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October 11, 2001
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GENEROUS UW: When it was announced that UW employees could donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund – which goes to help the victims of the terrorist attacks – through the University’s Combined Fund Drive, they responded enthusiastically.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Search continues for Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost
The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.
Peer Portfolio
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Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Faculty Senate will conduct more of its business without using paper
By Lea B.
Big day in Bothell
A dedication is planned Saturday for two new buildings on the Cascadia Community College, UW, Bothell campus.
UW assistance program ramping up
By Steve Hill
University Week
The UW is working to help faculty and staff maintain a degree of serenity in an increasingly stressed-out world.
New VP will always be Rusty
When the UW’s new vice president for minority affairs started kindergarten, she told the teacher her name was Rusty Barcelo.
Survey responses spur changes to University Week
Newspapers exist to serve readers, and University Week is no different.
Piano concert
Pianist David Korevaar will present a program of piano preludes at 8 p.
Course to consider impact of environmental problems
The UW’s budding partnership with the University of British Columbia has produced an ambitious new course this fall probing environmental problems that blithely ignore international borders.
Event will highlight careers in, study of the environment
An Environmental Opportunities Fair will be held from 10 a.
Eldercare workshop helps adult children cope
By Steve Hill
University Week
Jody Burns was faced with what’s becoming an increasingly common problem – how to care for an aging parent.
Stargazing: Astronomy undergrads use old telescope for new interest
The observatory may be the second oldest building on campus, but it can still draw a crowd.
African-American profs to give talks
A new outreach program developed by the premier African-American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the UW is aimed at establishing greater links between the African-American community and the UW, with the goal of attracting more African-American students to the UW.
UWTV series to focus on IT leaders
Information Technology Leaders, an interview series produced by the UW Business School and airing on UWTV and the Research Channel, proves that top IT executives are the sum of their experiences – both professional and personal.
New protection for bus riders due next week
A new bus shelter for patrons who wait in front of Guthrie Annex 4 on the main campus should be ready for use on Monday.
MacArthur scholars scheduled to speak
What does it mean to be a genius? Five UW professors who have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships will share their thoughts with the audience in the upcoming lecture series, Scholarly Adventure and Creative Process: UW MacArthur Fellows in the Humanities.
Inner workings
IW: Center for Career Services
Name and title of unit head: Susan Terry, director
Location: 134 Mary Gates Hall
Number of employees: 17
Unit’s main function: To provide job search services to students and alumni.
Briefly
MAP breakfast slated Oct.
Correction
An item in last week’s University Week contained an incorrect figure.
Health Sciences Brief News
Award for Stamm
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Whiplash Research Center established; volunteer subjects needed
UW researchers have been awarded a five-year grant of more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study whiplash injuries from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).
Hartwell wins Nobel Prize
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Lifetime series features UW ‘Women Docs’
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Four UW physicians are featured prominently in this week’s episode of “WomenDocs,” a new Lifetime Television series.
Elkon named to lead Division of Rheumatology
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Thursday events will precede Garrett talk
Several health sciences faculty and staff members are leading sessions today as part of the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement.
October 10, 2001
UW receives $3.5 million grant to establish National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education (AccessIT)
The University of Washington has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to establish a National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education, to be known as AccessIT. The five-year renewable grant, awarded on a competitive basis, comes from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
October 9, 2001
Misdiagnosis of appendicitis continues despite new tools
Although more diagnostic tools are available now than ever, there has been no improvement in the rate of misdiagnosis of appendicitis during the last decade, according to University of Washington researchers.
October 5, 2001
Education Forums establish links between African-Americans and UW
A new outreach program developed by the premier African American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the University of Washington is aimed at establishing greater links between the African-American community and the UW, with the goal of attracting more African American students to the UW.
October 4, 2001
UW scientists seek whiplash victims to study causes, treatment
Researchers at the University of Washington have been awarded a five-year grant of more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study whiplash injuries from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).
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ARCHITECTURAL ACCOLADE: The UW received a presidential citation from the American Institute of Architects recently.
Notices
Search Continues for Dean of Undergraduate education
The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.
New Briefs
Human rights speaker slated for UW appearance
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor will speak on Human Rights: Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Asian Pacific Region as the Severyns-Ravenholt Lecturer at 7 p.
A Special Newsmakers: Faculty speak out about Sept. 11
BOEING BUST: Well, not exactly, according to Christopher Haugen.
A superhero’s welcome
Community Transit’s superhero, Mr.
Dawg Dash
Greg Crowther, a graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics and winner of the 1999 Dawg Dash, encourages UW departments to sign up as teams in the annual walk/run Oct.
UW gets $30 million for genome research
The UW has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.
Center’s goal to view the ‘ultrasmall’
A new NIH-supported center housed on the UW campus will develop modular microscale instrumentation systems for the detection and analysis of how, when, and why very small populations of living cells interact with each other and their environment.
Support services improved, deans say
UW deans are more satisfied with support services than they were two years ago, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
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