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March 29, 2005
March 29, 2005
While the 91探花men’s basketball team was doing its part for national recognition, 91探花students were winning more than their share of prominent national and international awards and competitions on an unprecedented scale.
Mitja Gorenak was born on the day the torch for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was carried through his birth city, Celje.
March 28, 2005
March 24, 2005
Contradicting previous assumptions, new fisheries research shows that allocating catch among vessels reduces the amount of fish discarded at sea.
A pair of leading scientists who study songbirds as models for understanding the human brain and how humans acquire language say it’s time for the burgeoning field to begin singing a different tune and study a wider variety of species.
March 23, 2005
Rising sea levels 20,000 years ago, as the last ice age was beginning to wane, often are attributed in part to melting in West Antarctica.
March 21, 2005
WHAT: “Headlines: Emerging Architectural Ideas.
In three spatial dimensions, it is a close relative of the quark-gluon plasma, the super-hot state of matter that hasn’t existed since the tiniest fraction of a second after the big bang that started the universe.
Pregnant women who are hospitalized following motor vehicle crashes are at increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, even if they are not seriously injured or not injured at all.
March 18, 2005
91探花 President Mark Emmert has selected Suzanne Trager Ortega, vice provost for advanced studies and dean of graduate school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, as dean and vice provost of the 91探花Graduate School, effective Aug.
March 16, 2005
A 91探花 alumnus who invented more than 30 biomedical devices, including a shunt that made kidney dialysis practical, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Northwest Pioneers of Biomaterials and Medical Devices Award.
Astrophysicists in recent years have found evidence for a force they call dark energy in observations from the farthest reaches of the universe, billions of light years away.
March 15, 2005
Scientists trying to recreate conditions that existed just a few millionths of a second after the big bang that started the universe have run into a mysterious problem — some of the reactions they are getting don’t mesh with what they thought they were supposed to see.
March 10, 2005
Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, a world leader in heart and lung transplant surgery and research, will speak at the 17th annual Rushmer Lecture, sponsored by the 91探花Department of Bioengineering.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Nature may still dictate their delicate display, but the famous cherry trees on the Quad, in keeping with the times, have gone online.
Editor鈥檚 Note: This is one of a series of columns by chairs of the Faculty Senate鈥檚 councils and committees.
Are farmers in southeast Idaho likely to start irrigating in early May, in late May, or somewhere in between?
Private power producer PacifiCorp, for one, wants to know so it can prepare for less water being available and more power being needed when agricultural producers start pumping earlier in the year.
Peg Cheng may look like a responsible adult, but for more than a year her mind has been on high school.
The hydrothermal vents were miles from where anyone could have imagined.
The 91探花Consolidated Laundry in Seattle鈥檚 Rainier Valley has installed a water recycling system that is expected to conserve approximately 18 million gallons a year.
Prions, which have been identified as the causative agent in mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and scrapie, a disease of sheep and goats, were identified, named and characterized by Dr.
Transmissible brain diseases among livestock and wild game have become a growing concern in veterinary medicine, agriculture, and public health.
Local neuroscience meeting
The Pacific Cascade and Vancouver, B.
鈥淪tarting a Company While Keeping Your Day Job at the UW鈥 is the title for the next presentation in the series 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You,鈥 sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Industry Relations Office.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Grant applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 91探花faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning scholarly projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
ACTIVE RETIREMENT: If you have seen the most recent Taco Time commercial on TV, or heard it on the radio, you鈥檝e been tuning in on the post-professorial career of Otto Reinert.
March 9, 2005
March 8, 2005
The most intense swarms of earthquakes detected in the last 10 to 12 years on the far edge of the Juan de Fuca plate could indicate the eruption of magma from the seafloor or an underwater volcano.
March 3, 2005
The Faculty Dance Concert, slated for tonight through Sunday in Meany Studio Theater, is designed as a showcase for choreography by Dance Program faculty.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Four 91探花faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships, given to the very best young faculty in the country in designated scientific fields.
Editor鈥檚 Note: Ken Fine, a News & Information employee who is a graduate of the 91探花School of Art and our resident expert on PowerPoint, offers his thoughts on David Byrne鈥檚 upcoming PowerPoint performance at 7 p.
The Faculty Dance Concert, slated for tonight through Sunday in Meany Studio Theater, is designed as a showcase for choreography by Dance Program faculty.
Think you know the campus? Then try your luck with the Mystery Photo.
It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state.
Sustainability practices are not exclusive to the UW鈥檚 Publications Services Department 鈥 they are campuswide, indeed statewide and beyond.