The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
October 18, 2007
The latest news from the UW
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
UW, state join to monitor climate change impact on humans
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Faye Wattleton to give 18th Hogness Symposium Oct. 31
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
In brief
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
EMP’s ‘American Sabor’ savors the Latino influence on American popular music
It’s possible to discuss American Sabor: Latinos in U.
Angelosante joins Health Sciences Administration
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Leonard Hudson to receive HMC Mission of Caring Award
October 17, 2007
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
October 15, 2007
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
October 11, 2007
Reminder: Take our two-question survey
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Emmert to speak
President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
Violence prevention workshop available
A workshop on violence prevention is available to faculty, staff and students.
Close to you: UW student actors learn to transfer stage technique to screen
Imagine you’re an actress doing Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
New garden makes Pacific Connections
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs — some as tall as 30 feet — and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
CFD: What would you give to change the world?
This year, the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), Washington State’s workplace giving campaign, asks would-be donors, “What would you give to change the world?”
This year’s campaign began Oct.
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
College planning session tailored to UW faculty, staff
Demystifying physics: High school teachers learn inquiry method at UW’s summer program
Reminder: Take our two-question survey
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Hans Blix to speak on arms race threat
Hans Blix, who headed the United Nations commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, is deeply worried that a new but quiet arms race threatens the world.
ETC.: Campus news & notes
STAR EDUCATOR: Tom Griffin, editor of Columns, the UW alumni magazine, was named a “Faculty Star” by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Author, researcher to speak on multiculturalism in Britain
Researcher and author Audrey Osler will be the featured speaker for the Center for Multicultural Education at the UW’s 24th symposium-lecture, 11 a.
Four A&S dean finalists to speak
Four finalists for the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences will be making public presentations in the next month, open to all faculty, staff and students.
Conifers or condos? NW Environmental Forum develops strategies
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
Grad School to host discussion of nation-building Oct. 15
Attention armchair detectives: Second Emerald City Search begins Oct. 17
The UW, in partnership with the Seattle Times and the Seattle Art Museum, invites all treasure hunters and thrill seekers to join an adventurous 10-day foray in fun for the second annual Emerald City Search, beginning Oct.
Historical film screening slated: Program includes mix of humorous, entertaining and odd
The first public screening of historic films from the UW Libraries Special Collections will feature an eclectic mix of the humorous, entertaining and odd.
Hall research building dedication Oct. 17
The public is invited to an open house in honor of the dedication of the Benjamin D.
‘Common Book’ author Kolbert warns of coming catastrophe brought by global warming
Elizabeth Kolbert tells scary stories, the kind that stick in your head long after you’ve finished her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Undergrads find 1,300 asteroids
Undergraduate astronomy students at the UW combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.
UW is ‘nearly’ smoke-free
It’s well documented that smoking tobacco is one of the riskiest and deadliest behaviors around, contributing to over 30 percent of heart disease and strokes, nearly 90 percent of lung cancers and at least a third of other cancers.
Lehman and Goff win Health Breakthrough Award
MRI helps detect breast cancer in women at high risk
If a woman has been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the other breast may show cancer that the mammogram missed, according to a UW-led international study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March.
NIH funds UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).
UW faculty elected to Institute of Medicine
Four UW faculty members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
In Brief
Free seminar on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Oct.
October 9, 2007
UW researchers play major role in next phase of Human Genome Project
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded University of Washington researchers $10.
Generating ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’: Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Web
The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities.