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June 30, 2009
Earth’s most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of a warmer world, according to research published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.
Stirred, not shaken: Bio-inspired cilia mix medical reagents at small scales
The equipment used for biomedical research is shrinking, but the physical properties of the fluids under investigation are not changing.
June 29, 2009
Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft.
June 26, 2009
Media advisory: Aquatic robots, autonomous planes at UW robotics conference
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June 25, 2009
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Official notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.
Etc: Campus news & notes
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Berg elected to American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry post
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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.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Have your say — University Week now taking comments
Want to have your say about University Week stories and photos? Beginning with this issue, you’ll be able to.
More room to romp: New play courts open at the Experimental Education Unit
There were a few official remarks, some hearty applause, and then it was time to scamper and play!
The Experimental Education Unit (EEU) opened two new play courts on Wednesday, June 10, with the help of a few friends — and a bunch of youngsters really ready to romp.
School of Music leadership changes from McCabe to Karpen
On July 1 the School of Music will experience its first change in top leadership since 1994.
New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
As astronomers gaze toward nearby planetary systems in search of life, they are focusing their attention on each system’s habitable zone, where heat radiated from the star is just right to keep a planet’s water in liquid form.
New Graduate School Making a Difference staff award a nice surprise for UW Press designer
Ashley Saleeba, senior designer with UW Press, got a nice surprise last Thursday — she was named the recipient of the Graduate School’s first-ever Making a Difference staff award.
Disaster tip of the month: Plan for temporarily reduced public services
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
Play ball! Husky Night with the Mariners is July 10
Junior’s back and Ichiro’s hitting — it’s a great time to head to Safeco Field for some major league baseball.
Afghan archivists at UW for three-week workshop
Three archivists from Radio Afghanistan are spending three weeks at the UW in a National Endowment for the Arts-funded summer residency workshop on archiving.
If the shoe flits, duck: A real-life example of humans’ dual vision system
It’s rare when real-world events perfectly mirror experiments that scientists are conducting.
June 23, 2009
Changes in brain architecture may be driven by different cognitive challenges
Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face.
June 22, 2009
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.
Media advisory: UW team takes off tomorrow for rocket competition
WHAT: A home-built rocket that will compete later this week in the 4th annual Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition.
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