By Steve Hill
University Week
This is no ghost story.
Author: News and Information
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Reviewed 9/22
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Name and title of unit head: Jane Wiseman, director
Unit’s location: Gilman Building, 4725 30th Ave.
Earl Davie Building
ZymoGenetics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics, in September celebrated the naming of its second building in honor of Dr.
A significant number of teenagers continue to be admitted to hospitals for poisoning from inappropriate use of medications, or, for children younger than 12, for the ingestion of non-medications, according to an article bu UW researchers in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
A visitor to Dr.
Questions about cancer have been linked, almost from the beginning, to the use of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause.
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program. The number is about 3.5 percent higher than last year’s headcount of 36,139.
By Doug Wadden, Faculty Council on Academic Standards
and Steve Buck, Faculty Council on Educational Outreach
The role of distance learning in undergraduate education at the UW has long been a contentious issue.
Academic Opportunities
Applicants sought for exchange program
The University of Washington-University of Ljublajana Exchange Program invites applications from faculty and senior graduate students to be an academic visitor to the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, during the 2002 calendar year.
NOBEL PITCHER: The UW’s newest Nobel Prize winner, Lee Hartwell, threw out the first pitch in the Mariners’ win over Cleveland Monday.
Students, faculty and staff from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning gathered on Oct.
UW President Richard L.
Several seminars and workshops for the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement preceded the presentation by Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, for the Hogness Symposium last week.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the UW has received emergency funding to open an office in New York City to support journalists traumatized by their work covering the Sept.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The tragedy of Sept.
The University of Washington has received a $3.
Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.
Lecture focuses on World Trade Center
New York World Trade Center: Reflections on the Engineering and Thoughts About the Future is the title of a lecture scheduled for 4 p.
Editor’s Note: The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
Although more diagnostic tools are available now than ever, there has been no improvement in the rate of misdiagnosis of appendicitis during the last decade, according to UW researchers.
Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel, John D.
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
By Laurie McHale, CHDD
The UW has been awarded a $3.
GENEROUS UW: When it was announced that UW employees could donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund – which goes to help the victims of the terrorist attacks – through the University’s Combined Fund Drive, they responded enthusiastically.
Academic Opportunities
Search continues for Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost
The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A dedication is planned Saturday for two new buildings on the Cascadia Community College, UW, Bothell campus.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The UW is working to help faculty and staff maintain a degree of serenity in an increasingly stressed-out world.
Pianist David Korevaar will present a program of piano preludes at 8 p.
An Environmental Opportunities Fair will be held from 10 a.
By Steve Hill
University Week
Jody Burns was faced with what’s becoming an increasingly common problem – how to care for an aging parent.
A new outreach program developed by the premier African-American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the UW is aimed at establishing greater links between the African-American community and the UW, with the goal of attracting more African-American students to the UW.
Information Technology Leaders, an interview series produced by the UW Business School and airing on UWTV and the Research Channel, proves that top IT executives are the sum of their experiences – both professional and personal.