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Looking for some personal counseling? Need information about ergonomics so you can avoid workplace injuries? Want to find out how to get a properly fitted bicycle helmet? You can find the answers to these questions and more at a new Web site on wellness for faculty, staff and students.

An earthquake of unparalleled enormity causes mayhem and destruction up and down the West Coast, toppling Seattle’s Space Needle, ripping apart San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and severing the western edge of the country from the mainland.

Five physicians in Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho have been named winners of the 2004 WWAMI Excellence in Teaching Awards sponsored by the University of Washington (UW) Department of Medicine.

Annual gathering draws thousands of students, teachers and their parents for the largest engineering fair in the Pacific Northwest.

Business school students from Washington state universities will present their concepts in this exhibition-style format to 119 judges comprised of angel investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers and venture capitalists.

A miniseries featuring a mammoth earthquake and a fictional University of Washington seismologist is to air May 2 and 3. Real UW earthquake experts say the production appears to have very little in common with reality.

Algal blooms in Puget Sound and off the coast are increasingly producing domoic acid, which can sicken and – in high enough doses – kill humans, other mammals and birds when they eat fish or shellfish contaminated with the toxin. These toxic blooms will be the focus of a new national research center – the Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Sciences – at the University of Washington.

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Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation associated with an inherited form of motor neuron disease in which symptoms first appear in childhood or young adulthood.

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

With flowers and photo flashes, cheers and applause, Jennifer Annable, principal of the UW’s Experiment Education Unit, was surprised Tuesday by the crew of KING television and given the station’s award for Most Popular Principal in Western Washington.

Two visiting artists in the UW Ethnomusicology Department will perform in a concert titled “Music of Persia and Bali” at 7:30 p.

Samantha Ogle and her carpool friends look forward to “Calvin day.

It’s a notable milestone when any department experiences its first faculty retirement.

When Ed Taylor, associate professor, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, began a new outreach effort to principals of schools in South African townships, he set out to help them fulfill their mission to educate their students and build a new nation.

A planned new resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, faculty and staff will start small but may have a big future, says Jennifer Self, the Social Work graduate student hired to run the center when it opens this fall.

While most of us are going about our business today, about 40 University employees from about 15 units across campus will be responding to a major “earthquake.

The UW community has a special invitation to the 2004 Health Sciences Open House this weekend.

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UW Medicine has launched its newly designed Web site.

Three groups of researchers based at the UW had papers announcing their results in the March 25 issue of the journal Neuron.

Researchers at the UW School of Medicine have found that bone marrow stem cells do not convert into heart muscle cells in mice.

Approximately 300 lives are lost each year in the United States as a result of vehicle crashes related to police pursuits, and one third of these fatalities occur to people not involved in the chase.

A new imaging technique used by a group of researchers at the UW and elsewhere has revealed a previously unknown cellular structure in the retinas of mice.

The series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will offer a program at Harborview Medical Center on Thursday, April 29.

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Two research divers with the UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories are safe and well this week after an underwater incident Thursday, April 15, where one lost consciousness and was brought to the surface and given emergency medical assistance by the other.

The spring Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning will feature Pat Hutchings, vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, giving a presentation titled Students and Faculty Learning Smarter: Lessons from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

The McNair Scholars/Early Identification Program and Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Spring Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1, at the South Campus Center.

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Professor Peter McLaren of the University of California at Los Angeles will give a lecture titled Capitalists and Conquerors: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Post-Democratic Times at 5:30 p.

Beth Kalikoff, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award at the UW Tacoma.

The United States now has sovereign responsibility under international law for much of the health and sustainable use of 3.

WINNING VENTURE: Five UW students won the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Chapel Hill, N.

Both new and longtime employees now have online tools that will make analyzing and selecting their benefits much easier.

Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate Councils and Committees.