June 3, 2003
A University of Washington study featured in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that while the latest technology may be faster than traditional radiograph or X-ray in providing images of the spine, rapid magnetic resonance imaging, or rapid MRI, does not result in cost savings or significant reductions in lower back pain.
June 2, 2003
May 29, 2003
An effort to test protein farnesyltransferase (PFT) inhibitors against malaria parasites has received the “Project of the Year Award” from the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
The School of Medicine’s Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (R/UOP) will have a record number of participants as it enters its 14th year.
A very visible part of campus will get a new look when a landscaping project now under way is completed.
Last week’s Mystery Photo was taken at the left entrance to the Snoqualmie Reading Room at the UW Tacoma library.
This summer, UW staffers Maggie Williams and Eric Vigoren are taking a 3,500 mile trip.
Maybe it’s because she works in the graduate school that Barbara Buchmann has a thing about graduation.
The Faculty Council on Retirement, Insurance & Benefits (FCRIB) is responsible for “all matters of policy relating to faculty retirement, insurance and benefits” (UW Handbook, Vol II, and Sec 42-44).
Cosmetic surgery
UW Medical Center’s Cosmetic Surgery Center is presenting an informal seminar, “Recent Advances in Facial Cosmetic Surgery,” from 4 to 6 p.
The newscasts are rife with stories of looting and destruction of cultural artifacts at the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.
Results of the largest study of bilateral lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) to treat severe emphysema indicate that, on average, patients who undergo LVRS with medical therapy are more likely to function better after two years and do not face an increased risk of death compared to those who receive medical therapy only.
Back in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, most people thought they knew what the face of AIDS looked like.
A campus memorial will be held Tuesday, June 3, for Joan Fitzpatrick, the internationally known human rights expert and professor of law who died May 16.
Board of Regents
The University of Washington Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.
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When a new tool called Portfolio was released last fall, Catalyst employees had some ideas about how it could be used, but they knew it might be put to all kinds of uses they hadn’t thought of in advance.
SPJ HONORS: The UW’s Columns magazine and KUOW radio station did very well at the recent awards competition of Western Washington’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers, a new study shows.
Autism research at the University of Washington has received a major boost from an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, which runs for five years, nearly doubles the research funding of the UW’s Autism Center, directed by psychology professor Geraldine Dawson.
May 27, 2003
School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers, a new study shows.
May 22, 2003
A free concert on Friday, May 30 is the culmination of a new School of Music class in gospel music.
UW Tacoma’s first official athlete is a Husky who rides bulls.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere at the UW, but not in Seattle.
Students grabbed sediment, sieved for shrimp and viewed plankton with a video microscope during Puget Sound research cruises led by UW alumnus Jim Norris.
What constitutes “good work?”
This is the central question explored in an innovative class offered by Britt Yamamoto, doctoral candidate in geography.
Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun’s heat away from Earth and into space, are part of everyday life.
Murder often begins at a terrifyingly early age.
Writing and the teaching of writing are drawing record numbers of school teachers to classes and seminars here.
If you’ve ever had the desire to live someone else’s life for a while, Janice Thomas has a message for you: It can be done.
If recommendations of the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Writing Committee are accepted, students will be writing more and college writing programs will be more coordinated.
The manager of a multi-million dollar research program for the Office of Naval Research and an expert on using sound energy to “see” inside the world’s oceans has been named director of the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, a center for research and teaching that last fiscal year brought in $43 million in grants and contracts.
The Medicines for Malaria Venture has awarded its Project of the Year Award to two researchers at the University of Washington, Dr. Wesley Van Voorhis, professor in the School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Gelb, professor in the Department of Chemistry.
How global climate change may alter how we live in the Pacific Northwest will be discussed by University of Washington research scientist Nate Mantua Tuesday, May 27, 7 p.m., Kane Hall 120.
May 21, 2003
Creators of a company that will broaden advances in genome science have won the $25,000 top prize at the University of Washington’s sixth annual business plan competition.
May 20, 2003
An analysis of clinical trials involving more than 192,000 patients with hypertension shows that low-dose diuretics are more effective at preventing cardiovascular health problems than any other blood-pressure medication, according to University of Washington researchers and colleagues.
May 19, 2003
People are only slightly more likely to die of respiratory and cardiovascular problems when the air is increasingly stagnant, according to research by University of Washington scientists that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Seattle.