June 16, 2003
Hypertonic resuscitation — a concentrated intravenous (IV) dose of saline and dextran, a sugar solution — has the potential to help survivors of blunt trauma by improving blood flow and delivery of oxygen to the injured brain while decreasing high pressure in the brain, a common problem for patients with brain injury. This therapy is now being tested in a research study by 91探花 (UW) physicians based at Harborview Medical Center.
In the wake of the dot-com bust, banks and savings and loan associations headquartered in Washington state proved to be smart investments in 2002, according to a 91探花 expert in banking and financial markets.
June 13, 2003
The 91探花, Tacoma has announced a gift of $15 million from the Milgard family of Tacoma, founders of Milgard Manufacturing, to fund expansion of its Business Administration program, which now offers both baccalaureate and master’s degrees.
June 11, 2003
Forty architecture students soon will head to Montana to help the Northern Cheyenne tribe build a house out of straw.
June 9, 2003
91探花 researchers have found that the risk of someone getting Parkinson’s disease after high consumption of both iron and manganese together is greater than expected.
Researchers and doctors in the Northwest who wonder if a blood or tissue sample has West Nile virus will no longer have to send samples to the East Coast for testing. The Virology Division of the 91探花’s Department of Laboratory Medicine has developed an assay to detect the virus.
June 5, 2003
Drumheller Fountain returned this week after several months’ absence.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A 91探花charrette from 9 a.
The 91探花has announced guidelines to prevent an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in the University community.
Autism research at the 91探花has received a major boost with an $8.
Shortly after he came to work in the Capital and Space Planning Office (CASPO) eight years ago, Dan Trythall was asked to produce a study of how space was being used in Gerberding Hall.
A thicket of Himalayan blackberries, English holly, European buttercup and laurel cherry has been cleared by hand.
June 4, 2003
The importance of buckling up, how car seats and booster seats protect children, and the state’s seat belt and car seat laws will all be part of training sessions for Latino community outreach workers this week.
June 3, 2003
A 91探花 study featured in this week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that while the latest technology may be faster than traditional radiograph or X-ray in providing images of the spine, rapid magnetic resonance imaging, or rapid MRI, does not result in cost savings or significant reductions in lower back pain.
June 2, 2003
May 29, 2003
An effort to test protein farnesyltransferase (PFT) inhibitors against malaria parasites has received the 鈥淧roject of the Year Award鈥� from the Medicines for Malaria Venture.
The School of Medicine鈥檚 Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program (R/UOP) will have a record number of participants as it enters its 14th year.
A very visible part of campus will get a new look when a landscaping project now under way is completed.
Last week鈥檚 Mystery Photo was taken at the left entrance to the Snoqualmie Reading Room at the 91探花Tacoma library.
This summer, 91探花staffers Maggie Williams and Eric Vigoren are taking a 3,500 mile trip.
Maybe it鈥檚 because she works in the graduate school that Barbara Buchmann has a thing about graduation.
The Faculty Council on Retirement, Insurance & Benefits (FCRIB) is responsible for 鈥渁ll matters of policy relating to faculty retirement, insurance and benefits鈥� ( 91探花Handbook, Vol II, and Sec 42-44).
Cosmetic surgery
91探花Medical Center鈥檚 Cosmetic Surgery Center is presenting an informal seminar, 鈥淩ecent Advances in Facial Cosmetic Surgery,鈥� from 4 to 6 p.
The newscasts are rife with stories of looting and destruction of cultural artifacts at the Iraq National Museum in Baghdad.
Results of the largest study of bilateral lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) to treat severe emphysema indicate that, on average, patients who undergo LVRS with medical therapy are more likely to function better after two years and do not face an increased risk of death compared to those who receive medical therapy only.
Back in the 鈥�80s and early 鈥�90s, most people thought they knew what the face of AIDS looked like.
A campus memorial will be held Tuesday, June 3, for Joan Fitzpatrick, the internationally known human rights expert and professor of law who died May 16.
Board of Regents
The 91探花 Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 1 p.
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When a new tool called Portfolio was released last fall, Catalyst employees had some ideas about how it could be used, but they knew it might be put to all kinds of uses they hadn鈥檛 thought of in advance.
SPJ HONORS: The UW鈥檚 Columns magazine and KUOW radio station did very well at the recent awards competition of Western Washington鈥檚 chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
School districts transfer millions of dollars each year from schools in poor neighborhoods to those with wealthier students and higher-paid teachers, a new study shows.
Autism research at the 91探花 has received a major boost from an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, which runs for five years, nearly doubles the research funding of the UW’s Autism Center, directed by psychology professor Geraldine Dawson.