The latest news from the UW

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.

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.

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.

A WINNING VENTURE: Five UW students won the western division of the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held recently in Colorado.

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.

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.

A conference on agricultural safety and health that emphasizes pesticide issues will be held Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Yakima, Wash.

Turner Construction has been named the General Contractor Construction Manager (GCCM) of the King County/Harborview Medical Center bond project.

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.

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

For many years molecular biologists have watched the process of cell division under the microscope.

It’s a financial jungle out there, especially for college students.

You wouldn’t expect a play called The Suicide to be a comedy.

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

Training and Development has created a new online employee orientation to replace the in-person sessions.

Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well being.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The world of dance may be overwhelmingly female, but the world of choreography is overwhelmingly male.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone, it seems, knows one of them — the people who can’t say no to a chocolate treat.

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.

Find someone’s fingerprints at the scene of a crime and you know they were there.