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October 3, 2006
Fifty depressed teenage girls and adolescent girls from the Puget Sound area who engage in self-harming or suicidal behavior are being sought for a new University of Washington study.
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September 28, 2006
Are your workspace and home prepared for emergencies? The staff of the Office of Emergency Management and University Week have teamed for a report on campus emergency management titled Are we ready?
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Eberhard Fetz receives Javits Award in Neurosciences
Eberhard Fetz, UW professor of physiology & biophysics in the Washington National Primate Research Center has been awarded the Senator Jacob Javits Award in Neurosciences.
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By Craig Degginger
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UW Medical Center has been recertified as a “Magnet Nursing Services Organization” by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for its excellence in nursing practice and patient care.
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Mayor Greg Nickels declared this September to be Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month in Seattle.
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Inadequate health care and conditions result in millions of deaths each year from preventable diseases.
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Are you a UW employee for whom English is a second language? If so, would you like to improve your speaking, writing or pronunciation skills? Spaces are available in this fall’s English in the Workplace courses, offered at no cost to you or your unit.
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The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the SR520 Bridge Replacement and HOV Project comment period has been extended to Oct.
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The UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine is partnering with Public Health-Seattle & King County to recruit and train medical and non-medical volunteers for the new Public Health Reserve Corps for emergency response.
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The UW Transportation Office has a question for bike riders and pedestrians alike: If you don’t heed stop signs and traffic laws, what makes you think the other person will?
With the new school year, the Transportation Office has updated its rules of the road.
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Beginning this quarter, when UW students have a grammar question, they can ask Betty.
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Of the six UW schools of health science — medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, dentistry, and social work — social work is most often thought of in relation to the social sciences, rather than the health sciences.
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By Tina Mankowski & Justin Reedy
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Younan Xia does research at some of the smallest scales imaginable, but the importance of his work has earned a giant reward for the UW chemistry professor.
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IESUS invites applications
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
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Students can register now to hear Paul Farmer, the subject of Tracy Kidder’s book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr.
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Charles Kennedy, who is currently the director of facilities operations for the University of California, San Francisco, will become the UW’s associate vice president for facilities services, effective Oct.
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WHERE ARE WE? The photo at right was taken somewhere on campus.
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Attention, would-be faculty entrepreneurs: Here’s your chance to learn everything you ever wanted to know about how to take your idea or invention to market.
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By Marty Perlman
Housing & Food Services
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University of Washington faculty and staff work tirelessly to provide our students the best possible educational experience.
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ROWING FOR CURE: When Sharon Smith Elsayed’s sister-in-law Judy Smith began battling breast and kidney cancer, Elsayed decided to “row for the cure.
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Students suffering from assignment shock and other academic maladies will get some relief beginning this quarter as UW librarians offer a series of free, walk-in workshops at Odegaard Undergraduate Library.
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September 25, 2006
Justice Alan Page will be the guest speaker at the seventh-annual Costco Scholarship Fund Breakfast, which will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.
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September 22, 2006
“Invasive plants are degrading ecosystems, lowering land values and affecting everyone,” says Sarah Reichard, associate professor with the University of Washington Botanic Gardens and lead organizer of the conference.
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Concerns that managers of publicly traded companies punish analysts with unfavorable stock recommendations are likely warranted, a new study reveals.
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September 19, 2006
More than 65 top executives of local companies, as well as a number of federal, state, and local political leaders will meet at the University of Washington Sept.
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September 18, 2006
The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center has received a new five-year, $6.
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September 15, 2006
A University of Washington professor who says that solving today’s fisheries problems will best be accomplished by applying lessons learned in the many successful fisheries in the world is one of three winners of this year’s Volvo Environment Prize, announced in Sweden this week.
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September 12, 2006
Children who were exposed to violence in the home engaged in higher levels of physical bullying than youngsters who were not witnesses to such behavior, according to a study by researchers from the University of Washington and Indiana University.
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September 11, 2006
Postpartum suicide attempts are strongly associated with fetal or infant death and most commonly occur in the first and 12th months postpartum.
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September 8, 2006
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September 7, 2006
Western Washington’s reputation as a soggy bastion for the web-footed is taking a beating this year, thanks to an unrelenting dry spell.
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September 5, 2006
Despite recent indications that Antarctica cooled considerably during the 1990s, new research suggests that the world’s iciest continent has been getting gradually warmer for the last 150 years, a trend not identifiable in the short meteorological records and masked at the end of the 20th century by large temperature variations.
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September 1, 2006
University of Washington Medical Center (UW Medical Center) has settled a class action lawsuit initiated by Heidi Rothmeyer, who was treated at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt.
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August 31, 2006
A University of Washington faculty member is spearheading an effort to bring the field and practice of social work to Cambodia where there currently is no program at the college level to train students to become social workers.
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Fast-warming climate appears to be triggering genetic changes in a species of fruit fly that is native to Europe and was introduced into North and South America about 25 years ago.
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