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The 23rd Annual Hans Neurath Lecture will be given by Stephen C.

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The 28th Annual Katterman Lecture, Profitability and the Pharmacy Revolution: Keys to Profitability in Traditional Pharmacy Practice and the Growing Clinical Services Sector, will be presented by the UW School of Pharmacy Saturday, April 28, from 8:30 a.

A ceremony scheduled for April 30 will honor the late Robert G.

Debra Schwinn, a leading physician scientist in medical genomics, molecular pharmacology, and cardiac anesthesia, has been named the new chair of the UW Department of Anesthesiology, effective May 1.

An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the genome of the rhesus macaque, a species of non-human primate that is widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections.

This week Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed by the University of Washington, leaves for the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.

Throughout history civilizations expanded as they sought new soil to feed their populations, then ultimately fell as they wore out or lost the dirt they depended upon.

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An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the genome of the rhesus macaque, a species of non-human primate that is widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections.

All students and alumni are invited to attend the UW’s Spring Career Fair, sponsored by the Center for Career Services, held from 3 to 7 p.

Students from universities spanning the globe will congregate in Seattle April 16-21 to compete in the University of Washington Business School’s ninth annual Global Business Case Competition.

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases is accepting nominations for the for The 2008 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind and The Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement.

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Neurology Grand Rounds — Seminal Biology of Embryonic Cortical Neural Stem Cells by Jeffrey L.

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Are you facing a June National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposal deadline? Are you worried about using the Grants.

The following UW policies, rules, and orders were recently revised:

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The 28th Annual School of Pharmacy’s Katterman Lecture, Profitability and the Pharmacy Revolution: Keys to Profitability in Traditional Pharmacy Practice and the Growing Clinical Services Sector, will be presented Saturday, April 28, from 8:30 a.

The Investigator Needs to Know (ThINK) seminar presents a two-part lecture series, Subject Recruitment and Retention: Strategies that Work, Wednesday, April 25, and May 8, from 4:30 p.

Discover how UW Tacoma helps students reach their potential at the UW Tacoma Open House on Thursday, April 19.

UW Sociology Professor and author Pepper Schwartz will deliver the keynote speech at Friends of the UW Libraries “Literary Voices,” a dinner where guests dine at tables with authors, at 6 p.

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When Jeremy Nolan came to the UW in 1999, he thought he’d major in business and become a stockbroker, but four years later, after a research project in Indonesia got him interested in nonhuman primates, he graduated with bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology.

UW Bothell will host its 16th annual Career Fair on Thursday, April 19.

Want the UW president and provost to cook your lunch for you?

If so, mark your calendars for the Community Celebration, to be held from 11:30 a.

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Michael Honey, professor of history and UW Tacoma founding faculty member, has been named the first recipient of the University’s new Fred T.

The UW will offer a special course this summer featuring six prominent regional writers as guest lecturers.

The atmosphere was festive in a conference room of Schmitz Hall one recent afternoon as four UW staffers filled gift bags with small toys and decorated them with brightly colored tissue paper and ribbon.

Two University of Washington faculty members have garnered coveted fellowships in a two-year program that aims to produce creative thinking in health policy research.

With the state Legislature entering the final weeks of the session, the outlook for higher education and UW funding appears “very, very good,” according to the University’s chief lobbyist.

MAGICAL SABBATICAL: Most faculty do research while on sabbatical, but Dorothy Van Soest, professor of social work, wrote a novel.

Two families lost a dearly beloved member this week—the family and friends of Rebecca Griego, and our University family, of which Rebecca was a cherished member.

Public Meeting to Discuss Elimination of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Pathobiology Department

As part of the process for reviewing the reorganization, consolidation or elimination of academic programs (RCEP, Ch.

When staffer George Guadiz had to repair a drape high in the window of the Suzzallo Reading Room a week or so back, the occasion made for some one-of-a-kind photos of what has been described as one of the country’s most beautiful rooms.

This summer Tom Guthrie will be getting a new name, but he’ll still keep his old one.

When Borje “Bud” Saxberg starting teaching at the UW Business School, tuition was about $100 per quarter, assistant professors made $6,000 annually, and the school was located in the Quad, a fair distance from where it now occupies Balmer and MacKenzie Halls.

Where are we?  The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.