October 23, 2001
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
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.
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
By Laurie McHale, CHDD
The UW has been awarded a $3.
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel, John D.
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 University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
Editor’s Note: The Combined Fund Drive runs through Nov.
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.
Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.
The University of Washington has received a $3.
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.
“Artists and Art Making: How Should We Proceed Post Sept.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The tragedy of Sept.
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.
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 President Richard L.
Students, faculty and staff from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning gathered on Oct.
NOBEL PITCHER: The UW’s newest Nobel Prize winner, Lee Hartwell, threw out the first pitch in the Mariners’ win over Cleveland Monday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Several health sciences faculty and staff members are leading sessions today as part of the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement.
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Four UW physicians are featured prominently in this week’s episode of “WomenDocs,” a new Lifetime Television series.
UW researchers 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).
An item in last week’s University Week contained an incorrect figure.
MAP breakfast slated Oct.
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.