November 8, 2001
Elected officials and leaders in higher education and health from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho were at the UW Health Sciences Center in late October for a WWAMI Legislative Conference focusing on the School of Medicine’s regional medical education and training programs.
The Eye Center at UW Medical Center won the award for “most constructive” pumpkin as part of the annual Halloween decorating contest, judged last week.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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OYSTER FEVER: “What, then, draws oyster farmers to the water’s edge at dawn or in the dead of night? What makes them work so hard, often in miserable weather, to keep their oysters fat and fit? What makes the rest of us clamor for that small tidbit of flesh, cradled by the smooth inner nacre of an oyster’s thickly sculpted shell? One answer’s obvious: the ambrosial taste of the world’s most edible shellfish.
November 5, 2001
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with the University of Washington, has been selected to participate in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one’s response to various environmental agents, from asbestos to tobacco smoke. Such research will help answer puzzling questions such as why some people who have never smoked a cigarette develop lung cancer, while others who have smoked heavily for years never show signs of the disease.
November 2, 2001
After three years of work, University of Washington students have nearly completed one of the world’s smallest self-propelled satellites and are preparing to deliver it to the Air Force and NASA for launch.
Richard Wilkinson, an expert on the differences in health status from country to country, will speak about “Unhealthy Societies: The Politics of Human Social Needs” at 6 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the University of Washington’s Kane Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.
Designers with the architectural firm Miller Hull Partnership of Seattle are now considering ways to rebuild Merrill Hall, which was firebombed at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture last May, and will explain the pre-design phase and seek comments from the neighborhood and campus community Nov. 19.
Dr. M. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. surgeon general in the first Clinton administration, will be in Seattle next week to present the UW Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds and speak to local women physicians.
November 1, 2001
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
A certain doctor shakes my office when he tromps down the hall every day in full bicycle gear.
You finally get to sit down at the end of the day.
News that 75 percent of all hospital vacancies today are nursing jobs could leave potential patients worrying about their safety.
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
The UW Board of Regents, at its Oct.
By Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
Marita Berg, King County coordinator for the Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) talks with John Salveson of Plant Operations at the Health Sciences session of the Benefits Fair, held Wednesday, Oct.
Three UW professors are among 288 scientists to be awarded the distinction of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS announced last week.
If it were up to members of the UW Retirement Association, the state of Washington might well adopt an income tax.
Elizabeth (Betsy) Cooper is one of those people the rest of us envy – the ones who somehow knew, while still in childhood, what their future career would be, and have never really wavered from that path.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The UW has joined in a statewide effort to increase the number of national board-certified teachers in Washington’s K-12 classrooms.
As temperatures fall and there are more hours of dark, the campus community is likely to be increasingly aware of our energy conservation program.
Representatives of the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Siuslaw and Lower Umpqua from Coos Bay, Ore.
The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
A change in the admission policy to two retirement communities that are partnered with the UW Retirement Association will benefit the parents of UWRA members.
Finding a convenient flu shot clinic on campus may not be possible this year.
As the anthrax scare continues on the East Coast, the UW’s Mailing Services has increased its vigilance and advises others on campus who handle mail to do the same.
As a result of last February’s earthquake, a new poster is making an appearance in buildings around campus.
Education’s role in shaping citizens examined in forum
Higher Education and Democratic Citizenship is the title of a forum to be held from 7 to 9 p.
Leaves have piled up behind Gerberding Hall as fall progresses in the Northwest.
‘Tis the season when the bricks of Red Square are wet more days than not, but the sun occasionally breaks through the clouds and leaves us with a dazzling surface on which to walk.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
KID SAFETY: Seventeen low-income families whose children attend school in the UW’s Experimental Education Unit received free child and infant car seats, thanks to the University Police Department.
Expert briefing for reporters on the impacts of climate change on the Pacific Northwest
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.