April 14, 2003
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.
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.
April 5, 2003
PHILADELPHIA — When Gerald A.
April 4, 2003
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.
April 3, 2003
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.