October 2, 2008
That patience and persistence pay off is dramatically illustrated by the scholarly work of Mona Atia, whose recent dissertation on trends in Islamic charitable giving was hailed by one reviewer as “the best dissertation I have read anywhere.
POWER PICNIC: Staff of the UW’s Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) enjoyed a picnic Sept.
“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.
By Lawrence Robinson, M.
When was the last time you had a good laugh? Maybe it was while watching a movie, joking with a friend or, if you’re a member of the Harborview Medical Center Laugh Club, doubling over with a raucous crowd of fellow giggle-seekers.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The School of Pharmacy’s Dr.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Pam Selz and Kathy Hobson both work for the 91探花Medical Center’s Pathology Department and both are dog owners, but their dogs do more than provide companionship.
In 1947, dancer and choreographer Joseph Gifford went to the Museum of Modern Art and saw Pablo Picasso’s iconic painting, Guernica.
Three finalists for the position of chief of the 91探花 Police Department will be visiting campus in October.
September 30, 2008
There’s a lot of truth in the old proverb “experience is the best teacher,” and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.
A report on the log truck industry just delivered to the state legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.
In a large group of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, depression was associated with a higher death rate from all causes during a two-year study period.
September 26, 2008
The 91探花 received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.
September 25, 2008
The 91探花Police Department is welcoming all faculty, staff and students to its annual open house, from 2 to 4 p.
Co-founder of 91探花 programs in Italy dies
When 91探花students Steve Margitan and Geoff Morgan pitched in with post-earthquake help in China this past spring, they had no idea they’d wind up with $65,000 in donations and 5,700 cards and letters for children in the disaster zone.
What are you doing on presidential debate nights? How about joining a bunch of students, faculty and staff to listen to the candidates? The 91探花Libraries and WashPIRG are sponsoring live viewing of the presidential and vice-presidential debates on a big screen.
The first study of conduct problems in children to include a significant number of aggressive girls indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes.
How’s your blood pressure? Oh, you haven’t had it checked lately? The Employee Health Clinic, located at Hall Health, can help you with that.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The Henry Art Gallery at the 91探花is administering a new award for emerging artists in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
You can register now for 91探花Computer Training classes in word processing, graphics and presentations, desktop publishing and other computer-related topics including these new offerings:
You’ll find links to the autumn schedule and a printable course catalog at <A href="https://www.
LOCAL HERO: Russell Ellis, a 91探花Police Department officer, received a Lifesaving Award at this year’s Governor’s Industrial Safety & Health Conference after going out of his way to help a stranger.
At any given time there is a small army of workers on the 91探花campus who are not employed by the University.
Online teaching isn’t right for every class, and in-person instruction can be inconvenient for busy professional people.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now.
Catherine Henderson, who describes herself as a romantic at heart, wrote her prize winning Song of Washington, Stand Up with Pride for Washington, because she wanted to inspire people to be part of something bigger than themselves.
The 91探花World Series opens its 2008-09 President’s Piano solo recital series at 8 p.
The MacArthur Foundation works so quietly on its genius grants, 91探花scientist David Montgomery didn’t even know he’d been nominated until he learned of his selection last week.
Over the summer, the 91探花Police Department got its national accreditation renewed 鈥� which is a tougher process than getting accredited in the first place.
New research shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina’s victims were black.
The Northwest Film Forum will feature two films from the 91探花Libraries Special Collections on Tuesday, Oct.
A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.
It’s official: The College of Architecture and Urban Planning has been renamed the College of Built Environments.
Did you know that a dried grasshopper’s body is more than 60-percent protein: twice that of chicken or beef? Learn more yummy bug facts from “the Bug Chef,” David George Gordon at The Burke Museum’s10th annual Bug Blast from 10 a.
Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed.