The latest news from the UW

The SETI Institute’s Seth Shostak will be on campus Monday, Oct.

Some people believe we’re in the middle of a perfect storm in health care, but we’re not going to drown anytime soon.

Got a hot idea for improving some UW system? Looking for a hot idea to solve some problem you face at work? In either case, you might be interested in logging on to a new Web site, the UW Forum for Change.

JAPANESE GIFT: Japanese Consul General Tadahiro Abe presented an $8,000 grant for the East Asia Library at a ceremony at his official residence earlier this month.

Some computer software is like a piece of fruit: It looks good on the outside, and parts of it may taste good, but you always should be on the lookout for the worm.

The annual medical/dental open enrollment has begun.

Broken bones, scrapes, burns and the bruises of childhood may be dismissed as kids being kids, but the doctors and nurses who treat unintentional injuries have come to a different conclusion. When children live in a safe environment, are given alternatives to gang violence, follow street safety when walking, and wear helmets when biking, they have many fewer injuries and fewer visits to the hospital emergency department

A more personalized job placement program has led to nearly nine out of 10 University of Washington Business School master’s in business administration graduates obtaining jobs within three months — surpassing the average at the nation’s so-called Top 30 business schools.

Future studies may find that ACE inhibitors, a class of drugs now taken by people with high blood pressure, could slow down or prevent the development of aortic valve calcium, say University of Washington researchers.

A University of Washington and Washington State University program helping rural communities gain access to the latest technology and training for managing woodlands has received the highest national award for private-forestry education given by the National Woodland Owners Association and the National Association of Professional Forestry Schools and Colleges.

The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for Autumn Quarter 2002 is 39,216, including 1,418 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Extension.

The UW School of Law and the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology have established an internship program sponsored by Sen.

The University Book Store and the UW Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) are sponsoring a Diversity Book Talk Series, which brings authors of color, as well as white authors who write on race, diversity, and multicultural issues, to the UW to read and discuss their work.

Summer is a long way off, but not for Hannah Wiley, who directs the UW’s Summer Arts Festival.

The UW will play host to the fifth International Conference of the Learning Sciences Oct.

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An international conference on the global epidemic in human trafficking will be held on the UW campus Oct.

The UW’s Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies and its partners in Eastern Washington — Northwest Communities Education Center and Horizons Inc.

By training, Mary Lidstrom is a biologist.

A $5 million Department of Education grant announced recently will set up a network of resources aimed at improving the nation’s approach to educating children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

The scanners are watching.

Researchers have launched a hunt in Washington and 15 other states for 250 families with two or more autistic children to participate in a $10.2 million University of Washington study to uncover the genetic and neurobiological causes of autism.

Dr. Bertil Hille, professor of physiology and biophysics in the University of Washington School of Medicine, is one of 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences Monday (Oct. 14) presented this year’s Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the advancement of personal health services to two leaders in understanding infant development: Dr. Kathryn E. Barnard, founder and director of the Center for Infant Mental Health and Development at the University of Washington, and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, president and chair of the Brazelton Foundation Inc.

An expert on children who were taken from their homes in the United Kingdom and shipped off to labor in other countries will speak at the University of Washington on Nov. 15 about issues related to reuniting children and personal identity.

A free, public lecture on the search for extraterrestrial life

The University of Washington School of Dentistry is one of two schools on the West Coast to receive a grant of almost $1.5 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to increase the underserved population’s access to oral health care.

From the Office of the President, Members of the University Community:
The University is committed to maintaining an educational and employment environment that is enjoyable and respectful.

The second seminar in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You,” sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and the UW Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, will cover patents.

The fall Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning will feature sessions on three different days, led by UW instructors speaking on their experiences teaching large classes at the UW.

Despite experiencing a two-year period in which general merit raises were granted just once, the UW professional staff’s salaries remained at the same level compared to the market as in 2000.

Last issue’s answer was of the trees outside of the Oceanography Teaching Building.

Dr. Edward A. Walker, professor and vice chair of the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been named medical director of University of Washington Medical Center, announced Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. Dr. Walker will also serve as an associate dean of the School of Medicine.

The University of Washington Department of Urology announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research to support continuing research by Dr. Richard Berger on chronic pelvic pain in men.

Fifty students from Muir elementary under the direction of Peter Lape, the Burke’s curator of archaeology, and UW archaeology students are participating in an urban dig that runs through Saturday in the Rainier Valley.

An international gathering of computer scientists, students and technology mavens

You’ve tried over-the-counter painkillers, maybe glucosamine or chondroitin, modified exercise and even injections to calm the pain in your arthritic knees.

A half-day educational program on the medical device market and investing in medical device start-up companies is set for Thursday morning, Oct.