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The dust jacket of a book Ronald Eng glimpsed many years ago first planted the idea of rock climbing and mountaineering in his mind.
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Think locally, teach globally: New books help expand musical repertoire in the classroom
Music Professor Patricia Campbell just wanted to build a bridge between the two worlds she occupies.
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Campus trees get Dutch Elm inoculation: New system to help grounds maintenance staffers monitor trees’ health
You might have seen someone walking around campus over the last few weeks using a large aluminum gun-like apparatus to poke the elm trees in front of Denny or in the Sylvan Garden.
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Callimico confidential: These monkeys not missing link
Sometimes it takes time to uncover nature’s secrets.
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UW Bothell names vice chancellor
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UW Tacoma’s sustainable design wins certification
The UW Tacoma’s Phase 2b construction and renovation project has received a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification from the U.
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A century of excellence: Friday Harbor Labs to celebrate 100 years
Judging by how well his investment has performed for the University of Washington in the last 100 years, one could argue that Trevor Kincaid might have done well on Wall Street.
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Thieves beware: New police tool makes it harder to steal,
dispose of cars with tracking equipment
Car thieves beware: There’s a new police tool at the University that might reduce your job efficiency.
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A teacher, a donation, a debt repaid
James Morrison was surprised when Bruce Adee, acting chairman of mechanical engineering, called him and asked him to come meet with Henry Schatz, an alumnus wishing to donate money to the department.
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Health Sciences News Briefs
Honors for primatologists
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Tech Transfer now has office hours at SCC
The Digital Ventures and Invention Licensing units of the UW Office of Technology Transfer are now holding office hours at South Campus Center on Wednesdays.
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South Lake Union shuttle to begin Monday
A new shuttle service, scheduled to begin Monday, July 12, will link UW Medical Center with the developing research hub at South Lake Union.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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