October 11, 2001
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.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Academic Opportunities
Search continues for Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost
The 糖心原创 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, 糖心原创 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.
October 10, 2001
The 糖心原创 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).
October 9, 2001
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 糖心原创 researchers.
October 5, 2001
A new outreach program developed by the premier African American men’s social service organization in Seattle and the 糖心原创 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.
October 4, 2001
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.
Academic researchers have sometimes been criticized for going into communities, gathering data, publishing articles and leaving communities with little or no benefit.
Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague and a science writer for New York Newsday, will be the speaker for the UW’s Hogness Symposium Thursday, Oct.
Members of the family of Rob Muilenburg, longtime executive director of UW Medical Center who died in September 2000, were on hand for dedication of the medical center’s eastern wing as the Robert H.
Lectures rescheduled
-The Department of Surgery’s Strauss Lecture, originally scheduled for Sept.
The second UW Science Forum colloquium kicks off tomorrow (Oct.
The beginning of the fall term is traditionally an exciting time, but this year the mood is somber.
Total private support to the UW totaled $231,918,169 in fiscal year 2000-2001, an increase over last year’s record-breaking total of $225,575,162.
Dorothy Van Soest, professor and associate dean of the School of Social Work of the University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work at the UW, President Richard L.
Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a UW scientist says.
When UW staffer Jenny Mao and her husband attend a Mariner game, they arrive about three hours early.
UW deans are more satisfied with support services than they were two years ago, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
A new NIH-supported center housed on the UW campus will develop modular microscale instrumentation systems for the detection and analysis of how, when, and why very small populations of living cells interact with each other and their environment.
The UW has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.
Greg Crowther, a graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics and winner of the 1999 Dawg Dash, encourages UW departments to sign up as teams in the annual walk/run Oct.
Community Transit’s superhero, Mr.