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SOCIAL SCIENCE STARS: It’s not uncommon for UW professors to become officers in their academic fields, but recently there seems to have been quite a crop of them in the social sciences.

Health and Safety Committee elections, which are conducted by Environmental Health and Safety, have been completed.

The University is more than a little rearranged this quarter.

When English lecturer Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges suggested to her students that they might want to enter a filmmaking contest, she didn’t realize her house would turn into a set, a cafeteria and a dormitory for a weekend, but that’s exactly what happened.

The UW campus in Seattle remains a very safe place to work and to live, according to the most recent crime statistics.

Acting Provost David Thorud has appointed Professor Susan Jeffords as vice provost for academic planning.

In what is thought to be the nation’s first major conference on technology, values and the justice system, futurists and legal experts will gather Friday at the UW School of Law amid sharp debate over the privacy and safety of putting court records online.

UW researchers who have developed the most effective treatment for a serious psychiatric condition called borderline personality disorder are looking for more than 200 Puget Sound residents to volunteer for a series of new studies designed to refine the therapy.

KeyBank is contributing $250,000 to help fund the University of Washington’s new biotechnology and medical research hub that will be located in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a Seattle-based international resource on news media coverage of violence, has received five years of continued support from the Dart Foundation, with grants that will total more than $5 million.

The University of Washington Health Sciences Center will present its annual tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 15, in the lobby of the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center.

University of Washington researchers who have developed the most effective treatment for a serious psychiatric condition called borderline personality disorder are looking for more than 200 Puget Sound residents as volunteers for a series of new studies designed to refine the therapy.

A memorial ceremony for Marsha Landolt, dean of the Graduate School and vice provost, and her husband, Robert Busch, will be held at 2 p.

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The UW Tacoma will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly remodeled Cherry Parkes and Mattress Factory buildings at 1 p.

On a campus known for its majestic scenery and verdant grounds the “Pink Beauty” crab apple near the Department of Communication building has been a longtime favorite — maybe too long.

After five long years, the Stardust spacecraft is on its way home with a trove of microscopic particles gleaned from comet Wild 2 in a spectacular encounter the day after New Year’s.

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A House Divided Against Itself: The Civil War as the Crucible for American Values is the title of this year’s History Lecture Series sponsored by the Alumni Association and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The Burke Museum is hosting its own “roadshow.

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains.

The UW School of Music is hosting a new lectures series during winter quarter, titled “Music in American Cultures.

The University of Washington is one of 13 major research universities teaming up under a $70 million federal grant to form the world’s largest network dedicated to studying science on the smallest of scales.

Tiny microheaters that can prompt chemical changes in surrounding material may provide the means to more easily grow replacement tissue for injured patients and form the basis for medical sensors that could quickly detect pathogens, according to researchers at the UW who are the first to demonstrate the process.

Tiny microheaters that can prompt chemical changes in surrounding material may provide the means to more easily grow replacement tissue for injured patients and form the basis for medical sensors that could quickly detect pathogens

Memorial ceremony for Marsha Landolt, dean of the UW Graduate School, and her husband, Robert Busch.

John F. “Randy” Hodgins, who has served as senior staff coordinator in the Washington State Senate Ways and Means Committee since 1996, has been appointed Director of State Relations at the University of Washington.

Obesity in the United States is in part an economic issue, according to a review paper on the relationship between poverty and obesity published in the January 2004 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The article suggests that the very low cost of energy-dense foods may be linked to rising obesity rates.

The University of Washington is one of 13 major research universities teaming up under a $70 million federal grant to form the world’s largest network dedicated to studying science on the smallest of scales.

After a nearly five-year chase, the Stardust spacecraft will finally meet comet Wild 2 on the day after New Year’s. It’s a moment Donald Brownlee has anticipated for nearly 25 years.

After a nearly five-year chase, the Stardust spacecraft will finally meet comet Wild 2 on the day after New Year’s. It’s a moment Donald Brownlee has anticipated for nearly 25 years.

The UW College of Engineering is home to a new Center of Excellence program, focused on advanced materials for commercial airplanes.

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The UW Business School announced this week the combined contributions of $20 million by members of its advisory board to help fund the construction of a new building to accommodate the near and long-term growth by the UW’s nationally ranked Business School.

UW officials believe that two alternatives for routing Sound Transit light rail trains through the University District may not substantially disrupt sensitive research on campus.

With outbreaks of new and frightening infectious diseases such as SARS and monkey pox jumping from the animal kingdom to humans, tracking their spread is vital to public health efforts to contain them.

Campus bike riders are invited to participate in the Ride in the Rain Challenge, sponsored by the UW’s Transportation Office and set to run Jan.

The 2004 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heavy rainfall causes both higher surface erosion rate and upheaval of underlying bedrock in the Washington Cascades mountain range, according to a study being published in the Dec.

Nominations are being sought for the annual UW awards — including the newly created James D.