Twenty-five small businesses that supply goods and services to the UW will be showcased in a vendor fair Tuesday, Nov.
November 2, 2006
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Advisers learn whereof they speak, tagging along for Exploration Seminars
For years, UW advisers have been urging students to study abroad, without, in most cases, knowing what awaited them in the countries where they landed.
Insect population growth likely accelerated by warmer climate
Insects have proven to be highly adaptable organisms, able through evolution to cope with a variety of environmental changes, including relatively recent changes in the world’s climate.
October 30, 2006
Insect population growth likely accelerated by warmer climate
Insects have proven to be highly adaptable organisms, able through evolution to cope with a variety of environmental changes, including relatively recent changes in the world’s climate.
October 27, 2006
Inaugural vendor fair to encourage use of minority- and women-owned businesses
Twenty-five small businesses that supply goods and services to the University of Washington will be showcased in a vendor fair Nov.
October 26, 2006
Inequality on the menu
Official Notices
Nominations sought for Senate Vice Chair
Nominations for vice chair of the Faculty Senate are being sought.
UW Photographers Group has show in HUB
The UW Photographers Group is holding its annual group show through Nov.
From garbage to grass: Students build gathering space
By Peter Lewis
News & Information
Imagine a toxic garbage dump the size of the U-District inhabited by thousands of people who survive by picking through other people’s garbage.
Professional development proposals sought
The Learning for Leadership Council (LLC) is seeking proposals from graduate and professional students who have ideas for student-led projects that create opportunities for professional development and leadership experience.
Oxygen levels: The key to land animals?
Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
No personal checks for parking fees starting Jan. 1
Beginning in January of 2007, UW Parking Services will discontinue accepting personal checks for daily parking.
Wanted: Your feedback about food
If you dine at campus eateries, frequent the espresso stands or use the convenience stores, the Department of Housing and Food Services is interested in learning what you think about food and beverages on campus.
Denice Denton memorial planned
A celebration of the life of Denice D.
There are barriers to interdisciplinary work, those involved say
A capacity crowd of faculty, staff and students generally agreed that incentives for conducting interdisciplinary research and teaching need to be increased, while some substantial barriers need to be lowered.
Undergrads to get hands-on research opportunity
The Amgen Foundation has announced its partnership with the UW and nine other of the nation’s premier universities to provide hundreds of undergraduate students an opportunity to engage in a fully-funded, hands-on research experience each summer.
Health Sciences news briefs
Medical/Dental open enrollment continues through Nov.
‘Neuroscience for Kids’ site a powerful learning resource
“Neuroscience for Kids,” an educational Web site created by a UW neuroscientist, has received an award in recognition of its value as an online teaching resource.
Stem cell lecture set for Nov. 15
Research links Huntington’s disease to metabolic defects
Huntington’s disease includes a metabolic disorder, not just the brain effects seen in the disease, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers.
New center for geriatric research funded
By Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine
Drs.
PSO: Aiming to improve the quality of UW work life
What group of UW employees is 6,200 strong, crucial for keeping the University functioning, and largely invisible? Professional staff.
Symposium to focus on underrepresented students in sciences
Sharing information on successful strategies for mentoring and retaining underrepresented students in the sciences is the goal of a symposium that is expected to draw participants from more than 30 institutions to campus this weekend.
Unused medical supplies put to good use
Leila Gray
News & Community Relations
For each operating room procedure at UW Medical Center, supplies are carefully selected and set out on a sterile tray, easy to reach during critical moments.
Lecture, photo exhibit tell tales out of Africa
When Sindiwe Magona was a little girl in South Africa during the ’40s and ’50s, she anxiously looked forward to the days when white folks’ threw out books because they eventually came to her, and she was delighted.
A summer of science: Interns thrive in summer program
By Claire Dietz
News & Community Relations
Other summers, Araceli Vasquez had worked with her family in the beet fields of southern Idaho.
Faculty Senate chair has substantial experience in governance
Gail Stygall, chair of the Faculty Senate for the 2006–2007 year, believes strongly in the idea of shared governance, and says openness and cooperation have grown tremendously at the UW in recent years.
UW Medicine gets $6 million for stem cell research
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
Orin Smith, retired Starbucks president and chief executive officer, has donated $5 million for the UW’s Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo to the right was taken somewhere on campus.
Etc: Campus news and notes
A CAT PROBLEM: If a single female cat is left unspayed, how many offspring can she produce in seven years? That’s the problem Math Professor Jerry Folland was presented with recently.
October 25, 2006
Film based on novel by UW professor Shawn Wong to be distributed nationally
“Americanese,” the film based on a novel by University of Washington professor Shawn Wong, is going big time.
Online activism may make the difference on Election Day
More and more, Congressional candidates are turning to the Web as a tool to mobilize their base and build credibility with undecided voters, according to findings in a new book by a University of Washington researcher.
Earthquake swarms not just clustered around volcanoes, geothermal regions
An earthquake swarm — a steady drumbeat of moderate, related seismic events — over hours or days, often can be observed near a volcano such as Mount St.
October 24, 2006
Tiny electronic chip, interacting with the brain, modifies pathways for controlling movement
Researchers at the University of Washington are working on an implantable electronic chip that may help establish new nerve connections in the part of the brain that controls movement.
Opiate-addicted people, women with suicidal behavior needed for studies
The Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington are looking for Puget Sound men and women who have an opiate addiction and women with suicidal behavior to volunteer for two studies designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for people who have trouble regulating their emotions.
October 23, 2006
Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth’s sea creatures
Vertebrate creatures first began moving from the world’s oceans to land about 415 million years ago, then all but disappeared by 360 million years ago.
Bargain or waste of money? Consumers don’t always agree
Once consumers buy an item, it is often difficult for them to get rid of it, even if it makes rational sense to do so.
October 20, 2006
Washington’s most valuable resource — its brightest kids — being sought by UW
The state’s single most valuable resource, its smartest young students, are wanted by the University of Washington as it embarks on its annual hunt for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across Washington.
Are trauma centers prepared for mass-casualty disasters?
Natural and manmade disasters, including the terrorist attacks of Sept.
October 19, 2006
Despite popular belief, the world is not running out of oil, UW scientist says
PHILADELPHIA — If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist.