SIMPLY BRILLIANT: Popular Science magazine chose Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, for a spot on this year’s “Brilliant 10” list.
October 25, 2007
The latest news from the UW
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Watras to perform Oct. 30
91探花faculty violist Melia Watras will perform at 7:30 p.
Climate sensitivity leads to great uncertainty
Despite decades of ever more-exacting science projecting Earth’s warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur.
Five 91探花profs named AAAS Fellows
Five 91探花faculty members have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
In brief
Hogness Symposium: Faye Wattleton Oct.
A conversation with Jack Berryman
Jack Berryman, 91探花professor of medical history and adjunct professor of orthopaedics and sports medicine, is an avid sportsman, historian and scholar.
91探花dermatologists ‘zap’ unwanted skin art
If you are determined to get a tattoo, Dr.
Derek Jackson named 2007 Pisacano Scholar
Derek Jackson, a fourth-year 91探花medical student, has been named a 2007 Pisacano Scholar by the Pisacano Leadership Foundation, Inc.
91探花Division of Rheumatology receives $3.2 million bequest
The 91探花Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, has received a $3.
91探花researchers to advance human genome project
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded 91探花 researchers $10.
Michelle Williams wins public health’s Lilienfeld Award
Michelle Williams, 91探花professor of epidemiology, has won the American Public Health Association鈥檚 (APHA) Abraham Lilienfeld Award that recognizes excellence in teaching of epidemiology during the course of her career.
October 24, 2007
Linguists looking for a Pacific Northwest dialect
Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of the Missouri River as speaking a similar-sounding type of English.
91探花 receives A- grade in sustainability
The 91探花 has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued today by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
October 23, 2007
91探花renews its search for Washington’s brightest fifth- through eighth-graders
The annual statewide hunt for Washington’s most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the 91探花.
October 18, 2007
Official Notices
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
Peer Portfolio
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
Photographers Group presents annual show
The 91探花Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
Marvelous maples
Mary Levin The 91探花Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by 91探花staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, or 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 3. Pre-registration is required; click here for more information or call 206-685-8033.
Then and now: Searching the skies for life
This school year, University Week, the 91探花campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
91探花early contributor to Nobel prize-winning work by climate group
Within years of its inception, 91探花faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
Improved forecasting of volcanic eruptions is part of Malone’s legacy
When Steve Malone retired earlier this month, he could take satisfaction in the great strides that have been made in forecasting volcanic eruptions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
Green living in the green room: KUOW embraces composting
Even as KUOW, the UW’s National Public Radio affiliate, asks for green from its listeners in its pledge drives, the station’s staff and volunteers are going green by recycling and composting, especially in 鈥� you guessed it 鈥� the green room.
Dawg TV? Public, ‘private鈥� faces to 91探花both part of iTunes presentations
Wanted: 91探花videos and other multimedia materials of interest to people aged 18 to 35.
Author/researchers describe their ‘Fieldwork Connections’
Suppose you went through a series of engaging events with two people from another country.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, baby boomers headline Engineering Lecture Series
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how 91探花engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
Delaney to speak on 鈥榚nvironmental renaissance鈥�
John Delaney, the 91探花oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Disability and Society: Examining disability in context
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
UW-initiated biosolids project wins national clean water award
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won 91探花researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
UW, state join to monitor climate change impact on humans
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Faye Wattleton to give 18th Hogness Symposium Oct. 31
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
In brief
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
EMP鈥檚 ‘American Sabor’ savors the Latino influence on American popular music
It’s possible to discuss American Sabor: Latinos in U.
Angelosante joins Health Sciences Administration
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Leonard Hudson to receive HMC Mission of Caring Award
October 17, 2007
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
October 15, 2007
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.