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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.
| Craig Degginger |
| HS News & Community Relations |
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.
| Walter Neary |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Students in the UW School of Dentistry are finding a new and high-tech way to communicate with patients and plan comprehensive treatment.
| Claire Dietz |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2001-2002 academic year.
Chris Jarvis
Washington State Attorney General’s Office
With as many as 94 percent of Americans concerned about possible misuse of personal information, the business community has a strong interest in promoting consumer privacy policies that bolster consumer confidence.
Ben Santos has never been plagued with doubts about who he is.
Christina Roux never saw her Franklin High School economics students so engaged — designing dynamic Web sites, poring through the daily papers, throwing themselves into research projects.
Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little less than two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
For Aaron Hertzmann, painting like a master is more a matter of algorithms than brush strokes.
The award-winning UW-based DO-IT program is using cyberspace to reach a national audience with strategies for creating a level playing field in the academic world for students with disabilities.
University Week Staff Report
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.
Dr. Paul B. Robertson, dean of the University of Washington School of Dentistry for nine years until June 30, 2001, has been appointed the Washington Dental Service Foundation Distinguished Professor in Dentistry.
Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little under two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
The award-winning University of Washington-based DO-IT program is using cyberspace to reach a national audience with strategies for creating a level academic playing field for students with disabilities.
Physicians at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center urge King County residents today to prepare for a new child passenger safety law by putting their 4-8 year-old children in booster seats when travelling in motor vehicles.
For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest.
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.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
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.
University Week Staff Report
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).
The UW has done a good job conserving both energy and water in the past year, but the best may be yet to come, according to Facilities Services officials.
| Steve Hill |
| University Week |
Leroy Searle has identified at least two general types of former musicians.
For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest.
School dropout rates among immigrant teen-agers are most severe among students of Mexican descent, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico.
The UW Transportation Office has announced a new study of commuting choices among people who live within two miles of campus.
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.
| Pam Sowers |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Amy is sure there is something wrong with her.
| Kathy Dannenhold |
| School of Nursing |
“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.
Many research studies are looking for people willing to have some blood drawn once or twice and perhaps fill out a questionnaire.