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October 11, 2007
The latest news from the UW
Emmert to speak
President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the 91探花community at 3:30 p.
Violence prevention workshop available
A workshop on violence prevention is available to faculty, staff and students.
Close to you: 91探花student actors learn to transfer stage technique to screen
Imagine you’re an actress doing Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
New garden makes Pacific Connections
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs 鈥� some as tall as 30 feet 鈥� and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
CFD: What would you give to change the world?
This year, the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), Washington State’s workplace giving campaign, asks would-be donors, “What would you give to change the world?”
This year’s campaign began Oct.
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
College planning session tailored to 91探花faculty, staff
Demystifying physics: High school teachers learn inquiry method at UW鈥檚 summer program
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Hans Blix to speak on arms race threat
Hans Blix, who headed the United Nations commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, is deeply worried that a new but quiet arms race threatens the world.
ETC.: Campus news & notes
STAR EDUCATOR: Tom Griffin, editor of Columns, the 91探花alumni magazine, was named a “Faculty Star” by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Author, researcher to speak on multiculturalism in Britain
Researcher and author Audrey Osler will be the featured speaker for the Center for Multicultural Education at the UW’s 24th symposium-lecture, 11 a.
Four A&S dean finalists to speak
Four finalists for the position of dean of the College of Arts and Sciences will be making public presentations in the next month, open to all faculty, staff and students.
Conifers or condos? NW Environmental Forum develops strategies
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
Grad School to host discussion of nation-building Oct. 15
Attention armchair detectives: Second Emerald City Search begins Oct. 17
The UW, in partnership with the Seattle Times and the Seattle Art Museum, invites all treasure hunters and thrill seekers to join an adventurous 10-day foray in fun for the second annual Emerald City Search, beginning Oct.
Historical film screening slated: Program includes mix of humorous, entertaining and odd
The first public screening of historic films from the 91探花Libraries Special Collections will feature an eclectic mix of the humorous, entertaining and odd.
Hall research building dedication Oct. 17
The public is invited to an open house in honor of the dedication of the Benjamin D.
鈥楥ommon Book鈥� author Kolbert warns of coming catastrophe brought by global warming
Elizabeth Kolbert tells scary stories, the kind that stick in your head long after you’ve finished her book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change.
Undergrads find 1,300 asteroids
Undergraduate astronomy students at the 91探花combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.
91探花is ‘nearly’ smoke-free
It’s well documented that smoking tobacco is one of the riskiest and deadliest behaviors around, contributing to over 30 percent of heart disease and strokes, nearly 90 percent of lung cancers and at least a third of other cancers.
Lehman and Goff win Health Breakthrough Award
MRI helps detect breast cancer in women at high risk
If a woman has been newly diagnosed with cancer in one breast, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the other breast may show cancer that the mammogram missed, according to a UW-led international study that was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in March.
NIH funds 91探花Institute of Translational Health Sciences
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
The 91探花Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).
91探花faculty elected to Institute of Medicine
Four 91探花faculty members have been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM).
In Brief
Free seminar on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Oct.
October 9, 2007
91探花researchers play major role in next phase of 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.
Generating ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’: Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Web
The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities.
October 8, 2007
Conifers or condos? NW Environmental Forum develops strategies
Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.
Institute of Medicine announces newly elected members; four 91探花faculty members and two alumni among those named
Four faculty members from the 91探花 (including two who are also 91探花alumni) and two other alumni from the 91探花health sciences have been elected to the Institute of Medicine.
91探花undergrads discover more than 1,300 asteroids
Undergraduate astronomy students at the 91探花 combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.
‘Google 101’ class at 91探花inspires first Internet-scale programming courses
A pilot course taught at the 91探花 has been expanded into a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers.
October 4, 2007
91探花 to lead local center in landmark national study of children’s health
The 91探花 has been selected as a study center in the National Children’s Study to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States.
91探花staffer to run Seattle Marathon in memory of mentor
By Gene Woodard
Facilities Services
Gene Woodard, director of the Custodial Service Division of 91探花Facilities Services, is training for the 91探花Medical Center Seattle Marathon which will be held Sunday, Nov.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
City birds better than rural species in coping with human disruption
Birds that hang out in large urban areas seem to have a marked advantage over their rural cousins 鈥� they are adaptable enough to survive in a much larger range of conditions.
UW, community college team up to create teacher education program for diverse students
A new partnership between the 91探花and Seattle Central Community College is creating an education pathway for prospective elementary school teachers and encouraging a sense of community among the participants.
‘University Week’ remembers 鈥� 25 years and counting
This school year, University Week, the 91探花campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.