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November 15, 2001
Book offers information about Northwest oysters
Washington’s oyster industry owes its origins to the fertile shellfish beds of Willapa Bay.
D.C. office gives University a presence in nation’s capital
When an earthquake struck the Northwest last winter, UW researchers swung into action.
Staffer relishes CFD roles
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Fee committee accepting tech project proposals
The Student Technology Fee Committee will be accepting proposals from the Seattle campus for student technology related projects for the 2001-02 proposal cycle beginning Nov.
Health sciences brief news
Kid’s headaches
Pediatric neurologist Sarah Cheyette has written a parents’ guide to understanding children’s headaches.
Team Transplant
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
A unique team of UW Medical Center staff and faculty, transplant recipients and donor family members will run and walk as part of the Seattle Marathon on Nov.
Cut your chance of developing Type 2 diabetes by 50 percent!
That headline sounds like an ad from the back of a magazine, doesn’t it? Amazingly, a recently released study says it’s true.
Public Health organizes forum focusing on bioterrorism and other threats
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
The campus community and public can learn more about bioterrorism at a community forum featuring public health experts planned from 7 to 8:30 p.
November 9, 2001
Growing importance of minority-owned businesses to be recognized at awards ceremony
When young brothers David and Rick Cantu launched Redapt Systems and Peripherals in the mid-90s, they ran the computer resale business out of their home. That would make things a little crowded now. With $59 million in annual revenues, the Redmond company is not only the fastest-growing Hispanic-owned business in the state, it is the state’s fastest-growing small business — period.
November 8, 2001
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OYSTER FEVER: “What, then, draws oyster farmers to the water’s edge at dawn or in the dead of night? What makes them work so hard, often in miserable weather, to keep their oysters fat and fit? What makes the rest of us clamor for that small tidbit of flesh, cradled by the smooth inner nacre of an oyster’s thickly sculpted shell? One answer’s obvious: the ambrosial taste of the world’s most edible shellfish.
Notices
Legal Notices
Notice of Possible Rule Making – Preproposal Statement of Inquiry
(per RCW 34.
Council active, with range of issues
The Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs (FCFA) shall be responsible (as described in Section 42-33) for all matters of policy relating to the interests of the faculty, such as appointment, tenure, promotion, professional leave, compensation (including salary and fringe benefits), academic freedom, standards of academic performance, and professional ethics.
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Briefly
Memorial service planned to honor architecture professor
A Dec.
Construction site
The Eye Center at UW Medical Center won the award for “most constructive” pumpkin as part of the annual Halloween decorating contest, judged last week.
Surgery simulation
Elected officials and leaders in higher education and health from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho were at the UW Health Sciences Center in late October for a WWAMI Legislative Conference focusing on the School of Medicine’s regional medical education and training programs.
Student-designed satellite set for space
After three years of work, University of Washington students have nearly completed the world’s smallest self-propelled satellite and are preparing to deliver it to the Air Force and NASA for launch.
Public turning to books to understand war on terrorism
By Steve Hill
University Week
The terror of Sept.
The Home Front: Campus landscape altered by Sept. 11.
Since Sept.
Opening a window on the past
The UW is partnering with the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), as well as with many of the smaller museums in King County, to create a digital archive of county history containing 12,000 images.
In Adams novel there’s no place like ‘Home’
Back in the 1960s, after Professor Emeritus Hazard Adams had completed more than 10 years of teaching, he decided it was time to put his money where his mouth was.
New Urban Horticulture building to be considered
Designers with the architectural firm Miller Hull Partnership of Seattle are now considering ways to rebuild Merrill Hall, which was firebombed at the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture last May.
Inner Workings: Scandinavian Studies
Department Chair’s Name: Terje Leiren
Department Location: Raitt Hall
Number of Faculty: 12, including two lecturers who are partially funded by the governments of Finland and Denmark
Number of Students: 16 graduate students and 81 undergraduate majors; department teaches about 2,000 students a year.
Employee prefers helpful over helpless
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Mastering the business of caring: MBA students run campus food drive
By Steve Hill
University Week
Schlepping 70 waist-high barrels across campus and getting them in their proper locations for the UW’s annual food drive is a part of the job Lorrie Johnson would prefer to delegate.
New Web site helps job seekers learn about UW
People seeking employment at the University will be able to get more information than the job listings, thanks to a new Web site that debuted last week.
Health Sciences News
Curriculum open house
The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine’s curriculum programs in occupational therapy, physical therapy and prosthetics/orthotics will be featured in an open house from 3:30 to 5 p.
Medications and pregnancy
The UW’s National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health is conducting new research into how drugs are handled in the body by pregnant women, a field which according to the U.
New consortium gets $7 million
By Kristin Woodward
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the UW will be participating in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one’s response to various environmental agents, from asbestos to tobacco smoke.
British expert on health status of countries to give Walker-Ames lecture
Richard Wilkinson, an expert on the differences in health status from country to country, will speak about “Unhealthy Societies: The Politics of Human Social Needs” at 6 p.
Symposium features Northwest community research projects
Several UW and Northwest-based researchers will be participating in a symposium on Friday, Nov.
Expert on inflammatory bowel disease coming to UW
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November 5, 2001
Local researchers join in national effort to study health impact of toxic substances
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with the University of Washington, has been selected to participate in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one’s response to various environmental agents, from asbestos to tobacco smoke. Such research will help answer puzzling questions such as why some people who have never smoked a cigarette develop lung cancer, while others who have smoked heavily for years never show signs of the disease.
November 2, 2001
Former surgeon general to speak Nov. 8
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. surgeon general in the first Clinton administration, will be in Seattle next week to present the UW Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds and speak to local women physicians.
Urban Horticulture to brief public Nov. 19 on concepts, design for rebuilding
Designers with the architectural firm Miller Hull Partnership of Seattle are now considering ways to rebuild Merrill Hall, which was firebombed at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture last May, and will explain the pre-design phase and seek comments from the neighborhood and campus community Nov. 19.
Expert on disparities in international health to speak Nov. 14
Richard Wilkinson, an expert on the differences in health status from country to country, will speak about “Unhealthy Societies: The Politics of Human Social Needs” at 6 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
One of world’s smallest self-propelled satellites nearly ready for Air Force, NASA
After three years of work, University of Washington students have nearly completed one of the world’s smallest self-propelled satellites and are preparing to deliver it to the Air Force and NASA for launch.
November 1, 2001
MEDIA ADVISORY: Marrakech conference prompts expert briefing on NW climate change
Expert briefing for reporters on the impacts of climate change on the Pacific Northwest
Etc.
KID SAFETY: Seventeen low-income families whose children attend school in the UW’s Experimental Education Unit received free child and infant car seats, thanks to the University Police Department.
Notices
Grant Proposal Deadline
Nov.
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