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

In his second inaugural address tomorrow, George W.

WHAT: Panel discussion on politics, health consequences, relief efforts

WHEN: Thursday, Jan.

A team from the University of Washington master’s of business administration program won the 2005 Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition held last weekend at Arizona State University.

Brief alcohol counseling sessions for injured patients, already shown to be effective in reducing subsequent alcohol intake and trauma recidivism, can also reduce health-care costs.

Merrill Hall at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture — rebuilt nearly four years after an arson attack ruined the building and set back research, teaching and outreach — is being dedicated during events open to the public Jan.

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More than 800 children who have been patients at Harborview Medical Center attended a holiday party on Dec.

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

Just over a hundred years ago, when chemical engineering made its first appearance at the UW as the new discipline of “industrial chemistry,” students conducted their experiments under the watchful eye of rookie Assistant Professor Henry K.

Several squirrels were seen and heard squawking up a storm Friday near where the Suzzallo and Allen libraries meet.

Way before Christmas, campus librarians got what they had long been wishing for — but it wasn’t quite a dream come true.

UW President Mark Emmert has selected Patricia Spakes, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, to become chancellor of UW Tacoma, effective April 4.

Merrill Hall at the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture — rebuilt nearly four years after an arson attack ruined the building and set back research, teaching and outreach — is being dedicated during events open to the public Jan.

Family and friends of Brian Colella, a 17-year-old Seattle-area athlete who has been diagnosed with fascio-scapulo-humeral muscular dystrophy, have organized a new nonprofit organization, the Pacific Northwest Friends of FSH Research, to support research on the condition.

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Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to experience a stroke, compared to people who do not get this type of headache.

UW researchers have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.

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.

Recent research on air pollution caused by particulate matter from combustion sources such as woodsmoke, agricultural burning and diesel exhaust will be presented at a one-day symposium this month.

Water provided to and used by the UW is regularly tested and found to be safe and clean — but it doesn’t hurt to double-check every now and then.

TO CURE OR NOT?: Is autism a disease that needs treating or simply a variation in the human condition, like left-handedness?

The New York Times quoted Jane Meyerding, program coordinator for the UW’s International Studies Center, in a Dec.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Pilot project funding available
The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly-defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.

Three UW scientists shared the limelight in Discover magazine’s “100 most important discoveries and developments” of 2004, and one of them had a hand in the magazine’s top pick for the biggest science development of the year.

Editor’s note: This is one of a series of columns by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.