Archive
November 4, 2004
Online accident-reporting system (OARS) debuts
As online technology grows at the UW, paperwork is reduced and communication becomes more immediate and effective.
Faculty Senate seeks vice-chair, secretary
The Faculty Senate is currently recruiting for two important positions in its organization — secretary of the faculty and vice chair of the senate.
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INTERNATIONAL FLAIR: Five UW professors have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and/or do research abroad.
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Faculty Senate position announcement
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three UW campuses for the vital position of secretary of the faculty.
Creating patent strategies and portfolios
Developing patents from research work will be the topic for the next program in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.
Lecture inaugurates endowed chair in pain research
Dr. Allan Basbaum, professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California at San Francisco, will give the first Allan and Phyllis Treuer Lecture in Pain Research on Thursday, Nov. 18. He will speak on “The Neurobiology of Pain: From Molecules to Circuits” at 2:30 p.m. in room T-733 of the Health Sciences Center. This lecture inaugurates the Treuer Chair in Pain Research in the Department of Pharmacology.
Basbaum is an international leader in pain research, focusing on the neurobiological basis of pain and its control. He studies the actions of neurotransmitter molecules used by the sensory neurons to transmit pain stimuli into the central nervous system and the processing of pain information by nerve cells in the spinal cord.
He has discovered several important new aspects of the changes that occur in nerve cells, and in the neurotransmitters that they use to signal pain stimuli, during the development of chronic pain in mouse models of injury. His research combines high-resolution microscopy, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, and behavioral testing in a coordinated way to learn about pain mechanisms and the effects of drug treatments at the molecular, cellular, and whole-animal levels.
Basbaum is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. After postdoctoral research at University College London, he joined the University of California at San Francisco as a senior postdoctoral fellow, was appointed assistant professor in 1977 and assumed his present position in 1997. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pain, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Pain Research.
Volwiler visiting professor to speak
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Funding minority programs
An informal discussion with Dr.
Health Sciences News Briefs
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Denny Bell to ring again
Be assured, the Denny Bell will ring again this year for Homecoming, on Nov.
Ground to be broken on new kind of building
The University will break ground Friday, Nov.
Two profs are AAAS Fellows
An emeritus UW atmospheric sciences professor and a chemistry professor who left the university last week are among 308 scientists nationwide to be named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Tacoma prof left New York seeking to raise consciousness
UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Beverly Naidus created a series of digital paintings using images of Buddhas, boddhisattvas, pagan gods, goddesses, and yoga poses, breathing in a wide variety of landscapes and spaces
Hurricanes spark memory of great NW storms past
Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne weren’t very hospitable houseguests.
Petersen named winner of Gates volunteer award
Family, friends, and about 1,000 guests witnessed the presentation of the Gates Volunteer Service Award to Donald E.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Allen started her volunteer career in high school
Name: Sarah E.
Investigating cholesterol oxidation and artery disease
Some functions of the human body that worked effectively for survival when people had short life spans, living only long enough to reproduce and raise their young, may have long-term consequences that catch up with us as we live longer lives.
Charles Chavkin named to hold Treuer Endowed Chair
Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.
New type of radioactive seeds used to treat prostate cancer
In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center last week implanted for the first time in the world a new type of radioactive seeds in a prostate cancer patient.
October 29, 2004
Democrats outgunning GOP in e-mail wars, researchers find
In the closing weeks of a tight presidential race, the Democratic National Committee has been out-e-mailing its Republican counterpart, a research team of University of Washington students has found.
Russell McDuff becomes director of UW School of Oceanography
An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.
October 28, 2004
The Day Before: Boosting election awareness on campus
David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the UW campus in these days before the general election on Nov.
Grant to help UW lessen impact of natural disasters
The University of Washington was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.
Human Resources: 300 more UW staffers eligible for overtime
The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.
Graphics for the blind: UW to help make Web images tactile
The UW has been awarded a $749,188 grant from the National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering and mathematical books, papers and digital formats for use by students with visual impairments.
President appoints members to provost search committee
President Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.
New technology for elders
“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.
The Day Before: Boosting election awareness on campus
To learn more: Visit www.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Childhood memories prompt her volunteer work
Name: Kristina Hansen
UW Job: Development Coordinator, School of Social Work Office of Development and Alumni Relations
Volunteer Activity: Forgotten Children’s Fund.
October 26, 2004
UW Medical Center to implant first-ever Cs-131 brachytherapy seeds to treat prostate cancer
In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.
October 25, 2004
Crash injuries result in large and potentially preventable productive losses to U.S. workers
More than 6.
October 21, 2004
Charter school cost modest, study says
Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.
Work/Life: Now helping employees on the Web
Juggling work and the rest of your life has never been easy, but the University’s Work/Life office, a division of Human Resources, has been trying to help ever since its creation in 1988.
‘Weekly’ ad promotes UW’s public events
The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.
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PARALYMPIC PRESS: The UW was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.
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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the U.
Combined Fund Drive continues through Nov. 24
The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.
$13 million grant funds clinical research training
Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner’s office and into the community.
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