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The latest news from the UW
April 25, 2002
Technology and therapy: May 3 afternoon program will focus on using new technology for self-management of chronic disease
A half-day program on using new technology for patient-centered care and self-management of chronic disease is set for 1 to 4 p.
Best-selling author of ‘Strong Women’ books to speak here
Best-selling author Dr.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Lecture
Dr.
Alaska researcher sheds light on obesity
Dr.
In Brief
The 2002 Taking Control of Your Diabetes conference is Saturday, May 4, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle.
Shah of Iran’s son to speak May 6
Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, will speak at 7 p.
Squid gets education instead of dinner
More than 12 feet 6 inches long, it was caught in the Gulf of Alaska, frozen and sent by plane to Seattle where Ted Pietsch, professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences, picked it up Friday.
Grounds chief reflects on important time of change for wome
| Steve Hill |
| University Week |
There was virtually nothing controversial about Bonnie Taylor’s first two jobs at the UW.
UW scientists hoping for underground lab in Dakota
The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement last weekend from the National Research Council’s Committee on the Physics of the Universe.
UW police seeking Burke fossil thieves
The fossil — an underwater plant called a crinoid — is estimated to be at least 320 million years old and is about 1 square foot.
Campus news and notes: etc.
VICTORIOUS VIDEOS: Several videos produced by UWTV have been honored recently.
mystery photo
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Tutu Reminder
A limited number of free tickets for faculty and staff are still available for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s UW appearance May 7.
New work aims to kill parasite, not cell
Parasite-caused diseases such as malaria kill millions of people each year, and eradication efforts have been largely futile.
Music may be universal, but choices aren’t
Ask children what musical instruments they would like to play and boys invariably will pick something like the trumpet, drums or saxophone while girls tend to favor the violin, clarinet or flute.
Engineering event has something for all
Robotics demonstrations, liquid nitrogen ice cream, the largest subsonic wind tunnel in the Northwest, telephones that communicate on beams of light, computer animation and levitating trains are all on the agenda for this year’s Engineering Open House at the UW.
News Makers
ON THE MIDDLE ROAD: Educators in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District in suburban San Diego are reinventing the way middle schools operate.
Three profs win Guggenheims
Three UW professors are among 184 artists, scholars and scientists selected from more than 2,800 applicants for Guggenheim Fellowship awards.
Albright will be commencement speaker
Madeleine K.
UW faculty receive prestigious Gairdner Awards
Two of the eight winners of Gairdner International Awards for 2002, announced in Toronto Tuesday, are faculty members in the University of Washington <A href="http://www.
April 24, 2002
UW seeks volunteers for phytoestrogen and soy study
Tofu hasn’t replaced apple pie, but from breakfast cereals to hamburger substitutes, soy products are becoming increasingly familiar items on the American menu.
Link found between low birth weight and DNA from mothers
Using a unique set of data collected over 30 years and six generations of captive-bred monkeys, researchers have found the first evidence that low birth weight is linked to a type of DNA only passed along by females.
Madeleine Albright to speak at University of Washington commencement
Madeleine K.
April 23, 2002
Thousands to explore UW research in health, engineering at weekend open houses
The weekend of April 26 and 27 will offer visitors to the University of Washington campus an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about research into engineering, medicine and health sciences through interactive exhibits and hands-on activities.
April 22, 2002
National Research Council committee backs national underground lab
The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement during the weekend from the National Research Council’s Committee on the Physics of the Universe.
April 18, 2002
Terra cotta gets repaired
A Turner Construction worker labors high above Red Square on the face of Suzzallo Library repairing finials and other terra cotta that was damaged in last year’s earthquake.
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KITTEN FEVER: Spring is kitten season, and if you’re in the market for a pet of the feline persuasion, Gaile Gamble wants you to know there’s an organization on campus that can give you a hand, or maybe a paw.
mystery photo
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Patient’s husband arranges laptop donation for pre-birth unit
| Craig Degginger |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Patients in UW Medical Center’s antepartum unit on 6-South will soon have laptop computers to use during their stay at the medical center, thanks to a donation from Microsoft.
First San-pin Wang endowed lecture planned May 2
The School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Pathobiology will host the first San-pin Wang Endowed Lecture in early May.
Social inequality and health: School of Nursing’s annual Soule Lecture brings Dr. Nancy Krieger to campus
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Staff Forum seeks new members
Would you like to share your thoughts with President McCormick, work with a dynamic group of classified and professional staff from all three UW campuses to provide input on problems at the University and have a positive impact on the UW in general and its staff in particular? If so, the President’s Staff Forum is the place for you.
Wildflower seed mixes full of weeds
The seed packets have labels with romantic-sounding names such as meadow mixture and wedding wildflowers, while others tout backyard biodiversity and make reference to Earth Day.
UW students to send mice to space
Students from the University of Washington have won a place on a team that plans to launch mice into space, seeking answers to the little-explored question of how Martian gravity affects mammals.
Ex-student becomes producer of prof’s show
One of the wonderful things about teaching is, your students graduate and become professionals themselves.
Profile: David Silver strikes cybergold
| Steve Hill |
| University Week |
David Silver definitely isn’t working in your father’s university.
Reminder: Tutu at UW on May 7
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be on campus May 7 for two special events — a forum on the health of the world’s children and a formal academic convocation, at which he will be awarded an honorary degree.
InnerWorkings: Industrial Engineering
Department chair’s name: Tony C.
HS Briefs
Author to speak
Madeline Drexler, author of the recently published book Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, will speak to the Student Public Health Association from noon to 1 p.
Rice genome published:UW and Chinese genome centers collaborate on large-scale project
Two UW researchers — Dr.
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