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August 6, 2009
The latest news from the UW
Israel Cancer Research Fund honors Nancy Maizels
Nancy Maizels, UW professor of immunology, has received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research from the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in recognition of her three years of service on the fund’s Scientific Review Panel.
Tina Albertson named 2009 St. Baldrick’s Scholar
Tina Albertson, UW acting instructor of pediatrics, has been named a 2009 St.
UW researchers awarded Life Sciences Discovery grants
Two UW research teams have won the Life Sciences Discovery Fund’s inaugural winter commercialization grant competition to support commercial translation of health-related technologies.
UW takes multiple top honors at national pharmacy meeting
Faculty, students and alumni from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy had an impressive showing at the recent American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) annual meeting in Boston.
Post-stroke depression recovery improved by adding brief psychosocial/behavioral intervention to standard treatment
Depression is common after a stroke, and can interfere with a stroke patient’s rehabilitation.
August 4, 2009
Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
Researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electricity is carried by tiny structures that form inside nanoscale solar cells.
August 3, 2009
Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India.
Health Alliance International receives $10 million grant to improve primary health care management in Mozambique
Health Alliance International received a $10 million grant to work with the Mozambican government in strengthening primary health care.
Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable ‘brain tumor painting’
Researchers have developed a nanoparticle for imaging that is able to cross the blood-brain barrier and target tumors.
July 31, 2009
Scientists compile most comprehensive look at fish stocks
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
July 30, 2009
Crashing comets not likely the cause of Earth’s mass extinctions
New research shows that comet collisions most likely are not responsible for any of the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
July 27, 2009
Seattle area could see record-setting high temperatures this week
Western Washington is braced for unusually hot weather this week, but University of Washington scientists say this could be one for the record books, with Seattle experiencing historic triple-digit readings.
All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine
For the first time, researchers combine nanoparticles used for medical imaging and therapy in one tiny package.
July 23, 2009
This article will self-destruct: A tool to make online personal data vanish
Computers have made it virtually impossible to leave the past behind.
Celebrate the Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th anniversary with parties July 30 and Aug. 6
Washington Park Arboretum’s 75th Anniversary Event Series will shift into full gear later this month and in early August with two summer soirees open to the general public.
Name that phone app
What do you call a mobile phone application that gives you the UW directory, an interactive campus map, Husky sports and yes, University Week?
Help The UW name its soon-to-be-released mobile phone application, and you could win an iPod Touch! Just submit your suggestion by 11:59 p.
Official Notices
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents August meeting has been canceled.
Applied Physics Lab reaches out to middle-schoolers with freewheelin’ ‘Dylan Diatom’ animation
About to be eaten by a menacing, shrimp-like copepod, gentle Dylan Diatom is saved at the last second when an arctic cod slices up through the water and swallows the copepod with a satisfied snap of its mouth.
UW blog profile: ‘Seattle Backyard Farm’ just plain good reading
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
David Williams to read from ‘Stories in Stone’ July 29 at the Burke
Natural history writer David Williams, author of Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology, will read from his work at 7 p.
A rescue at sea, thanks to the UW’s Thomas G. Thompson
Robert Hamby was in a deserted part of the ocean, far from any shipping lanes and his boat was sinking.
‘You Are Here’ presents then-and-now views at campus AYPE sites
Can’t get enough of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition?
Well, here’s more: You Are Here, an exhibit by the AYP Rephotographic Project is on display at Architecture Hall through Sept 25.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW study of midlife cognitive changes, services for the blind benefit from federal stimulus money
Editor’s note: Federal stimulus money is starting to be distributed.
Report: School districts should rethink pay bump for teachers with masters degrees
A new study from the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education and the education think tank the Center for American Progress questions whether extra pay for masters-level teacher experience improves student achievement.
Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning.
Newsmakers
EXCESSES OF SUCCESS: Mark Sanford, John Ensign, David Vitter, Mark Foley — why did they do it? U.
UW lauded by Arbor Day Foundation for tree management, environmental stewardship
For a number of years, UW has been a three-campus university; well, now it’s a tree campus university too.
Vanderbilt researcher, clinician named director of UW Autism Center
Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification of and early intervention with children with autism, has been named the new director of the UW’s Autism Center.
Henry Director Sylvia Wolf curates ‘Inside-Out: Portrait Photographs from the Permanent Collection’
For a new exhibition of photographic portraits from its own permanent collections, the Henry Art Gallery had a nationally known photography curator right at hand — its own director, Sylvia Wolf.
Visiting Spanish filmmaker helps students tell their own screen stories
When Jason Dallas signed up for a course this summer, the Spanish major probably didn’t expect to be watching a music video of his favorite band, El Canto del Loco, in class.
Four UW faculty win Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Four members of the UW faculty have received the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.
Etc: News & notes from around campus
TREE WISDOM: Forest Resources Emeritus Professor Reinhard Stettler has a new book just published by UW Press entitled Cottonwood and the River of Time: On Trees, Evolution, and Society.
Screening for childhood depressive symptoms could start in second grade
New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade.
Last week’s film mystery solved — Can you help identify the homebuilders in this one?
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
Disaster tip of the month: What to have right at hand
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.
Faculty, staff come together to help campus make way for ducklings — really!
In the 1941 children’s book, Make Way for Ducklings, Boston police decide to stop traffic so that a family of mallards can cross the road safely.
Ancient sea lamprey dramatically transforms its genome
Researchers have discovered that the sea lamprey, which emerged from jawless fish first appearing 500 million years ago, dramatically remodels its genome.