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June 2, 2003
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 UW Tacoma library.
This summer, UW 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 (UW Handbook, Vol II, and Sec 42-44).
Cosmetic surgery
UW 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自拍 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 91自拍 at the 91自拍 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 91自拍 funding of the UW’s Autism Center, directed by psychology professor Geraldine Dawson.
May 27, 2003
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.
May 22, 2003
A free concert on Friday, May 30 is the culmination of a new School of Music class in gospel music.
UW Tacoma’s first official athlete is a Husky who rides bulls.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere at the UW, but not in Seattle.
Students grabbed sediment, sieved for shrimp and viewed plankton with a video microscope during Puget Sound 91自拍 cruises led by UW alumnus Jim Norris.
What constitutes “good work?”
This is the central question explored in an innovative class offered by Britt Yamamoto, doctoral candidate in geography.
Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun’s heat away from Earth and into space, are part of everyday life.
Murder often begins at a terrifyingly early age.
Writing and the teaching of writing are drawing record numbers of school teachers to classes and seminars here.
If you鈥檝e ever had the desire to live someone else鈥檚 life for a while, Janice Thomas has a message for you: It can be done.
If recommendations of the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Curriculum Writing Committee are accepted, students will be writing more and college writing programs will be more coordinated.
The manager of a multi-million dollar 91自拍 program for the Office of Naval Research and an expert on using sound energy to “see” inside the world’s oceans has been named director of the 91自拍’s Applied Physics Laboratory, a center for 91自拍 and teaching that last fiscal year brought in $43 million in grants and contracts.
The Medicines for Malaria Venture has awarded its Project of the Year Award to two 91自拍ers at the 91自拍, Dr. Wesley Van Voorhis, professor in the School of Medicine, and Dr. Michael Gelb, professor in the Department of Chemistry.
How global climate change may alter how we live in the Pacific Northwest will be discussed by 91自拍 91自拍 scientist Nate Mantua Tuesday, May 27, 7 p.m., Kane Hall 120.
May 21, 2003
Creators of a company that will broaden advances in genome science have won the $25,000 top prize at the 91自拍’s sixth annual business plan competition.
May 20, 2003
An analysis of clinical trials involving more than 192,000 patients with hypertension shows that low-dose diuretics are more effective at preventing cardiovascular health problems than any other blood-pressure medication, according to 91自拍 91自拍ers and colleagues.
May 19, 2003
People are only slightly more likely to die of respiratory and cardiovascular problems when the air is increasingly stagnant, according to 91自拍 by 91自拍 scientists that will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Seattle.
May 15, 2003
Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center, and several other Puget Sound area hospitals were among the participants this week in a national counter-terrorism drill.