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August 21, 2008
‘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.
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.
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.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
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.
What’s in a name? UW doc’s is Hayes, Rutherford P. (not B.) Hayes
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Pharmacy student receives fellowship to target Uganda’s health
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
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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.
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.
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.
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).
August 19, 2008
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.
August 17, 2008
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.
August 11, 2008
Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
New UW research shows that bugs — both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope — are responsible for the heat in chili peppers.
August 8, 2008
UW ranked 16th among 500 universities the world over
In time for the start of the Olympics, a kind of academic Olympics has been conducted by one of China’s largest universities and the results show University of Washington ranked 16th among 500 universities around the world.
August 7, 2008
Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems.
Public Health Informatics 2008 set for Sept. 18-19
The second annual Public Health Informatics 2008 Conference, Envisioning Options for Integrated Public Health Information Systems for Low Resource Settings: Components, Connections, Partners, Strategies, will take place Sept.
Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989.
An artful match: Summer day camps and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery
Not many student artists can say their work has hung in the prestigious Jacob Lawrence Gallery — but thanks to a clever connection, the elementary school-age members of the UW Summer Day Camp can make that boast with pride.
Etc: Campus news and notes
FOUNDING HONOR: Social Work Professor Biren “Ratnesh” Nagda was at the University of Michigan recently, accepting an award as one of the founders of intergroup dialogue — a technique he and several other graduate students developed at Michigan 20 years ago.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting scheduled for August has been cancelled.
A home away from home for international students
A week can make all the difference.
Amid the ice, hot smoker vents
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before.
Faculty, staff female singers wanted for choir
Where can you get weekly singing lessons, perform three times a year and meet a lot of women who love music as much as you do? The answer is the UW Women’s Choir, which is currently looking for new members.
Teachers as change agents: New UW Bothell teacher education program aims for something radical
A new program for secondary education teachers at UW Bothell is aimed not just at producing certificated teachers but also change agents.
Husky Band leader a director of Beijing Olympic Orchestra
When Brad McDavid led the Husky Marching Band on a tour to China in 2001, little did he realize that the performances were also an audition.
UW at the Olympics: Social work practicum coordinator to referee tae kwon do
Leon Preston has been an athlete all his life, but he’s going to the Olympics this year as an official, not a competitor.
UW to host CIA officer for research residency
The UW will participate for the first time in the Officer in Residence Program, in which a Central Intelligence Agency officer spends two years as a visiting researcher at a United States college or university.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Bulging prison system called massive intervention in American family life
The mammoth increase in the United States’ prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males.
New research challenges notion that dinosaur soft tissues still survive
Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research that apparently showed that soft, pliable tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, a major finding that would substantially widen the known range of preserved biomolecules.
Parasitic fly influences nocturnal bee behavior
Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica.
Abstinence: Teens, adults speak different languages
Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults.
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.
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.
Governor calls for fuel reduction, hiring freeze
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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.
UW medical student vaults her way to the Olympics
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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.
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.
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