June 21, 2007
Johnese Spisso, chief operating officer for Harborview Medical Center, has been appointed to the new position of clinical operations officer (COO) for UW Medicine and vice president for medical affairs (VPMA) for the UW, effective July 1.
“UW undergraduates are global citizens.
June 18, 2007
The University of Washington has appointed a 16-member work group to provide advice on an appropriate location, size of student body and degree programs for a UW campus to be located in Snohomish, Island or Skagit county.
Following an acquisition of another company, chief executive officers’ compensation levels usually increase, even when the purchase turns out to be unprofitable, according to researchers at the University of Washington and University of British Columbia.
June 13, 2007
WHAT: The 2007 Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf & Hard of Hearing in Computing, a nine-week academy teaching talented students the fundamentals of computer science and aimed at boosting their numbers in the field.
June 12, 2007
Scientists at the University of Washington and other members of an international consortium have completed a multi-year research effort that dramatically boosts understanding of how the human genome functions.
Researchers trying to understand why high school-age boys are involved in serious delinquency more often than girls have found that males are exposed to higher levels of risk factors and lower amounts of protective factors.
WHAT: 20th Annual American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition
WHO: 700 civil engineering students from 22 of the nation’s top schools whose teams won their regional championships
WHEN: Thursday, June 14, and Saturday, June 16
WHERE: University of Washington Seattle campus and Lake Sammamish
DETAILS: On Thursday the teams will display their canoes, weigh the boats and “swamp” them underwater in a tank to prove their buoyancy in the UW’s Red Square.
June 11, 2007
The “snows” of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming.
June 7, 2007
University of Washington President Mark A.
Early next year, when the University of Washington moves into the property recently acquired from Safeco Corp.
The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the picture revealed by recently developed measures of self-esteem, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the United States, China and Japan.
June 5, 2007
Guy Demmert got quite a surprise when he hauled a fishing net into his boat off the coast of southeast Alaska in July 2002.
A massive crane reaches down 25 stories, picks up a container filled with Asian goods, and sets it on a truck for delivery.
May 31, 2007
The University of Washington has become a signatory to the Designated Suppliers Program of the Worker Rights Consortium, which works to assure that all university-licensed apparel is made in factories meeting specific criteria regarding fair labor practices.
The UW Police Department launched a new program this week to provide uniformed escorts for faculty, staff and students to and from buildings, from parking lots and within close proximity of the campus.
Has spring cleaning got you thinking of making changes to your home? Maybe a bit of remodeling, or some new landscaping? UW Benefits & Work/Life, in partnership with Home Street Bank, is ready to help with its Home Improvement Fair.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1 p.
Soft, wet concrete slid into the curving channel like cake batter into a pan, and teams from the UW and King County smoothed it into place.
Editor’s Note: News & Information staffer Vince Stricherz traveled to the Gulf Coast last week to work with Habitat for Humanity.
Clearly, Kevin Desouza is not much on décor.
As we all know, the Faculty Senate is the mechanism by which faculty govern themselves and share the governance of the University with the administration.
Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors.
By Hannah Hickey
News & Information
Don’t tell these paddlers that concrete isn’t the best material for building boats.
Mona Pitre-Collins once swore she would never be a teacher like most of the members of her family.
RUNNING THE NUMBERS: You’ve heard the expression “trash into treasure” applied to recycling, but UW Recycling probably hadn’t thought of its trash as being the inspiration for art.
For Jennifer Carroll, happiness is a gold pig .
Each faculty, staff or retiree gift to the UW is a story of relationships — of how people choose to work at the UW because it reflects their values, and how those values are carried out not just in their working days but in the gifts they choose to make.
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Gary Butrymowicz has empty pop cans in his office.
The UW has entered into a partnership with Rotary International to fast-track dissemination of interventions and technologies to improve quality of life to those in greatest need throughout the world.
A major new effort to uncover the medium- and large-scale genetic differences within the human species may soon reveal DNA sequences that contribute to a wide range of diseases, according to a paper by Evan Eichler, UW associate professor of genome sciences, and 17 colleagues published in the May 10 issue of Nature.
The UW’s Faculty Integrative Health Program is accepting applications for the upcoming school year.
Six graduate students, one from each UW health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2007-08 academic year.
Elise Saba, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, has been awarded a President’s Medal for scholarship as a transfer student — an award given to a student who entered the UW with at least 60 transfer credits from a Washington community college.