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The 2004 Health Sciences Open House will be Friday, April 23, and Saturday, April 24.

Scattered across the United States are about 60 penal institutions that are called super-maximum security prisons, control units or some other similar name.

Five 91探花 students won the western division of the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Boulder, Colo.

As the publication of scientific research papers shifts more and more from print to electronic distribution, universities often buy site licenses that provide campuswide online access to a variety of journals, which cuts publishers’ production costs and is more convenient for readers.

Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.

The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide.”

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

91探花Professor Anthony Chan will be speaking next week when the U District鈥檚 Grand Illusion movie house opens its weeklong run of Piccadilly, a 1929 film starring Anna May Wong.

Photos from here 鈥� and there 鈥� on display in Marine Studies
A career in oceanography has meant a life of travel for 91探花Professor Warren Wooster, whose photos of one of his destinations are on display now in the Marine Studies Building. Sixteen black-and-white images span 25 years of Wooster鈥檚 visits to France. Also displayed are photos of the Northwest by professional photographer Mary Randlett.

Surplus property turns to eBay for some sale items
Wanna buy some used card catalogs? Later this month, 91探花surplus will be selling the empty card catalog cabinets that stood in Suzzallo for many years, before computers revolutionized library searching. They鈥檙e just one of the many unusual items that come through surplus property, which has lately been posting some of its sale items on eBay.

Underwater gliders that can operate autonomously at sea for months at a time and travel thousands of miles are revolutionizing how oceanographers collect measurements.

Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey across the Last Himalayan Kingdom, will be presented at 7 p.

鈥淒esigning Effective Assignments for Group Learning鈥� is the title of the next Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning, set for 2:30 to 4 p.

Author and psychologist Robert J.

The challenge of preserving Pacific Northwest natural resources is the subject of “Sustaining Our Northwest World: When Humans and Nature Collide,” a lecture series starting next week with a look at the need for active forest stewardship of public forests.

Sherwood “Sherry” Rowland, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry, will offer a free public lecture, Our Changing Atmosphere in 2004, at 7 p.

Japanese Obon: Dancing with the Dead, a lecture by the Rev.

The exhibit, 鈥淭his is woman鈥檚 hour鈥︹�� 鈥� The Life of Mary Baker Eddy, is on display on the second floor of  Odegaard Library through March 30.

Shahrokh M.

The School of Music鈥檚 annual 鈥淢osaic鈥� concert is meant to be a sampler, a chance to hear, in one program, a wide variety of musical styles and artists.

The Provost’s Office is looking for some great ideas that require modest amounts of temporary funding to be realized.

President Lee Huntsman has appointed Elizabeth L.

AAAS in Seattle; 91探花scientists featured
One of the largest gatherings of scientists from around the world comes to Seattle next week when the American Association for the Advancement of Science stages its annual meeting. Offering a program of 130 symposia, topical lectures and seminars, the meeting includes nearly 90 91探花Washington faculty and students as lecturers, symposium organizers and speakers. AAAS runs from Feb. 12 through Feb.16 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

Several matters important to the 91探花are receiving favorable reactions thus far in the legislative session.

Motor vehicle crashes are the single largest killer of children 4-8 years old, and 55 percent of all child passenger injuries are in this group.

Four faculty members in the 91探花’s Department of Electrical Engineering have been elected fellows of in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, bringing the total number of IEEE fellows in the department to 22.

The 91探花Medicine Regional Heart Center is the primary sponsor for the 鈥淕o Red for Women鈥� luncheon and seminars planned by the American Heart Association as part of a national campaign to educate women about their risks for heart disease and related conditions.

Exhibitors will be signing up in February to reserve space along the tour route for Health Sciences Open House 2004, the Health Sciences Center鈥檚 largest outreach event, which is generally held every two years.

91探花Medicine is offering the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research by attending Mini-Medical School 2004.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Editor鈥檚 Note: This is one of a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.