October 31, 2001
The UW Board of Regents, at its Oct. 19 meeting, approved the consolidation of the Department of Genetics in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Molecular Biotechnology in the School of Medicine. The merger creates the new Department of Genome Sciences in the School of Medicine.
October 30, 2001
The University of Washington National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health is conducting new research into how drugs are handled in the body by pregnant women, a field which according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) deserves more attention. The FDA is providing $150,000 for the research to identify the doses that will provide the greatest benefit and the least risk for the mother and her baby. Dr. Mary Hebert, associate professor in the UW Department of Pharmacy, Dr. Tom Easterling, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Dr. Gail Anderson, associate professor in pharmacy and pharmaceuticals, will be conducting the study evaluating a high blood pressure medication commonly prescribed for pregnant women.
October 29, 2001
When sperm whales talk, Michael Dougherty listens. Not only that, the University of Washington researcher and electrical engineering doctoral student can recognize the voice and tell you exactly which whale is speaking.
October 25, 2001
Women who’ve had a Caesarean and who later attempt to deliver by labor are more likely to suffer a uterine rupture than women who go on to have a repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a UW study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Questions about cancer have been linked, almost from the beginning, to the use of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
A visitor to Dr.
A significant number of teenagers continue to be admitted to hospitals for poisoning from inappropriate use of medications, or, for children younger than 12, for the ingestion of non-medications, according to an article bu UW researchers in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
For years, it seemed like a rite of passage, like a first car or a first grandchild.
Earl Davie Building
ZymoGenetics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics, in September celebrated the naming of its second building in honor of Dr.
Name and title of unit head: Jane Wiseman, director
Unit’s location: Gilman Building, 4725 30th Ave.
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
The Ethnic Cultural Center and Theater are reopening, ready to meet the rigors of the 21st century but still deeply rooted in their history.
Call them the myth-busters.
Soon the campus will watch the PAF go “Poof.
Very capable, academically talented students statewide will be eligible for admission to the University after their sophomore year in high school thanks to a program being created through the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars.
By Steve Hill
University Week
This is no ghost story.
They sound like games: Digital Sandbox, Mouse Haus, Electronic Cocktail Napkin, Navigation Blocks, Space Pen.
Researchers at the UW have won more than $5 million in federal grants to create software with unprecedented abilities to help Puget Sound and other regions tackle such vexing problems as gridlock, sprawl and pollution.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Suzanne Brainard, executive director of the Center for Workforce Development, has been honored with the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award.
The Schick Xtreme III Tennis Challenge drew a capacity crowd to Key Arena on Oct.
Music majors Kris Knien and John Meier warm up at the Littlefield organ for the annual Halloween concert, to be presented tomorrow in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane.
They sound like games: Digital Sandbox, Mouse Haus, Electronic Cocktail Napkin, Navigation Blocks, Space Pen.
October 24, 2001
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program. The number is about 3.5 percent higher than last year’s headcount of 36,139.
Even such mythical detectives as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would have difficulty trying to find the culprit that killed the mammoths, mastodons and other megafauna that once roamed North America.
October 23, 2001
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program.
Yesterday, at a more-than-capacity meeting sponsored by Harborview Medical Center, the Washington State Hospital Association, and the Central Region Trauma Council, hospital and health department leaders continued their preparations for dealing with bioterrorism. More than 400 people attended the meeting, which was also broadcast via live feed to several locations and taped for later distribution to other hospitals and health departments statewide.
October 22, 2001
Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard, one of the nation’s most influential technology journalists, will deliver the keynote address Thursday at the University of Washington Business Leadership Banquet.
University of Washington researchers have won more than $5 million in federal grants to create software of unprecedented power and flexibility to help Puget Sound and other metropolitan areas tackle such problems as traffic jams and water pollution.
October 18, 2001
By Laurie McHale, CHDD
The UW has been awarded a $3.
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel, John D.
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
Although more diagnostic tools are available now than ever, there has been no improvement in the rate of misdiagnosis of appendicitis during the last decade, according to UW researchers.
Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
Editor’s Note: The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Lecture focuses on World Trade Center
New York World Trade Center: Reflections on the Engineering and Thoughts About the Future is the title of a lecture scheduled for 4 p.
Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.
The University of Washington has received a $3.