December 5, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO — Scientists studying the effects of carbon on climate warming are very likely underestimating, by a vast amount, how much soil carbon is available in the high Arctic to be released into the atmosphere, new 91探花 research shows.
For the third consecutive year, banks with headquarters in Washington state delivered an average of 10 percent return to investors, according to researchers at the 91探花 Business School.
Anyone interested in joining the United States Senate next year had better make the following New Year’s resolution — pile up at least $10 million.
December 2, 2005
Harry Bruce, a faculty member at the 91探花Information School, has been named dean of the school effective Jan.
December 1, 2005
A team of Spanish and American neuroscientists has discovered neurons in the mammalian brainstem that focus exclusively on new, novel sounds, helping humans and other animals ignore ongoing, predictable sounds.
The 91探花 School of Law has received a $33.
Open House next spring
The 2006 Health Sciences Open House is set for Friday and Saturday, April 28 and 29.
The medical school’s first Education in Medicine lecturer will be Vice President for Medical Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine Paul G.
Conflicts of interest, both real and perceived, that are of particular interest to researchers working with human subjects are the focus of a program next week.
When Mike Shanahan was diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in 1993, he didn’t say anything about it to most of his co-workers in the 91探花Police Department that he had led as chief for more than 20 years.
Pathways to Civic Participation: Youth Service in the Global Context is the title of a lecture to be delivered by Susan Stroud, executive director of the nonprofit social change organization Innovations in Civic Participation.
Van Sherod’s work life plays out against the buzz of power tools, but when he goes home, he’s greeted by a more natural kind of buzz.
If you are interested in learning more about the 91探花Police Department and our community, you can sign up for a free 10-week Citizen’s Academy.
Two 91探花undergraduates have been selected as scholars to study at two of Great Britain’s most famous universities.
With a goal of collecting at least 4,500 pounds of peanut butter before Christmas, the General Surgery Division of the Department of Surgery has launched “Operation Peanut Butter.
With the No Child Left Behind Act increasingly focusing schools’ attention on test scores alone, programs that stress behavior, social development and commitment to school have sometimes gotten left behind.
Less than a decade ago, researchers were able to confirm the existence of adult stem cells hiding out in the central nervous system, and ever since people have been trying to figure out how these cells could be activated to repair spinal cord injuries or even to cure neurodegenerative diseases.
The 91探花Photographers Group is holding its annual Group Show at the HUB Gallery in the Student Union Building through Dec.
Sometimes a research project evolves to become more than the sum of its parts.
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America’s charter schools serve a larger percentage of minority and low-income students than do the nation’s traditional public schools, according to a comprehensive new study of the growing charter movement.
Editor’s note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive, which runs through Dec.
A memorial service has been set for Jerre D.
POETIC TRIBUTE: Mary Coventry, a 91探花staff member for nearly 20 years, died this fall.
A purse was stolen from Kane Hall sometime between 12:30 p.
The Undergraduate Theater Society production of (M)Alice: A Gross Misinterpretation Of Wonderland will be presented
Dec.
The 2006 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just over 100 days ago I arrived at the 91探花 as provost.
The ideal undergraduate experience at the 91探花would engage all students 鈥� not just in the classroom, but by extending intellectual life to where students live.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Participants wanted for Continuums of Service conference
Washington Campus Compact and the Western Region Campus Compact Consortium is sponsoring the Ninth Annual Continuums of Service Conference, “Engaging Leadership: New Visions, Voices, and Models” April 19-21, 2006, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bellevue.
Where are we? The photo to the right was taken somewhere on campus.
November 30, 2005
Booster seats have been proven to protect children from serious injury, yet new research shows that in some communities fewer than 21 percent of children 4-8 years old are properly secured in booster seats when they ride in cars.
November 28, 2005
With the No Child Left Behind Act increasingly focusing schools’ attention on test scores alone, programs that stress behavior, social development and commitment to school have sometimes gotten left behind.
November 23, 2005
91探花Medical Center has become the title sponsor for the 2006 Seattle Marathon.
November 21, 2005
America’s charter schools serve a larger percentage of minority and low-income students than do the nation’s traditional public schools, according to a comprehensive new study of the growing charter movement.
November 17, 2005
“Caught in the (Patriot) Act” is the title of a forum on the implications of the Patriot Act featuring Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, and other speakers.
“Caught in the (Patriot) Act” is the title of a forum on the implications of the Patriot Act featuring Norm Stamper, former Seattle police chief, and other speakers.