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August 5, 2004

Peer Portfolio

FOR LOVE OF PIXIE: The love a pair of poodle owners had for their show dog Pixie has translated into a major donation that will pay for a new endowed faculty chair in comparative oncology next year at the University of Minnesota, according to the UMNews Web site.

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FOR THE CAUSE: Jacqueline Brown, assistant vice provost for Information Technology Partnerships at the UW, will be honored with the 2004 EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in the Profession at the association’s annual conference this October.

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Correction

A story in the June 24 University Week may have confused some people because the President’s Medalist from UW Bothell, Karen Sherwin, was later described as a UWT (Tacoma) graduate.

July 20, 2004

UW School of Pharmacy researcher receives $2.8 million grant for study of medications in pregnant women

Dr. Mary Hebert, associate professor of pharmacy, and her University of Washington team of researchers have received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institution of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) to research the clinical pharmacology of drugs in pregnant woman.

July 13, 2004

Some of the biggest raindrops on record found in both clean and dirty air

On two occasions, separated by four years and thousands of miles and in very different conditions, raindrops were measured at sizes similar to or greater than the largest ever recorded. The largest ones were at least 8 millimeters in diameter and were possibly a centimeter, about four-tenths of an inch or a quarter the size of a golf ball.