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Wood carver’s works make perfect holiday gifts




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SWEDISH SAVVY: The UW’s Swedish Studies Program is one of the two top programs in the world, according to the Swedish Institute, the federal agency in Stockholm responsible for evaluating university programs throughout the world (the other winner is in Europe).

December 1, 2003

UW students heading to Oxford as Rhodes Scholar, London as Marshall Scholar




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UW invites the public to presentations on world health ethics

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 whose mothers are victimized at greater risk for behavioral problems

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.

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.