October 28, 2004
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.
October 26, 2004
In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.
October 25, 2004
October 21, 2004
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won’t be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.
A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn’t resemble any known star type.
The UW Faculty Senate — which holds its first meeting Oct.
An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the UW’s School of Oceanography.
Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format?
The answer “Absolutely nowhere — you must be dreaming” is wrong, actually.
The UW has a new magazine, but you won’t find it on the newsstands.
UW Medicine’s Office of Clinical Research and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) have launched a Web-based “Good Clinical Practice” (GCP) training program.
The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center has been re-funded for an additional four years by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy.
The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and open to everyone, has scheduled a presentation on new National Institutes of Health policies that encourage sharing information and resources.
Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner’s office and into the community.
The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the U.
PARALYMPIC PRESS: The UW was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.
The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.
Juggling work and the rest of your life has never been easy, but the University’s Work/Life office, a division of Human Resources, has been trying to help ever since its creation in 1988.
Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.
October 20, 2004
A panel discussion entitled “Humanity in the Midst of War” will be presented at 7 pm Thursday, Oct.
October 19, 2004
Big city school districts will have a hard time reforming and meeting new accountability demands without more help from businesses, nonprofits and philanthropists, according to a new book from the Brookings Institution.
October 18, 2004
Seattle Campus Information
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2004 is 39,199, including 1,691 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.
October 15, 2004
Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.
October 14, 2004
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW World Series starts tonight, with some lineup changes (and no, it’s not baseball)
Sometimes world politics gets in the way of worldly performers. An excellent New York ballet company has replaced a Spanish dance troupe as the opener of the UW World Series. It’s at Meany Hall, and it’s tonight.
In her debut recital Oct.
Environmental Health & Safety and Computing & Communications have collaborated to produce MyChem, a new web tool that replaces the Laboratory Safety System (LSS).
A group of promising cancer-fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, the UW has announced.
Emotional coaching from mom helps, even in tough circumstances
Children are less likely to encounter behavioral problems in life if they have been coached by their parents on how to handle their emotions, UW researchers found. And that’s true even when the home has low levels of domestic violence.
Once again the UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout Washington.
This year’s Costco Scholarship Breakfast raised $2.
The physical space for the University’s new Q Center isn’t complete yet, but in spirit, the center’s work is already well under way.
Two UW computer scientists are part of a team that has discovered a pair of rare, naturally occurring RNA “switches” in a class of bacteria that work cooperatively to manage the amino acid glycine.
U-CALL: Students helping students, over the phone
Sometimes, students just need someone to talk to who won’t judge them or tell them what to do. U-CALL is a new service that does just that, at times when other counseling isn’t available. It’s not therapy, just someone to lend an ear, and make referrals if necessary.