Students, staff and campus visitors alike can meditate, write poems, try yoga, experience “being present” and even listen to a story on Oct.
October 16, 2003
The latest news from the UW
UW part of effort to measure students’ information technology skills
The UW is part of an ambitious effort to develop new tools for assessing students’ skills in information and communication technologies (ICT).
UW researchers will ‘follow the money’ in schools
An unprecedented, four-year effort to retarget the nation’s education spending begins this week with the help of a $5.
MEDIA ADVISORY: UW offering places to pause and Take Back Your Time on Oct. 24
Students, staff and campus visitors alike can meditate, write poems, try yoga, experience “being present” and even listen to a story on Oct. 24 as the University of Washington puts its own twist on Take Back Your Time Day, a nationwide campaign to challenge the modern epidemic of overwork and overscheduling.
October 15, 2003
UW engineering faculty members speak to hot topics in 2003 lecture series
The public will have a chance to hear from three of the University of Washington’s world-class researchers on some of today’s hot technology topics via “Engineering the Future,” a fall lecture series that begins next week.
October 14, 2003
Patterns of brain activity differ with musical training, not cultural familiarity
Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music of another culture produces no differences in brain activity than when people are exposed to music from their own culture.
October 13, 2003
UW Aeronautics and Astronautics celebrates 100 years of flight with lecture series
The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Washington is celebrating the 100th anniversary of flight with a lecture series that begins this week.
Proposal to require child restraint seats in airlines could cause more deaths than it prevents
Will the lives of young children be saved under a planned Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulation requiring children under two-years-old to have their own seats and ride in child-restraint seats?
Pioneer in information visualization and computing usability speaks to UW audience about ‘Leonardo’s Laptop’
A lecture exploring how human needs must be considered as new computing technologies emerge, followed by a book signing.
Researchers launch four-year study to retarget America’s school dollars toward student achievement
An unprecedented, four-year effort to retarget the nation’s education spending begins this week with the help of a $5.
October 10, 2003
MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. official to describe efforts to rebuild Iraq
“Rebuilding Iraq: America’s Role and Responsibility,” a 40-minute presentation followed by audience questions.
Grant Awarded to Evaluate Effectiveness of EHealth Technologies
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of eHealth — the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the University of Washington School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
October 9, 2003
New position supports research at Harborview
Structural informatics provides a way to deal with information glut
“Medicine is full of complex information management problems that are worth solving,” says Dr.
UW to lead regional biodefense center
The UW is the lead institution for one of eight Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced early in September.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Structural informatics provides a way to deal with information glut
“Medicine is full of complex information management problems that are worth solving,” says Dr.
UW to lead regional biodefense center
The UW is the lead institution for one of eight Regional Centers of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced early in September.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
CFD: Sense of accomplishment drives ‘Guts’ volunteer
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Reach out: Volunteers sought for homeless count
Partnership for Youth — the UW’s partnership with neighborhood agencies serving homeless youth — is searching for volunteers to help with this year’s One-Night-Count in the U-District.
Editor’s column: UWeek is community newspaper
Welcome to a new academic year at the University of Washington.
Biographer searches for paintings by former UW professor
Jeffrey Ochsner is looking for a few good paintings.
HFS feeds the hungry — on campus and off
Every day Tracey MacRae feeds the hungry.
New software weighs costs of thinning against risk of fire
When fires turn eastern Washington and Oregon forests into wastelands, valuable wildlife habitat is lost and it costs between $1,300 and $2,100 per acre in fire-fighting costs, lost buildings, economic suffering by nearby communities and degraded waterways, say UW researchers in a recently published report.
Preserving paper, new media is subject of Suzzallo exhibit
If you want to prevent your valued documents from becoming brittle and yellow, you might use permanent paper, which isn’t permanent but is likely to last longer than you do.
From cattle to cattle call: Jenkins’ life is quite a script
The UW School of Drama’s Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) has a new head this fall, but he’s not unfamiliar to the students in the program.
School of Law’s exile ends
As William H.
UW and Hutch to set up stem cell center
The UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center will establish one of three federally funded Exploratory Centers for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
Ph.D. career series changes name; first speaker Oct. 15
Several departments and other units around campus have joined together to provide support for the Bioscience Careers Seminar Series, formerly known as “What Can You Do with a Ph.
UW physical therapists fan out for free events
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Costco breakfast nets $1.75 million for scholarshipsThe fourth annual Costco Scholarship breakfast raised $1. Donations sought for Gorbman fundThe College of Arts and Sciences is seeking contributions to the Aubrey Gorbman Lecture Fund, after Gorbman’s death last month. Etc.INFAMOUS JOB: The UW’s botany greenhouse manager Doug Ewing has won a dubious distinction: His was one of the jobs profiled by Popular Science magazine recently as “the worst, most torturous, icky, painful, stinky, dangerous and just plain horrible jobs in science. UW officials announce steps to address off-campus problemsUW Interim President Lee Huntsman has announced a set of initiatives, designed in collaboration with student leaders, to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of 45th St. Felliniana to honor legendary filmmakerA major international event honoring the legacy of director Federico Fellini is occurring on campus and around Seattle. Community support evident in new people-friendly CSE building
Parallels exist to area salmon strifeNew laws protected salmon spawning grounds in 17 rivers, prohibiting the streams from being blocked with dams or fishing nets and imposing stiff fines for violations. October 6, 2003 Book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as in Northeast, EnglandThe year was 1715, and King George I of England enacted laws in an effort to protect salmon runs throughout Great Britain.Today few salmon ply British waterways, the victims of overfishing, degraded habitat, harnessing water power for industry, and misguided use of hatcheries to restore salmon runs, which ultimately hurt more than helped. Strikingly, much the same scenario began playing out 100 years later in the rivers of northeastern North America. UW Business School opens West Coast’s first Nasdaq student trading roomThe market’s looking bullish in Balmer Hall thanks to the University of Washington Business School’s new Nasdaq trading room. |