November 6, 2003
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.
An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new UW Medicine brand and logos.
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.
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.
The UW has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
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.
Visiting Las Vegas anytime soon? If so, the UW Alumni Association in that city is interested in talking to you.
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 elected representatives to the UW organizational Health and Safety Committees is now in progress.
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.
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.
Noted historian and professor Robin Kelley of Columbia University will discuss black history at 7 p.
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.
New survey shows high staff interest
in alternative forms of work hours
Meldrum, Jenekhe, Knopp celebrated for distinguished careers
November 5, 2003
Seattle’s post-Viaduct waterfront should provide an outdoor educational environment for studying history, culture and ecology — as well as a skateboard park. So say high school students at Queen Anne’s Center School who were asked to inject the voice of youth into the future of the downtown waterfront.
November 3, 2003
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.
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 University of Washington researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
October 31, 2003
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. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue.
A University of Washington paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which eradicated 90 percent of all species on Earth.
October 30, 2003
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
It was something polar veteran Jamie Morison hadn’t seen in that part of the Arctic Ocean before.
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School of Music guest brings distinguished credentials from 40-year careerInternet2 growth creates digital lab notebook, other learning opportunitiesIt took 2½ decades for the benefits of the original Internet to diffuse broadly into the education community. Students learn in real world while benefiting elderly SeattleiteEric Ragde advanced his UW education a couple of weekends ago, without getting anywhere near campus, turning on the computer or cracking a book. UW center for digital artists makes history“You are a dangerous young man. Districts’ response to testing may fail already-struggling studentsHigh-stakes tests are having the wrong effect on many of the K-12 students who need the most help, according to two scholars in Washington state. Researchers: Segregation charge against school reforms may be ‘overhyped’Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study. Touch doubles the power of VR therapy for spider phobia, study findsJust in time for Halloween, a new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective. October 29, 2003 2003 Autumn Quarter enrollmentsThe University of Washington’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. October 28, 2003 Scientists trying to make sense of Arctic changes400 researchers traveled to Seattle this week for the first and largest meeting of international scientists studying all aspects of change in the Arctic UW named a nationwide center to help study surgical treatments for obesityThe University of Washington has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium. October 24, 2003 Faculty consulting, conflict-of-interest rules explained at Nov. 5 presentationThe “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series, sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations, will present a program on “Faculty Consulting and Conflict of Interest” from 12:30 to 1:30 p. Kathryn Barnard to receive leading nursing awardUW to have one of three new centers for muscular dystrophy researchThe UW has been named one of three new cooperative centers in the nation for research on muscular dystrophies, and will receive $6. Health Sciences News BriefsAdvice on starting a company Debate on mammogramsA series of articles published Oct. Stamatoyannopoulos leads UW group seeking functional DNA elementsAIDS in Africa“AIDS Treatment in Africa: Making It Work” is the title for the next Distinguished Faculty Lecture sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. |