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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.

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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.

Tom Collier and Dan Dean have been making music together for almost 40 years, but they’ve only managed to make two recordings in that time — the last one 25 years ago.

Step into the darkness, slowly, and just breathe a moment, then another.

Computers have never been noted for teaching conversation skills, but thanks to two new UW-developed software programs, students are now using computers to learn to converse in Japanese.

With Americans’ attention riveted to the Middle East, interest has drifted away from the country with the most land, natural gas and nuclear warheads on Earth – Russia.

A UW marine microbiologist — whose work is of interest not just to oceanographers but to ecologists, climate scientists, biomedical researchers and materials scientists alike — has become a member of a select group of scientists named as Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigators in marine science.

Today Chancellor Warren W.

More than a thousand scientists and engineers from around the world will gather in Seattle later this month to exchange ideas and discuss some of the latest work in such hot research areas as climate change, cardiovascular disease and the development of tiny devices fractions of a millimeter in size.

A University of Washington marine microbiologist — whose work is of interest not just to oceanographers but to ecologists, climate scientists, biomedical researchers and materials scientists alike — has become a member of a select group of scientists named as Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation investigators in marine science.

In the midst of substantial debate surrounding recommendations made to the president by the U.

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center last week implanted for the first time in the world a new type of radioactive seeds in a prostate cancer patient.

Allan Treuer, retired owner of the North Star Ice Equipment Co.

Some functions of the human body that worked effectively for survival when people had short life spans, living only long enough to reproduce and raise their young, may have long-term consequences that catch up with us as we live longer lives.

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