Heavy drinking during the teenage years begins taking a serious health toll by the time people are 24 years old.
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TOP ACADEMIC: Law Professor Anita Ramasastry received the 2004 National South Asian Bar Association’s Outstanding Academician Award.
CLIMATE CHAOS: Author Charles Wohlforth consulted Gerard Roe, a UW associate professor of Earth and Space Sciences, when Wohlforth researched his book on climate change titled The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change.
UW Weekend Homestay
English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program.
UW Medical Center has moved up one place in its ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.
A new shuttle service, scheduled to begin Monday, July 12, will link UW Medical Center with the developing research hub at South Lake Union.
The Digital Ventures and Invention Licensing units of the UW Office of Technology Transfer are now holding office hours at South Campus Center on Wednesdays.
Honors for primatologists
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James Morrison was surprised when Bruce Adee, acting chairman of mechanical engineering, called him and asked him to come meet with Henry Schatz, an alumnus wishing to donate money to the department.
Car thieves beware: There’s a new police tool at the University that might reduce your job efficiency.
Judging by how well his investment has performed for the University of Washington in the last 100 years, one could argue that Trevor Kincaid might have done well on Wall Street.
The UW Tacoma’s Phase 2b construction and renovation project has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification from the U.
Sometimes it takes time to uncover nature’s secrets.
You might have seen someone walking around campus over the last few weeks using a large aluminum gun-like apparatus to poke the elm trees in front of Denny or in the Sylvan Garden.
Music Professor Patricia Campbell just wanted to build a bridge between the two worlds she occupies.
The dust jacket of a book Ronald Eng glimpsed many years ago first planted the idea of rock climbing and mountaineering in his mind.
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Susan Grant, senior associate administrator for Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer of UW Medical Center, has been appointed as an assistant dean for clinical nursing practice in the UW School of Nursing. Polly Olsen has been named director of the Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE), part of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the School of Medicine. A new UW study has found that people who began binge drinking at age 13 and continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to be overweight or obese and almost 3 1/2 times as likely to have high blood pressure when they were 24 years old than were people who never or rarely drank heavily during adolescence. University of Washington Medical Center has moved up one place in its ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.S.News & World Report. About 1,000 middle and high school students from across the state will be spending a week this summer at the University of Washington, taking courses designed and taught by UW faculty, as part of a program to help them plan for a college education. The University of Washington’s Fertility and Endocrine Center at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt will close Sept. 24, 2004 following the decision by four faculty physicians to move into private practice this fall. John Wott, professor of forest resources and director of the Washington Park Arboretum for more than 10 years, has been named acting director of the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture in addition to his duties as arboretum director. Innovative programs ranging from English language classes for UW employees to an interdisciplinary degree program in humanitarian relief received support from the Fund for Innovation and Redesign. Adults often struggle trying to learn a second language, but the process may not be as tedious and slow as commonly believed. John Wott, professor of forest resources and director of the Washington Park Arboretum for more than 10 years, has been named acting director of the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture in addition to his duties as arboretum director. Attention new employees and those who help them get started at the University: Signing up for direct deposit just got a whole lot easier. The UW Bothell and the UW Tacoma have announced the recipients of the President’s Medalist Award at their institutions. JAMMERS JAM: Allow us to be boastful for a moment and note that University Week’s parent department, News & Information, is home to the current champs of the Walk-in Challenge. On behalf of state employee Jeff Ott, we, his family and friends, would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you at the UW for your generous donations of sick leave through participation in Washington State’s shared leave program. English Language Courses While physicians are able to treat patients who suffer blood loss after major injuries, a large number of these patients go on to develop infections or multiple organ failure, in which the functioning of the body vital organ systems, such as the lungs, heart, kidneys of liver, go awry. Two researchers in the School of Medicine have won 2004 Career Awards in Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Industry Relations Office, will present “Working with Companies: Corporate Research and Material Transfer Agreements” at noon on Tuesday, June 29, in Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training Building. A regional National Institutes of Health (NIH) seminar on program funding and grants, the first of these seminars to be presented in Seattle, has drawn more that 600 registered participants. Virtual reality appears to dramatically change how the brain physically registers pain, not just how people subjected to pain perceive the incoming signals, according to a new study by a group of UW researchers. |