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DIET GURU: When Mother Earth News needed a dietitian to talk about good nutrition in their Guide to Real Health, they turned to Judy Simon, a staffer at UWMC Roosevelt.
Vegas alumni seek campus speakers
Visiting Las Vegas anytime soon? If so, the UW Alumni Association in that city is interested in talking to you.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Grant Applications Available
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
One of five centers for bariatric surgery research here
The UW has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
Researchers join forces to develop HIV vaccine
A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.
Project uses Internet as tool for diabetes management
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health – the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the UW School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
UW Medicine Style Guide now online with logos
An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new UW Medicine brand and logos.
Health Sciences News Briefs
Genome ethics
“Understanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy” is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other UW programs.
Let’s ‘Dance’: Staffer’s new CD offers healing messages
It’s as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice.
Students help town control destiny
Thirty picket-wielding protesters shouted at the loggers cutting down a forest of mature spruce trees.
Touching may reduce spider fear, study shows
A new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia that was released, appropriately enough, on Halloween, indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
CFD: ‘Centro’ meets variety of community needs
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
New Web site helps find UW speakers
The UW Speakers Bureau is making it easier for people in the community to find campus speakers and also for faculty and staff to register with the bureau.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Collaboration at UW lab led to obesity gene findings
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
New findings on platelet development and disorders
It’s been in all the newspapers, so you know it’s true: The style pages all tell us that the 70s and 80s are back.
Mark Groudine named to Institute of Medicine
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November 5, 2003
UW architecture program gives youth a voice on Seattle waterfront
Seattle’s post-Viaduct waterfront should provide an outdoor educational environment for studying history, culture and ecology — as well as a skateboard park. So say high school students at Queen Anne’s Center School who were asked to inject the voice of youth into the future of the downtown waterfront.
November 3, 2003
Nisqually quake damaged 90 percent of Puget Sound businesses surveyed
Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by University of Washington researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
Role in Type 1 diabetes provides clue for researchers who discovered ‘obesity gene.’
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
October 31, 2003
Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered mass extinctions, spurred bird breathing system
A University of Washington paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which eradicated 90 percent of all species on Earth.
Japanese shipwreck adds to evidence of great Cascadia earthquake in 1700
Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue.
October 30, 2003
Touch doubles the power of VR therapy for spider phobia, study finds
Just in time for Halloween, a new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
Researchers: Segregation charge against school reforms may be ‘overhyped’
Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study.
Districts’ response to testing may fail already-struggling students
High-stakes tests are having the wrong effect on many of the K-12 students who need the most help, according to two scholars in Washington state.
UW center for digital artists makes history
“You are a dangerous young man.
Students learn in real world while benefiting elderly Seattleite
Eric Ragde advanced his UW education a couple of weekends ago, without getting anywhere near campus, turning on the computer or cracking a book.
Internet2 growth creates digital lab notebook, other learning opportunities
It took 2½ decades for the benefits of the original Internet to diffuse broadly into the education community.
School of Music guest brings distinguished credentials from 40-year career
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Scientists meeting in Seattle to consider all aspects of Arctic changeIt was something polar veteran Jamie Morison hadn’t seen in that part of the Arctic Ocean before. CFD: Retired UW employee teaches English for area literacy council
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. October 29, 2003 2003 Autumn Quarter enrollmentsThe University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2003 is 39,136, including 1,652 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach. October 28, 2003 UW named a nationwide center to help study surgical treatments for obesityThe University of Washington has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium. Scientists trying to make sense of Arctic changes400 researchers traveled to Seattle this week for the first and largest meeting of international scientists studying all aspects of change in the Arctic October 24, 2003 New center will study fragile X syndromeThe UW has received an award of $5. AIDS in Africa“AIDS Treatment in Africa: Making It Work” is the title for the next Distinguished Faculty Lecture sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. Stamatoyannopoulos leads UW group seeking functional DNA elementsDr. Debate on mammogramsA series of articles published Oct. Health Sciences News BriefsAdvice on starting a company Previous page Next page |
