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November 16, 2011

Etc.: Campus news & notes

A video on waste reduction features 91探花staffers J.R. Fulton, Micheal Meyering, Clive Pursehouse, Ruth Johnston and Eric Johnson as well as students Martin Su and Dan Brody. Also, the School of Social Work gets a gift from the estate of an alum and Friday Harbor resident scientist Megan Dethier is named Naturalist of the Year.

Carbon mitigation strategy uses wood for buildings first, bioenergy second

Pacific Northwest trees grown and harvested sustainably can both remove existing carbon dioxide from the air and help keep the gas from entering the atmosphere in the first place. Thats provided wood is used primarily for such things as building materials, instead of cement and steel, and secondarily that wood wastes are used for biofuels.

Biological futures initiative aims to bring larger ethical issues into non-medical science

After he created the Center for Biological Futures at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Roger Brent joined forces with the 91探花to “generate better thinking and scholarship about the impact that increases in biological capability are having and will have on human affairs.鈥 The result is an initiative, “Biological Futures in a Globalized World.”

Study shows new medication effectively treats underlying cause of cystic fibrosis

A final stage clinical trial of ivacaftor (VX-770) shows significantly improved lung function in subset of cystic fibrosis patients, as reported Nov. 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pediatrician Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey of Seattle Children’s Research Institute and the 91探花led the study.