The latest news from the UW

IW: Center for Career Services

Name and title of unit head: Susan Terry, director

Location: 134 Mary Gates Hall

Number of employees: 17

Unit’s main function: To provide job search services to students and alumni.

What does it mean to be a genius? Five UW professors who have received MacArthur Foundation Fellowships will share their thoughts with the audience in the upcoming lecture series, Scholarly Adventure and Creative Process: UW MacArthur Fellows in the Humanities.

A new bus shelter for patrons who wait in front of Guthrie Annex 4 on the main campus should be ready for use on Monday.

Information Technology Leaders, an interview series produced by the UW Business School and airing on UWTV and the Research Channel, proves that top IT executives are the sum of their experiences – both professional and personal.

A new outreach program developed by the premier African-American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the UW 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.

The observatory may be the second oldest building on campus, but it can still draw a crowd.

By Steve Hill
University Week

Jody Burns was faced with what’s becoming an increasingly common problem – how to care for an aging parent.

An Environmental Opportunities Fair will be held from 10 a.

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.

Pianist David Korevaar will present a program of piano preludes at 8 p.

Newspapers exist to serve readers, and University Week is no different.

When the UW’s new vice president for minority affairs started kindergarten, she told the teacher her name was Rusty Barcelo.

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.

A dedication is planned Saturday for two new buildings on the Cascadia Community College, UW, Bothell campus.

By Lea B.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.