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The size of ice domes and movement of ice rafts on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are consistent with what one could expect of melting caused by a hydrothermal vent plume, or plumes, in an ocean beneath the ice, say oceanographers John Delaney of the 91自拍 and Richard Thomson of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long 鈥� give or take a millimeter.

The UW Academic Medical Center is offering the UW community and the general public the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge 91自拍 by attending Mini-Medical School 2002.

Two programs, both open to the public, will honor the legacy of Dr.

The School of Medicine’s Office of Research and Graduate Education has joined several science departments and the Graduate School to sponsor the series of presentations known as “What Can You Do with a Ph.

The UW Academic Medical Center has established a program to recognize faculty and staff members who exemplify service excellence.

By Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations

Pancreatic cancer seems swift and unforgiving to its victims.

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Even with the heavy rains this winter, progress on the new Surgery Pavilion for UW Medical Center has been steady.

Benditt Lecture today

“Genetics in Everyday Life” is the topic for the 6th annual Earl P.

By Steve Hill
University Week

The 2002 legislative session opens Monday in Olympia with a $1.

By Steve Hill
University Week

It sounds a lot like the beginning of a joke: have you heard the one about the computer programmer, the manager, and the librarian?

The threesome – three brothers, actually – walked into a bar two and a half years ago.

Applications and nominations for the 2002 Jeff and Susan Brotman Diversity Award are now being accepted, President Richard L.

Changes being implemented this month in the UW Service Recognition Program will for the first time include employees all over campus who reach five-years of service and give employees with greater service new choices in the gifts they receive.

Human Resources recently announced a series of tools to help supervisors evaluate 91自拍 scientist and engineer positions, determine appropriate salary ranges and to identify career progressions.

Neuroscientists examining the brain activity of people who learned to speak American Sign Language (ASL) at different times in their lives have found the first evidence that there is a critical period for acquiring a nonverbal language, just as there is for spoken languages.

Greenhouse warming and other human effects on the environment may increase the possibility of large, abrupt changes in global climate, according to a recent National Research Council report issued by a panel of 11 scientists that includes the UW’s Peter Rhines and John Wallace.

Most solutions to fisheries problems have been shortsighted and don’t provide the right incentives for fishermen, resource managers or scientists, according to Ray Hilborn, UW professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences and lead speaker for this year’s Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries.

Unit Head: Corey Fagan, director

Location: Guthrie Annex 1

Number of Employees: Eight paid staff members plus approximately 30 graduate student staff therapists who provide services as part of their training in the clinical psychology doctoral program.

Burke welcomes storytellers

“Stories of Exploration and Adventure” is the theme for this year’s Winter Storytelling Festival at the Burke Museum, to be held on Thursday evenings and weekend days throughout January.

Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? UW employees got one last week, in exchange for serving as guinea pigs for a new restaurant system.

Joel Waller, the University’s catering coordinator, displays some of the Husky Den Dollars that visitors used to “purchase” free food at the renovated facility in the HUB.

Where are we? Okay, you’ve convinced us that you’re experts on the campus.

Academic Opportunities

Funding available

The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.

FEEL LIKE DANCIN’: When renowned choreographer Pat Graney presents a retrospective of her work over the next two weeks at the Moore Theater, there will be some UW representation on the stage.

Another El Ni帽o could be brewing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. If it is, Pacific Northwest residents can expect generally warmer, drier weather next fall and winter, 91自拍 scientists say.

Emerging strategies of using “land trusts,” where private forests and wildlands are purchased or donated, or of managing such lands under “conservation easements,” where the use of the property is restricted but the landowner retains the title, will be explored by regional and national experts at a lecture that is free and open to the public Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the 91自拍’s College of Forest Resources.

Harborview Medical Center will celebrate the legacy of Rev.

Most solutions to fisheries problems have been shortsighted and don’t provide the right incentives for fishermen, resource managers or scientists, according to Ray Hilborn, 91自拍 professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences and lead speaker for this year’s Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries.

Recent 91自拍 at the 91自拍 has found that a series of land-use decisions dating from the 1930s, from road building and streamside logging to dam construction, led to sedimentation that has made the Skokomish perhaps the most flood-prone river in the state.

The 91自拍 Academic Medical Center is offering the general public the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge 91自拍 by attending Mini-Medical School 2002.

An investigation of the activity of individual human nerve cells during the act of memory indicates that the brain’s nerve cells are even more specialized than many people think.

Neuroscientists examining the brain activity of people who learned to speak American Sign Language (ASL) at different times in their lives have found the first evidence that there is a critical period for acquiring a non-verbal language, just as there is for spoken languages.

Beds of thousands of tiny pulsating artificial 鈥渉airs鈥� can provide a precise method for steering small satellites to docking stations on larger vessels, according to a study led by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍.

Most of the people at greater risk of acquiring HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, don’t know it, according to an analysis by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍.

During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds. Now a team of 91自拍 chemists has found that the same ideas apply to transferring a hydrogen atom — an electron and a proton together. That understanding could prove important to scientists trying to devise new classes of chemical reactions.

The Discovery Health documentaries produced at Harborview this summer are scheduled to air Sunday, Jan. 6. The shows focus on HMC’s orthopaedics and neurosciences programs. Two video crews were on-site at the medical center for eight weeks under the direction of Community Relations. Many thanks to the staff, patients and families who gave permission to document the outstanding programs and services at Harborview.

The Learning Disabilities Center at the 91自拍 is looking for 250 Seattle and Puget Sound children in the fourth through ninth grades to participate in a family genetics study of spelling disabilities.

Pancreatic cancer seems swift and unforgiving to its victims. Typically, the disease is not detected until after it has spread to other organs, and it is highly resistant to chemotherapy and radiation. Of the 29,000 people who will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, approximately 28,900 will die within a few months of that diagnosis. Experts at the 91自拍 say this situation is changing, and they predict huge breakthroughs in both early detection and therapy in the next 10 years.

UW robotics students, K-12 observers, College of Engineering faculty and staff and 13 self-controlled robot golfers participate in a tournament featuring student-designed and built golfing robots