A continued emphasis on energy savings means air-conditioned offices will be cooled to just 78 degrees this summer.
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U-PASS stickers expire
Current (’01–’02) U-PASS stickers and parking permits expire June 30.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
A UW researcher says corporations in search of success should take a lesson from the hardwood. Winners are made over time, not with free agents.
A fund-raiser at the Chateau Ste. Michelle is one more exapmle of the growing corporate interest in promoting diversity in higher education.
One of the musicians at the 30th International Viola Congress, held on campus last week, tries out an instrument at one of the luthier displays in the Music Building.
Ann Buzaitis, a registered nurse in Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, sits on the steps in the Medicinal Herb Garden.
Program geared to patients and families covers localized and advanced disease
New School of Medicine position will increase visibility for efforts to support both
junior and senior faculty
Multidisciplinary Pain Center brings nerve-pain expert to UW
Former Olympic sailing gold medallist Lowell North of Point Loma, Calif.
Join science educators at free series
organized for summer institute
The Department of Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology will offer a CME-accredited series of weekly conferences, beginning Friday, July 5.
MAGAZINE GOLD: A conservation biology journal for which UW zoology professor Dee Boersma is executive editor has won a major national award.
When your doctor sends you for an ultrasound, you can thank University of Washington alum Donald Baker for making the non-invasive procedure an option.
Last year dozens of firework-related injuries were treated at Harborview Medical Center. Injuries resulted in finger, hand and thumb amputations and fractures, loss of eyes and severe burns to faces, hands and backs. Illegal and legal fireworks caused the majority of these injuries.
Creative new initiatives by governments can help expand “last mile” broadband connections to homes and businesses, according to some speakers at a panel discussion yesterday in Washington, D.
The winds of the Great Plains won’t stop two Montana tribes from making their newest buildings out of straw.
The University of Washington Business School’s executive education program appears to be dodging the revenue decline that has hurt similar programs at many of the country’s business schools.
Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the University of Washington School of Medicine, has named Dr. Christina M. Surawicz to the newly created position of assistant dean for faculty development.
The University of Washington School of Medicine is inviting the public to attend the Second Annual Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer Conference from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 12, on the UW main campus.
Harborview Medical Center is looking for motivated and responsible teen volunteers, ages 14-18 years for its Summer Teen Volunteer Program.
A group of anti-cancer agents that once produced dismal results in clinical trials could once again be a promising tool in fighting the deadly disease, thanks to research by a team of chemists at the University of Washington and in Germany.
Only two teams remain in the running for this year’s National Basketball Association championship, which began yesterday. Teams that want a better shot at making it to next year’s finals might want to consider forfeiting their upcoming draft picks, a University of Washington researcher says.
Life on the street is dangerous for any homeless youth, but a new UW study shows that danger increases for sexual minorities.
Sixteen of the nation’s top ocean-policy experts, scheduled to meet in Seattle June 13 and 14, want to hear what Pacific Northwest residents consider to be the most pressing coastal and ocean issues facing the region and the nation.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Instructors are reminded that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 requires that the University treat student records in a confidential manner.
The UW Center for AIDS Research will hold an afternoon conference on Friday, June 14, at Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training Building.
First lecture June 20; discussion groups begin June 26
Withdrawal symptoms and how to ease them
In a story last week on the June 5 Alzheimer’s Public Forum, Linda Teri was identified as director of the School of Nursing’s de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging.
At 550, 8 1/2-by-11 pages, it’s hardly bedtime reading, but Keith Benson thinks Oceanographic History: the Pacific and Beyond is more interesting than the average “Proceedings” that comes out of a conference.
Steve Hill
University Week
The third annual Summer Arts Festival at the UW is being billed as an exploration of beat.
As the world’s increasing population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration.
A restoration plan has been approved for the open area to the south of Suzzallo Library — an area that has been fenced off for the last two years and occupied by construction trailers and a variety of equipment and supplies.
Steve Hill
University Week
The UW’s Sciences and Tribes Educational Partnership (STEP) is entering its third summer on some kind of a roll.
A three-stage outdoor performance space designed and built by College of Architecture and Urban Planning students will get its first workout June 14, when T.
A team of University of Washington graduate students has won $30,000 to finance a company that would provide a less-invasive radiation therapy to cancer patients.