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 19, 2003
The latest news from the UW
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.
Students help town control destiny
Thirty picket-wielding protesters shouted at the loggers cutting down a forest of mature spruce trees.
Let’s ‘Dance’: Staffer’s new CD offers healing messages
It’s as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice.
Health Sciences News Briefs
Genome ethics
“Understanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy” is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other UW programs.
UW Medicine Style Guide now online with logos
An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new UW Medicine brand and logos.
Project uses Internet as tool for diabetes management
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health – the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management –the UW School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
Researchers join forces to develop HIV vaccine
A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.
One of five centers for bariatric surgery research here
The UW has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Grant Applications Available
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.
Vegas alumni seek campus speakers
Visiting Las Vegas anytime soon? If so, the UW Alumni Association in that city is interested in talking to you.
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DIET GURU: When Mother Earth News needed a dietitian to talk about good nutrition in their Guide to Real Health, they turned to Judy Simon, a staffer at UWMC Roosevelt.
Voting for health, safety posts now under way in campus units
Voting for elected representatives to the UW organizational Health and Safety Committees is now in progress.
Fall quarter enrollment up; minority count increases
The UW’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.
Scientists learn more about January 1700 quake, deadly tsunami
Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region.
First Walker-Ames Lecture in Tacoma Nov. 13
Noted historian and professor Robin Kelley of Columbia University will discuss black history at 7 p.
Quake affected most area businesses
Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by UW researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
Flexing the schedule: Survey shows interest in alternative work hours
New survey shows high staff interest
in alternative forms of work hours