Archive

February 7, 2002

New studies seek better treatment, prevention for genital herpes

Walter Neary

HS News & Community Relations

Researchers at the UW are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.

New center targets oral health disparities

Walter Neary

HS News & Community Relations

A research center based at the UW School of Dentistry will try to understand the causes, and some of the answers, for needless suffering among diverse groups in the Northwest and Alaska.

February 6, 2002

University of Washington women physicians featured in anthology

Eight current and former University of Washington physicians and a School of Medicine alumna are featured in the new book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine.

February 5, 2002

Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak here

Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak

February 4, 2002

While most immigrant teenagers stay in school, dropout rate for Mexicans is 28 percent

School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexicans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico.

Researchers try an old trick to battle common STD

Researchers at the University of Washington are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.

January 31, 2002

Etc.

TIMELY TOPIC: Within hours of the announcement that Evergreen Forest Trust would purchase 100,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forestlands in the Cascade foothills, one of the key participants was at the UW’s College of Forest Resources as a panelist discussing the very topic of land trusts.

Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

Mystery photo

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

HEC Board calls for tuition authority

University Week Staff Report

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board last week voted unanimously in support of a resolution that recommends giving tuition-setting authority to public colleges and universities and encourages a restructuring or expansion of the state’s tax system.

Briefly

Lecture considers modernity, religion

UW Professor Frank Conlon will give the annual “Religion and Contemporary Life” lecture at 7:30 p.

Correction

A caption with a photo in the Jan.

InnerWorkings: Germanics

Department chair: Sabine Wilke

Department location: Denny Hall

Number of faculty: Ten regular faculty members (three with joint appointments), as well as one emeritus who teaches and a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Germany every spring.

Celebrating Henry: Revered art gallery reaches milestone anniversary

Steve Hill

University Week

While preparing for the festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Henry Art Gallery, Richard Andrews can’t help but be moved by the generosity of the facility’s namesake.

Reaching out: UW delegates talk with Castro during Cuban visit

As the United States began sending its Al Qaeda captives to Cuba last month, the UW sent a delegation of 41 women.

UW scientists learn how many neutrinos sun generates

Neutrinos are among the tiniest particles in the universe.

School of Drama planning 10-minute play festival

Next week the School of Drama is inviting people to see eight plays for the price of one.

‘Beloved community’ was MLK’s dream

Thirty-four years after his death, the legacy of Dr.

Comment sought on U-District transportation plan

The City of Seattle has released a draft final report of the University Area Transportation Study and is asking for comments by Feb.

SimpleSite takes HTML out of Web

Roberto Sanchez

Educational Outreach

The UW is making it easier for students, instructors and staff to produce their own Web pages — without having to know specialized computer languages or to use complicated software.

Land-use decisions led to flood-prone Skokomish

With a constancy that would impress the swallows at San Juan Capistrano, the Skokomish River seems to flood each year at the first sign of Western Washington’s rainy season.

Understanding burn scars: Surgeon Nicole Gibran tries to learn how hypertrophic scars might be reduced or prevented

Pamela Wyngate

HS News & Community Relations

After a suffering a severe burn, some patients develop hypertrophic scars—a distinct and excessive growth of tissue with increased numbers of blood vessels and multiple nerves.

Cosmetic Surgery Center opens: Refractive surgery also moves to UWMC-Roosevelt building with easy access

Craig Degginger

HS News & Community Relations

UW Medical Center-Roosevelt has opened three significant new areas on the second floor this month — the Cosmetic Surgery Center, Refractive Surgery Center and Ambulatory Surgery Center.

Open House 2002: Planning well under way for event in late April

Exhibitors are signing up to reserve space for the 2002 Health Sciences Open House, the honorary chair has been named and a theme has been chosen.

Take a couple more hours of sleep and see how you feel in the morning

You’re worn out all the time, you get tired very easily, that new weight-loss plan just isn’t working and you suspect you fell asleep as you were driving home after work last week.

Buehler Lecture on abdominal wall surgery

Dr.

Free art exhibit in the HUB

Mark Ondrake, a fiscal specialist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Environmental Health, will be sharing his collection of materials with examples of art from earlier times used for advertising, magazine covers and book covers.

January 24, 2002

Senior fellow in Dentistry named Magnuson Scholar, clinical scholar

A senior fellow in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Washington School of Dentistry has received two different and prestigious honors. Dr. Ozlem Yilmaz has been named a Magnuson Scholar by the university, and awarded a clinical scientist (KO8) grant by the National Institutes of Health.

Notices

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

Mystery photo

Mystery Photo Winners:

Digging it up for the IMA

It may look like an archaeological dig, but it’s actually the construction site for the addition to the IMA.

Health Sciences/UW Medical Center hold tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dr.

Tuition examined: Local authority could help manage University

Just because the governor proposed local tuition-setting authority doesn’t mean it will be a reality when the Legislature closes shop after what is scheduled to be a 60-day session.

Genome Project subject of Faculty Lecture

Walter Neary

Health Sciences News & Community Relations

Only a year ago, you couldn’t get away from the word “genetics.

Brain areas involved in imitation identified

In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.