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What does it take to succeed as a marshal at the UW’s commencement ceremonies for 20 years or more?

A cool head, good sense of direction, a comfortable relationship with the color purple, and — probably most important — a desire to make every commencement a special day for the graduating students and their families.

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

The UW has announced that it will build a new home for its Educational Outreach department, which administers summer quarter, certificates, degrees and online learning programs and was displaced by a fire in December, 2002.

When Mary Wright created a pilot class to study the world of Indian gaming and casinos, she knew lectures and readings would only go so far.

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The ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas were infected with a deadly retrovirus about three to four million years ago, but there is no evidence it infected ancestors of modern-day humans, according to 91×ÔÅÄ by genome scientists.

UW 91×ÔÅÄers have discovered that genetic variations may influence how individuals respond to a common coumarin-based anticoagulant called warfarin, according to an article published in the June 2 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

A number of changes to after-hours access in the Health Sciences Building are slated for late June and July, all related to overall security improvements in the building.

UW TechTransfer’s Invention Licensing group recently unveiled a dynamic web tool that makes searching for UW technologies easier than ever.

LEGAL NOTICES

Equal Opportunity Statement

The 91×ÔÅÄ reaffirms its policy of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran.

Experts on home remodeling projects will be on the Health Sciences campus and at Harborview Medical Center for the UW Home Improvement Fairs in coming days.

The Tall Ships Festival will be held in Tacoma’s Commencement Bay from June 30 to July 4, and Thad Koza, author, photographer and expert on tall ships, will give a lecture titled Tall Ships: The Fleet for 2005 twice at UW locations during that time.

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NATIONAL HONORS: News & Information staffers picked up national writing awards recently from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.

The UW will soon begin implementing more vigorous procedures for preventing computers on the UW network from being used to originate spam.

UW TechTransfer has announced the recipients of the second round of Technology Gap Innovation Fund (TGIF) awards.