MEDEX’s Ballweg honored
Ruth Ballweg, program director of MEDEX Northwest, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s physician assistant program, has received the Washington Rural Health Association’s Outstanding Contribution to Rural Health Award.
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English Language Courses
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø English Language Programs (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøELP) offers quarterly online and on-site courses designed primarily for non-native speakers of English.
Jennifer Faubion, a third-year law student from Kapowsin, Wash.
By Liorah Wichser
Biology
In the Botany Greenhouse’s largest research room, a strange machine built mostly out of wood and pulleys spins two vertical wheels at different speeds powered by a small motor.
A total of 20,430 pounds of reusable materials was diverted from the landfill-bound waste stream during Summer Scram 2006.
Beginning in 2008, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma will host a lecture series featuring prominent speakers on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma campus, thanks to a $1 million pledge by Arthur R.
NURSING PATRIOTISM: The U.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law has hired Michele Storms as executive director of the William H.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Summer Orchestra, conducted by Philip Tschopp, will present a free concert at 7:30 p.
By Tina Mankowski & Leila Gray
News & Community Relations
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Washington State University and Eastern Washington University plan to expand Spokane’s medical and dental education programs to meet the need for physicians and dentists locally and in nearby rural towns.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center has ranked in the top 10 among the nation’s best hospitals for fourth consecutive year, according to U.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø TechTransfer has announced that two-page pre-proposals requesting Technology Gap Innovation Fund (TGIF) money are due in the office of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø TechTransfer on Sept.
PSYCHED UP: The Department of Psychology announced its annual honors.
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By Peggy Weis
Harborview Art Program Manager
As part of the Harborview art program’s series of temporary public art exhibitions, photographs from Seattle artist Spike Mafford’s “Braille Portfolio” are currently on view in the medical center’s Ground West Lobby, cafeteria, and the foyer of the Research & Training Building.
Cultural proficiency center gets director
Amen Tsegai has been named project director for the Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education, a new National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to increase cultural competency training of medical students, residents and faculty.
Education Professor James Banks spent the past school year as a Spencer Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he also finished a new book that was published to excellent reviews.
VA seeks participants for alcohol study
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Seattle VA are looking for people ages 18 to 65 who use alcohol frequently, have problems with it, and want to stop using it.
UNPAID INTERNS: A May 30 article in The New York Times took up the issue of internships, especially those without pay, and their effect on individual careers and the work culture in general.
ACTING OUT: A certain section of a Statistics 101 class at the University of Missouri-Columbia was not quite what it seemed, according to an article in Mizzou Weekly, the university’s newspaper.
An informal gathering for Denice Denton’s ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø colleagues and friends is scheduled for 1 p.
The July issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine includes a number of stories about Health Sciences and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tacoma faculty and staff and students who want to work out at work will be able to starting this fall — at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøT’s new fitness center.
A number of Northwest artists, writers, musicians and dancers will gather on Friday, July 21, for a multidisciplinary festival called Grass Routes, designed to invite exploration of the effects of State Route 520 and its famous floating bridge on the surrounding natural environment.
MAHLER MANIA: The Northwest Mahler Festival is not a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø organization, but you wouldn’t know it from the program of their July 18 concert in Meany Hall.
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Safeco Field is sporting a new health care partner this season as part of a sponsorship agreement between ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine and the Seattle Mariners.
The building at 815 Mercer Street has been named the Brotman Building in honor of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Regent Jeff Brotman and his wife, Susan Brotman.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark Emmert was in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai June 12-21, meeting with dignitaries, educators and government officials.
TOURING TROMBONIST: School of Music doctoral trombone student Philip B.
By Elaine Kraft
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell
The Empty Suitcase Theater Company, a student theater group of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Bothell, will be traveling to Tuscany this month at the invitation of the international student theater festival in Arezzo, Italy.
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