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Dr. Allan Basbaum, professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California at San Francisco, will give the first Allan and Phyllis Treuer Lecture in Pain Research on Thursday, Nov. 18. He will speak on “The Neurobiology of Pain: From Molecules to Circuits” at 2:30 p.m. in room T-733 of the Health Sciences Center. This lecture inaugurates the Treuer Chair in Pain Research in the Department of Pharmacology.
Basbaum is an international leader in pain research, focusing on the neurobiological basis of pain and its control. He studies the actions of neurotransmitter molecules used by the sensory neurons to transmit pain stimuli into the central nervous system and the processing of pain information by nerve cells in the spinal cord.
He has discovered several important new aspects of the changes that occur in nerve cells, and in the neurotransmitters that they use to signal pain stimuli, during the development of chronic pain in mouse models of injury. His research combines high-resolution microscopy, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, and behavioral testing in a coordinated way to learn about pain mechanisms and the effects of drug treatments at the molecular, cellular, and whole-animal levels.
Basbaum is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. After postdoctoral research at University College London, he joined the University of California at San Francisco as a senior postdoctoral fellow, was appointed assistant professor in 1977 and assumed his present position in 1997. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pain, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Pain Research.

Developing patents from research work will be the topic for the next program in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.

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

INTERNATIONAL FLAIR: Five UW professors have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and/or do research abroad.

The Faculty Senate is currently recruiting for two important positions in its organization — secretary of the faculty and vice chair of the senate.

As online technology grows at the UW, paperwork is reduced and communication becomes more immediate and effective.

A jazz concert, like a traditional wedding, usually has four components: something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

Both UW Bothell and UW Tacoma, in self studies mandated by the state legislature, plan dramatic growth over the coming decade to meet the higher education needs of their communities.

An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the University of Washington’s School of Oceanography.

In the closing weeks of a tight presidential race, the Democratic National Committee has been out-e-mailing its Republican counterpart, a research team of University of Washington students has found.

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UW Job: Development Coordinator, School of Social Work Office of Development and Alumni Relations

Volunteer Activity: Forgotten Children’s Fund.

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“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.

President Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.

The UW has been awarded a $749,188 grant from the National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering and mathematical books, papers and digital formats for use by students with visual impairments.

The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.

The University of Washington was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.

David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the UW campus in these days before the general election on Nov.

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.