UW News
The latest news from the UW
July 8, 2004
Gunn-Loke Lecture brings pain sensitivity expert to campus
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UW Medical Center moves up to ninth in U.S.News rankings
UW Medical Center has moved up one place in its ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.
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UW Weekend Homestay
English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program.
News Makers
CLIMATE CHAOS: Author Charles Wohlforth consulted Gerard Roe, a UW associate professor of Earth and Space Sciences, when Wohlforth researched his book on climate change titled The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change.
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TOP ACADEMIC: Law Professor Anita Ramasastry received the 2004 National South Asian Bar Association’s Outstanding Academician Award.
Teen binge drinking has lasting effects: Study connects excessive alcohol use
to obesity, high blood pressure
Heavy drinking during the teenage years begins taking a serious health toll by the time people are 24 years old.
Minority hiring lags: University makes efforts to help underrepresented groups feel welcome
A recent University report on faculty hiring and retention restates a continuing reality: Though minority faculty are growing in overall numbers, the UW still is falling short of its own stated goals for employing black and Hispanic faculty members.
July 7, 2004
Study links obesity, other health problems to adolescent binge drinking
A new UW study has found that people who began binge drinking at age 13 and continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to be overweight or obese and almost 3 1/2 times as likely to have high blood pressure when they were 24 years old than were people who never or rarely drank heavily during adolescence.
July 2, 2004
UW Medical Center ranked ninth among nation’s Best Hospitals
University of Washington Medical Center has moved up one place in its ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.S.News & World Report.
June 25, 2004
UW Fertility and Endocrine Center to close in September
The University of Washington’s Fertility and Endocrine Center at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt will close Sept. 24, 2004 following the decision by four faculty physicians to move into private practice this fall.
GEAR UP helps student plan for, succeed in higher ed
About 1,000 middle and high school students from across the state will be spending a week this summer at the University of Washington, taking courses designed and taught by UW faculty, as part of a program to help them plan for a college education.
June 24, 2004
Artificial cornea implanted
A UW eye surgeon performed the Pacific Northwest’s first artificial cornea implant June 9 at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt.
Mary-Claire King to receive Gruber Genetics Prize
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Students GEAR-UP for summer sessions
For five weeks this summer, the University will be home to about 1,000 middle school and high school students from throughout Washington State, here to soak up atmosphere, see the sights and begin considering their college options.
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Broken chimneys: Is Seattle fault to blame?
When the Nisqually earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, brick chimneys in parts of West Seattle and Bremerton were left looking like so much straw after the Big Bad Wolf had gone huffing and puffing through.
Welcome mat is out: ‘U Dub Club’ emphasizes open-door policy with new name
Quick quiz: Which members of the campus community get to use the UW Faculty Club?
You could hardly be blamed for answering only “faculty.
Departments innovate to help people with disabilities
The Internet has opened up Distance Learning to a whole new level, with courses once offered through the mail being delivered instantaneously online — across town or worldwide.
A harvest of fun: Staffer works in technology, plays in a garden
Shortly after Ian Taylor arrived in Seattle in 1975, he got a job at the UW.
Reducing pain: Virtual reality changes brain response, not just perception
Virtual reality appears to dramatically change how the brain physically registers pain, not just how people subjected to pain perceive the incoming signals, according to a new study by a group of UW researchers.
Health Sciences News Briefs
A regional National Institutes of Health (NIH) seminar on program funding and grants, the first of these seminars to be presented in Seattle, has drawn more that 600 registered participants.
Industry Relations offers Harborview program on working with companies
The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Industry Relations Office, will present “Working with Companies: Corporate Research and Material Transfer Agreements” at noon on Tuesday, June 29, in Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training Building.
Norris named vice dean for academic affairs
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Young UW researchers win two of 16
Burroughs Wellcome Awards worth $500,000
Two researchers in the School of Medicine have won 2004 Career Awards in Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
Some patients will get blood transfusions with fewer white cells
While physicians are able to treat patients who suffer blood loss after major injuries, a large number of these patients go on to develop infections or multiple organ failure, in which the functioning of the body vital organ systems, such as the lungs, heart, kidneys of liver, go awry.
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English Language Courses
The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.
A special thank you
On behalf of state employee Jeff Ott, we, his family and friends, would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you at the UW for your generous donations of sick leave through participation in Washington State’s shared leave program.
Campus news and notes
JAMMERS JAM: Allow us to be boastful for a moment and note that University Week’s parent department, News & Information, is home to the current champs of the Walk-in Challenge.
Bothell, Tacoma medalists named
The UW Bothell and the UW Tacoma have announced the recipients of the President’s Medalist Award at their institutions.
Direct deposit, computer access now easier for new UW employees
Attention new employees and those who help them get started at the University: Signing up for direct deposit just got a whole lot easier.
Wott named acting director of urban
horticulture
John Wott, professor of forest resources and director of the Washington Park Arboretum for more than 10 years, has been named acting director of the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture in addition to his duties as arboretum director.
Parlez-vous Francais? Study shows 14 hours to think in French
Adults often struggle trying to learn a second language, but the process may not be as tedious and slow as commonly believed.
Innovative programs win support from fund: Total of $1.2 million goes to 11 projects from a variety of units
Innovative programs ranging from English language classes for UW employees to an interdisciplinary degree program in humanitarian relief received support from the Fund for Innovation and Redesign.
Wott acting director, Hinckley steps down at Urban Horticulture
John Wott, professor of forest resources and director of the Washington Park Arboretum for more than 10 years, has been named acting director of the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture in addition to his duties as arboretum director.
June 22, 2004
USDA study to address obesity and poverty
The major trends in the American diet can be described as more calories, more refined grains, more added sugars, and more added fats. The reasons behind these trends are largely economic, says Dr. Adam Drewnowski, director of the Nutritional Sciences Program in the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Brick chimneys can double as strong-motion sensors in earthquakes
When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, hundreds of brick chimneys in two neighborhoods were seriously damaged or toppled. New research suggests the shaking in these areas might have been intensified by the Seattle fault, even though it was not the source of the earthquake.
June 21, 2004
Virtual reality significantly reduces pain-related brain activity
Virtual reality appears to dramatically change how the brain physically registers pain, not just how people subjected to pain perceive the incoming signals, according to a new study by a group of University of Washington researchers.
June 17, 2004
A celestial surprise: Comet Wild 2 unlike any other body in solar system
Scientists expected the Stardust spacecraft to send back pictures of comet Wild 2 showing a chunk of rock and ice coated with dust, obscuring any interesting features. Instead, they got images filled with sharply defined mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons.
June 16, 2004
Banks in Pacific Northwest, Hawaii prove to be a boon for shareholders
Banks located in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii did a better job of managing operating costs in 2003 than the national average, yielding investors a healthy 12 percent return on equity.
June 15, 2004
Light trucks pose greater injury risk to pedestrians
Although pedestrian injuries have decreased in recent years, they still remain a significant health problem, accounting for 13 percent of traffic fatalities in the U.S. The growing popularity of light trucks, a category that includes sport utility vehicles (SUVs), has presented a new challenge for pedestrians and raises an important question: Do light trucks increase the risk of severe injury and death for pedestrians?
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