Maybe it was inevitable that when John Goodlad decided to write a memoir, it wouldn’t turn out to be a memoir of his life.
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A need for inexpensive housing led Carolyn Apel to the experience that started it all.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.
Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according to researchers in the UW’s Department of Bioengineering.
Imagine the scene: All the factories in a city have been closed by sit-down strikes.
Maybe it was inevitable that when John Goodlad decided to write a memoir, it wouldn’t turn out to be a memoir of his life.
A need for inexpensive housing led Carolyn Apel to the experience that started it all.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.
Scattered across the United States are about 60 penal institutions that are called super-maximum security prisons, control units or some other similar name.
The 2004 Health Sciences Open House will be Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24.
Hormone therapy used in the treatment of prostate cancer can lead to severe bone loss in men, according to the report of an October 2002 research summit.
Elected fellows
UW faculty members Dr.
As the publication of scientific research papers shifts more and more from print to electronic distribution, universities often buy site licenses that provide campuswide online access to a variety of journals, which cuts publishers’ production costs and is more convenient for readers.
Five University of Washington students won the western division of the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Boulder, Colo.
Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.
The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide.”
Four faculty members in the University of Washington’s Department of Electrical Engineering have been elected fellows of in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, bringing the total number of IEEE fellows in the department to 22.
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.
Several matters important to the UW are receiving favorable reactions thus far in the legislative session.
AAAS in Seattle; UW scientists featured
One of the largest gatherings of scientists from around the world comes to Seattle next week when the American Association for the Advancement of Science stages its annual meeting. Offering a program of 130 symposia, topical lectures and seminars, the meeting includes nearly 90 UW Washington faculty and students as lecturers, symposium organizers and speakers. AAAS runs from Feb. 12 through Feb.16 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.
President Lee Huntsman has appointed Elizabeth L.
The Provost’s Office is looking for some great ideas that require modest amounts of temporary funding to be realized.
The School of Music’s annual “Mosaic” concert is meant to be a sampler, a chance to hear, in one program, a wide variety of musical styles and artists.
The exhibit, “This is woman’s hour…” – The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, is on display on the second floor of Odegaard Library through March 30.
Japanese Obon: Dancing with the Dead, a lecture by the Rev.
Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will offer a free public lecture, Our Changing Atmosphere in 2004, at 7 p.
The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide,” a lecture series starting next week with a look at the need for active forest stewardship of public forests.
Author and psychologist Robert J.
“Designing Effective Assignments for Group Learning” is the title of the next Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning, set for 2:30 to 4 p.
Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, will be presented at 7 p.
Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.
Surplus property turns to eBay for some sale items
Wanna buy some used card catalogs? Later this month, UW surplus will be selling the empty card catalog cabinets that stood in Suzzallo for many years, before computers revolutionized library searching. They’re just one of the many unusual items that come through surplus property, which has lately been posting some of its sale items on eBay.
Photos from here — and there — on display in Marine Studies
A career in oceanography has meant a life of travel for UW Professor Warren Wooster, whose photos of one of his destinations are on display now in the Marine Studies Building. Sixteen black-and-white images span 25 years of Wooster’s visits to France. Also displayed are photos of the Northwest by professional photographer Mary Randlett.
UW Professor Anthony Chan will be speaking next week when the U District’s Grand Illusion movie house opens its weeklong run of Piccadilly, a 1929 film starring Anna May Wong.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Scientists interested in the Earth’s carbon cycle — something that must be understood to assess the ongoing effects of carbon dioxide created by human actions, such as driving cars — have a new problem.
As the publication of scientific research papers shifts more and more from print to electronic distribution, universities often buy site licenses that provide campus-wide online access to a variety of journals, which cuts publishers’ production costs and is more convenient for readers.