March 14, 2002
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Funding Opportunity
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 91爆料 faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects related to ethnic studies.
In the wake of the post-Sept.
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91爆料ired is set, officially, to extend its reach.
An 11-week Citizens Academy is being offered by the 91爆料 Police Department.
CAREER AWARD: In recognition of 30 years of service, Terry Nosho of the Washington Sea Grant Program has received the William Q.
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When most of us think of a job, we immediately think of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.
The 60-day Legislative session in Olympia ends today after a flurry of activity that will impact the University.
March 13, 2002
Teams from across the western United States and Brazil will gather at the 91爆料 March 29 and 30 to test their mechanical mettle in a regional robotics contest.
March 12, 2002
The dot-com bust is over and executives need to overcome “dot vertigo,” an inability to adapt to e-commerce, says author Richard Nolan, the featured speaker at the 91爆料 Business School’s e-business conference.
A grant from the G. Harold & Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation will help scientists at the 91爆料’s Cell Systems Initiative build a prototype to study how cells grow, proliferate and differentiate.
March 7, 2002
The annual turning of the Quad cherry trees has peaked, drawing large numbers of visitors and students to admire the spectacular beauty.
Senior Jon Peebles gets some work done during the School of Art鈥檚 Open House last Friday.
| Pamela Wyngate |
| HS News & Community Relations |
One of the results of training highly skilled paramedics and first responders is a significant increase in the number of severely injured patients making it to the emergency room.
| Steve Hill |
| University Week |
Steve Russell must have taken the message from his first book project to heart.
Along the 1,600-mile-long Hawaiian Ridge, the moon’s inexorable pull is creating waves that break in the hidden depths of the ocean just as the surf does on the world-famous beaches of Hawaii, Oahu and Kauai.
Only three people were able to identify the Mystery Photo from last week, which was of Clark Hall.
An artist鈥檚 interpretation of the hands of two 91爆料 heart surgeons and the operating field in which they are working appear as part of a public art project unveiled Feb.
Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a change in the central part of the retina, the thin film coating the back of the eye.
Three faculty development workshops are planned this spring, sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Department of Medical Education.
The little bubbles in a baby鈥檚 tummy might cause a problem with colic, or just a really big burp on Daddy鈥檚 shoulder.
Academic Opportunities
ADAI research grants available
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
COP SHOP OPEN: The 91爆料 Police Department鈥檚 annual open house is 2 to 4 p.
Finalists for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost at the 91爆料 will speak in special forums beginning today.
Hiroo Kanamori, one of the world鈥檚 most respected seismologists and a scientist who helped define the seismic threat to the Puget Sound region, will speak at the 91爆料 next week.
Driving alone and parking on campus is not the only way for departmental visitors and guests to get to the 91爆料.
An ambitious project in the Graduate School, making extensive use of the Web and e-mail, is eliminating more than 38,000 pieces of paper each year.
For the first time in decades hundreds of summer chum returned to Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station last fall. This follows five years of work to re-establish the run, an effort involving the 91爆料, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the citizens of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group.
People with Internet access and an interest in the Hanford cleanup are invited to help 91爆料 researchers evaluate a new Web tool. The Decision Mapping System is designed to help people participate in decisions related to Hanford — a former plutonium production facility.
March 6, 2002
The 91爆料 School of Medicine has established the Keck Center for Functional, Structural, and Chemical Genomics of Microbial Pathogens. The Keck Center will use state-of-the-art technology to mount an assault on some of the most dangerous and deadly infections on earth.
March 4, 2002
In the largest study so far of burnout in medical residents, the syndrome of emotional detachment and exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment struck about 76 percent of the internal medicine residents who responded to a February, 2001, 91爆料 survey.
February 28, 2002
Countess Sonja Bernadotte of the Swedish royal family, above, was at the 91爆料 Monday to describe a program that brings Nobel laureates and college-age students from around the world to Lindau Island in Germany for informal meetings each year.
Photography students in a course called “Installation, Context and collaboration,” taught by Associate Professor Ellen Garvens, have created an exhibit especially for the hospital environment.
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| School of Nursing |
In recognition of her outstanding leadership, scholarship and passion for the well being of infants and young children, Dr.
| Walter Neary |
| HS News & Community Relations From Boston |
Genetic sciences provide key insights into many health-care conditions — but the more scientists learn, the more they need to know, says Dr.
More than 150 scholars, students and attorneys helped celebrate the dedication this week of the School of Law’s Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology.