High-stakes tests are having the wrong effect on many of the K-12 students who need the most help, according to two scholars in Washington state.
October 30, 2003
October 30, 2003
High-stakes tests are having the wrong effect on many of the K-12 students who need the most help, according to two scholars in Washington state.
Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study.
Just in time for Halloween, a new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
October 29, 2003
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2003 is 39,136, including 1,652 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.
October 28, 2003
400 researchers traveled to Seattle this week for the first and largest meeting of international scientists studying all aspects of change in the Arctic
The University of Washington has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
October 24, 2003
The “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series, sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will present a program on “Faculty Consulting and Conflict of Interest” from 12:30 to 1:30 p.
The UW has been named one of three new cooperative centers in the nation for research on muscular dystrophies, and will receive $6.
Advice on starting a company
A one-day “Bootcamp for Early-Stage Life Science Companies,” organized by the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Associations, is planned on Thursday, Oct.
A series of articles published Oct.
“AIDS Treatment in Africa: Making It Work” is the title for the next Distinguished Faculty Lecture sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
The UW has received an award of $5.
October 23, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Family and friends paid tribute to the outstanding contributions of two devoted alumni at the UW’s second annual Recognition Gala recently.
According to its new chair, this year’s Faculty Senate has a clear agenda that it shares with the administration.
The UW World Dance Series at Meany Hall, which opens with the Martha Graham Dance Company tonight, brings a touch of the old as well as the new, the familiar along with the eclectic.
Kipling West has dabbled in brain juice, converted a Margaret Thatcher puppet to a nun with boxing gloves and created a tarot deck just for cats.
Patricia Carson, a senior vice president at United Airlines, will become the vice president for human resources, beginning Monday, Oct.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
TICK, TICK, TICK: That’s the sound of the biological clock of American women who put education and career ahead of starting a family.
POLICING PARTNERS: UW Police Chief Vicky Peltzer will be leading a delegation of law enforcement executives to South Africa soon, sponsored by the Ambassador People to People Program.
Attention all men.
The open enrollment period for the state medical and dental plans, which runs from Oct.
The state of Washington is in the process of making a major change in its civil service system.
An ambitious new venture in scholarly publishing is aiming to broaden access to current research and to lower costs for academic libraries.
Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships.
400 to attend landmark SEARCH meeting in Seattle on all aspects of Arctic change
Women who carry inherited mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 have a lifetime risk of breast cancer of more than 80 percent, as well as a high risk of ovarian cancer, according to the most comprehensive study to date of these women and their families.
October 22, 2003
Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study.
October 20, 2003
Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships.
October 16, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Name: Marilyn Gregory
UW Job: Field Coordinator, Young Women’s Health Study, School of Social Work
Volunteer Activity: I am a member of the board for the University District Food Bank.
The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec.
Like a sparring Hollywood tabloid couple, the squabbles are getting harder and harder to ignore.
Two recently designated “scholar-citizens” are receiving support from brand new graduate fellowships this fall.
Imagine a sleek, sports car-like contraption into which you can climb, sinking into a soft leather seat in a semi-reclining position.