The latest news from the UW

The dust jacket of a book Ronald Eng glimpsed many years ago first planted the idea of rock climbing and mountaineering in his mind.

Music Professor Patricia Campbell just wanted to build a bridge between the two worlds she occupies.

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.

Sometimes it takes time to uncover nature’s secrets.

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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.

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.

Car thieves beware: There’s a new police tool at the University that might reduce your job efficiency.

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.

Honors for primatologists
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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.

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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UW Medical Center has moved up one place in its ranking among the premier hospitals in the country, according to U.

UW Weekend Homestay

English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program.

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.

TOP ACADEMIC: Law Professor Anita Ramasastry received the 2004 National South Asian Bar Association’s Outstanding Academician Award.

Heavy drinking during the teenage years begins taking a serious health toll by the time people are 24 years old.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A UW eye surgeon performed the Pacific Northwest’s first artificial cornea implant June 9 at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt.

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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.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

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.

Quick quiz: Which members of the campus community get to use the UW Faculty Club?

You could hardly be blamed for answering only “faculty.

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.

Shortly after Ian Taylor arrived in Seattle in 1975, he got a job at the UW.

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.

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.

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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Two researchers in the School of Medicine have won 2004 Career Awards in Biomedical Sciences from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

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.

English Language Courses
The UW English Language Programs (UWELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.

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.

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.