March 18, 2002
The astronomy open house this year occurs on International Astronomy Day and comes during a major planetary conjunction. Five planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury — will line up in the western sky, with a crescent moon supplying illumination.
March 15, 2002
Former Olympic sailing gold medallist Lowell North of Point Loma, Calif., is back at the helm of a sailing yacht, after his painful left shoulder was repaired during a surgical procedure at 糖心原创 Medical Center in Seattle last month.
March 14, 2002
Visiting artist Lee Higgins teaches students at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School to perform Brazilian music during “Samba in the Schools” week last week.
Researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.
“Bioterrorism: What Clinicians Need to Know” is the topic for this year’s annual Don B.
The juvenile salmon released last week from the UW’s Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station are offspring of summer chum that returned 900-strong last year to the stream.
It’s the most prolific plant in the world’s oceans, explains assistant professor Ginger Armbrust.
Lauro Flores just wanted to see that a deserving artist got more recognition.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
The Department of Bioengineering’s 14th annual Rushmer Lecture will be given the first week of April by Dr.
鈥淭he Medicine of Lewis and Clark鈥� will be the topic for the next Healthy U program at 7 p.
In research, there鈥檚 a very fine line between persistence and obstinacy.
The UW鈥檚 Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute and the VA Puget Sound Health Care System鈥檚 Addictions Treatment Center jointly manage the Seattle site for the COMBINE study (Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions).
UWired Health Sciences will present the first session of the Health Sciences Advanced Applications Forum on Monday, March 25, from 1 to 3:30 p.
The financial value of a law-abiding reputation 鈥� not tighter government regulations 鈥� is the best way to prevent future scandals like those enveloping energy giant Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen, a UW researcher says.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Funding Opportunity
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 糖心原创 faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects related to ethnic studies.
In the wake of the post-Sept.
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An 11-week Citizens Academy is being offered by the UW Police Department.
CAREER AWARD: In recognition of 30 years of service, Terry Nosho of the Washington Sea Grant Program has received the William Q.
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When most of us think of a job, we immediately think of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.
The 60-day Legislative session in Olympia ends today after a flurry of activity that will impact the University.
March 13, 2002
Teams from across the western United States and Brazil will gather at the 糖心原创 March 29 and 30 to test their mechanical mettle in a regional robotics contest.
March 12, 2002
The dot-com bust is over and executives need to overcome “dot vertigo,” an inability to adapt to e-commerce, says author Richard Nolan, the featured speaker at the 糖心原创 Business School’s e-business conference.
A grant from the G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation will help scientists at the 糖心原创’s Cell Systems Initiative build a prototype to study how cells grow, proliferate and differentiate.
March 7, 2002
The annual turning of the Quad cherry trees has peaked, drawing large numbers of visitors and students to admire the spectacular beauty.
Senior Jon Peebles gets some work done during the School of Art鈥檚 Open House last Friday.
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| HS News & Community Relations |
One of the results of training highly skilled paramedics and first responders is a significant increase in the number of severely injured patients making it to the emergency room.
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| University Week |
Steve Russell must have taken the message from his first book project to heart.
Along the 1,600-mile-long Hawaiian Ridge, the moon’s inexorable pull is creating waves that break in the hidden depths of the ocean just as the surf does on the world-famous beaches of Hawaii, Oahu and Kauai.
Only three people were able to identify the Mystery Photo from last week, which was of Clark Hall.
An artist鈥檚 interpretation of the hands of two UW heart surgeons and the operating field in which they are working appear as part of a public art project unveiled Feb.
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a change in the central part of the retina, the thin film coating the back of the eye.
Three faculty development workshops are planned this spring, sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Department of Medical Education.