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May 25, 2006
DX Arts celebrates first graduates with exhibit
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media is graduating its first class of BFA students this quarter, and an exhibition of their work is planned at the Consolidated Works, a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center at 500 Boren Avenue North, beginning Friday, June 2. With $150 million in President Bush’s proposed budget to install a cabled seafloor observatory off Washington and Oregon, a planning session is being convened June 5 for UW faculty and departments to learn how they might take advantage of this new facility for earth and ocean research and education. The atmosphere is warming faster in subtropical areas, around 30 degrees north and south latitude, than it is elsewhere, University of Washington-led research shows. May 23, 2006 A study aimed at assessing perspectives about privacy in a public place – particularly when surveillance is not related to security – suggests women are more concerned than men, both as watcher and the watched. On July 1, 2007, every Massachusetts resident will have health insurance. May 22, 2006 With more than $70,000 in seed money up for grabs at the University of Washington Business School’s ninth annual Business Plan Competition, it’s not surprising that this year’s ‘Sweet 16’ teams have spent the past few weeks refining and practicing their presentations for one of the largest events of its kind in the country. May 19, 2006 Hypertonic resuscitation — a concentrated intravenous (IV) dose of saline, with or without dextran, a sugar solution — has the potential to help survivors of traumatic injury by improving blood flow and delivery of oxygen to the injured brain while decreasing high pressure in the brain, a common problem for patients with brain injury. May 18, 2006 The Board of Regents reviewed on May 18 a proposed operating budget for the coming fiscal year that calls for the use of $18 million in local funds to supplement salary increases funded by the state legislature for faculty, professional staff, librarians and teaching and research assistants. Ronald S. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. TOPS IN TECH: The UW’s Office of Learning Technologies has snagged the Technology Leadership Award given by the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium. On May 15, the UW’s Department of Housing and Food Services (HFS) opened its first 100 percent Fair Trade Certified TM coffee outlet, the Atrium Café in the HUB. Last summer, University Week asked faculty and staff who have been here for 35 years or more to submit reminiscences about their time at the University. The short, intriguing history of the Black Panthers in Seattle will come to life again when the Black Panther Party History and Memory Project Web site is unveiled Saturday at a public event at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. If you’re interested in football or basketball season tickets for next year, the Athletics Office is offering some discounts for both. Helping paraplegics to walk upright and enabling the blind to “see” computer graphics.
Academic advisers at the UW are faced with a daunting task.
Washington’s first formal ocean policy, the blueprint for which is due on the gover-nor’s desk by the end of the year, aims to prepare for looming changes along the shores of a state renowned for its natural resources. Who’s up for dinner with author Sherman Alexie? Or maybe a week in London, or a 10-day cruise through the Caribbean? Such lofty experiences and more will be on the block when the UW’s Experimental Education Unit (EEU) holds its annual fundraising auction and dinner on May 20. Designated smoking areas are springing up on all three campuses, as the UW begins the process of adapting to the requirements of I-901, the initiative passed by the voters last November. If English isn’t your first language and you would like to improve your ability to speak it more clearly, a new program starting at the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic may be of help. We love the online journals the UW Libraries provide. ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSES The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English. Some of the world’s leading researchers working with the genetics of model organisms, such as yeast, roundworms, fruit flies, fish and mice, will be at the UW next week to take part in the 5th annual daylong Genome Sciences Symposium. Tammy Wilber has a sash and a crown, and all the usual trappings of a winner of a statewide pageant. The UW’s newly formed Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine will hold its first public event next week when Dr. Dr. Intimate partner violence (IPV), also called domestic violence, is common and damages women’s physical and mental health significantly, according to a Group Health study reported in two papers in the June issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Dr. Honorary degree for Woods Dr. John Delaney, University of Washington professor of oceanography, has been named the first holder of the Jerome M. Mark A. May 16, 2006 The short, intriguing history of the Black Panthers in Seattle will come to life again when the Black Panther Party History and Memory Project Web site is unveiled Saturday at a public event at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. May 15, 2006 WHAT: Ninth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Washington. May 11, 2006 Reference Update The following UW policies and orders were recently created or revised: Ten UW students recently received word that they’ve been awarded a Bonderman Travel Fellowship. The University Police Department’s Annual Report is a sort of statistical potpourri — various categories of crime show small increases and declines each year, set against a backdrop of ever-improving campus protection policies making increasing use of technology. William D. Dr.
Proposed budget includes money for cabled observatory off Washington
Faster atmospheric warming in subtropics pushes jet streams toward poles
When it comes to privacy, gender matters
Patchwork system working in Massachusetts
Student entrepreneurs compete for seed money in UW Business Plan Competition
New federally funded research program aims to improve survival from severe trauma
Proposed budget includes salary hikes
Ron Irving named A&S interim dean
Mystery Photo
Etc: Campus News & Notes
A ‘fair’ cup of coffee in HUB’s Atrium
35 Year Club
History of Black Panthers to come alive in classrooms, meeting, Web site
Discounts available on football, basketball tickets
Students strut their stuff at Undergraduate Research Symposium
Guiding students through the system: New A&S Council on Advising offers help
State ocean policy: UW grad students help out
EEU to honor Dan Evans in festive annual fundraising auction
Smoking sites appear as rules are revised
Toward clearer English: New program seeks to help smooth pronunciation
Journal subscription costs continue to climb
Notices
Learning from flies and worms: Genome Sciencs Symposium will consider ‘model’ organisms
UW employee is Ms. Wheelchair Washington, raising awareness about people with disabilities
Stem cell researcher to speak May 25
Top Parkinson’s expert Dawson to speak on defective genes May 22
Violence at home affects nearly half of all women
Notes on healthy living (Or, 160,000 women can’t be wrong)
Futterman lecture: ‘Retinal remodeling’
Health Science News Briefs
Professor John Delaney named to endowed chair in sensor networks
131st Commencement at UW’s Seattle campus–2 p.m., June 10, Husky Stadium
History of Black Panthers to come alive in classrooms, meeting, Web site
UW undergraduates to strut their research ‘stuff’ Friday
Notices
UW students to explore far reaches of the globe, thanks to unusual Bonderman fellowship
Campus crime sees slight increase in 2005
Former government official who said ‘no’ to Nixon will speak at commencement
Foege to speak on global health shortcuts
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