An Environmental Opportunities Fair will be held from 10 a.
October 11, 2001
The latest news from the UW
Course to consider impact of environmental problems
The UW’s budding partnership with the University of British Columbia has produced an ambitious new course this fall probing environmental problems that blithely ignore international borders.
Piano concert
Pianist David Korevaar will present a program of piano preludes at 8 p.
Survey responses spur changes to University Week
Newspapers exist to serve readers, and University Week is no different.
New VP will always be Rusty
When the UW’s new vice president for minority affairs started kindergarten, she told the teacher her name was Rusty Barcelo.
UW assistance program ramping up
By Steve Hill
University Week
The UW is working to help faculty and staff maintain a degree of serenity in an increasingly stressed-out world.
Big day in Bothell
A dedication is planned Saturday for two new buildings on the Cascadia Community College, UW, Bothell campus.
Faculty Senate will conduct more of its business without using paper
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Peer Portfolio
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Search continues for Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost
The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.
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GENEROUS UW: When it was announced that UW employees could donate to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund – which goes to help the victims of the terrorist attacks – through the University’s Combined Fund Drive, they responded enthusiastically.
Psychologists have answers to myths surrounding youth sports
Because youth sports are saddled with so many myths, University of Washington sports psychologists Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll have spent a large part of their careers dispelling these misconceptions and trying to make youth sports more of a child-oriented, fun activity for everyone involved – players, coaches and parents.
October 10, 2001
UW receives $3.5 million grant to establish National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education (AccessIT)
The University of Washington has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to establish a National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education, to be known as AccessIT. The five-year renewable grant, awarded on a competitive basis, comes from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
October 9, 2001
Misdiagnosis of appendicitis continues despite new tools
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 University of Washington researchers.
October 5, 2001
Education Forums establish links between African-Americans and UW
A new outreach program developed by the premier African American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the University of Washington is aimed at establishing greater links between the African-American community and the UW, with the goal of attracting more African American students to the UW.
October 4, 2001
Tennis tickets
Good seats are still available for the Schick Xtreme III Tennis Challenge on Saturday, Oct.
Physical therapists schedule events
UW physical therapists from Hall Health Primary Care Center, the Exercise Training Center at UWMC-Roosevelt, the Sports Medicine Clinic, and the UW Medical Center Physical Therapy Department have planned events to mark Physical Therapy Month in October.
Trials of new ALS treatment begin in mice
Researchers will test the effectiveness of “transforming growth factor alpha” infusions in mice who have a condition similar to the form of amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that runs in families.
March of Dimes funding supports program to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
The Parent-Child Assistance Program (P-CAP) at the UW has received funding from the March of Dimes Washington State Chapter for a project called “Prevent Double Jeopardy” that will provide services to women who have a birth defect.
Centers for Excellence in Genomic Science: UW Genome Center
(See features story for an overall look at the two UW grants for research based on the genome.
Campus-community partnerships highlighted
Academic researchers have sometimes been criticized for going into communities, gathering data, publishing articles and leaving communities with little or no benefit.
Laurie Garrett to speak on global health
Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague and a science writer for New York Newsday, will be the speaker for the UW’s Hogness Symposium Thursday, Oct.
Muilenburg Tower dedicated
Members of the family of Rob Muilenburg, longtime executive director of UW Medical Center who died in September 2000, were on hand for dedication of the medical center’s eastern wing as the Robert H.
Health Scienes Brief News
Lectures rescheduled
-The Department of Surgery’s Strauss Lecture, originally scheduled for Sept.
Sept. 11 remembered
Science Forum: Talk on neutrinos kicks off annual event
The second UW Science Forum colloquium kicks off tomorrow (Oct.
Message from the President: With pain, sorrow come reaffirmation
The beginning of the fall term is traditionally an exciting time, but this year the mood is somber.
Private support for University sets record
Total private support to the UW totaled $231,918,169 in fiscal year 2000-2001, an increase over last year’s record-breaking total of $225,575,162.
Van Soest to head Social Work
Dorothy Van Soest, professor and associate dean of the School of Social Work of the University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work at the UW, President Richard L.
Northwest coast needs more Doppler radar installations, scientist says
Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a UW scientist says.
From Mauritius to the Mariners: UW staffer makes up for childhood without baseball
When UW staffer Jenny Mao and her husband attend a Mariner game, they arrive about three hours early.
Support services improved, deans say
UW deans are more satisfied with support services than they were two years ago, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
Center’s goal to view the ‘ultrasmall’
A new NIH-supported center housed on the UW campus will develop modular microscale instrumentation systems for the detection and analysis of how, when, and why very small populations of living cells interact with each other and their environment.
UW gets $30 million for genome research
The UW has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.
Dawg Dash
Greg Crowther, a graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics and winner of the 1999 Dawg Dash, encourages UW departments to sign up as teams in the annual walk/run Oct.
A superhero’s welcome
Community Transit’s superhero, Mr.
A Special Newsmakers: Faculty speak out about Sept. 11
BOEING BUST: Well, not exactly, according to Christopher Haugen.
New Briefs
Human rights speaker slated for UW appearance
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor will speak on Human Rights: Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Asian Pacific Region as the Severyns-Ravenholt Lecturer at 7 p.
Notices
Search Continues for Dean of Undergraduate education
The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.