The latest news from the UW

The UW Police Department will be offering a free 10-week Citizen’s Academy beginning Jan.

PRESS ON PREZ: If you missed UW President Mark Emmert’s speech on Tuesday, you have another chance to hear him as he sits for an interview with Seattle Times higher education reporter Sharon Chan and executive editor Michael Fancher.

A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.

Preparations for new facilities to house the UW Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.

With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus’ reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.

Preparations for new facilities to house the University of Washington Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.

Researchers at the University of Washington have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.

A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.

WHAT: Panel discussion about Grid West, a proposed nonprofit corporation that would manage key features of the Northwest’s electric-power system.

By today’s standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write, or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.

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Neuroscience for Kids, a Web site established and maintained by Dr.

Name: Ann Spangler

UW Job: Administrative Assistant, Office of Institutional Studies

Volunteer Activity: Brownie, Junior and Cadette Girl Scout Leader

Organization’s main mission: To give young people leadership skills and training to be used currently and as they move through life.

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

It’s a novel about the founder of a sect of assassins driven by an extreme interpretation of Islam.

Geography Professor Katharyne Mitchell has been named to a professorship that will give her time to do some concentrated research and writing.

Toshiaki Namiki takes the hand of his friend and colleague Sharon Lindsey, and places it on top of her head.

While President Bush and Sen.

FUNNY THING, HUMOR: What’s in a laugh? Richard Gonzalez, chair of the University of Michigan’s department of psychology (and formerly of the UW), intends to find out, with access to of one of the best cartoon archives in the world.

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Two nonprofit leaders in tissue banking, Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) and Northwest Tissue Center, announced a new agreement this month to make MTF’s proprietary tissue grafts more accessible to patients in hospitals served by the Tissue Center.

Bone marrow produces cells that not only help fight infection but also permanently heal wounds, according to research at the University of Washington.

The UW School of Pharmacy and the Everett Clinic have been awarded a $1 million grant by the U.

A UW study comparing the two most favored techniques for sequencing the human genome has shown that one of the techniques, now the most widely used, gives an oversimplified view of the genome.

Plans to create a new UW Department of Global Health, with shared governance between the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, were announced last week in a memo from Dr.

The Burke Museum will play host to an extraordinarily diverse Smithsonian Institution exhibit of fossils, “The Burgess Shale: Evolution’s Big Bang,” from Nov.

Academic Opportunities

Faculty Senate position announcement

The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three University of Washington campuses for the vital position of secretary of the faculty.

‘CONNECTIONS’ CONNECTS: When four young women head off to college with a $10,000 Nordstrom Celebration of Cultural Diversity Scholarship, three of them can thank the UW for contributing to their success.

In the world of e-mail, it’s getting so you can’t even trust your own friends.

The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world’s oceans is giving scientists a look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the world’s biodiversity.

Major-party candidates wield the Web, but many challengers stay offline

Contrary to predictions that third-party candidates would seize the Internet as a powerful tool for challenging the status quo, minor candidates remained far behind their Republican and Democratic foes this year in using the Web.

Nominations are now being solicited for the University’s annual awards — awards that honor outstanding teachers, staff, mentors and those engaged in public service.

The University of Washington Board of Regents today (Nov.

Contrary to predictions that third-party candidates would seize on the Internet as a powerful tool for challenging the status quo, such candidates lagged far behind their Republican and Democratic foes this year in using the Web.

The loss of seemingly inconsequential animal species in the top 6 inches or so of mud and sediment on the floors of the world’s oceans is giving scientists a look ahead at the consequences of the steady decline of the Earth’s biodiversity.

University of Washington’s James R.

While society expresses great respect for mothers, there is often little social or emotional support, let alone preparation, for the role of mothering.

UNICO Properties, the Seattle-based firm wishing to build a six-story retail, residential and office building at 42nd Street and 15th Avenue Northeast, has issued new designs that address neighborhood concerns about the project, which is called University Square.

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