WEATHERING CHANGE: The reading at University Book Store on Nov.
November 20, 2003
The latest news from the UW
Third hormone could affect songbirds鈥� breeding patterns
Scientists have known for many years that auditory cues such as song can influence hormone release and the growth of gonads in songbirds, but how the brain picks out specific sounds, interprets them correctly and translates them into hormonal and behavioral signals has remained a mystery.
Quake experts: It鈥檚 location, location, location
Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
Program presents annual minority business awards
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state were honored last evening at the 2003 91探花Minority Business of the Year Awards.
Mars landers create opportunity for Web-linked sundials around the world
Woodruff Sullivan, a 91探花 astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, “the science guy,” and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams.
November 19, 2003
Science wed with policy key to using, protecting ocean resources
Dealing with pressing issues of the nation’s 3.4 million square miles of ocean and the wise use of marine resources elsewhere around the world requires the integration of natural and social science with policy decisions, according to Professor Thomas Leschine, the new director of the 91探花’s School of Marine Affairs.
State’s top minority-owned companies honored for economic contributions
Nine of the approximately 54,000 businesses owned by people of color in Washington state will be honored this evening at the 2003 91探花 Minority Business of the Year Awards.
November 18, 2003
Digital secret agent asks students’ help in battling evil, beating heart disease
It takes a lot of heart to fight evil 鈥� just ask Secret Agent Guy Simplant, who in his latest adventure is teetering on the losing edge of a battle with the ultra-naughty Evil Spy, and with his own poor health-care choices.
November 17, 2003
Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
It’s a long-held tenet of avian biology that songbirds have just two types of a key reproduction hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and only one actually triggers a seasonal “puberty” each spring in preparation for reproduction. But the new research shows a third form of the hormone, called lamprey GnRH-III-like hormone because it was first identified in lampreys, is also present in songbird brains.
November 13, 2003
CFD: Alumni Relations staffer not satisfied with just one volunteer gig
Editor鈥檚 Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Master classes offer chance to see musicians in the making
When jazz violinist Regina Carter visited the School of Music last week, it was just one more opportunity for students at the school to have a lesson 鈥� in public.
Major mutations might lead way to new species, study shows
Hummingbirds visited nearly 70 times more often after scientists altered the color of a kind of monkeyflower from pink 鈥� beloved by bees but virtually ignored by hummingbirds 鈥� to a hummer-attractive yellow-orange.
91探花Tacoma chancellor departs for Massachusetts
The Westfield State College board of trustees in Westfield, Mass.
University to commemorate Japanese Language School
The UW, Tacoma will host an event on Tuesday to commemorate the history of the Japanese Language School building, slated to be torn down this winter.
Best young scholars in Washington sought
The 91探花is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.
U-Match: Boosting community, not romance
U-Match is probably not the place to find the next love of your life, nor is it some corporate moneymaking scheme.
Breathtaking: Evidence suggests that low O2 levels led to mass extinction, birds鈥� breathing system
Recent evidence suggests that oxygen levels were suppressed worldwide 175 million to 275 million years ago and fell to precipitously low levels compared with today’s atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude.
Virtual museum to 鈥榖ridge distance,鈥� bring peninsula culture to broader audience
The 91探花recently received a $450,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to create a digital archive of Pacific Northwest cultural and historical items and to produce six online exhibitions over two years as the foundation for an online community museum.
Some large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their location
Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes.
November 12, 2003
Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
Researchers writing in the Nov. 13 issue of Nature say perhaps it was a major change or two, such as petal color, that first forged the fork in the evolutionary road that led to today’s species of monkeyflowers that are attractive to and pollinated by hummingbirds and separate species of monkeyflowers that are pollinated by bees.
91探花receives almost $6 million to study common cause of cognitive disability
The 91探花 has received an award of $5.86 million for a research center to study fragile-X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of mental retardation.
November 10, 2003
Washington’s brightest fifth to eighth graders sought by UW
The 91探花 is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state.
November 6, 2003
Mark Groudine named to Institute of Medicine
New findings on platelet development and disorders
It鈥檚 been in all the newspapers, so you know it鈥檚 true: The style pages all tell us that the 70s and 80s are back.
Collaboration at 91探花lab led to obesity gene findings
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
New Web site helps find 91探花speakers
The 91探花Speakers Bureau is making it easier for people in the community to find campus speakers and also for faculty and staff to register with the bureau.
CFD: ‘Centro’ meets variety of community needs
Editor鈥檚 Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Touching may reduce spider fear, study shows
A new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia that was released, appropriately enough, on Halloween, indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
Students help town control destiny
Thirty picket-wielding protesters shouted at the loggers cutting down a forest of mature spruce trees.
Let’s ‘Dance’: Staffer’s new CD offers healing messages
It鈥檚 as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice.
Health Sciences News Briefs
Genome ethics
鈥淯nderstanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy鈥� is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other 91探花programs.
91探花Medicine Style Guide now online with logos
An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new 91探花Medicine brand and logos.
Project uses Internet as tool for diabetes management
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health 鈥� the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management 鈥搕he 91探花School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
Researchers join forces to develop HIV vaccine
A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.
One of five centers for bariatric surgery research here
The 91探花has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
Notices
Academic Opportunities
Grant Applications Available
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 United States.
Vegas alumni seek campus speakers
Visiting Las Vegas anytime soon? If so, the 91探花Alumni Association in that city is interested in talking to you.
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DIET GURU: When Mother Earth News needed a dietitian to talk about good nutrition in their Guide to Real Health, they turned to Judy Simon, a staffer at UWMC Roosevelt.