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Dr. Allan Basbaum, professor and chair of the Department of Anatomy at the University of California at San Francisco, will give the first Allan and Phyllis Treuer Lecture in Pain Research on Thursday, Nov. 18. He will speak on 鈥淭he Neurobiology of Pain: From Molecules to Circuits鈥� at 2:30 p.m. in room T-733 of the Health Sciences Center. This lecture inaugurates the Treuer Chair in Pain Research in the Department of Pharmacology.
Basbaum is an international leader in pain research, focusing on the neurobiological basis of pain and its control. He studies the actions of neurotransmitter molecules used by the sensory neurons to transmit pain stimuli into the central nervous system and the processing of pain information by nerve cells in the spinal cord.
He has discovered several important new aspects of the changes that occur in nerve cells, and in the neurotransmitters that they use to signal pain stimuli, during the development of chronic pain in mouse models of injury. His research combines high-resolution microscopy, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, and behavioral testing in a coordinated way to learn about pain mechanisms and the effects of drug treatments at the molecular, cellular, and whole-animal levels.
Basbaum is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972. After postdoctoral research at University College London, he joined the University of California at San Francisco as a senior postdoctoral fellow, was appointed assistant professor in 1977 and assumed his present position in 1997. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pain, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Pain Research.

Developing patents from research work will be the topic for the next program in the 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You鈥� series sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Office of Industry Relations.

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Faculty Senate position announcement
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three 91探花campuses for the vital position of secretary of the faculty.

INTERNATIONAL FLAIR: Five 91探花professors have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and/or do research abroad.

The Faculty Senate is currently recruiting for two important positions in its organization 鈥� secretary of the faculty and vice chair of the senate.

As online technology grows at the UW, paperwork is reduced and communication becomes more immediate and effective.

A jazz concert, like a traditional wedding, usually has four components: something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.

Both 91探花Bothell and 91探花Tacoma, in self studies mandated by the state legislature, plan dramatic growth over the coming decade to meet the higher education needs of their communities.

An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the 91探花’s School of Oceanography.

In the closing weeks of a tight presidential race, the Democratic National Committee has been out-e-mailing its Republican counterpart, a research team of 91探花 students has found.

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91探花Job: Development Coordinator, School of Social Work Office of Development and Alumni Relations

Volunteer Activity: Forgotten Children鈥檚 Fund.

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“Gerontechnology Today and Tomorrow” is the title of a daylong conference and exhibition of products useful for older adults and caregivers.

President Mark Emmert has appointed the members of the Search Advisory Committee to find a new provost.

The 91探花has been awarded a $749,188 grant from the National Science Foundation to find the best ways to represent in tactile form the graphical images found in scientific, engineering and mathematical books, papers and digital formats for use by students with visual impairments.

The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.

The 91探花 was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.

David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the 91探花campus in these days before the general election on Nov.

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at 91探花Medical Center have today (Oct.

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Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won鈥檛 be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.

A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn鈥檛 resemble any known star type.

The 91探花Faculty Senate 鈥� which holds its first meeting Oct.

An internationally known researcher in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the UW鈥檚 School of Oceanography.

Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format?

The answer 鈥淎bsolutely nowhere 鈥� you must be dreaming鈥� is wrong, actually.

The 91探花has a new magazine, but you won鈥檛 find it on the newsstands.

91探花Medicine鈥檚 Office of Clinical Research and Children鈥檚 Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) have launched a Web-based 鈥淕ood Clinical Practice鈥� (GCP) training program.

The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center has been re-funded for an additional four years by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

The series on 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You,鈥� sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Office of Industry Relations and open to everyone, has scheduled a presentation on new National Institutes of Health policies that encourage sharing information and resources.

Translating the latest advances in research into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner鈥檚 office and into the community.

The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.

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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 projects on ethnic issues in the U.

PARALYMPIC PRESS: The 91探花was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.

The 91探花has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.