October 10, 2001
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
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
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
Good seats are still available for the Schick Xtreme III Tennis Challenge on Saturday, Oct.
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.
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.
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.
(See features story for an overall look at the two UW grants for research based on the genome.
Academic researchers have sometimes been criticized for going into communities, gathering data, publishing articles and leaving communities with little or no benefit.
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.
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.
Lectures rescheduled
-The Department of Surgery’s Strauss Lecture, originally scheduled for Sept.
The second UW Science Forum colloquium kicks off tomorrow (Oct.
The beginning of the fall term is traditionally an exciting time, but this year the mood is somber.
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.
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.
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.
When UW staffer Jenny Mao and her husband attend a Mariner game, they arrive about three hours early.
UW deans are more satisfied with support services than they were two years ago, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
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.
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.
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.
Community Transit’s superhero, Mr.
BOEING BUST: Well, not exactly, according to Christopher Haugen.
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.
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.
ARCHITECTURAL ACCOLADE: The UW received a presidential citation from the American Institute of Architects recently.
Researchers at the University of Washington have been awarded a five-year grant of more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study whiplash injuries from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).
October 2, 2001
People who survive serious injuries caused by burn or trauma face a long and difficult recovery period riddled with many potentially fatal complications along the way. Researchers yearn to understand the critical features that can tip the delicate balance of a severely injured body toward recovery, and those factors that cause people to die from such injuries–sometimes weeks after the injury occurred. Identifying those factors could help guide physicians in choosing the best treatment in response to a life-threatening injury.
September 25, 2001
Even before the latest round of terrorism-related layoff announcements, cutbacks in Boeing employment had contributed to a significant drop in average family incomes in Washington state, according to a University of Washington analysis.
September 24, 2001
Now that the first weeks of the new school year are over, parents of some first-graders may notice that their children are having problems writing the alphabet. University of Washington researchers want to help, and they are looking for two dozen Puget Sound youngsters who are having difficulty mastering writing to participate in a study that includes an intervention component to help them.
September 21, 2001
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.
September 20, 2001
Total private support to the University of Washington totaled $231,918,169 in fiscal year 2000-2001, an increase over last year’s record-breaking total of $225,575,162.
September 19, 2001
A professor at the University of Washington is one of seven university educators nationwide selected to receive a new National Science Foundation award for integrating research into education, the NSF announced today.
September 18, 2001
Jason Emhoff, the firefighter burned in the Thirty Mile Fire in Okanogan County, will speak to the media Thursday, September 20 at 10 a.m.
September 13, 2001
President Bush has declared Friday, September 14 to be a national day of mourning for the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Governor Locke has announced a statewide day of prayer and remembrance, highlighted by an observance at Westlake Center from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Joining Governor Locke will be King County Executive Ron Sims, Mayor Paul Schell and religious leaders. At sites around the state, sirens will sound at 12:29 in honor of fallen emergency response personnel, followed by a minute of silence and concluding at 12:31 with the ringing of bells.
The University of Washington suffered a terrible, sad loss yesterday when a number of very good friends and supporters went down in a plane crash in Mexico.
September 11, 2001
Minoru Yamasaki, designer of New York’s World Trade Center, was born in a Seattle tenement and put himself through the University of Washington by working in Alaskan fish canneries. His most famous work was destroyed today by terrorist attacks, 35 years after the twin towers were completed.