Leland Hartwell, center, smiles as he enjoys the banquet for winners of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
December 13, 2001
December 13, 2001
Leland Hartwell, center, smiles as he enjoys the banquet for winners of the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden.
December 12, 2001
Students in the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Dentistry are finding a new and high-tech way to communicate with patients and plan comprehensive treatment. They are taking a course in digital photography.
December 11, 2001
Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it crossed the Pacific Ocean, settled over a large swath of North America from Calgary, Canada, into Arizona.
December 10, 2001
Dr. Eugene Natkin, professor emeritus of endodontics in the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Dentistry, has received the first Bruce R. Rothwell Distinguished Teacher Award.
Crows and ravens are depicted as being clever and tricky animals in countless American Indian stories and legends. Those characterizations apparently are right on the mark, according to a pair of 91±¬ÁÏ researchers who have found a species of crow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from other members of its flock.
December 7, 2001
“Widespread news coverage has been given this week to Donald Church, who, in the course of a lifesaving procedure at 91±¬ÁÏ Medical Center in June 2000, experienced a serious medical error.
The following statement is from Dr. Eric Larson, medical director at 91±¬ÁÏ Medical Center:
December 6, 2001
Payroll notices
Check the address on your paycheck
Check the address listed on your paycheck.
The 91±¬ÁÏ’s Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Program, based in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, has received a grant from the Paul G.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
Of women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, 30 percent will develop a recurrence within five years.
Nobel Laureate Lee Hartwell, second from right, posed with yeast geneticists and former colleagues from the 91±¬ÁÏ Department of Genetics, now known as the Department of Genome Sciences, at a luncheon given to honor him by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) Board of Trustees on Nov.
By Laurie McHale
Center on Human Development and Disability
To focus on the social and emotional health and well-being of the youngest members of society, a new Center on Infant Mental Health and Development is being established at the 91±¬ÁÏ.
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of a fatal or non-fatal heart attack or hospitalization for chest pain by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from coronary heart disease, according to a study by 91±¬ÁÏ researchers in the Nov.
The votes have been counted in the Health & Safety Committee election.
MFA candidates in dance designed the moves, postgraduate composers wrote the music and undergraduate dance students bring it all to life in the Composer/Choreographer Collaborative Concert, opening tonight in Meany Studio Theater.
Aside from the Internal Revenue Service, perhaps no government agencies are the object of more scorn than state child protective services organizations (CPS).
Researchers at the 91±¬ÁÏ have developed a new technique for observing large proteins that gives scientists the most detailed picture yet of the biological workhorses in action and promises to shed light on a wide range of issues, including the biocompatibility of medical implants, blood-clotting processes and how cancer spreads.
For Valerie Curtis-Newton, the theater isn’t just a place to perform plays; it’s “a place for communities to gather to create and experience stories that directly apply to their lives.
A group of 91±¬ÁÏ faculty intent on changing the culture of graduate education has just received $2.
Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain activity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal, according to new research at the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Autism Center.
By Steve Hill
University Week
Officials at the 91±¬ÁÏ are hoping faculty, staff and students will put their Jan.
By Steve Hill
University Week
Consider it money in the bank.
WINNING WTO: The 91±¬ÁÏ’s WTO History Project, <A href="http://depts.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
George Snyder, a 1931 graduate of what was then the 91±¬ÁÏ’s aeronautical engineering program, was on hand Tuesday to donate this totem pole to the University.
December 4, 2001
To focus on the social and emotional health and well-being of the youngest members of society, a new Center on Infant Mental Health and Development is being established at the 91±¬ÁÏ. The center will place special emphasis on vulnerable children at developmental risk for various reasons, including mental health issues faced by their mothers or other caregivers, an absence of social supports, conditions of poverty and homelessness, and parental substance abuse.
Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain activity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal, according to new research at the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Autism Center.
December 3, 2001
Aside from the Internal Revenue Service, perhaps no government agencies are the object of more scorn than state child protective services organizations (CPS). To help these agencies in Washington, Oregon and Alaska improve their services, the Children’s Bureau of the federal Department of Health and Human Service has awarded the 91±¬ÁÏ a $2.2 million grant over five years to establish a CPS Quality Improvement Center, called Frontline Connections.
November 29, 2001
One might say 91±¬ÁÏ gardeners were up to something fishy.
From left, Laura Marshall, Jeremiah Trammell, Vivian Schmidt, Yann Novak and Megan Rasley are ready to greet customers at the HUB’s new food service, etc.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
While the Human Genome Project and its controversy have gobbled up space in the science news, some local researchers have been awarded a cool $18.
By Laurie McHale
Center on Human Development and Disability
Behavioral neurogenetics research is a new method of scientific inquiry that focuses on the investigation of neurodevelopmental disorders associated with specific genetic conditions, contributing to an improved understanding of brain disorders in children.
The Department of Surgery’s annual Strauss Lecture, rescheduled from its original date of Sept.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
Every week on “E.
Gregg Levoy, author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life, will be offering a one-day workshop at the 91±¬ÁÏ on Jan.
The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.