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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.

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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.

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

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

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.

Soon-to-be mothers hope for an uneventful pregnancy.

The next episode of Lifetime television’s “Women Docs” is scheduled to air at 11 p.

The Department of Surgery’s eighth annual Helen and John Schilling Lecture next week will feature Dr.

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The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.

The Art Nouveau Bindings of the Works of Louis Couperus is the title of a talk to be given by H.

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.

In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.

Only a year ago, you couldn’t get away from the word “genetics.

Just because the governor proposed local tuition-setting authority doesn’t mean it will be a reality when the Legislature closes shop after what is scheduled to be a 60-day session.

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It may look like an archaeological dig, but it’s actually the construction site for the addition to the IMA.

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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

A senior fellow in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Washington School of Dentistry has received two different and prestigious honors. Dr. Ozlem Yilmaz has been named a Magnuson Scholar by the university, and awarded a clinical scientist (KO8) grant by the National Institutes of Health.

In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.

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By Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations

What can you possibly give someone that would be more valuable to them than lavish jewelry, a trip to the city of their dreams or even a $100,000 Lamborghini? It’s something you already have and the expense to you will be minimal.

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Physicians honored for answering regional calls

Ten UW physicians have been honored for outstanding service as MEDCON consultants during 2001.

By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

Stretch the DNA contained in one human cell from end-to-end, and it would be about one yard long.

By Walter Neary

An investigation of the activity of individual human nerve cells during the act of memory indicates that the brain’s nerve cells are even more specialized than many people think—no pun intended.

Preventing blindness

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded a grant of $110,000 to the UW Department of Ophthalmology to suport research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.

This year’s Martin Luther King, Jr.

In 50 years of existence radio station KUOW has evolved from a training lab for the UW’s broadcast journalism students to a mostly independent news and information station, says station manager Wayne Roth.

Another El Niño could be brewing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

A totem pole near the Burke Museum offers a stark contrast to the construction cranes looming in the background.

Outstanding Public Service

Nominations are now being accepted for the Outstanding Public Service Award, which recognizes the contributions of a faculty or staff member to improving the quality of life locally, nationally or internationally through public service.

Computer specialists in many departments feel like the proverbial boy with his finger in the dike—except, all too often there are too many holes and not enough fingers.

The size of ice domes and the clockwise displacement of ice rafts on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are consistent with what one could expect of melting caused by a hydrothermal vent plume, or plumes, in an ocean beneath the ice, say oceanographers John Delaney of the UW and Richard Thomson of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Beds of thousands of tiny pulsating artificial “hairs” can provide a precise method for steering small satellites to docking stations on larger vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the UW.

Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long — give or take a millimeter.

Who Owns `Human Nature’? is the title of this quarter’s Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities, scheduled for 7:30 p.

During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds.