

Left to right, Landscape Architecture Professor Daniel Winterbottom and students David Knight, Michael Dalquist and George Wittren put the finishing touches on the UW’s prize-winning exhibit at the Northwest Flower & Garden show.

Gilbert Bombon, Utility Worker II from the Outside Maintenance Zone, removes dry-pack from below the paver bricks at the Kane Hall columns.

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Residents in Washington view their public colleges and universities as high-quality institutions that make significant contributions to their state’s economy, according to survey data released this week by the American Council on Education (ACE).

Leroy Searle has identified at least two general types of former musicians.

The UW Transportation Office has announced a new study of commuting choices among people who live within two miles of campus.

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Eight current and former UW-affiliated physicians and a School of Medicine graduate are featured in the new book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine (edited by Dr.

U-DOC is a six-week high school summer enrichment program offered by the UW School of Medicine’s Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Amy is sure there is something wrong with her.

“Nursing’s legacy of keen observation, combined with a focus on the multiple environmental factors that influence human health and illness, has been the foundation for contemporary nursing research in general and women’s health research in particular.

Researchers at the UW are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.

A research center based at the UW School of Dentistry will try to understand the causes, and some of the answers, for needless suffering among diverse groups in the Northwest and Alaska.

TIMELY TOPIC: Within hours of the announcement that Evergreen Forest Trust would purchase 100,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forestlands in the Cascade foothills, one of the key participants was at the UW’s College of Forest Resources as a panelist discussing the very topic of land trusts.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

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The Washington Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board last week voted unanimously in support of a resolution that recommends giving tuition-setting authority to public colleges and universities and encourages a restructuring or expansion of the state’s tax system.

Lecture considers modernity, religion

UW Professor Frank Conlon will give the annual “Religion and Contemporary Life” lecture at 7:30 p.

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Department chair: Sabine Wilke

Department location: Denny Hall

Number of faculty: Ten regular faculty members (three with joint appointments), as well as one emeritus who teaches and a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Germany every spring.

While preparing for the festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Henry Art Gallery, Richard Andrews can’t help but be moved by the generosity of the facility’s namesake.

Thirty-four years after his death, the legacy of Dr.

The City of Seattle has released a draft final report of the University Area Transportation Study and is asking for comments by Feb.

The UW is making it easier for students, instructors and staff to produce their own Web pages — without having to know specialized computer languages or to use complicated software.