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

Sixteen-year-old Jolene Monk of Shoreline hopes to become an engineer 鈥� just like her mother.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY

ADAI grants

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from UW faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

UW Medicine Board review committee report available online
The full report of the UW Medicine Board review commmittee, 鈥淎chieving Excellence in Compliance鈥� is now available on the Web.

UW researchers are studying the effects of children鈥檚 exposure to diesel bus exhaust, and are looking for students in the Seattle and Tahoma school districts who ride diesel school buses.

The rivers of South America鈥檚 Amazon basin are 鈥渂reathing鈥� far harder 鈥� cycling the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide more quickly 鈥� than anyone realized.

FARM POND FINDS: During the summer, recreational use of the 1 million or so farm ponds in Texas reaches its annual peak.

Meredith Clausen, professor of art history and architecture, will present a lecture at the Henry Art Gallery Aug.

Next week, about 70 UW employees, along with several of their counterparts with the city, county and state, will travel to Emmitsburg, Md.

Researchers studying home videotapes of children鈥檚 first and second birthday parties have confirmed what a number of parents have been claiming for years 鈥� that some youngsters who are seemingly normal at age 1 regress and exhibit the characteristic behaviors of autism by the end of their second year.

The UW Police Department has received national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).

Later this month, the University will launch an intensive effort to ensure that each faculty member properly reports to the federal government the amount of time that is spent on sponsored research, a subject known as faculty effort certification.

Next week UW staff will have the opportunity to attend the first Staff Resource Fair, slated for 11:30 a.

BON APPETIT: You can enjoy fine dining and help the needy all at once when you attend the Sunset Supper sponsored by Seattle鈥檚 Market Foundation at 7:30 p.

Women are vastly underrepresented in the academic sciences 鈥� that unfortunate fact is widely known.

Several local and regional agencies will be testing their ability to respond to an emergency involving mass casualties caused by a weapon of mass destruction in a drill to be held at the 糖心原创 Aug.

Researchers studying home videotapes of children’s first and second birthday parties have confirmed what a number of parents have been claiming for years — that some youngsters who are seemingly normal at age 1 regress and exhibit the characteristic behaviors of autism by the end of their second year.

Being seasick is not a problem for scientists on a major expedition now under way in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

More than 320 acres of gardens and woodlands — including one of the oldest arboretums this side of the Mississippi — and one of the West Coast’s largest horticulture centers and libraries began operating this summer under the umbrella “糖心原创 Botanic Gardens.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus, and this week it features the photographers who bring you the Mystery Photo each week.

On June 24, the sewing machines whirred at Harborview Medical Center as patients from the Burn, Psychiatry and Rehab units gathered for a two-hour workshop to explore the colorful world of quilting.

It might be just the edge of an ivy-laden wall, the corner of an obscure bench or a half-forgotten icon tucked away somewhere on the UW campus.

When Daisy got on that famous 鈥淏icycle Built for Two,鈥� you can bet her ride was a lot more sedate than that anticipated by staffers Martin Criminale and Martha Walsh next week.

Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their roots in the region鈥檚 seismic history.

UW President Emeritus Lee Huntsman has been selected by Washington Governor Christine Gregoire as the first executive director of the Life Sciences Discovery Fund Authority, a public-private partnership intended to give life sciences research in the state a major boost.

The mystery begins last year when Paula Walker, interim head of the East Asia Library, receives a letter of introduction for a doctoral student at the UW.

Products sold over the counter to consumers as lip enhancers, with the promise of fuller lips, don鈥檛 live up to their claims, according to a new study conducted at the UW Medical Center鈥檚 Cosmetic Surgery Center and published in the May/June issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery.

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This year for the first time, the UW will host the annual symposium of the U.

For the third consecutive year, UW Medical Center (UWMC) ranks among the top 10 hospitals in the nation.

Drug-involved deaths increased by more than a third in 2004, due primarily to cocaine, heroin, prescription opiates and prescription and over-the-counter depressants, according to the latest report on drug abuse trends in the Seattle-King county area.

Reference update 
The following UW policies, orders, and rules were recently revised:

• 鈥淎cceptance of Transfer Credit,鈥� revised effective January 24, 2005 (University Handbook, Vol.
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Expanding connections and resources for new K12 teachers is at the heart of a two-year, $500,000 grant from Microsoft that the UW will share with three other universities, partnering with public school districts.

Several local and regional agencies will be testing their ability to respond to an emergency involving mass casualties caused by a weapon of mass destruction in a drill to be held at the UW Aug.

Training adults to have more effective parenting skills is the most potent tool available and should remain the standard of care in treating preadolescent children with serious conduct behavior problems.

WHOSE VOICE WAS THAT, ANYWAY?: An article under the headline 鈥淰oice Lessons鈥� in a recent edition of Time Magazine鈥檚 special section Inside Business quoted Mark Forehand, a UW associate professor of marketing and international business, on the relative effectiveness of celebrity voice-overs in television commercials.

WE鈥橰E IN PICTURES: Florentine Films, Ken Burns鈥� film production company (though not Burns himself), is at the UW Libraries Special Collections division through July 23 to film images for an upcoming film on National Parks.

All but four scientists taking part in a major expedition in the Atlantic Ocean starting this week are in a specialized command center in Mary Gates Hall on the 糖心原创 campus, a quarter of the world away from the ship they鈥檙e 鈥渙n.

The 糖心原创, faced with a July 23 deadline for securing $35 million in matching funds to construct a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, has been unable to secure those funds, President Mark A.