March 18, 2005
University of Washington President Mark Emmert has selected Suzanne Trager Ortega, vice provost for advanced studies and dean of graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as dean and vice provost of the UW Graduate School, effective Aug.
March 16, 2005
A University of Washington alumnus who invented more than 30 biomedical devices, including a shunt that made kidney dialysis practical, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Northwest Pioneers of Biomaterials and Medical Devices Award.
Astrophysicists in recent years have found evidence for a force they call dark energy in observations from the farthest reaches of the universe, billions of light years away.
March 15, 2005
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don’t mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
March 10, 2005
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, a world leader in heart and lung transplant surgery and research, will speak at the 17th annual Rushmer Lecture, sponsored by the UW Department of Bioengineering.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Nature may still dictate their delicate display, but the famous cherry trees on the Quad, in keeping with the times, have gone online.
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of columns by chairs of the Faculty Senate’s councils and committees.
Are farmers in southeast Idaho likely to start irrigating in early May, in late May, or somewhere in between?
Private power producer PacifiCorp, for one, wants to know so it can prepare for less water being available and more power being needed when agricultural producers start pumping earlier in the year.
Peg Cheng may look like a responsible adult, but for more than a year her mind has been on high school.
The hydrothermal vents were miles from where anyone could have imagined.
The UW Consolidated Laundry in Seattle’s Rainier Valley has installed a water recycling system that is expected to conserve approximately 18 million gallons a year.
Prions, which have been identified as the causative agent in mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie, a disease of sheep and goats, were identified, named and characterized by Dr.
Transmissible brain diseases among livestock and wild game have become a growing concern in veterinary medicine, agriculture, and public health.
Local neuroscience meeting
The Pacific Cascade and Vancouver, B.
“Starting a Company While Keeping Your Day Job at the UW” is the title for the next presentation in the series “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Industry Relations Office.
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.