April 17, 2003
The bizarre hydrothermal vent field discovered a little more than two years ago surprised scientists not only with vents that are the tallest ever seen — the one that’s 18 stories dwarfs most vents at other sites by at least 100 feet — but also because the fluids forming these vents are heated by seawater reacting with million-year-old mantle rocks, not by young volcanism.
“Accelerating the Pace of Autism Research” is the title of a free lecture at 7 p.
A teach-in on minority health issues is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.
In conjunction with the UW’s Day of Reflection on Wednesday, April 23, the health sciences school are sponsoring a symposium on “Health Consequences of War” with three speakers knowledgable about the various impacts of wars and regional conflicts on human health.
By Susan Gregg-Hanson
Harborview
Harborview Medical Center was recently selected as one of only three hospitals in the country to participate as a lead institution for an International Medical Surgical Response Team or (IMSURT).
The UW School of Nursing takes the top honors again as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.
For the 10th consecutive year, the UW School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.
An international team of scientists has gathered evidence that suggests the parasite that causes malaria may have emerged as a human disease agent much earlier in history than previously thought.
The UW Office of Regional Affairs has received the following requests for faculty or staff volunteers.
Editor’s Note: You may or may not have noticed that the University has switched from using Social Security numbers on paychecks to Employee Identification numbers.
LAWYER FOR THE LANDLESS: Law professor Roy Prosterman has received the Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award honoring achievement in alleviating world poverty.
Language Exchange Opportunities
We would like your help if you are a fluent speaker of English who is interested in meeting and helping international students studying English.
April has definitely not been the cruelest month at University Book Store, where we are winding down our celebration of National Poetry Month with book displays and readings.
The Transportation Office invites faculty, staff and students to participate in its “Walk In” campaign Monday, April 21 through Friday, April 25.
A woman’s heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problems at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth.
The UW is seeking private funds to endow a scholarship in memory of Lt.
A quartet of undergraduate business students from South Korea proved they knew beans about Starbucks’ strategy for international expansion and took home top honors last weekend in the Business School’s fifth annual Global Business Challenge.
Business as usual will temporarily stop for some at the UW on Wednesday, April 23.
Business as usual will temporarily stop for some at the UW on Wednesday, April 23. Interim UW President Lee Huntsman has set aside the day, a “Time of Reflection: The War in Iraq,” so that the campus community can come together and explore the meaning and consequences of the war and its aftermath.
April 15, 2003
The remarkable Lost City hydrothermal vent field, so named partly because it sits on a seafloor mountain named the Atlantis Massif, was discovered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,500 miles off the East Coast of the United States during an expedition that wasn’t even looking for hydrothermal vents. Now the two scientists who were the first to travel in a submersible to the field after its serendipitous discovery Dec. 4, 2000, are leading a National Science Foundation-funded expedition to map and farther investigate the field.
A poll released today (April 14) indicates that nearly three-quarters of Washington state residents believe too little is spent on prevention research and that current spending should be more than doubled.
April 14, 2003
A woman’s heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problems at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth.
Eleven University of Washington (UW) scientists participated in the planning of a new national vision for genome research unveiled today. The National Human Genome Research Institute of the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced publication of the plans for future genomic research at a news conference this morning in Bethesda, Md.
A quartet of undergraduate business students from Seoul National University proved they knew beans about Starbucks’ strategy for international expansion and took home top honors last weekend in the University of Washington Business School’s fifth annual Global Business Challenge.
Harborview Medical Center was recently selected under the auspices of Homeland Security as one of only three hospitals in the country to participate as a lead institution for an International Medical Surgical Response Team or (IMSURT).
April 11, 2003
The King County Council this week unanimously approved Harborview’s Bond Project Ordinance to move forward on the schematic design of the project. This marks a significant milestone and lays the foundation for the project to proceed through design and construction.
An international team of scientists has gathered evidence that suggests the parasite that causes malaria may have emerged as a human disease agent much earlier in history than previously thought. The malaria parasite is Plasmodium falciparum.
April 10, 2003
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
If high school students ran the world, Israelis and Palestinians would declare a ceasefire, land mines would be heading toward extinction and the United Nations already would be gearing up to rebuild Iraq.
In Vladi Chaloupka’s worldview we are living, quite precariously, on one small spark.
Now that utility and paving crews have given “The Ave” a new foundation, University of Washington architecture students are about to give the shops a face-lift.
Reference Update
The following UW policy information was newly adopted or revised during Winter Quarter 2003:
Children whose mothers are the most depressed, anxious, and report high levels of psychosomatic symptoms are twice as likely to be taken to a doctor when they complain of a stomach ache or abdominal pain than are children whose mothers report the least amount of such mental stress.
First there was Dawn Hewett.
It’s a classic dilemma for air travelers in today’s world of wildly varying ticket prices — should you purchase now if the rate seems reasonable, or wait for a better deal and take the risk that the price will go up?
Researchers at the UW and the University of Southern California appear to have taken out some of the uncertainty with a new computer program that approaches a 90 percent score in saving money by predicting air fares.
April 9, 2003
Irregular heartbeats that put people at higher risk of stroke are more common than patients and doctors might think, according to a report in a recent issue of Circulation, which is published by the American Heart Association.
April 7, 2003
Now that utility and paving crews have given “The Ave” a new foundation, University of Washington architecture students are about to give the shops a facelift.