November 15, 2007
Leroy Hood, UW affiliate professor of genome sciences, immunology, and bioengineering, has joined an elite group of people who have been elected to all three National Academies, the societies recognizing the nation’s scientists, physicians, researchers, and engineers.
Two UW faculty members, Karen Horvath and Richard Shugerman, have received one of the highest awards granted to residency program directors.
The Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR) presented the 2007 Malcolm Peterson Award to Dr.
By Suzette Riley
HIPRC
Dr.
November 8, 2007
PRODUCTIVE FACULTY: Forty-two areas of study at the UW have been rated in the top 10 on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, and three of those have been rated number one.
A University of Washington poll shows Gov.
When obesity overloads the body with excess nutrients, parts start to fail.
Third-year medical students in the Great Falls, Mont.
To take care of the sick.
By Mary Guiden
News & Community Relations
UW Medical Center took ownership of the Collegiana, a small former inn located across 12th Avenue N.
Too much stress and anxiety in your life?
Dr.
By Kathy Hall
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Richard Fenske, professor and associate chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, has been recognized by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the International Society of Exposure Analysis (ISEA) for his contributions to the assessment and mitigation of human exposure to chemical hazards.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town meeting at 3:30 p.
As the plot of Arabian Nights, the next play from the UW School of Drama, is slowly revealed, so will the specially created floor covering begin to show its true pattern.
“Addressing Faculty and TA Questions about Safety and Our Students” is the title of a workshop to be held from 3 to 5 p.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A documentary film on solar power, the brainchild of Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn, will be shown Nov.
Someone who didn’t know Neal Koblitz might be surprised to hear that in the past few months, the mathematics professor has been embroiled in a public controversy, traveling the world for humanitarian causes, and publishing his autobiography.
Name: Laurie Rossnagel
UW job: Administrator for Biobehavioral Nursing & Health Systems.
What abilities do University faculty and staff need to do their jobs well? That’s a question staff at Professional and Organizational Development (POD) set out to answer when they conducted a Universitywide needs assessment survey recently.
Tuition early on was $10 a semester and courses ranged from wood technology — including learning how to recognize the commercial timbers of the United States and know their properties — to forest protection, which mainly concerned how to thwart fungi, insect pests and forest fires on timberlands.
Hey, when’s the last time you checked your information in the UW online campus directory?
Is the information in your entry correct and up to date? Does it reflect that last promotion, transfer or appointment? You can correct it yourself, you know.
With the change of seasons it’s time to familiarize yourself with the University policies that apply during periods of severe weather, and in the event of a temporary suspension of nonessential operations.
Kathrine Handford will perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Bartok and others at an organ concert Sunday, Nov.
STUDENTS FOR SERVICE: A team of UW landscape architecture students has been selected from hundreds of national and international entries for an award in the community service category from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Luis Fraga went from a high school that was 86 percent Mexican American to a college where he was one of only 16 Mexican Americans out of a class of about 1,600.
Early viewing of violent television programs is linked to later aggressive and anti-social behavior in boys and doubles the risk of future childhood attention problems, according to a pair of news studies published Monday in the November issue of Pediatrics.
November 6, 2007
Young people with asthma are about twice as likely to suffer from depressive and anxiety disorders than are children without asthma, according to a study by a research team in Seattle.
The battle to win and keep customers in an increasingly competitive and crowded marketplace has become tougher as more companies and products are available to the free world.
November 5, 2007
Certain white blood cells, called phagocytes, engulf and destroy harmful bacteria.
November 1, 2007
More than 10 million members of the photo-sharing Web site Flickr snap pictures of their surroundings and then post those photos on the Internet.
Barry Lieberman will perform with Seattle Symphony friends, Maestro Peter Eros will conduct the University Symphony playing a UW composer’s piece, and Tom Collier will jazz it up with visiting saxophonist Gary Herbig, all in concerts coming soon from the UW School of Music.
A free public screening of a new documentary about solar power titled The Power of the Sun will be held at 7 p.
University Stores will sell its remaining inventory at a sale for UW departments, non-profits, and agency accounts on Thursday, Nov.
The Professional Staff Organization’s fall member meeting, originally scheduled for today, Thursday, Nov.
Marco Antonio (Maco) Garavito, formerly active in the Guatemalan resistance and current director of the Guatemalan Mental Health League, will give a talk titled The Dream of Peace in Guatemala at 7 p.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) have teamed up to host the UW’s first EntrepreneurWeek, a selection of entrepreneurial events, speakers, and networking opportunities for students, faculty and staff.
The diversity of the UW student body will be on display at the The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) CulturalFest, 3:30-7:30 p.