The latest news from the UW

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.

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.

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.

The mistaken belief that their young children are “too big for a car seat” leads many parents to assume their children are ready to graduate to adult seatbelts. By failing to protect their 4- to 8-year-old children by placing them in booster seats, these parents are leaving young passengers vulnerable to injury and death in motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of mortality for children in this age group.

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The University of Washington School of Nursing takes the top honors again as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.S.News & World Report’s annual ranking of graduate programs in health care.

For the 10th consecutive year, the University of Washington School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S.News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

The University of Washington is No. 1 among primary care medical schools, and No. 1 among nursing schools in the new U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.

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UW Medical Center’s Dermatology, Dermatologic Surgery, General Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Centers have moved into spacious new quarters at UWMC-Roosevelt.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Mark Davis wants your help in eliminating a major waster of water found in many UW laboratories.

As the war in Iraq moves into a third week, the UW community continues to grapple with the meaning and impact of the conflict.

Eritrean poet Hidaat Ephrem — a staff member in the School of Music — will recite a poem for peace to open a celebration from 5:30 to 7 p.

The Faculty Council on Faculty Affairs (FCFA) is a very busy one.

You might call Kim Pineda a Renaissance man, but you wouldn’t have the period quite correct.

Q: Everyday for the past many, many months I walk by the drained fountain with the chain link fence around it.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNTIES

Accreditation Under Way
The three campuses of the University of Washington will be undergoing a decennial accreditation visit by representatives of the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges and Universities, Commission on Colleges and Universities, on April 9, 10, and 11.

An increasing number of researchers around the country are encouraging “community-based participatory research” to bring communities and academic researchers together as partners to study what a community is interested in learning about.

UW faculty and representatives of the media will gather from 1:30 to 4:30 p.

Dorris brothers

When the Department of Defense began attaching journalists to military units in Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf, Pat Dorris, a TV reporter for KGW in Portland, Ore.

“Ears, Hearing & Beyond: 2003” is the title for a day-long conference open to the public on Sautrday, April 5, at the HUB Auditorium on campus.

Among those “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” the name of a School of Medicine series organized by the Industry Relations Office, are “UW Models for Managing, Distributing and Commercializing Data, Code and Other Materials,” the title for their next program.

The annual clinical research and compliance conference for investigators, arranged by the UW School of Medicine, will be held from 7:15 a.

UW architecture and planning students and their advisers are helping develop a vision for a future transportation hub in Seattle south of downtown.

Patricia Wasley, dean of the College of Education, is scheduled to give a talk in 147 Architecture at 7 p.

All performers have the same nightmare — they’re walking onstage with no idea what their lines are or what they’re supposed to do.

Recently, in connection with a grant that seeks to develop more American Indian engineers and scientists, I was invited to a night launch of the space shuttle in Florida.

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The third candidate for dean of the Daniel J.

While there is no guarantee of success in the presidential search process, those involved should focus on what they regard as the essential qualities for the new president, a panel of former university presidents told members of the Board of Regents, the Search Advisory Committee, and the public in a forum March 20.

PHONY SONIS: When the Center for Urban Horticulture dedicated its new Seed Vault recently, there was some entertainment that may have sounded familiar but wasn’t.