By Steve Hill
University Week
This is no ghost story.
October 25, 2001
The latest news from the UW
Computer more than super pencil, Design Machine Group says
They sound like games: Digital Sandbox, Mouse Haus, Electronic Cocktail Napkin, Navigation Blocks, Space Pen.
Grant, software bolster area planning
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.
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Etc.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE: Suzanne Brainard, executive director of the Center for Workforce Development, has been honored with the Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award.
Tennis Challenge nets $1.4 million
The Schick Xtreme III Tennis Challenge drew a capacity crowd to Key Arena on Oct.
Sounds of the season
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.
Digital ‘factory’ invents tools that can unlock designers’ creativity
They sound like games: Digital Sandbox, Mouse Haus, Electronic Cocktail Napkin, Navigation Blocks, Space Pen.
October 24, 2001
2001 autumn quarter enrollments at the University of Washington
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.
Blame North America megafauna extinction on climate change, not human ancestors
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
2001 Autumn Quarter Enrollments
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program.
Hospitals, Health Departments Prepare for Possible Bioterrorism
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
Publisher to address business leaders, UW faculty and alumni on future of Internet gold rush
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.
UrbanSim to pit computer’s ingenuity against gridlock, pollution, sprawl
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
Accessible Information Technology: UW receives $3.5 million grant for national center
By Laurie McHale, CHDD
The UW has been awarded a $3.
Dr. John Olerud talks about his son and baseball
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
1999 Nobel laureate to present Neurath Lecture
Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel, John D.
New imaging has not reduced unneeded surgery for appendicitis
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 UW faculty members elected to Institute of Medicine
Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
Volunteer gives gift of food
Editor’s Note: The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
Briefly
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.
MacDonald to join Burke Nov. 1
Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.
Grant to promote women in science, engineering
The University of Washington has received a $3.
Researchers looking for answers as whale population dwindles
As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound’s orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, UW researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals’ plummeting population.
Campus Responding To Tragedy: Staffer’s art helps her cope
“Artists and Art Making: How Should We Proceed Post Sept.
Campus Responding To Tragedy: Providing emotional relief
By Steve Hill
University Week
The tragedy of Sept.
Prof to open journalism, trauma center at Ground Zero
By Steve Hill
University Week
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the UW has received emergency funding to open an office in New York City to support journalists traumatized by their work covering the Sept.
A ‘responsive’ Ph.D.: UW ready to take action as national program kicks off
October 11 reflections
Several seminars and workshops for the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement preceded the presentation by Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, for the Hogness Symposium last week.
UW memorial dedicated to terror victims
UW President Richard L.
Drafting a memorial
Students, faculty and staff from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning gathered on Oct.
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NOBEL PITCHER: The UW’s newest Nobel Prize winner, Lee Hartwell, threw out the first pitch in the Mariners’ win over Cleveland Monday.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Applicants sought for exchange program
The University of Washington-University of Ljublajana Exchange Program invites applications from faculty and senior graduate students to be an academic visitor to the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, during the 2002 calendar year.
Legislation seeks to set standards for distance learning courses
By Doug Wadden, Faculty Council on Academic Standards
and Steve Buck, Faculty Council on Educational Outreach
The role of distance learning in undergraduate education at the UW has long been a contentious issue.
Mystery photo
Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
Dr. Bobbie Berkowitz, professor and chair of the Department of Psychosocial and Community Health in the School of Nursing, and Dr. Cornelius Rosse, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biological Structure in the School of Medicine, join 36 other UW faculty members previously elected to the Institute of Medicine.
Story ideas for reporters: Investigations using crane range from water works to witches’ brooms
Going up — A key factor in forest growth, and subsequent carbon sequestration, is the way trees take up and give off water. Work at the crane covers this process from below the forest floor to the very tops of the trees. A new project at the crane site is trying to determine the significance of what scientists call hydraulic lift in the root zone.
Fact sheet for reporters: Canopy research could lead to better forest management
The crane and forest around it are closed to the general public because of safety concerns (the forest around the crane, for example, is a hard-hat area), there are scientific instruments on the forest floor and the area needs to be kept as pristine as possible for research to be meaningful. Please don’t include the crane in travel or outdoors stories leading readers or viewers to think they can visit. This will only frustrate people and cause them to be upset with the research staff.
October 11, 2001
Thursday events will precede Garrett talk
Several health sciences faculty and staff members are leading sessions today as part of the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement.