The latest news from the UW

Imagine the scene: All the factories in a city have been closed by sit-down strikes.

Prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA, according to researchers in the UW’s Department of Bioengineering.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Ethnic studies grants
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.

DRAMA KINGS AND QUEENS: When The Time of Your Life begins preview performances at Seattle Repertory Theatre tonight, the UW School of Drama will be well represented.

Now is a great time to be a home buyer or to refinance your current home.

The first of three public lectures on the topic of Religion, Conflict, and Violence: Exploring Patterns Past and Present, East and West will be presented next week.

The University of Washington Libraries has received the 2004 Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, which recognizes the top university research library in the country.

A controversial and powerful play by a Nobel laureate will have a special one-night performance at the Faculty Club Feb.

Scientists trying to understand and treat autism have discovered that the brains of people with autism function differently than those of normal people when they view pictures of unfamiliar people.

Even though there is evidence that dyslexia has a genetic basis, UW researchers are reporting new findings today that show children afflicted with the learning disability are not doomed to a life of reading difficulties.

There are no general laws of human relationships as there are for physics, but a leading marital researcher and a group of applied mathematicians have teamed up to create a mathematical model that predicts which couples will divorce with astonishing accuracy.

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Kavandi was awarded a doctorate in chemistry in 1990 for her work with pressure-sensitive coatings to aid in studying air pressure on surfaces such as airplane wings. She subsequently joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, logging 33 days in space and 13.1 million miles traveled in 535 Earth orbits.

Scientists trying to understand and treat autism have discovered that the brains of people with autism function differently than those of normal people when they view pictures of unfamiliar people.

Even though there is evidence that dyslexia has a genetic basis, researchers will report new findings today (Feb. 12) that show children afflicted with the learning disability are not doomed to a life of reading difficulties.

There are no general laws of human relationships as there are for physics, but a leading marital researcher and group of applied mathematicians have teamed up to create a mathematical model that predicts which couples will divorce with astonishing accuracy.

Elected fellows
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Hormone therapy used in the treatment of prostate cancer can lead to severe bone loss in men, according to the report of an October 2002 research summit.

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The 2004 Health Sciences Open House will be Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24.

Scattered across the United States are about 60 penal institutions that are called super-maximum security prisons, control units or some other similar name.

Five University of Washington students won the western division of the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Boulder, Colo.

As the publication of scientific research papers shifts more and more from print to electronic distribution, universities often buy site licenses that provide campuswide online access to a variety of journals, which cuts publishers’ production costs and is more convenient for readers.

Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.

The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide.”

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

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

UW Professor Anthony Chan will be speaking next week when the U District’s Grand Illusion movie house opens its weeklong run of Piccadilly, a 1929 film starring Anna May Wong.

Photos from here — and there — on display in Marine Studies
A career in oceanography has meant a life of travel for UW Professor Warren Wooster, whose photos of one of his destinations are on display now in the Marine Studies Building. Sixteen black-and-white images span 25 years of Wooster’s visits to France. Also displayed are photos of the Northwest by professional photographer Mary Randlett.

Surplus property turns to eBay for some sale items
Wanna buy some used card catalogs? Later this month, UW surplus will be selling the empty card catalog cabinets that stood in Suzzallo for many years, before computers revolutionized library searching. They’re just one of the many unusual items that come through surplus property, which has lately been posting some of its sale items on eBay.

Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.

Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, will be presented at 7 p.

“Designing Effective Assignments for Group Learning” is the title of the next Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning, set for 2:30 to 4 p.

Author and psychologist Robert J.

The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide,” a lecture series starting next week with a look at the need for active forest stewardship of public forests.

Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will offer a free public lecture, Our Changing Atmosphere in 2004, at 7 p.

Japanese Obon: Dancing with the Dead, a lecture by the Rev.

The exhibit, “This is woman’s hour…” – The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, is on display on the second floor of  Odegaard Library through March 30.

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The School of Music’s annual “Mosaic” concert is meant to be a sampler, a chance to hear, in one program, a wide variety of musical styles and artists.