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To publish academic and scholarly writing and research is to swim against an ever-growing tide of pop celebrity blather, exploitive tell-alls and diet crazes.

When the press picks up on research a university professor is doing, he or she can win a bit of notoriety, but it’s a rare day that a professor winds up in a comic strip.

Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.

Karen VanDusen, director of the UW’s Environmental Health & Safety unit, has been named by Gov.

UNDER THE SEA: A recent New York Times article described how networks of tiny sensors are being used by scientists to “help fill an observational gap between microscopes and telescopes” in studies of forests, rivers, plate tectonics and undersea environments.

The School of Public Health and Community Medicine has been chosen to receive $3.

Among patients who are insured by Medicare, the risk of early death after bariatric surgery, sometimes known as gastric bypass surgery, is considerably higher than has been suggested by previous research.

It started as a classic bad day.

The way we see them undulate through the water and their eyes — their eyes are dark without a flicker of life as you see in the eyes of a dog or cat or other animals — well, it’s just a primordial instinct to be afraid,” says Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Professor Vince Gallucci of sharks.

• The 2005 AIDS & STD Research Symposium, from 10 a.
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Suzanne Ortega was immediately interested when she saw the UW’s Graduate School was looking for a new dean.

UW Medical Center is a recipient of the 2005 Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention & Sustainable Practices, the state’s highest honor for taking care of the environment while doing business in Washington.

WHITE HOUSE KEYNOTER: David Hawkins, social work professor and founding director of the Social Development Research Group, has a date today at the White House.

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The subject of shared governance remains a major focus for the UW Faculty Senate this year, as Ashley Emery, professor of mechanical engineering, steps up to become chair.

The first all-university colloquium on conservation issues, planned for Nov.

Type 2 diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix.

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Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.

University of Washington officials who have reviewed plans for a proposed additional bridge crossing the Arboretum and Union Bay have found that the proposal is “unacceptable” to the UW.

The 2005 Engineering Lecture Series, “Engineering the Unexpected,” focuses on how UW engineers are taking the lead in designing ways to respond when disaster strikes.

UW Bothell Associate Professor Kevin Laverty is the principal investigator for a three-year $600,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to develop community partnerships to address the region’s most important environmental management problems and opportunities.

Have you seen the colorful banners posted across campus that say “Creating Futures”? They’re part of a new phase in the UW Foundation’s eight-year quest to raise $2 billion in public support.

Immigrants are more dispersed and far more entwined with American-born people when measured by the households in which they live rather than counted individually on the traditional basis of census tract, neighborhood, metropolitan area or state.

An organization formed last year to represent the interests of post-doctoral scholars at the UW has continued to grow.

Seattle Information

The UW’s Seattle enrollment for autumn quarter 2005 is 39,251, including 2,019 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.

Events ranging from a poetry reading to lectures by distinguished visitors from Peru are part of “Even Cowboys Get the Blues: A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Luis Hernandez,” planned for next week on campus.

The author of the recently released Leaving the Lectern: Cooperative Learning and the Critical First Days of Students Working in Groups, was quite annoyed when he was first expected to take part in group learning.

A pilot project now under way is a big step toward the goal of “anytime, anywhere learning.

The University of Washington’s K-12 Resource Guide is a searchable database providing information about the many educational resources available to K-12 students and educators.

You can learn about who lived at Discovery Park thousands of years ago at the Burke Museum’s Urban Archaeology Day from 10 a.

The medical/dental open enrollment period for UW employees is from Oct.

Sound Transit has issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and is seeking comment at two public hearings in November.

Last week’s paper issue of University Week contained an insert with a summary of the results of the survey of faculty and staff conducted last spring by the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative.

UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.

The Committee to Improve the UW Undergraduate Experience will be holding three open meetings for faculty and staff in October.

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