January 31, 2008
GREEN AND GRAND: The Custodial Division of Facilities Services has won a Grand Award for green cleaning in the universities division of a competition sponsored by the American School and University Magazine, the Green Cleaning Network and the Healthy Schools Campaign.
The dean of university libraries, in cooperation with the Association of Libraries of the UW, has established the first-ever Distinguished Librarian Award, and the selection committee is seeking nominations.
The UW Professors on Politics Web site has re-emerged just ahead of Super Tuesday as well as the Washington caucuses and the primary.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
One of the UW’s supplementary budget requests to the Legislature this session would provide money to begin preliminary work on what is perhaps the boldest new initiative the University has put forward in years.
David Saunders, 1933 – 2008
David Saunders, professor emeritus of medicine and former head of the Division of Gastroenterology, died Tuesday, Jan.
The 2008 Health Sciences Open House will be on Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, and it’s time for units that would like to have exhibits or demonstrations to begin making plans.
With a few clicks of your mouse on the UW Web site, you can check out hours for the Intramural Activities center, find out how much storage you have left in your UW e-mail account and buy tickets for an upcoming show at Meany Hall.
The State of Washington is seeking individuals to complete an online survey concerning retirement, long-term care, and financing of that care.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Nancy Woods has been a faculty member of the UW School of Nursing since 1978.
By Kathy Hall
Environmental & Occupational Health
The UW Northwest Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (NW PEHSU) received the Environmental Protection Agency’s Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award for its leadership in protecting children from environmental health risks.
January 30, 2008
Children with autism have normal-size heads at birth but develop accelerated head growth between six and nine months of age, a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental disorder, according to new 91自拍 from the 91自拍’s Autism Center.
January 28, 2008
Most of Washington state’s biofuels come from plants grown elsewhere.
January 24, 2008
The following UW policies and rules were recently adopted or revised:
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Carefully tucked into a stand of pines on the Maryland shore, Loblolly House is a study in the pragmatic and the poetic.
The State of Washington is seeking individuals to complete an online survey concerning retirement, long-term care, and financing of that care.
“Universities have a huge role to play in raising public awareness about climate change,” says LuAnne Thompson, 91自拍 associate professor of oceanography and lead organizer of the UW events being conducted as part of Focus the Nation, a national teach-in on global warming solutions for America.
What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer? The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality, color pictures in confined spaces.
Kathy Sauber Staff members at the Burke Museum load in the 145-million-year-old fossil of an ichthyosaur, or fish lizard, last week. Ichthyosaurs lived in the oceans of the Mesozoic Era while dinosaurs roamed the land. Though fish-shaped, the marine reptile breathed air like whales and dolphins and gave birth to live young. The fossil was donated to the Burke by the Hart family, which also recently donated a mosasaur, which was recently installed in Hitchcock Hall.
An anonymous donor off campus has set up an account for the UW student who was attacked off campus on Jan.
Ray Wittmier, who has served as assistant chief of the UW Police Department since 2003, has been appointed interim chief effective Feb.
The Simon Shaheen Trio will perform at 8 p.
The chances are good you’ve already heard Allen Vizzutti play the trumpet, somewhere.
The School of Music will present a piano concert and lecture by a member of the University of Idaho faculty on Jan.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25.
Here in the coldest part of winter, it’s heartening that plans for summer are already under way.
What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect the earliest signs of cancer? The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality, color pictures in confined spaces.
Diatoms 鈥� some of which are so tiny that 30 can fit across the width of a human hair 鈥� are so numerous that they are among the key organisms taking the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Podcasting is so yesterday, pedagogically speaking.
Most of Washington state’s biofuels come from plants grown elsewhere.
When Biology Senior Lecturer Mary Pat Wenderoth and Communications Chair Gerald Baldasty were asked to talk to a group of Freshman Interest Group leaders about teaching last fall, they started by asking the students what they saw as the difference between a great instructor and a not-so-great one.
The human body is two-thirds water.
The Leadership, Community and Values Initiative (LCVI) began in 2005, and among its flagship efforts was a campuswide climate survey to examine how people feel about working at the UW.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The UW community and the general public are invited to UW Mini-Medical School, Tuesdays, Feb.
A genetic mutation occurring during embryo development at a particular point on a human chromosome may cause some cases of autism, scientists reported Jan.
Wendy Mouradian, clinical professor of medicine and dentistry, has been appointed director of the Regional Initiatives in Dental Education (RIDE).