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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.

Name: Kristina Hansen

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.

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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.

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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.

A panel discussion entitled “Humanity in the Midst of War” will be presented at 7 pm  Thursday, Oct.

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.