November 5, 2002
There will be a report on the court decision in the ongoing Kennewick Man case at 11:45 a.m. Friday. That will be followed at 1:30 p.m. Friday by the first of a number of sessions to discuss proposed rules covering the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. This topic also will be the focus of public comments and presentations starting at 4 p.m. Saturday and 11:15 a.m. Sunday.
November 4, 2002
The Washington Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of lower court decision, which denied class action status in a gender discrimination lawsuit by five present and former members of the dental school faculty.
Adults often believe infants are off in their own world, but a new study indicates they are more tuned into the wider world and what the people around them are doing than previously thought.
October 31, 2002
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The School of Drama opens The Lover next week in Meany Studio Theatre.
You may be getting an e-mail message soon asking you to complete a survey online about your commute behavior.
As we head into the season when snow and other severe weather is possible, UW employees need to be aware that there is a hotline they can call to find out if the University is operating as usual.
Imagine a holiday concert held, not in an auditorium, but in Suzzallo鈥檚 beloved Reading Room.
The UW鈥檚 Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies and its partners in Eastern Washington 鈥� Heritage College, the City of Toppenish, the Northwest Communities Education Center/Radio KDNA and the Yakama Nation 鈥� have been awarded a three-year grant for $534,126 by the U.
Some might consider it unthinkable to give up being a chef who opens fancy restaurants in hotels all over the world for a job as food service chef on a major college campus.
The turmoil following Sept.
Populations of marine fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing stops while there are still several million individuals — a number previously assumed to be enough to preserve a diverse gene pool.
October 30, 2002
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, $9.5 million grant to the 91自拍 to establish a new interdisciplinary Male Contraception Research Center.
October 29, 2002
A panel discussion about the recent bombings in Indonesia featuring Dan Lev, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ismail Budhiarso, an active member of Indonesian Muslim organizations in Seattle, Magid Shihade,doctoral student in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Middle Eastern Studies.
October 28, 2002
It will be a moment tinged with history when the Stardust spacecraft makes an encounter with Asteroid 5535 Annefrank this weekend. The flyby will test many of the systems and procedures to be used when Stardust makes its encounter with comet Wild 2 in little more than a year.
October 25, 2002
The Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Seattle is a new hospital-community partnership focused on reducing childhood injury in neighborhoods throughout the city.
President of the UW Board of Regents Jerry Grinstein responds to UW President Richard McCormick’s decision to assume the presidency of Rutgers University.
UW President Richard L. McCormick announces his decision to accept the presidency of Rutger’s University.
October 24, 2002
The School of Drama opens its season next week with a production of Anton Chekhov鈥檚 classic, The Seagull.
Registration ends Oct.
The SETI Institute鈥檚 Seth Shostak will be on campus Monday, Oct.
Some people believe we鈥檙e in the middle of a perfect storm in health care, but we鈥檙e not going to drown anytime soon.
Got a hot idea for improving some UW system? Looking for a hot idea to solve some problem you face at work? In either case, you might be interested in logging on to a new Web site, the UW Forum for Change.
JAPANESE GIFT: Japanese Consul General Tadahiro Abe presented an $8,000 grant for the East Asia Library at a ceremony at his official residence earlier this month.
Some computer software is like a piece of fruit: It looks good on the outside, and parts of it may taste good, but you always should be on the lookout for the worm.
The annual medical/dental open enrollment has begun.
Broken bones, scrapes, burns and the bruises of childhood may be dismissed as kids being kids, but the doctors and nurses who treat unintentional injuries have come to a different conclusion. When children live in a safe environment, are given alternatives to gang violence, follow street safety when walking, and wear helmets when biking, they have many fewer injuries and fewer visits to the hospital emergency department
October 23, 2002
A more personalized job placement program has led to nearly nine out of 10 91自拍 Business School master’s in business administration graduates obtaining jobs within three months — surpassing the average at the nation’s so-called Top 30 business schools.
October 22, 2002
Future studies may find that ACE inhibitors, a class of drugs now taken by people with high blood pressure, could slow down or prevent the development of aortic valve calcium, say 91自拍 91自拍ers.
October 21, 2002
A 91自拍 and Washington State University program helping rural communities gain access to the latest technology and training for managing woodlands has received the highest national award for private-forestry education given by the National Woodland Owners Association and the National Association of Professional Forestry Schools and Colleges.
The 91自拍’s Seattle campus enrollment for Autumn Quarter 2002 is 39,216, including 1,418 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Extension.
October 17, 2002
The UW School of Law and the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology have established an internship program sponsored by Sen.
The University Book Store and the UW Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) are sponsoring a Diversity Book Talk Series, which brings authors of color, as well as white authors who write on race, diversity, and multicultural issues, to the UW to read and discuss their work.
Summer is a long way off, but not for Hannah Wiley, who directs the UW鈥檚 Summer Arts Festival.
The UW will play host to the fifth International Conference of the Learning Sciences Oct.
An international conference on the global epidemic in human trafficking will be held on the UW campus Oct.
The UW鈥檚 Office of Educational Partnerships and Learning Technologies and its partners in Eastern Washington 鈥� Northwest Communities Education Center and Horizons Inc.