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January 27, 2005

A masterpiece is reborn: CDC revives 1931 work by Martha Graham

The UW Chamber Dance Company (CDC) will bring to life a 1931 masterpiece by dance great Martha Graham next week, thanks to coaching from one of Graham’s students.

Mountain man: UW’s Stephenson wants to ease the way for climbers seeking highest peaks

Scott Stephenson would like to take you higher.

Allen Library to display Cascades lab drawings

UW officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.

Witness to Aceh’s tsunami horror starts UW fund to help

No country was hit harder by the Dec.

Project yields tiny sensor with a veritable sea of possible uses

It began as a modest proposal by three UW professors — geneticist Clement Furlong, electrical engineer Sinclair Yee and chemist Lloyd Burgess.

Health Sciences News Briefs

Still time for Mini-Med
UW Medicine’s 2005 Mini-Medical School, a six-part series of exciting lectures and demonstrations designed to teach about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research, is open to the UW community and the public.

Phillip Chance named to endowed Treuer Chair at Children’s

Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.

Chicken genome still diverse

Today’s domestic chickens have just as much genetic diversity as their wild ancestor, according to genome scientists analyzing the variations on the newly sequenced chicken genome.

UW Medicine sponsoring ‘Go Red for Women’ Luncheon

UW Medicine is sponsoring the “Go Red for Women” luncheon on Monday, Feb.

School of Nursing

The School of Nursing will receive funding from UW Medical Center for a new endowed professorship, Dr.

New chair named for School of Dentistry’s Periodontics Department

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Global HIV/AIDS treatment

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Global health conference on campus next month

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Notices


DEGREE EXAMS

Members of the graduate faculty are invited to attend the following examinations.

UW Summer Youth Programs to start registering Feb. 7

Attention parents: It may be midwinter, but it’s not too soon to think about summertime options for your school-age children.

Multimedia program looks at war’s effect on children

The effect of war on the lives of children will be the topic of an art exhibit and symposium at the UW in March.

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A&S HONORS: Internationally recognized local author, David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars), is among the recipients of this year’s Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the College of Arts & Sciences.

Sound Transit plans meeting

Sound Transit will host a meeting Feb.

State’s economic forecast looking rosier these days

The worst-kept secret in Olympia is that the next revenue forecast by the state’s chief economist is likely to be decidedly better than recent flat projections.

Commercialization of UW technologies is goal of fund

A joint project between the UW and the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) will drive the commercialization of five promising UW technologies.

Warming, not impact, may have been cause of mass extinctions

For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a UW scientist disputes that notion.

Rain may bring drought: January snowpack at lowest level in 28 years

Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.

January 26, 2005

Dwindling snowpack is bad news for Washington’s summer water needs

Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer.

January 25, 2005

UW to display conceptual drawings for proposed underground lab

University of Washington officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or “portal,” for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades, and drawings for associated surface facilities, including a visitor center and a science campus.

January 24, 2005

April journalism conference set to probe tsunami aftermath, next steps

WHAT: First conference on journalism and the tsunami — lessons learned, and what to do next in covering the social, political and economic fallout.

January 21, 2005

UW Bothell presents biotechnology and regional economic development forum

The Master of Arts in Policy Studies at University of Washington, Bothell is hosting a Policy Forum on February 16, 2005 from 3:30 – 5:30 PM.

UW Bothell helps 5th and 6th graders design a Mission to Mars

The University of Washington, Bothell (UW Bothell)’s very own student organization, Community Science Connection, is making a difference in the community!


Community Science Connection helped twenty-six 5th and 6th graders of Bothell to enter the “Design a Lunar-Based Mission to Mars” contest.

Mental health crisis looming for survivors of tsunami, warns UW psychologist just back from Indonesia

As the death toll from the Dec.

January 20, 2005

Mystery Photo

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

UW sends out 850 volunteers on MLK Day

More than 850 volunteers participated in service activities in celebration of the Martin Luther King, Jr.

UW MBA students top dawgs in ‘Rose Bowl’ of case competitions

A team from the UW’s Master’s of Business Administration program won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition held last weekend at Arizona State University.

Going for the jugular: Cartoonist Horsey to speak

David Horsey, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, will speak at 7 p.

McCabe, Sheppard pianos to share Meany stage Jan. 25

Talk to pianists Robin McCabe and Craig Sheppard for any length of time and you’ll learn some fascinating historical tidbits.

Uzbek educators promote partnership with UW

Five educators from Uzbekistan are on the UW campus this week, continuing an exchange of time and talents that will culminate in a conference in Tashkent — Uzbekistan’s capital city — this fall and another in Seattle in spring of 2006.

What can you do with an art degree? Sessions offer answers


Myth or reality? There are no good jobs out there for people with undergraduate degrees in the visual arts.

Sessions designed to spark technology use


Technology comes more easily to some than to others.

Experts to probe tsunami aftermath

Throughout her childhood in Sri Lanka and during adult stints working as an anthropologist there, Manjari Wijenaike saw little letup in the island’s ethnic tensions until Dec.

New fund to help bring UW innovations to market

A joint project between the University of Washington and the Washington Research Foundation (WRF) will drive the commercialization of five promising UW technologies.

New evidence indicates biggest extinction wasn’t caused by asteroid or comet

For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a University of Washington scientist disputes that notion.

January 19, 2005

UW’s Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins

University of Washington TechTransfer recently licensed software that will give scientists a huge advantage in the fight against disease.

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