The Cerner/ORCA CIS Replacement (CISR) project has been named IT Project of the Year by Advance for Health Information Executives, an industry publication for health care executives.
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By Cynthia Salzman
Rehabilitation Medicine
Aditya Ganapathiraju uses the word “interesting” to describe his life so far.
UW Medical Center’s Tim Nguyen, manager of Waste Operations, and Sheila Lockwood, Environmental Health and Safety, accepted in May UWMC’s second consecutive Environmental Leadership Award from Practice Greenhealth.
Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world’s oceans, and the culprit isn’t only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist.
The collapse of the Sacramento River chinook salmon run may be another lesson on the importance of coming to grips with the biocomplexity behind successful salmon runs.
Welcome to the grand re-opening of the UW’s southwest waterfront.
SHE’S GOLDEN: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the UW’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and its NSF Science of Learning Center, was awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal, its highest award.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds by researchers trying to understand the role that steroid hormones play in the growth and maintenance of the neural song system.
For Iain Robertson, a UW landscape architecture professor, Kahalu’u Beach Park turned out to be one of the most fascinating projects he’s ever worked on.
A thousand UW faculty, staff and alumni have signed up to watch the Seattle Mariners battle the Cleveland Indians on July 18 — but there are 500 tickets still available.
Bankers and boomerangers, football players and first-year students, computer programmers and cheerleaders.
Every summer quarter, the School of Drama opens up its course in theatrical makeup to nonmajors.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting Thursday, July 17, at 3 p.
As summer settles over the UW’s Seattle campus, employees all ask the same question sooner or later: “Hey, what’s open for lunch on campus these days?”
It’s a good question, because with most students gone and demand down, many campus eateries shut down for a while, at least in early summer.
It’s cool to combine jazz and art, and that’s what’s happening from noon to 1 p.
The School of Music will celebrate summer with a pair of free concerts in the coming week.
By Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
Harborview Community Relations
On Tuesday, June 17, Harborview Medical Center, King County and UW Medicine celebrated the opening of the Norm Maleng Building, a major new facility on the Harborview campus.
Ellen Howard, UW Health Sciences librarian at Harborview and UW medical centers, has received the prestigious Michael E.
Faced by concerns that the current bird flu epidemic could become the next global human flu pandemic, UW researchers joined public health officials from 16 Pacific Rim economies May 29 for a real-time virtual video conference to tackle the challenge of pandemic influenza preparedness and response.
Collaboration and creativity are at the heart of the new UW Medicine at South Lake Union complex of buildings.
Working as a team will be much easier when 14 UWMC offices move to UW Tower on the northwest edge of campus.
Broken Obelisk returned to campus June 19 after a little more than two months in the shop for repairs.
Devon Pena has spent his career working for environmental justice.
FALCON CREST: Employees in Creative Communications have enjoyed watching a family of peregrine falcons that is hunting from and feeding its young on the roof of their building lately.
A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead UW TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of UW research.
The UW has signed an agreement with the University of Queensland, in Australia, that will provide new opportunities for academic exchanges, joint research projects and coordination of science outreach to K-12 students.
Faculty and staff can enjoy an exciting seven-game home football schedule this fall, including BYU, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, among others, by purchasing season tickets.
The UW Board of Regents approved the creation of a College of the Environment, as well as a tuition increase for undergraduates, at its June meeting.
In a newly created ranking, the UW is listed second among 54 colleges and universities nationwide in the number of graduate students serving in the Peace Corps.
You know it has to happen: U-PASS rates are increasing as of July 1.
There are chase scenes in Room 102 of Suzzallo Library just now.
When Kodak introduced its modestly priced and readily accessible box camera in 1888, the company’s slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest,” proposed that anyone could become a photographer.
Seventh-grade students in U.
More than 15 years ago scientists discovered a way to stop a particular gene in its tracks.
It’s just not enough to say that wildlife photographer Steven Kazlowski’s work capturing polar bears on film was a labor of love.
Visions of future technology don’t involve being chained to a desktop machine.
Three regular UW faculty members are among six instructors named by UW Educational Outreach as recipients of a 2008 Teaching Excellence Award.
A special work by artist Jacob Lawrence arrived at the University this week, but it won’t be found in a gallery.
Online asbestos training required for UW employees
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) requires the UW to provide general asbestos awareness training to all UW employees.