February 14, 2008
The most extensive sampling for zooplankton ever in Puget Sound and the first measurements for acidification of the Sound’s waters — something of concern because it’s happening in the open ocean and could affect the skeletons and shells of creatures large and small here in the Sound — were among the tasks last week on the UW’s vessel Thomas G.
Mark Twain famously said, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it” — but you can do something.
James Morrow was cycling in Montana when the big news arrived: He had won the nation’s most prestigious prize for higher-level math education.
This academic year, Assistant Professor of Art History Margaret Laird has been spending a lot of time in Rome, and she’s taken some other UW professors and students with her.
Class title: Biology 100: “Biology of Mood-Altering Drugs,” taught by Linda Martin-Morris, a senior lecturer; and Angelena Crown, a teaching associate.
Beginning with fall quarter, you will not be receiving paper copies of University Week in your mailboxes anymore.
Would you like to brag a little? Well, now you have your chance.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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Palliative care is the topic of the 28th annual Elizabeth Sterling Soule Endowed Lecture, A Call for Reform: New Ways to Ease the Pain, Symptoms and Stress of Serious Illness.
& George Martinez
Graduate School
Hirofumi Watari, known as Hiro, noted that it was his fellow graduate student Jonathan Ting, now a post-doc at Duke, who saw the potential of forming an outreach organization of graduate students in the Neurobiology & Behavior Program, one of 13 interdisciplinary programs administered by the Graduate School.
Babies recently treated with infant personal care products such as lotion, shampoo, and powder, were more likely to have man-made chemicals called phthalates in their urine than other babies, according to a UW and Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute study appearing in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics.
The Washington Attorney General’s Office has honored Lori Oliver and Bill Nicholson, UW assistant attorneys general, with its highest performance recognition — the 2007 Excellence Award.
February 12, 2008
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February 8, 2008
Despite massive media coverage of the 2008 election, most Americans will make poorly considered decisions about their choices, says John Gastil, a communication professor at the University of Washington.
February 7, 2008
Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that “good bacteria” might someday be tapped in the fight against HIV.
A team approach to treating depression in older adults, already shown to improve health, can also cut total health-care costs, according to a new study led by the University of Washington.
After the Civil War, veterans of the Union Army formed the group The Grand Army of the Republic, or GAR.
The Bradley effect may be alive and multiplying after Super Tuesday.
Susan Smith and Kim Wisecup help their clients go places.
Doug Wadden, professor and chair of design in the School of Art, has been named executive vice provost of academic affairs and planning, Provost Phyllis Wise has announced.
You can bring your unidentified treasures to the Burke Museum from 1 to 4 p.
Integrity, diversity, excellence, collaboration, innovation and respect.
BOOK RENTALS: To battle ever-increasing textbook costs, the book store at the University of California, Davis, is planning a book rental program for students, according to the institution’s newspaper, Dateline.
BAD FUEL: An Associated Press article about the expense and pollution of energy produced with coal quoted Dan Jaffee, a professor of interdisciplinary arts and sciences at UW Bothell and adjunct professor of atmospheric sciences at the Seattle campus, along the way.
A pleasant confluence of circumstances resulted in the UW School of Drama’s production of Wild Black-Eyed Susans, which runs at the Ethnic Cultural Center through Feb.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
What makes a tree worth saving? That’s a question that is frequently debated on campus when new construction or remodeling forces the clearing of particular patches of land.
A program for encouraging more underrepresented groups in Washington State to pursue science and technology careers has named James Dorsey as its new executive director.
Guest artist Linda Kline Lamar, associate professor of viola at Boise State University, will perform solo works for viola at 7:30 p.
Student jazz ensembles with names like Tom Thumb’s Mighty Moontrane and Long Walk to Meany and the Missing Equipments will perform in two concerts — Wednesday, Feb.
Even though federal welfare-reform legislation calls for case workers to screen for domestic violence and most states have agreed to implement this requirement, just 9 percent of women applying for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families were screened for domestic violence, according to data from a UW study.
The UW Contemporary Group will perform music by Claude Debussy, William Albright, Olivier Messiaen, and Gerard Grisey in a concert at 7:30 p.
Hydrocarbons — molecules critical to life — are routinely being generated by the simple interaction of seawater with the rocks under the Lost City hydrothermal vent field in the mid-Atlantic Ocean.
Children with autism have normal-size heads at birth but develop accelerated head growth between 6 and 9 months of age, a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental disorder, according to new research from the UW’s Autism Center.
The UW Foundation has raised $2.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.