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.
November 20, 2003
The latest news from the UW
Virtual secret agent encourages healthy behavior
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.
Welcome to the Baahaus: Staffer cares for neglected animals
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.
EarthDial project wants sundials in every time zone
Herbert Hoover reputedly wanted a car in every garage and a chicken in every pot.
Health Sciences News Briefs
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Things your mother never taught you:Success with patents and licenses
“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 depression helps arthritis patients
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.
Infant-parent relationships will be focus of new lab
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.
New imaging method may predict response of advanced breast cancer
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.
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Academic Opportunities
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Sessions
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WEATHERING CHANGE: The reading at University Book Store on Nov.
Third hormone could affect songbirds’ breeding patterns
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.
Quake experts: It’s location, location, location
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.
Program presents annual minority business awards
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.
Mars landers create opportunity for Web-linked sundials around the world
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
Science wed with policy key to using, protecting ocean resources
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.
State’s top minority-owned companies honored for economic contributions
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
Digital secret agent asks students’ help in battling evil, beating heart disease
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
Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
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
CFD: Alumni Relations staffer not satisfied with just one volunteer gig
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Master classes offer chance to see musicians in the making
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.
Major mutations might lead way to new species, study shows
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.
UW Tacoma chancellor departs for Massachusetts
The Westfield State College board of trustees in Westfield, Mass.
University to commemorate Japanese Language School
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.
Best young scholars in Washington sought
The UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.
U-Match: Boosting community, not romance
U-Match is probably not the place to find the next love of your life, nor is it some corporate moneymaking scheme.
Breathtaking: Evidence suggests that low O2 levels led to mass extinction, birds’ breathing system
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.
Virtual museum to ‘bridge distance,’ bring peninsula culture to broader audience
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.
Some large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their location
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
Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
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.
UW receives almost $6 million to study common cause of cognitive disability
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
Washington’s brightest fifth to eighth graders sought by UW
The University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.
November 6, 2003
Mark Groudine named to Institute of Medicine
New findings on platelet development and disorders
It’s been in all the newspapers, so you know it’s true: The style pages all tell us that the 70s and 80s are back.
Collaboration at UW lab led to obesity gene findings
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
New Web site helps find UW speakers
The UW Speakers Bureau is making it easier for people in the community to find campus speakers and also for faculty and staff to register with the bureau.
CFD: ‘Centro’ meets variety of community needs
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Touching may reduce spider fear, study shows
A new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia that was released, appropriately enough, on Halloween, indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.