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October 30, 2008
Danger, massive amounts of data ahead; eScience Institute can help
The UW’s new eScience Institute will help keep the UW competitive as research projects become ever more reliant on computation and on the analysis of massive amounts of data.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Is your teenager hiding an eating disorder?
In the United States, as many as 10 in 100 young women suffer from an eating disorder.
UW Bothell hosts two authors at campus library
The UW Bothell is expecting two literary guests in the next week.
Name that dawg
Choose a name for the Husky mascot! The current mascot, “Spirit,” will retire in November.
Like rest of society, doctors implicitly favor whites over blacks
In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks.
Woodstick 2008 to benefit hearing research at UW
Celebrity and amatueur drummers in nine cities in the United States and Canada will attempt the world record for the number of drummers playing the same tune at the same time in the same place via the Internet at <A href="http://www.
UW students to work at polling places election day
Armon Dadgar was surprised by the amount of stuff King County Elections wants him to know on Election Day, Nov.
‘In good hands’: Foundation for International Understanding Through Students celebrates 60 years of welcoming newcomers
Imagine you’re on your own, a new student in a foreign land.
A quilting life: Even after many years, staffer finds comfort in quilts
Where others have a dining room, Joan Hanson has a quilting room.
Somerman affirms School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Saying, “This is no time to accept the status quo,” Dean Martha Somerman affirmed the UW School of Dentistry’s mission of social responsibility and patient care, progressive oral health training and research leadership in her annual State of the School speech on Oct.
Machala brings spirit of entrepreneurship to UW
UW TechTransfer, the department responsible for commercial applications of academic research, is bringing new blood and new programs to help UW researchers who want to start new companies.
A look behind the veil at sexuality in Islam — second of four in the Centennial Lecture Series
Two images seem to compete when westerners think of sexuality in the Islamic world — belly dancers and harems on the one hand and shrouds and restrained, even repressed sexuality on the other.
Work of 16 photographers featured in HUB Gallery
The seventh Annual UW Photographers Group show will be in the HUB Gallery through Nov.
From academic to artist: Richey retires to new career
When the Women Painters of Washington’s Waters Alive! show opens Nov.
Scientists find evidence of tsunamis on Indian Ocean shores long before 2004
A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004.
Rob Brown: Helping make the Combined Fund Drive a success
Editor’s note: Every other week through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the UW community who help make the campaign a success.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Class Notes: Games class combines work and play
Class title: CHID 498: Poetics of Play in Digital Role-playing Games, taught by Terry Schenold, doctoral candidate in English.
Common Book event and photo exhibit bring border to life
This year’s Common Book, The Devil’s Highway, brings U.
EntrepreneurWeek UW features variety of events Nov. 3-7
Interested in starting your own company? Want to take your knowledge beyond the academic setting? Have a great idea for a product but don’t know what to do next? Next week, the UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the UW’s Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) will host the second annual EntrepreneurWeek, a five-day series of talks, events and networking opportunities focused on starting new companies.
October 23, 2008
Kaeberlein, Li land new scholar awards in aging
Matt Kaeberlein, UW assistant professor of pathology, and Weiqing Li, UW assistant professor of biological structure, have received the Ellison Medical Foundation’s New Scholar Award in Aging for 2008.
Merati and Weaver honored by otolaryngology group
The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery recently presented Distinguished Service Awards to UW faculty members Albert L.
UW researchers receive Gates Foundation Explorations grants
Five UW researchers have received $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research.
Bernstein, Shen and Parviz selected Inventors of the Year
Irwin Bernstein will receive the fifth annual Inventor of the Year Award and Babak Parviz and Tueng Shen will share the first Emerging Inventor of the Year Award.
Stamatoyannopoulos to head epigenome mapping center
John A.
Department of Rehabilitation receives two national grants
The UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has been awarded two grants to pursue research projects on multiple sclerosis (MS), and aging with a physical disability.
Trauma, burn cases sharpen oculofacial surgeons’ nips and tucks
By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations
Consider the roughly 35-square-inch area of anatomy that comprises the face.
Mummy comes out for Family Day
Seattle’s only Egyptian mummy, nicknamed “Nellie,” will make a rare public appearance at the Burke Museum during the “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt” family event from 10 a.
Students bring their best 15 minutes to the annual Concerto Competition
You take the stage, surrounded by the orchestra.
Philip Bell to give College of Education fall lecture Oct. 28
The learning of science and math is a civil rights issue, and schools should give students broad participation in those areas as early as possible, says Philip Bell, a UW associate professor of learning sciences.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
DIGITAL HISTORY: The recently developed Civil Rights Digital Library (<A href="http://www.
UW Neighborhood Clinics offer convenient, world-class health care
October 27 through November 30 marks the UW’s annual open enrollment period for medical and dental insurance as well as other benefits.
Public officials from China’s Hunan Province at UW to study public records law
A group of public officials from Hunan Province in China is visiting the UW this week to learn about how Washington state’s Freedom of Information law works, particularly in regard to records held by large public universities.
Works by art professor next up in Lawrence Gallery
Recent Work by Zhi Lin: Unheard, Forgotten and Disregarded Stories will be presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Oct.
Jazz for vibes, viola virtuosity and spooky organ music coming from School of Music
Jazz for vibraphone and piano, world premieres on viola and eerie, Halloween-friendly organ music are among events offered by the UW School of Music in coming days.
French plays, in French, offered by student group
Playing French Seattle, a UW student organization, is presenting two plays and two staged readings of work by José Pliya — in French.
Hurricane Gustav changes UW professor’s plans for film about that other hurricane
Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of UW Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.
Centennial Lecture Series kicks off with lecture by Anand Yang
The Henry M.
Newsmakers
DETOX SCAM: Late-night television ads promote a product called Kinoki Cleansing Detox Pads, which are often applied to the feet, and claim to remove toxins from the body.
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