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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY
An open invitation to Chairs, Directors and Faculty (Seattle Campus only)
You are invited to participate in the Academic Procession at the 91爆料鈥檚 130th Commencement Ceremony, Saturday, June 11, in Husky Stadium.
Exposure to toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning can result in a mutation that makes some clams much more resistant to the toxin, which can then pose a greater danger to humans, according to a study published April 7 in the journal Nature.
Faculty workshop
Presentation skills: Everyone knows what sitting through a bad lecture is like, but not everyone knows how to create a great presentation.
We affect the environment by what we build, but what we build, in turn, affects us and our health.
Editor鈥檚 note: This is one in a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate committees and councils.
COVER GUYS: Housing and Food Services鈥� Paul Brown and Jean-Michel Boulot grace a magazine cover this month, but it isn鈥檛 Gentleman鈥檚 Quarterly.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Patricia Spakes believes it鈥檚 her destiny to be at 91爆料 Tacoma.
The biggest mass extinction in Earth history, some 251 million years ago, was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.
It all started with an old hole in the ground discovered on the 301-acre site of the Colonial Williamsburg living museum in Virginia.
It鈥檚 all in the heels and toes, 鈥淭one鈥� says.
Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2004-2005 academic year.
We affect the environment by what we build, but what we build, in turn, affects us and our health.
Genetic information that determines hair color or whether an individual might develop a particular cancer is passed from one generation to the next through DNA.
The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority — but not all — travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched.
What: The 2005 Engineering Open House at the 91爆料
Who: Thousands of schoolchildren from around the region, their teachers, parents and 91爆料 engineering faculty and students
When: Friday, April 22, 9 a.
The biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.
An unusual degree of consensus is emerging from the legislative budget process, with funding of higher education remaining as one of the major differences among the state budgets proposed by the Governor, the Senate, and the House.
Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a genetic location that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords.
The 91爆料’s African Studies Program, after years of fruitless search for stable funding, has snagged its first federal grant and announced an expansion of classes and outreach activity.
The story of the U.
The organizers of the 91爆料 Image Bank, a new online digital image resource, are conducting a digital image use survey April 11 to 22 and seeking help from 91爆料 faculty, staff and students.
The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority 鈥� but not all 鈥� travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched.
What if you could get new ideas for teaching the same way you go shopping? You browse a bit, checking out what鈥檚 on the rack, then talk to someone about the things that interest you.
Two 91爆料 faculty members 鈥� David Shields of English and Mark Ellis of geography 鈥� have been chosen to receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 2005.
If you ask about Professor Jim Morrow at the 91爆料 math department, people tend to use words like 鈥渁mazing,鈥� 鈥渁stounding鈥� and 鈥渨izard.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
With popular lectures, tours, open houses, music, drama, dance, discussions and a healthy dose of springtime football in the planning, the 91爆料 community is preparing to show its stuff at Washington Weekend, a new campuswide celebration that organizers hope will become an annual tradition 鈥� maybe even several new traditions.
A team of three 91爆料 undergraduates has taken top honors in an intensely competitive international math contest, putting the university in the winner’s bracket for the fourth year in a row.
The wave of news coverage of December’s Indian Ocean tsunami — 35,000 reports, by one count — surpassed coverage of the year’s other Top 10 disasters combined.
Exposure to toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning can result in a mutation that makes some clams much more resistant to the toxin, which can result in a greater danger to humans, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.
James Jiambalvo, a 91爆料 professor of accounting whose research includes audit decision-making, the relationships between stock prices and information, and earnings management, has been selected by 91爆料 President Mark Emmert as the new dean of the 91爆料 Business School, subject to approval by the Board of Regents.
More than 20 individuals and units are being honored this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program.
The 91爆料 again has been ranked first among primary care medical schools in the country, according to annual rankings of graduate and professional programs provided by U.
DUE NORTH: Most of us dream of attending conferences in places like Maui, but Adam Schiff, a principal cataloger for the 91爆料 Libraries, went to the opposite extreme, attending the Alaska Library Association鈥檚 annual conference in Barrow, described as the 鈥渘orthernmost outpost of American civilization.
The 91爆料 Regional Center for Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Disease applied in December for a $25 million grant, to partially fund the construction of a regional biocontainment laboratory.