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Residents in Washington view their public colleges and universities as high-quality institutions that make significant contributions to their state’s economy, according to survey data released this week by the American Council on Education (ACE).

Gilbert Bombon, Utility Worker II from the Outside Maintenance Zone, removes dry-pack from below the paver bricks at the Kane Hall columns.

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.

DOUSING THE FLAME: Citing continued concerns for safety, plus rising costs and issues of liability, Texas A&M University President Ray M.

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

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.

Academic Opportunities

HUB Hall of Fame

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2002 HUB Hall of Fame Activities Award.

PHOTO OP: If you like color photos of the natural world, the Campus Public Art Office has a deal for you.

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.

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.

Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak

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.

School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexicans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The City of Seattle has released a draft final report of the University Area Transportation Study and is asking for comments by Feb.

Thirty-four years after his death, the legacy of Dr.

Next week the School of Drama is inviting people to see eight plays for the price of one.

Neutrinos are among the tiniest particles in the universe.

As the United States began sending its Al Qaeda captives to Cuba last month, the UW sent a delegation of 41 women.

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.

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.

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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.