The Cerner/ORCA CIS Replacement (CISR) project has been named IT Project of the Year by Advance for Health Information Executives, an industry publication for health care executives.
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Rehabilitation Medicine
Aditya Ganapathiraju uses the word “interesting” to describe his life so far.
SHE’S GOLDEN: Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences and its NSF Science of Learning Center, was awarded the Acoustical Society of America’s Gold Medal, its highest award.
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A thousand ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty, staff and alumni have signed up to watch the Seattle Mariners battle the Cleveland Indians on July 18 — but there are 500 tickets still available.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting Thursday, July 17, at 3 p.
As summer settles over the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Seattle campus, employees all ask the same question sooner or later: “Hey, what’s open for lunch on campus these days?”
It’s a good question, because with most students gone and demand down, many campus eateries shut down for a while, at least in early summer.
It’s cool to combine jazz and art, and that’s what’s happening from noon to 1 p.
The School of Music will celebrate summer with a pair of free concerts in the coming week.
By Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
Harborview Community Relations
On Tuesday, June 17, Harborview Medical Center, King County and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine celebrated the opening of the Norm Maleng Building, a major new facility on the Harborview campus.
Ellen Howard, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences librarian at Harborview and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø medical centers, has received the prestigious Michael E.
Broken Obelisk returned to campus June 19 after a little more than two months in the shop for repairs.
FALCON CREST: Employees in Creative Communications have enjoyed watching a family of peregrine falcons that is hunting from and feeding its young on the roof of their building lately.
A veteran executive of Seattle’s high-tech community has been named to lead ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø TechTransfer, the unit that commercializes the results of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø research.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has signed an agreement with the University of Queensland, in Australia, that will provide new opportunities for academic exchanges, joint research projects and coordination of science outreach to K-12 students.
Faculty and staff can enjoy an exciting seven-game home football schedule this fall, including BYU, Oklahoma and Notre Dame, among others, by purchasing season tickets.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Board of Regents approved the creation of a College of the Environment, as well as a tuition increase for undergraduates, at its June meeting.
When Kodak introduced its modestly priced and readily accessible box camera in 1888, the company’s slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest,” proposed that anyone could become a photographer.
Visions of future technology don’t involve being chained to a desktop machine.
Three regular ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members are among six instructors named by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Educational Outreach as recipients of a 2008 Teaching Excellence Award.
Online asbestos training required for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø employees
The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) requires the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to provide general asbestos awareness training to all ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø employees.
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For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods — land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages — in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark A.
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Does your department or unit have business pending with the Human Subjects Division or the Office of Sponsored Programs?
If so, remember that both offices are moving to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tower over the next two weekends, which will cause a brief interruption of their service.
EMMY EXCELLENCE: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøTV Production, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s television production facility, has earned an Emmy nomination from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its outstanding production Inside Access: Daniel’s Story.
Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty, chair and professor of communication, has been named interim vice provost and dean of The Graduate School effective Aug.
Nominations for the 2008 Diversity Award for Community Building are now being accepted.
What a year! It went by in a flash, with some goals accomplished and others not.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting Thursday, June 12, at 1 p.
A traveling exhibit of paper art from the People’s Republic of China titled Cutting Ribbons for the Olympics: Exhibition of Chinese Folk Sport Paper Cuts will be on display in Room 102 of Suzzallo Library today through Aug.
This school year, University Week, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turned 25 years old.
As part of its response to climate change and the need to rebuild our stumbling economy, Washington state has set a goal of creating 25,000 “green” jobs.
Scientists searching for the causes of autism are taking a new and hard look at families who have only one child with the developmental disorder.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 62,400 new cases of melanoma — a malignant form of skin cancer — will occur in the United States in 2008.
Former Surgeon General of the United States C.
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Jen Drumm, The coordinator of Dawg Daze, the annual event welcoming new students to campus, is looking for faculty and staff who are interested in participating.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Botanic Gardens will present a program on greening your home at 7 p.