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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.

WHERE ARE WE? The photo at right was taken somewhere on campus.

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.

By Marty Perlman
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University of Washington faculty and staff work tirelessly to provide our students the best possible educational experience.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

Concerns that managers of publicly traded companies punish analysts with unfavorable stock recommendations are likely warranted, a new study reveals.

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.

The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center has received a new five-year, $6.

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.

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.

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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Western Washington’s reputation as a soggy bastion for the web-footed is taking a beating this year, thanks to an unrelenting dry spell.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Orin Smith, retired Starbucks president and chief executive officer, has donated $4.

The Columbia River is the source of three quarters of the water pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the West Coast.

Bacteria have hair-like protrusions with a sticky protein on the tip that lets them cling to surfaces.

The University of Washington announced today that it has successfully negotiated the purchase of the Safeco property in the University District.

WHO: Researchers at the University of Washington, including Matthew O’Donnell, the new dean of the UW’s College of Engineering, and colleagues from the University of Colorado; University of California, Los Angeles; and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Viruses that jump the species barrier between monkeys and humans can harm both people and animals, and we should take steps to reduce the risk of virus transmission.

University of Washington researchers have succeeded in building a cooling device tiny enough to fit on a computer chip that could work reliably and efficiently with the smallest microelectronic components.

The UW Regional Heart Center is organizing a large team of walkers for the 2002 American Heart Association Heart Walk.

Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations

You’ve tried over-the-counter painkillers, maybe glucosamine or chondroitin, modified exercise and even injections to calm the pain in your arthritic knees.

A half-day educational program on the medical device market and investing in medical device start-up companies is set for Thursday morning, Oct.

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Diabetes recognition awards program at Kane HalPeople who have been living with diabetes 25, 50, 60 or more years will be honored at the first UW Purple and Gold Diabetes Recognition Awards ceremony at 9 a.

The Department of Surgery’s 53rd annual Strauss Lecture will be given this year by Dr.

Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

Connecting a monitor to the keyboard input on a computer’s CPU will result in neither the monitor nor keyboard functioning properly.

“Things Your Mother Never Taught You: How to Commercialize Technology in the University Setting” is the title for a new monthly series of presentations organized by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and the UW Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.