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Charlie Garcia, assistant dean for multicultural affairs in the School of Medicine, will receive a Service Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Student Affairs-Minority Affairs Section (GSA-MAS) on Nov.

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

Adults often believe infants are off in their own world, but a new study indicates they are more tuned into the wider world and what the people around them are doing than previously thought.

Socrates said that the unexamined life was not worth living.

A small, understated exhibit at Suzzallo Library tells the story of the library’s glorious beginnings and recent, painstaking restoration.

The School of Drama’s problem becomes a special opportunity for the UW audience when the school’s new “Studio 201” series opens Nov.

The Board of Regents, in a special meeting Nov.

The UW School of Music will present Cimarosa’s Il Matrimonio Segreto Nov.

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 UW Health Sciences Center on Friday, Nov.

The UW School of Dentistry is one of two schools on the West Coast to receive a grant of almost $1.

Healthy-U at REI
“The Knee — Train It or Sprain It” is the topic for the Healthy-U presentation at the downtown REI store on Monday, Nov.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $9.

The November program 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 focus on software and copyright.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Applications Wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.

The ongoing Kennewick Man dispute and proposed rules covering the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains are the agenda for the first Seattle meeting of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee this week.

FOOTBALL HARVEST: If you’re going to the Huskies’ last home football game of the season Nov.

With a promising new Web-based record-keeping system nearing completion, some areas of the UW campus are planning to eighty-six the unwieldy form 220 in the near future.

A five-year grant of just over $1 million from the U.

University of Washington researchers exploring how preschool-age children develop self-control and possible links to the way youngsters use pretend play are looking for 150 Puget Sound 3- and 4-year-olds to participate in a new study.

The UW will host a Veterans Day ceremony from 12:30 to 1:15 p.

There will be a report on the court decision in the ongoing Kennewick Man case at 11:45 a.m. Friday. That will be followed at 1:30 p.m. Friday by the first of a number of sessions to discuss proposed rules covering the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. This topic also will be the focus of public comments and presentations starting at 4 p.m. Saturday and 11:15 a.m. Sunday.

The Washington Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of lower court decision, which denied class action status in a gender discrimination lawsuit by five present and former members of the dental school faculty.

Adults often believe infants are off in their own world, but a new study indicates they are more tuned into the wider world and what the people around them are doing than previously thought.

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

The School of Drama opens The Lover next week in Meany Studio Theatre.

You may be getting an e-mail message soon asking you to complete a survey online about your commute behavior.

As we head into the season when snow and other severe weather is possible, UW employees need to be aware that there is a hotline they can call to find out if the University is operating as usual.

Imagine a holiday concert held, not in an auditorium, but in Suzzallo’s beloved Reading Room.

The UW’s Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies and its partners in Eastern Washington — Heritage College, the City of Toppenish, the Northwest Communities Education Center/Radio KDNA and the Yakama Nation — have been awarded a three-year grant for $534,126 by the U.

Some might consider it unthinkable to give up being a chef who opens fancy restaurants in hotels all over the world for a job as food service chef on a major college campus.

The turmoil following Sept.

Populations of marine fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing stops while there are still several million individuals — a number previously assumed to be enough to preserve a diverse gene pool.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $9.5 million grant to the University of Washington to establish a new interdisciplinary Male Contraception Research Center.

A panel discussion about the recent bombings in Indonesia featuring Dan Lev, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ismail Budhiarso, an active member of Indonesian Muslim organizations in Seattle, Magid Shihade,doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Middle Eastern Studies.

It will be a moment tinged with history when the Stardust spacecraft makes an encounter with Asteroid 5535 Annefrank this weekend. The flyby will test many of the systems and procedures to be used when Stardust makes its encounter with comet Wild 2 in little more than a year.

The Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle is a new hospital-community partnership focused on reducing childhood injury in neighborhoods throughout the city.

President of the UW Board of Regents Jerry Grinstein responds to UW President Richard McCormick’s decision to assume the presidency of Rutgers University.

UW President Richard L. McCormick announces his decision to accept the presidency of Rutger’s University.

The School of Drama opens its season next week with a production of Anton Chekhov’s classic, The Seagull.