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February 6, 2003
Health Sciences News Briefs
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Training under way to comply with April date for federal HIPAA rules
Training is now taking place at UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and in other units to make sure that UW operations will comply with federally mandated privacy rules slated to go into effect on April 14, 2003.
Where behavior and injury collide: Conference examines using behavior change to prevent ‘accidents’
A significant decrease in the motor-vehicle death rate for Americans – 90 percent fewer deaths per million vehicle miles between 1925 and 1995 – shows that efforts to raise safety standards and change personal behavior can be highly successful.
RIME workshop offered next week for medical faculty development
A faculty development workshop focused on working with the RIME (reporter, interpreter, manager/educator) format for educational progression will be offered Tuesday morning, Feb.
Feb. 27 workshop features Silicon Valley company leaders
An afternoon workshop on Thursday, Feb.
Previews set for new ad campaign
Faculty, staff and students are invited to learn more about UW Medicine and preview the new advertising campaign at 1 p.
Preliminary research projects get seed grants
Three research projects from UW professors have been funded by the Center for Statistics and Social Sciences under its Seed Grants Program.
Notices
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
ADAI Small Grants Research Awards
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
Survey, forum explore career paths after grad school
The UW Graduate School has recently completed research on what skills employers expect in their employees with doctoral degrees — and which valued skills are not commonly acquired in doctoral programs.
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PUBLICITY’S GLARE: A UW alumnus has become a familiar face to Americans across the country who are following the aftermath of last Saturday’s tragic destruction of the space shuttle Columbia.
Peer Portfolio
PLANTING THE SEED: Texas A&M University recently announced the opening of an Office of Proposal Development, which will be focused on producing major, externally funded, multidisciplinary research centers and institutes of a national caliber.
Campus to upgrade undergraduate writing
A committee that has been investigating student writing hopes to get campus input on the topic with a series of visitors over the next two months.
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A WINNING VENTURE: Five UW students won the western division of the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held recently in Colorado.
Penn sociologist gives Stice Memorial Lecture
University of Pennsylvania sociologist Frank Furstenberg will explore the problems and misconceptions associated with teenage childbearing at the 34th Earl and Edna Stice Memorial Lecture in Social Science.
Northwest’s summer water supply under siege from warmer climate
A warming climate the last 50 years has, through early melting, relentlessly reduced the water content of the Pacific Northwest’s springtime snowpack, straining the supply of water for drinking, irrigation and other uses during the region’s typically dry summers, new research at the University of Washington has found.
February 5, 2003
Conference on pesticide issues will be held Feb. 26 in Yakima
A conference on agricultural safety and health that emphasizes pesticide issues will be held Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Yakima, Wash.
February 4, 2003
Turner Construction named general contractor construction manager of Harborview’s bond project
Turner Construction has been named the General Contractor Construction Manager (GCCM) of the King County/Harborview Medical Center bond project.
January 31, 2003
Randy Hodgins, Washington senate staffer, appointed UW Director of State Relations
John F. “Randy” Hodgins, who has served as senior staff coordinator in the Washington State Senate Ways and Means Committee since 1996, has been appointed Director of State Relations at the University of Washington, effective Jan. 9, 2004.
January 30, 2003
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Microtubules and chromosomes: The Science in Medicine Lecture
For many years molecular biologists have watched the process of cell division under the microscope.
Money 101: Students can bank on it
It’s a financial jungle out there, especially for college students.
Despite glum title, Suicide is classic comedy
You wouldn’t expect a play called The Suicide to be a comedy.
Public forums on presidential search slated
The first of a series of public forums to be held in connection with the UW presidential search will be held 4-6 p.
New employee orientation goes online
New employee orientation goes online
Training and Development has created a new online employee orientation to replace the in-person sessions.
Nature nurtures physical and psychological well-being
Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well being.
Get the lead out: Technique dampens effect of dangerous absorption
Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to bind up the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside or are tempted to taste those delicious mud pies they “baked” in the backyard.
January 29, 2003
UW researcher links rising tide of obesity to food prices
Obesity in the United States is in part an economic issue, according to a review paper on the relationship between poverty and obesity published in the January 2004 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
January 27, 2003
World gets bleaker for our children, contends psychologist
Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well-being. However, nature is suffering, and so are our children, who are growing up in increasingly bleak environments far from the natural world in which humans evolved.
January 24, 2003
Vision researchers find that photon receptors pair up in neat rows
Using atomic-force microscopy, vision researchers have taken pictures of some of the eye’s photon receptors in their natural state, and have analyzed their packing arrangement.
January 23, 2003
Dance concert features work by women
The world of dance may be overwhelmingly female, but the world of choreography is overwhelmingly male.
New badges coming for health sciences faculty, staff and students
New badges for staff, faculty and students are coming to the Health Sciences Center, and wearing them when the building is closed to the public will soon be the rule.
Schilling Surgery Lecture: Mayo Clinic expert to talk about gut transplantation
Transplantation of solid-tissue organs has become fairly common, if not routine, and bone marrow transplants are being improved and tried for many different autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer.
Mini-Med classes begin Feb. 12
UW Medicine is offering the general public and the UW community the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research by attending Mini-Medical School 2003.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Chocolate Man has passion for high-quality goodies
Everyone, it seems, knows one of them — the people who can’t say no to a chocolate treat.
Research on seals has implications for sustainability
Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resources, and also indicates that early Indians’ harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable.
‘Fingerprints’ shed light on Shakespeare works
Find someone’s fingerprints at the scene of a crime and you know they were there.
Faculty Senate: Working For Equity
In the early seventies, the UW Faculty Senate began to formally examine the issues that particularly affect faculty women.
Grayson named AAAS Fellow
Anthropology professor Donald Grayson has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
HS News Briefs
Two new online teaching tools, the Portfolio Tool and Virtual Case, will be described in a presentation by Mark Farrelly of the UW’s Catalyst Initiative from 4 to 5 p.
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