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Rushmer Lecture

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Gary Butrymowicz has empty pop cans in his office.

The UW has entered into a partnership with Rotary International to fast-track dissemination of interventions and technologies to improve quality of life to those in greatest need throughout the world.

A major new effort to uncover the medium- and large-scale genetic differences within the human species may soon reveal DNA sequences that contribute to a wide range of diseases, according to a paper by Evan Eichler, UW associate professor of genome sciences, and 17 colleagues published in the May 10 issue of Nature.

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The UW’s Faculty Integrative Health Program is accepting applications for the upcoming school year.

Six graduate students, one from each UW health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2007-08 academic year.

Elise Saba, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, has been awarded a President’s Medal for scholarship as a transfer student — an award given to a student who entered the UW with at least 60 transfer credits from a Washington community college.

Minh-An Nguyen, 21, majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, has been named a President’s Medalist — the outstanding student to complete at least three-fourths of her education at the UW.

In 1990, Dawn Williams was a recent business school grad who wanted to reconnect with the University.

Dan Evans came close to becoming the vice president of the United States twice, but luckily for his home state, it didn’t work out either time.

German graduate student Andre Zimmerman moved to Maryland to complete his doctoral research.

Eve Riskin sometimes strolls into the office wearing a pair of cow boots.

When Don Wulff was 7 years old, his parents decided he and his two siblings would attend school in town, not the one-room schoolhouse they’d been attending.

Trained as an anthropologist and a physician, J.

While the city of Seattle today enjoys a reputation as a livable,friendly and politically correct metropolis, as recently as 1966 racially segregated schools and neighborhoods were de rigueur.

Erasmo Gamboa spends a lot of time on the golf course, but he’s not trying to improve his handicap.

Jan Spyridakis, of the College of Engineering’s Department of Technical Communication, is the kind of professor who can inspire students in a spirited discussion of an unlikely topic — syntax and semantics.

Pam Robenolt doesn’t look much older than the students she supervises, but her quiet knowledge and confidence make clear who’s in charge — and that her students will perform.

It is rare to meet someone “who truly stands out, who inspires everyone in the room and who challenges others to view the world differently on a daily basis,” wrote Ray Johanson, assistant nurse manager of the Burn and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU), in a letter nominating Marne Faber for a Distinguished Staff Award.

Cynthia St.

It’s nearly impossible to draft a job description that adequately portrays what Elaine Franks does at the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics (BRTC).

Mining the expertise at the UW has allowed the Program on the Environment (PoE) to generate as many bachelor’s degrees, about 50 each year, as some departments do, all without having any faculty of its own.

Michelle Williams says she created the Multidisciplinary International Research Training (MIRT) Program to “allow minority students to have an international experience, something I didn’t have until I was a graduate student.

You know you’ve come to a challenging work environment when, shortly after you arrive, resignations leave you with a skeleton staff of strangers and you have to put yourself on the payroll because no one else knows how.

Students seem to respond to environments that are relaxed and open, where they can pitch out ideas without fear that their peers will think less of them, according to Alex Coverdill, doctoral student in biology and one of this year’s Excellence in Teaching Award recipients.

As strange as it seems, being a poor dance student has made Jerusha Achterberg a better classroom teacher.

When Matt Sparke was growing up in England he took an exam administered to many 11-year-olds to measure their problem-solving and reasoning skills — basically an intelligence test.

Terry Swanson firmly believes a key to his teaching success is making classes intimate.

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Doug Black didn’t set out to earn one of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching awards; he didn’t even set out to have an academic career.

Now well into his third decade of service at the UW, Lauro Flores, professor and chair in the Department of American Ethnic Studies, is a consummate teacher and a passionate advocate of diversity and inclusion.

For many, David Goldstein is a natural choice as recipient of a 2007 Distinguished Teaching Award.

You could say teaching is in Crispin Thurlow’s blood.

Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors.

There will be a reception from 7 to 9 p.