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The latest news from the UW
October 3, 2002
Geoff & Judy Vernon
Geoff and Judy Vernon died last fall in the crash of a sightseeing plane in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Donald Baker
When your doctor sends you for an ultrasound, you have this year’s Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus to thank that he can use that technology to help him diagnose and treat illnesses.
Anita Ramasastry, Law
The Outstanding Public Service Award is presented to a faculty or staff member to honor the recipients extensive local and/or national public service.
Sergio Palleroni, Architecture
The S. Sterling Munro Public Service Faculty Fellowship is awarded to a UW faculty member demonstrating exemplary leadership in community-based instruction, including service learning, public service internships and community-partnership projects. It is named after an aide to U.S. Sen. Henry M. Jackson who was also an administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration.
Difficulty with daily living related to dissatisfaction with medical care
Recent research at the University of Washington shows that Medicare patients who have difficulties performing the typical activities of daily living are more likely to also report dissatisfaction with their health care than those without these problems.
October 2, 2002
Researchers find evidence that Antarctic ice stream has reversed its flow
It is virtually impossible for a river or stream to first stop its flow and then reverse course. But an ice stream in Antarctica has done precisely that during the last 2½ centuries, and scientists are trying to figure out exactly why.
September 26, 2002
UW to lead effort exploring how engineering students think and learn, and how best to teach them
An engineering professor at the University of Washington has received a $10 million federal grant for a national center to explore how engineering students think and learn — knowledge that experts consider essential to teach today’s undergraduates the skills they need to solve tomorrow’s problems.
September 25, 2002
Dr. Belding H. Scribner receives Lasker Award
Dr. Belding H. Scribner, professor emeritus of medicine in the University of Washington School of Medicine, will be honored with the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research on Friday, Sept. 27, in recognition of his pioneering work in kidney dialysis, which has saved millions of lives.
September 23, 2002
Veritas Software CEO to give insight on preparing for economic recovery
Gary Bloom, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Veritas Software Corp. — a leading provider of data protection software — will speak Wednesday at the University of Washington.
Economists weigh if housing will remain as bright spot for forest sector
Orawin Velz, senior economist with Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C., will give the keynote address and John Mitchell, western regional economist with U.S. Bancorp out of Portland, is the luncheon speaker Thursday, the first day of an international forest-products markets conference sponsored by the University of Washington’s Center for International Trade in Forest Products.
Applicants sought for public health leadership training and development
An institute based in the University of Washington’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine is looking for people who want to develop both personally and professionally as leaders in the field of community health.
UW co-sponsoring global summit to improve breast cancer care in developing regions of the world
The University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are joining forces with three international foundations to host the Global Summit Consensus Conference, the first international conference on breast care and cancer treatment in countries with limited financial and health care resources.
Researchers mesh technology with life at conference on wearable computing
Computer scientists from around the world will gather at the University of Washington in Seattle next month to discuss, debate and disseminate information about the latest in designer wear. Or maybe that should be “ware.”
September 20, 2002
Professor crosses disciplinary boundaries to teach biology to student engineers
By training, Mary Lidstrom is a biologist. By choice, she operates as an engineer. The advantages of combining both fields are just too great to pass up, she saysIt’s a message that Lidstrom has been endeavoring to pass along to UW students for the past two years via a federally funded program to teach biology to engineering undergraduates. This week, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that her efforts will get a major boost.
September 17, 2002
Gene therapy reverses muscular dystrophy in animal model
Researchers have proven that gene therapy can reverse the pathological features of muscular dystrophy in an animal model. Before, gene therapy had only been able to prevent further muscle-wasting in mice.
September 12, 2002
Woman power counters terrorism in Arab world, say UW advisers heading to Morocco for historic vote
As Moroccans prepare for a historic election in two weeks, they will not just choose a new parliament for their nation — they will be steering the Arab world toward greater democracy and women’s rights.
September 9, 2002
University of Washington Medical Center puts planning into practice in face of bioterrorism threat
In the wake of last year’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the subsequent anthrax contamination of the postal system that killed five people, emergency planning at University of Washington Medical Center moved into high gear
September 6, 2002
Things Families Can Do to Cope with Post-September 11 Reactions
After exposure to traumatic events, such as last year’s Sept. 11 tragedy, it is common and normal to have unsettling feelings, thoughts and behaviors. As media feature post-Sept. 11 articles and programs, your sense of safety and security may leave you feeling vulnerable and insecure in your environment
UW’s Dental Research Day 2002 will be Sept. 25
The public can hear from the University of Washington School of Dentistry’s new dean and learn more about the latest research at the school on Wednesday, Sept. 25, during Research Day 2002.
August 28, 2002
Startup founders likely to be replaced if company thrives
Many founders are replaced after launching a successful company, say Warren Boeker, a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School, and graduate student Rushi Karichalil. Ironically, the founders who do remain in control usually launch only moderate performing ventures.
Jobs are not enough to keep families out of poverty, report shows
As Congress marks the sixth anniversary of welfare reform this week, and workers look forward to a Labor Day break, a startling number of Washington families are working but still living in poverty.
August 22, 2002
Knees in need of surgery?
Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations
You’ve tried over-the-counter painkillers, maybe glucosamine or chondroitin, modified exercise and even injections to calm the pain in your arthritic knees.
Investors will focus on medical devices
A half-day educational program on the medical device market and investing in medical device start-up companies is set for Thursday morning, Oct.
Streissguth honored
Dr.
Diabetes recognition awards program at Kane Hall Sept. 14
People who have been living with diabetes 25, 50, 60 or more years will be honored at the first UW Purple and Gold Diabetes Recognition Awards ceremony at 9 a.
Surgery’s Strauss Lecture features MGH chief surgeon
The Department of Surgery’s 53rd annual Strauss Lecture will be given this year by Dr.
Hardwiring brain circuits
Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
Connecting a monitor to the keyboard input on a computer’s CPU will result in neither the monitor nor keyboard functioning properly.
Series on technology transfer begins Sept. 12
“Things Your Mother Never Taught You: How to Commercialize Technology in the University Setting” is the title for a new monthly series of presentations organized by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and the UW Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.
New University Week to debut this fall
University Week is responding to the difficult budget situation on campus by shifting the publication schedule.
Big boom in tiny microfluidics world?
The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two UW researchers.
Undergraduate research institute has a human(ities) touch
Steve Hill
University Week
Janice DeCosmo tried to keep a lid on it during a June meeting of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Area teacher joins expedition to Arctic
Log on for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as the UW’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.
Researchers: Magazines silenced opposition voices after Sept. 11
Steve Hill
University Week
Journalists covering the Sept.
Scholars working to decipher ancient Buddhist manuscript
Somewhere in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers may well be sharing a cave with vessels containing Buddhist texts that were created 2,000 years ago.
August 20, 2002
One of earliest Buddhist manuscripts acquired by University of Washington
A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.
Local teacher documenting expedition bound for crossroads of the Arctic
Log on starting Aug. 21 for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as University of Washington’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to a region of the Arctic where Atlantic and Pacific ocean waters interact in ways that could help explain the warming of the Arctic Ocean and thinning of the ice pack.
August 19, 2002
MEDIA ADVISORY: News conference at trench exposing Seattle fault
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Newsmagazines downplayed opposition voices after Sept. 11, researchers find
Journalists covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath were unwittingly complicit to government and military communication strategies to rally public support, according to findings by University of Washington researchers.
UW conferees seek to shape epochal reform of Japan’s legal system
With world attention focused on corporate lawbreaking and economic turmoil, Japan is trying to solve its problems by adding tens of thousands of new lawyers.
The vast legal reform now under way in Japan will be debated by some of its top designers and critics Aug. 23 and 24 at the University of Washington School of Law, sponsor of an international conference on “Law in Japan: A Turning Point.”
August 16, 2002
Professors predicting a big boom in the tiny world of microfluidics
The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two University of Washington researchers.
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