The latest news from the UW

The Department of Medicine’s Division of Gastroenterology will offer a CME-accredited series of weekly conferences, beginning Friday, July 5.

Join science educators at free series
organized for summer institute

Former Olympic sailing gold medallist Lowell North of Point Loma, Calif.

Multidisciplinary Pain Center brings nerve-pain expert to UW

New School of Medicine position will increase visibility for efforts to support both
junior and senior faculty

Program geared to patients and families covers localized and advanced disease

Ann Buzaitis, a registered nurse in Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, sits on the steps in the Medicinal Herb Garden.

One of the musicians at the 30th International Viola Congress, held on campus last week, tries out an instrument at one of the luthier displays in the Music Building.

A fund-raiser at the Chateau Ste. Michelle is one more exapmle of the growing corporate interest in promoting diversity in higher education.

A UW researcher says corporations in search of success should take a lesson from the hardwood. Winners are made over time, not with free agents.

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

U-PASS stickers expire

Current (’01–’02) U-PASS stickers and parking permits expire June 30.

A continued emphasis on energy savings means air-conditioned offices will be cooled to just 78 degrees this summer.

Beginning Monday, July 1, Mailing Services will decrease its daily service from twice a day to once a day to most UW box numbers.

The second annual faculty awards for Distinguished Contributions to Lifelong Learning were presented yesterday by UW Educational Outreach.

The University’s official policies are moving to a new, smaller volume.

Climate change seminar will cover the issues and put reporters in touch with campus experts.

Enrollments for summer quarter continue to rise at all three campuses.

Researchers at the University of Washington have learned that something most people take for granted is not true: that the force of fluids within the human body helps to break the adhesive bonds of invasive bacteria and counterbalance infection.

Lawn mowers can be dangerous. That’s the message from physicians at the Harborview Medical Center after serious injuries to children this spring and summer.

When your doctor sends you for an ultrasound, you can thank University of Washington alum Donald Baker for making the non-invasive procedure an option.

Last year dozens of firework-related injuries were treated at Harborview Medical Center. Injuries resulted in finger, hand and thumb amputations and fractures, loss of eyes and severe burns to faces, hands and backs. Illegal and legal fireworks caused the majority of these injuries.

Creative new initiatives by governments can help expand “last mile” broadband connections to homes and businesses, according to some speakers at a panel discussion yesterday in Washington, D.

The winds of the Great Plains won’t stop two Montana tribes from making their newest buildings out of straw.

The University of Washington Business School’s executive education program appears to be dodging the revenue decline that has hurt similar programs at many of the country’s business schools.

Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the University of Washington School of Medicine, has named Dr. Christina M. Surawicz to the newly created position of assistant dean for faculty development.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is inviting the public to attend the Second Annual Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer Conference from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, July 12, on the UW main campus.

A group of anti-cancer agents that once produced dismal results in clinical trials could once again be a promising tool in fighting the deadly disease, thanks to research by a team of chemists at the University of Washington and in Germany.

Harborview Medical Center is looking for motivated and responsible teen volunteers, ages 14-18 years for its Summer Teen Volunteer Program.

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It seems like hardly a day passes by without a scientist announcing a new discovery related to genes and genetics.

This year I have served as the first chair of the faculty’s newest council, the Faculty Council on Tricampus Policy, which includes balanced representation from Bothell, Seattle and Tacoma.

NOT GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: Want to be on a reality show that doesn’t make you look like an idiot? Well, it sounds like you’ll have a chance.

The City of Seattle will begin a University Way revitalization project later this month.

A team of University of Washington graduate students has won $30,000 to finance a company that would provide a less-invasive radiation therapy to cancer patients.

A three-stage outdoor performance space designed and built by College of Architecture and Urban Planning students will get its first workout June 14, when T.