March 10, 2005
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Grant applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning scholarly projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
ACTIVE RETIREMENT: If you have seen the most recent Taco Time commercial on TV, or heard it on the radio, you’ve been tuning in on the post-professorial career of Otto Reinert.
March 9, 2005
March 8, 2005
The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano.
March 3, 2005
The Faculty Dance Concert, slated for tonight through Sunday in Meany Studio Theater, is designed as a showcase for choreography by Dance Program faculty.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Four UW faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships, given to the very best young faculty in the country in designated scientific fields.
Editor’s Note: Ken Fine, a News & Information employee who is a graduate of the UW School of Art and our resident expert on PowerPoint, offers his thoughts on David Byrne’s upcoming PowerPoint performance at 7 p.
The Faculty Dance Concert, slated for tonight through Sunday in Meany Studio Theater, is designed as a showcase for choreography by Dance Program faculty.
Think you know the campus? Then try your luck with the Mystery Photo.
It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state.
Sustainability practices are not exclusive to the UW’s Publications Services Department — they are campuswide, indeed statewide and beyond.
Former governor Gary Locke, the first Chinese-American governor in U.
Business scholars for more than 20 years have explored the concept of “emotional labor,” or the management of emotions to present a certain image in service workers.
The state Legislature may have completed half of its session according to the calendar, but the bulk of the hard work remains to be accomplished, says UW Director of State Relations Randy Hodgins.
The hydrothermal vents were miles from where anyone could have imagined.
March 1, 2005
The ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas were infected with a deadly retrovirus about three to four million years ago, but there is no evidence it infected ancestors of modern-day humans, according to research by genome scientists.
WHO: University of Washington faculty and student researchers involved in the Tactile Graphics Project, a federally funded endeavor to automate the translation of complex data to tactile documents that users can read by touch.
Business scholars for more than 20 years have explored the concept of ’emotional labor,’ or the management of emotions to present a certain image in service workers.
February 28, 2005
It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state.
February 24, 2005
Tony Geist was on other business when he first saw the drawings, but he knew immediately they needed to come to the world’s attention.
Helping people have fun is how Kitty Willis describes her job.
As a child in the Arkansas delta in the 1940s and early 1950s, James A.
The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one crucial and time-consuming element in their lives — work.
For most people, the mere mention of Frankenstein brings up visions of Boris Karloff in monster makeup.
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) have named Dr.
Understanding the principles that govern the interactions within and between macromolecules is at the foundations of modern molecular biology.
The UW community is invited to see the new laboratories, offices and auditorium in the renovated building at 815 Mercer St.
James Severson, the UW’s Vice Provost for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, is the recipient of the 2005 Bayh-Dole Award given by the Association of University Technology Transfer Managers (AUTM) for his many contributions to academic technology transfer.
“The History of Craniofacial Surgery” is the topic for the 12th annual Peter K.
The “Healthy Heart Station,” a play area at Alderwood, supported by UW Medicine Regional Heart Center, will have its grand opening on Saturday, Feb.
A new study led by Public Health – Seattle & King County and published in the Feb.
A new career development program for clinical researchers, funded last fall by the National Institutes of Health with a $13 million grant for five years, has accepted its first group of trainees.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY
Grant applications wanted
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
The Sound Transit Board recently identified the 12th Avenue route as the preferred light rail link between the UW and Northgate.
Online staff learning at the UW has become more affordable even while its offerings have improved, according to Training and Development, a division of UW Human Resources.
Could there be a devastating tsunami on Puget Sound? And if so, how much time will there be to react, and what reaction is appropriate? Such questions will be addressed in a public lecture, Tsunamis in Washington, at 7 p.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles written by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.
A little sexual banter in the workplace isn’t necessarily a bad thing.