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September 25, 2008
UW Libraries, WashPIRG co-sponsor Presidential Debate Watch
What are you doing on presidential debate nights? How about joining a bunch of students, faculty and staff to listen to the candidates? The UW Libraries and WashPIRG are sponsoring live viewing of the presidential and vice-presidential debates on a big screen.
UW students win award for earthquake relief work
When UW students Steve Margitan and Geoff Morgan pitched in with post-earthquake help in China this past spring, they had no idea they’d wind up with $65,000 in donations and 5,700 cards and letters for children in the disaster zone.
All welcome at UWPD Open House Wednesday afternoon
The UW Police Department is welcoming all faculty, staff and students to its annual open house, from 2 to 4 p.
August 21, 2008
UW Medicine physicians recognized for diabetes care
Twenty-eight UW physicians working at UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics have achieved recognition in diabetes care from the National Commission on Quality Assurance (NCQA).
African American surgeons exhibit comes to UW
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, a traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine and the Reginald F.
Extraordinary response to global health request for proposals
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
In response to a campuswide invitation for concept proposals for interdisciplinary global health initiatives and centers, the Department of Global Health received an impressive 41 proposals from faculty representing all 17 UW colleges and schools.
Sherr wins Young Investigator Award for HIV/AIDS work
By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations
Kenneth Sherr, UW clinical assistant professor in global health working at Health Alliance International (HAI), was one of five scientists worldwide honored with a Young Investigator Award at the 2008 Global AIDS Conference in Mexico City earlier this month.
Pharmacy student receives fellowship to target Uganda’s health
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
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What’s in a name? UW doc’s is Hayes, Rutherford P. (not B.) Hayes
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Burke to host photo exhibit of birds from the Arctic Sept. 13–Dec. 31
Migration is one of nature’s great wonders; each year millions of birds travel great lengths — sometimes across the globe — to find feeding and breeding grounds.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
All that dance: High schoolers eyes open to dance through GEAR UP program
For the last two winters, Jennifer Salk’s students have brought the joy of dance to a group of middle and high school students in Central Washington.
Signing by cell: Can you see me now?
A group at the UW has developed software that for the first time enables deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans to use sign language over a mobile phone.
‘Rising from Ruins’: UW filmmaker traces recovery struggle
Bruce Foret has spent the three years since Hurricane Katrina struggling to rebuild Oak Street Hardware in New Orleans.
Space flyers to land in Seattle Sept. 15–20
Dozens of space flyers will land in the Northwest next month.
UW employees can rent at Radford Court
Did you know UW employees can rent apartments at Radford Court, the University housing that sits right up against Magnuson Park and Lake Washington? Plus, if the employee is taking a class (matriculated or nonmatriculated) at the UW, the lower Public Student Rate applies.
Getting to know UW: Orientation returns to in-person format
Beginning this fall, the University will be greeting its new recruits face to face once again.
From the editor: Goodbye to all that; ‘UWeek’ going paperless
This issue of University Week is the last of the summer.
Hearing impaired students to show animation work Friday
Students at the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing will show the results of their work in animation at 7 p.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW ranked 16th among 500 schools
In time for the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show UW ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
The 160-mile download diet: Local file sharing drastically cuts network load
Ever since Bram Cohen invented BitTorrent, Web traffic has never been the same.
Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators.
Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment
When entrepreneurial geneticist Craig Venter sailed around the world on his yacht sequencing samples of seawater, it was an ambitious project to use genetics to understand invisible ecological communities.
Tuscany provides backdrop for pharmacy education
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
Later this month, a group of UW School of Pharmacy faculty and staff and practicing Washington pharmacists will travel through the Tuscan region of Italy to learn about global practices in pharmacy.
Fairs set for Fall Prevention Awareness Day Sept. 18
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Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
If you’re a fan of habañero salsa or like to order Thai food spiced to five stars, you owe a lot to bugs, both the crawling kind and ones you can see only with a microscope.
Science in Medicine Lecture Sept. 25
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UW Medicine & Seattle Public Library series launches Sept. 3
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UW to study Hispanic achievement gap
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August 7, 2008
Jack Thompson leaves public health leadership post
Jack Thompson, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP), has stepped down from this leadership position, effective July 15.
Consortium to help reshape Thai pharmacy practices
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The UW School of Pharmacy recently joined a group that is helping transform the pharmacy system in Thailand.
Eileen Whalen appointed HMC executive director
By Clare Hagery & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
After a national search, Eileen Whalen has been appointed executive director for Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, effective Oct.
Stephanie Steppe steps down
Stephanie Steppe, director of Health Sciences Academic Services & Facilities, doesn’t think she has taken more than a week’s vacation at a time in 40 years.
UW medical student vaults her way to the Olympics
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Another sign of changing times: Suzzallo’s periodicals desk to close Aug. 23
One more fixture of the 20th century library is going away.
Governor calls for fuel reduction, hiring freeze
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Rock, Paper, Scissors event at Henry Aug. 9
The Henry Gallery is celebrating ingenuity, creativity and originality at an event it calls Rock, Paper, Scissors from noon to 4 p.
Fellowships for Canadian study come to UW
The Killam Fellowships Program, which is based in Ottawa, has expanded to the western United States, and the UW is one of the first partner institutions.
Abstinence: Teens, adults speak different languages
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults.
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