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The UW’s Human Resources Department has just concluded a review of more than 2,500 staff positions to determine which ones are eligible for overtime compensation under new rules announced late this summer by the U.

The 91自拍 was recently selected as one of 28 universities to participate in a national program to save lives and lessen property loss and economic damage from natural disasters on their respective campuses.

David Silver, an assistant professor of Communication, thinks something is badly missing on the UW campus in these days before the general election on Nov.

In the first significant advancement in brachytherapy in more than 15 years, physicians at UW Medical Center have today (Oct.

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

Next week, travel guru Rick Steves will speak on campus, but he won鈥檛 be talking about how to find a cheap hotel or what the must-see sites in Paris are.

A team of astronomers using telescopes at two Hawaiian observatories has found that one of the interacting stars in a binary star system has lost so much mass to its partner that it has deteriorated to a strange, inactive body that doesn鈥檛 resemble any known star type.

The UW Faculty Senate 鈥� which holds its first meeting Oct.

An internationally known 91自拍er in marine geology and geophysics has been named director of the UW鈥檚 School of Oceanography.

Where do brand-new freshmen and experienced professors come together to study questions obscure or obvious, entertaining or eternal, in a friendly and ungraded small-group format?

The answer 鈥淎bsolutely nowhere 鈥� you must be dreaming鈥� is wrong, actually.

The UW has a new magazine, but you won鈥檛 find it on the newsstands.

UW Medicine鈥檚 Office of Clinical Research and Children鈥檚 Hospital and Regional Medical Center (CHRMC) have launched a Web-based 鈥淕ood Clinical Practice鈥� (GCP) training program.

The WWAMI Rural Health Research Center has been re-funded for an additional four years by the federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

The series on 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You,鈥� sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Office of Industry Relations and open to everyone, has scheduled a presentation on new National Institutes of Health policies that encourage sharing information and resources.

Translating the latest advances in 91自拍 into better health care for the average patient is challenging: the explosive growth of biological knowledge and technology currently moves very slowly, if at all, into the health care practitioner鈥檚 office and into the community.

The Washington State Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the means by which State employees may give to charities of their choice by selecting from among over 1,900 CFD charities through payroll deduction (monthly and/or one-time contribution) or by check.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 91自拍 faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the U.

PARALYMPIC PRESS: The UW was well represented in the Paralympics games last month in Athens.

The UW has embarked on an advertising campaign to make its events more visible in the broader community.

Juggling work and the rest of your life has never been easy, but the University鈥檚 Work/Life office, a division of Human Resources, has been trying to help ever since its creation in 1988.

Addressing opponents鈥� claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington鈥檚 public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.

A panel discussion entitled “Humanity in the Midst of War” will be presented at 7 pm  Thursday, Oct.

Big city school districts will have a hard time reforming and meeting new accountability demands without more help from businesses, nonprofits and philanthropists, according to a new book from the Brookings Institution.

Seattle Campus Information

The 91自拍’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2004 is 39,199, including 1,691 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.

Addressing opponents’ claims that charter schools would drain more than $100 million from Washington’s public schools, a new UW working paper predicts that the financial impact of allowing charter schools would be modest.

A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the 91自拍 could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.

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

UW World Series starts tonight, with some lineup changes (and no, it鈥檚 not baseball)
Sometimes world politics gets in the way of worldly performers. An excellent New York ballet company has replaced a Spanish dance troupe as the opener of the UW World Series. It鈥檚 at Meany Hall, and it鈥檚 tonight.

In her debut recital Oct.

Environmental Health & Safety and Computing & Communications have collaborated to produce MyChem, a new web tool that replaces the Laboratory Safety System (LSS).

 A group of promising cancer-fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, the UW has announced.

Emotional coaching from mom helps, even in tough circumstances
Children are less likely to encounter behavioral problems in life if they have been coached by their parents on how to handle their emotions, UW 91自拍ers found. And that鈥檚 true even when the home has low levels of domestic violence.

Once again the UW is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout Washington.

This year鈥檚 Costco Scholarship Breakfast raised $2.

The physical space for the University鈥檚 new Q Center isn鈥檛 complete yet, but in spirit, the center鈥檚 work is already well under way.

Two UW computer scientists are part of a team that has discovered a pair of rare, naturally occurring RNA 鈥渟witches鈥� in a class of bacteria that work cooperatively to manage the amino acid glycine.

U-CALL: Students helping students, over the phone

Sometimes, students just need someone to talk to who won鈥檛 judge them or tell them what to do. U-CALL is a new service that does just that, at times when other counseling isn鈥檛 available. It鈥檚 not therapy, just someone to lend an ear, and make referrals if necessary.

Five finalists in the running to serve as UW Tacoma chancellor

 Five finalists have now been selected from a field of nearly 90 applicants for the chancellorship of the 91自拍, Tacoma.