March 29, 2002
The University of Washington Board of Regents unanimously approved a project management agreement authorizing UW Capital Projects Office to serve as project manager of the $193 million voter approved bond project to finance earthquake stabilization and bed expansion at Harborview Medical Center.
March 21, 2002
When it comes to inflation, cosmologists are pondering a future that probably would leave even Alan Greenspan scratching his head.
The number of commercial air travelers who now find flying to be at least somewhat stressful has risen dramatically to 81 percent of passengers, according to the first survey measuring the attitudes of people before and after the events of Sept. 11.
March 19, 2002
Building on a trend to bring Wall Street into the classroom, the Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation has given its first-ever grant to help create a virtual trading room at the University of Washington Business School.
An extensive Internet art exhibit and dozens of educational events presented by the University of Washington will enhance cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project when the international extravaganza hits Seattle starting this month.
For the last five years Mavis Leno has used her status as an author and celebrity wife to bring attention to the plight of women under the Taliban rule. Leno will speak about the restoration of women’s rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan in a lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 26 at Town Hall, 6th and Seneca.
March 18, 2002
Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, will speak about the plans and prospects for the company’s commercial airplane business during an address at the University of Washington Business School.
The astronomy open house this year occurs on International Astronomy Day and comes during a major planetary conjunction. Five planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury — will line up in the western sky, with a crescent moon supplying illumination.
March 15, 2002
Former Olympic sailing gold medallist Lowell North of Point Loma, Calif., is back at the helm of a sailing yacht, after his painful left shoulder was repaired during a surgical procedure at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle last month.
March 14, 2002
Visiting artist Lee Higgins teaches students at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School to perform Brazilian music during “Samba in the Schools” week last week.
Researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.
“Bioterrorism: What Clinicians Need to Know” is the topic for this year’s annual Don B.
The juvenile salmon released last week from the UW’s Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station are offspring of summer chum that returned 900-strong last year to the stream.
It’s the most prolific plant in the world’s oceans, explains assistant professor Ginger Armbrust.
Lauro Flores just wanted to see that a deserving artist got more recognition.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
The Department of Bioengineering’s 14th annual Rushmer Lecture will be given the first week of April by Dr.
“The Medicine of Lewis and Clark” will be the topic for the next Healthy U program at 7 p.
In research, there’s a very fine line between persistence and obstinacy.
The UW’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System’s Addictions Treatment Center jointly manage the Seattle site for the COMBINE study (Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions).
UWired Health Sciences will present the first session of the Health Sciences Advanced Applications Forum on Monday, March 25, from 1 to 3:30 p.
The financial value of a law-abiding reputation — not tighter government regulations — is the best way to prevent future scandals like those enveloping energy giant Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen, a UW researcher says.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Funding Opportunity
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 related to ethnic studies.
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An 11-week Citizens Academy is being offered by the UW Police Department.
CAREER AWARD: In recognition of 30 years of service, Terry Nosho of the Washington Sea Grant Program has received the William Q.
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When most of us think of a job, we immediately think of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.
The 60-day Legislative session in Olympia ends today after a flurry of activity that will impact the University.
March 13, 2002
Teams from across the western United States and Brazil will gather at the University of Washington March 29 and 30 to test their mechanical mettle in a regional robotics contest.
March 12, 2002
The dot-com bust is over and executives need to overcome “dot vertigo,” an inability to adapt to e-commerce, says author Richard Nolan, the featured speaker at the University of Washington Business School’s e-business conference.
A grant from the G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation will help scientists at the University of Washington’s Cell Systems Initiative build a prototype to study how cells grow, proliferate and differentiate.
March 7, 2002
The annual turning of the Quad cherry trees has peaked, drawing large numbers of visitors and students to admire the spectacular beauty.
Senior Jon Peebles gets some work done during the School of Art’s Open House last Friday.
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One of the results of training highly skilled paramedics and first responders is a significant increase in the number of severely injured patients making it to the emergency room.