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June 25, 2009

Capstone projects offer solutions to real-world problems

Problem: Hikers sometimes see trail damage such as downed trees, rock slides or vandalism before trail maintenance crews but can’t always remember or document precisely where they saw the damage.

Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth

Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites.

Toward a better basket: UW lecturer travels Nicaragua to promote ergonomic reform for coffee harvesters

By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

As Seattle coffee drinkers sip their brew, they may not realize that Nicaraguan coffee harvesters risk injury to bring the precious beans in for processing.

Following the money to measure global health spending worldwide

By William Heisel
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Nirmala Ravishankar wanted to track every dollar spent to improve people’s health in developing countries — from the person who wrote the check to the person who ultimately spent it.

UW to get six cell phone towers, part of new Strategic Mobile Initiative

Coming soon to the UW: improved cell phone coverage, as well as sizable discounts for individuals and offices that use either T-Mobile or AT&T.

Obsidian ‘trail’ provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands

Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands.

Professor wants to promote decades of UW innovation with science museum — on campus or online

Bob Charlson is holding an intergrating nephelometer and dreaming of a future where such key UW innovations are given their just historical due.

Mystery Photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

UW researchers along as ‘Around the Americas’ vessel circumnavigates North and South America

UW scientists are leads for five of the eight science projects on board a 64-foot boat that is sailing 25,000 miles all the way around North and South America.

Berg elected to American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry post

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Hall Health wins Qualis Health Award of Excellence

By Steve Butler
News & Community Relations

Doing more with less seems to be the mantra of the day, and few in health care do that as well as the Hall Health Primary Care Center on the UW campus.

Harborview named lead center for brain injury project in state

Harborview Medical Center in Seattle has been named the State Lead Center for Washington as part of a national network of health care institutions in one of the largest collaborative efforts in the history of pediatric medicine.

UW Medical Center attains 500 for heart, lung transplants

UW leaders, surgeons, physicians, social workers and other staff celebrated two recent transplant patients Tuesday, June 9, at a press conference.

Sports Concussion Program to open at Harborview and Seattle Children’s

Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations

In October 2006, Zackery Lystedt, 13, suffered a traumatic brain injury after making a tackle at the very end of the first half of a middle-school football game.

Genome Sciences hosts public lecture series in July

The UW Department of Genome Sciences will present its summer public lecture series, Wednesday Evenings at the Genome, in July.

Lost and found films: Can you help UW Libraries learn more about these vintage screen gems?

You can almost hear the old-style projectors rattle along as you view these vintage films.

Etc: Campus news & notes

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Official notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.

Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias

In the decade since the Implicit Association Test was introduced, its most surprising and controversial finding is its indication that about 70 percent of those who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious, or implicit, preference for white people compared to blacks.

UW Libraries offers AYPE Exhibit tours

The public is invited to attend tours of the UW Libraries exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by Carla Rickerson, exhibit curator and head of Special Collections Public Services.

Units concerned with Earth and natural sciences, policy, climate change among those joining new College of the Environment

A college, three schools and departments, several centers and programs, and an institute will be combined July 1 as the inaugural units of the UW’s College of the Environment.

Moving day: Cunningham Hall, Johnson Hall Annex emptied to make way for new Molecular Engineering Building

Occupants of Cunningham Hall and Johnson Hall Annex are moving out this month, and Cunningham itself will be moving later this summer to make way for the new Molecular Engineering Building on the site.

Hall Health launches building renovation Web site

Hall Health Primary Care Center at the UW has launched a Web site to facilitate communication with the UW community about its building renovation project, providing updates and news about the progress of the renovation as they become available.

Summer Sounds series gets under way July 2

Enjoy live music with your art this summer when the Henry Art Gallery and the UW School of Music present “Summer Sounds at the Henry.

June 20, 2009

AYP symposium.

The Museum of History and Industry holds a two-day weekend symposium on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition.

June 9, 2009

Student art.

Opening reception for the School of Art’s Design ’09, a juried show of work by graduating BFA and MFA students in the Division of Design.

June 6, 2009

Vocal jazz.

An evening of stylings by the Vocal Jazz I and Vocal Jazz II ensembles, under the direction of Dave Cross.

June 5, 2009

University Symphony.

Graduate instrumental conducting students Meena Hwang and Julia Tai lead the University Symphony in an all-Schubert concert.

‘Dialoguing Difference.’

The Women of Color Collective’s first conference, “Dialoguing Difference” is an intellectual exchange among faculty members and students from throughout the community.

June 4, 2009

‘Spring Sing.’

The University Singers, the Women’s Choir and the UW Men’s Glee Club share the spotlight with a variety of music from classical to pop and everything in between.

Political math.

Columbia University political scientist Andrew Gelman speaks on Coalitions, Voting Power, and Political Instability as part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium.

Rivara to receive UW Public Health Distinguished Alumni Award

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New director of Environmental Health & Safety no stranger to UW

By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Jude Van Buren, an alumna of the UW’s Department of Environmental Health, returned to her alma mater this month as director of Environmental Health & Safety, a department that supports and monitors workplace safety and health practices at the university.