December 1, 2003
The John R. Hogness Symposium on Health Care, along with Puget Sound Partners for Global Health invite the public to hear presentations by Dr. Jonathon D. Moreno and Dr. Paul E. Farmer. “Global Health and Justice: the Ethics of Access to Care and Protections from Secret Experiments” will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 9, in Hogness Auditorium in the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center on the University of Washington campus.
Children exposed to their mothers’ abuse by an intimate partner are more likely to exhibit aggressive or delinquent behavior as well as other behavioral problems, compared with a representative sample of similarly aged children. This research, by investigators at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center and the University of Washington, is published in the November 2003 issue of Child Abuse & Neglect.
November 20, 2003
The way you feel right this moment, your ability to remember where you parked the car and even whether you get stressed out when you pay the bills are all dependent on the way your brain produces and releases serotonin.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive, which wraps up this week, University Week has featured UW employees who volunteer at CFD agencies.
For the first time since 1991 the Huskies are No.
A unique collection of historical images of King County is now available online, the result of a collaboration involving the UW and 11 other cultural heritage organizations.
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil — just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
Glenda Pearson lives with a cow named Cathy, and a couple of house pigs called Annie and Lewis, and some hogs named Hazel and Ruby, not to mention assorted rabbits ducks, llamas, geese and more pigs.
Herbert Hoover reputedly wanted a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot.
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“Successful Biomedical Patents and Products” is the topic for the next presentation in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.
Treating arthritis sufferers for depression can help with other problems related to their condition, according to a study by researchers with Group Health Cooperative and the UW.
The new Birth-to-Three Research Lab in the UW’s Center on Infant Mental Health and Development (CIMHD) is gearing up to conduct studies on the development of infant-parent relationships in the first year, disruptions or disturbances in these relationships, and the effectiveness of brief interventions by attachment specialists.
Imaging of estrogen receptors using F-18-fluoroestradiol (FES) positron emission tomography (PET) may predict the response of advanced breast cancer to endocrine therapy by measuring regional target expression.
Academic Opportunities
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Sessions
WEATHERING CHANGE: The reading at University Book Store on Nov.
Scientists have known for many years that auditory cues such as song can influence hormone release and the growth of gonads in songbirds, but how the brain picks out specific sounds, interprets them correctly and translates them into hormonal and behavioral signals has remained a mystery.
Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state were honored last evening at the 2003 UW Minority Business of the Year Awards.
Woodruff Sullivan, a University of Washington astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, “the science guy,” and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams.
November 19, 2003
Dealing with pressing issues of the nation’s 3.4 million square miles of ocean and the wise use of marine resources elsewhere around the world requires the integration of natural and social science with policy decisions, according to Professor Thomas Leschine, the new director of the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs.
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state will be honored this evening at the 2003 University of Washington Minority Business of the Year Awards.
November 18, 2003
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil – just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
November 17, 2003
It’s a long-held tenet of avian biology that songbirds have just two types of a key reproduction hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and only one actually triggers a seasonal “puberty” each spring in preparation for reproduction. But the new research shows a third form of the hormone, called lamprey GnRH-III-like hormone because it was first identified in lampreys, is also present in songbird brains.
November 13, 2003
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
When jazz violinist Regina Carter visited the School of Music last week, it was just one more opportunity for students at the school to have a lesson — in public.
Hummingbirds visited nearly 70 times more often after scientists altered the color of a kind of monkeyflower from pink — beloved by bees but virtually ignored by hummingbirds — to a hummer-attractive yellow-orange.
The Westfield State College board of trustees in Westfield, Mass.
The UW, Tacoma will host an event on Tuesday to commemorate the history of the Japanese Language School building, slated to be torn down this winter.
The UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.
U-Match is probably not the place to find the next love of your life, nor is it some corporate moneymaking scheme.
Recent evidence suggests that oxygen levels were suppressed worldwide 175 million to 275 million years ago and fell to precipitously low levels compared with today’s atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude.
The UW recently received a $450,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a digital archive of Pacific Northwest cultural and historical items and to produce six online exhibitions over two years as the foundation for an online community museum.
Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
November 12, 2003
Researchers writing in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature say perhaps it was a major change or two, such as petal color, that first forged the fork in the evolutionary road that led to today’s species of monkeyflowers that are attractive to and pollinated by hummingbirds and separate species of monkeyflowers that are pollinated by bees.
The University of Washington has received an award of $5.86 million for a research center to study fragile-X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation.
November 10, 2003
The University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.