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February 7, 2002
Takin’ out the pack
Gilbert Bombon, Utility Worker II from the Outside Maintenance Zone, removes dry-pack from below the paver bricks at the Kane Hall columns.
UW landscape team takes prize at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show
Left to right, Landscape Architecture Professor Daniel Winterbottom and students David Knight, Michael Dalquist and George Wittren put the finishing touches on the UW’s prize-winning exhibit at the Northwest Flower & Garden show.
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DOUSING THE FLAME: Citing continued concerns for safety, plus rising costs and issues of liability, Texas A&M University President Ray M.
Mystery photo
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Difficult budget, difficult choices for faculty
This academic year, Brad Holt, the Chair of the Faculty Senate, Vice-Chair Sandra Silberstein, and the Senate Executive Committee made plans to increase communication between the Senate and faculty.
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Academic Opportunities
HUB Hall of Fame
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2002 HUB Hall of Fame Activities Award.
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PHOTO OP: If you like color photos of the natural world, the Campus Public Art Office has a deal for you.
End of an era: UW’s state-of-the-art airborne research facility grounded after 30 years
For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest.
February 6, 2002
University of Washington women physicians featured in anthology
Eight current and former University of Washington physicians and a School of Medicine alumna are featured in the new book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine.
February 5, 2002
Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak here
Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak
February 4, 2002
Researchers try an old trick to battle common STD
Researchers at the University of Washington are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.
While most immigrant teenagers stay in school, dropout rate for Mexicans is 28 percent
School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexicans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico.
January 31, 2002
Free art exhibit in the HUB
Mark Ondrake, a fiscal specialist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Environmental Health, will be sharing his collection of materials with examples of art from earlier times used for advertising, magazine covers and book covers.
Buehler Lecture on abdominal wall surgery
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Take a couple more hours of sleep and see how you feel in the morning
You’re worn out all the time, you get tired very easily, that new weight-loss plan just isn’t working and you suspect you fell asleep as you were driving home after work last week.
Open House 2002: Planning well under way for event in late April
Exhibitors are signing up to reserve space for the 2002 Health Sciences Open House, the honorary chair has been named and a theme has been chosen.
Cosmetic Surgery Center opens: Refractive surgery also moves to UWMC-Roosevelt building with easy access
| Craig Degginger |
| HS News & Community Relations |
UW Medical Center-Roosevelt has opened three significant new areas on the second floor this month — the Cosmetic Surgery Center, Refractive Surgery Center and Ambulatory Surgery Center.
Understanding burn scars: Surgeon Nicole Gibran tries to learn how hypertrophic scars might be reduced or prevented
| Pamela Wyngate |
| HS News & Community Relations |
After a suffering a severe burn, some patients develop hypertrophic scars—a distinct and excessive growth of tissue with increased numbers of blood vessels and multiple nerves.
Land-use decisions led to flood-prone Skokomish
With a constancy that would impress the swallows at San Juan Capistrano, the Skokomish River seems to flood each year at the first sign of Western Washington’s rainy season.
SimpleSite takes HTML out of Web
| Roberto Sanchez |
| Educational Outreach |
The UW is making it easier for students, instructors and staff to produce their own Web pages — without having to know specialized computer languages or to use complicated software.
Comment sought on U-District transportation plan
The City of Seattle has released a draft final report of the University Area Transportation Study and is asking for comments by Feb.
‘Beloved community’ was MLK’s dream
Thirty-four years after his death, the legacy of Dr.
School of Drama planning 10-minute play festival
Next week the School of Drama is inviting people to see eight plays for the price of one.
UW scientists learn how many neutrinos sun generates
Neutrinos are among the tiniest particles in the universe.
Reaching out: UW delegates talk with Castro during Cuban visit
As the United States began sending its Al Qaeda captives to Cuba last month, the UW sent a delegation of 41 women.
Celebrating Henry: Revered art gallery reaches milestone anniversary
| Steve Hill |
| University Week |
While preparing for the festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Henry Art Gallery, Richard Andrews can’t help but be moved by the generosity of the facility’s namesake.
InnerWorkings: Germanics
Department chair: Sabine Wilke
Department location: Denny Hall
Number of faculty: Ten regular faculty members (three with joint appointments), as well as one emeritus who teaches and a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Germany every spring.
Correction
A caption with a photo in the Jan.
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Lecture considers modernity, religion
UW Professor Frank Conlon will give the annual “Religion and Contemporary Life” lecture at 7:30 p.
HEC Board calls for tuition authority
University Week Staff Report
The Washington Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board last week voted unanimously in support of a resolution that recommends giving tuition-setting authority to public colleges and universities and encourages a restructuring or expansion of the state’s tax system.
Mystery photo
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
Notices
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
ADAI research grants available
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
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TIMELY TOPIC: Within hours of the announcement that Evergreen Forest Trust would purchase 100,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forestlands in the Cascade foothills, one of the key participants was at the UW’s College of Forest Resources as a panelist discussing the very topic of land trusts.
January 24, 2002
Preeclampsia: Frequent blood-pressure checks are important to find early signs of potentially dangerous condition
| Pam Sowers |
| HS News & Community Relations |
Soon-to-be mothers hope for an uneventful pregnancy.
‘Women Docs’ on TV Sunday: UW-affiliated physicians featured in program that moves from Seattle to Alaska
The next episode of Lifetime television’s “Women Docs” is scheduled to air at 11 p.
Surgery’s Schilling Lecture:University of Toronto expert on shock and fluids to speak Feb. 1
The Department of Surgery’s eighth annual Helen and John Schilling Lecture next week will feature Dr.
Wootton Professorship: Mary Austin-Seymour named to new radiation oncology post
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Faculty Senate meeting slated
The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.
Lecture to focus on nouveau book bindings
The Art Nouveau Bindings of the Works of Louis Couperus is the title of a talk to be given by H.
In Search of Stories:Detective work leads ‘generalist’ to internment volunteer
At work, Linda Di Biase spends most of her time sleuthing the best publications for the University to purchase; on her own time she’s doing sleuthing of a different sort.
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