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Name and title of unit head: Jane Wiseman, director
Unit’s location: Gilman Building, 4725 30th Ave.
Earl Davie Building
ZymoGenetics, a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of protein therapeutics, in September celebrated the naming of its second building in honor of Dr.
For years, it seemed like a rite of passage, like a first car or a first grandchild.
A significant number of teenagers continue to be admitted to hospitals for poisoning from inappropriate use of medications, or, for children younger than 12, for the ingestion of non-medications, according to an article bu ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
By Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
A visitor to Dr.
Questions about cancer have been linked, almost from the beginning, to the use of hormone replacement therapy for women after menopause.
Women who’ve had a Caesarean and who later attempt to deliver by labor are more likely to suffer a uterine rupture than women who go on to have a repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Even such mythical detectives as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would have difficulty trying to find the culprit that killed the mammoths, mastodons and other megafauna that once roamed North America.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program. The number is about 3.5 percent higher than last year’s headcount of 36,139.
Yesterday, at a more-than-capacity meeting sponsored by Harborview Medical Center, the Washington State Hospital Association, and the Central Region Trauma Council, hospital and health department leaders continued their preparations for dealing with bioterrorism. More than 400 people attended the meeting, which was also broadcast via live feed to several locations and taped for later distribution to other hospitals and health departments statewide.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2001 is 37,412, including 838 students in the Evening Degree Program.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have won more than $5 million in federal grants to create software of unprecedented power and flexibility to help Puget Sound and other metropolitan areas tackle such problems as traffic jams and water pollution.
Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard, one of the nation’s most influential technology journalists, will deliver the keynote address Thursday at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Business Leadership Banquet.
The crane and forest around it are closed to the general public because of safety concerns (the forest around the crane, for example, is a hard-hat area), there are scientific instruments on the forest floor and the area needs to be kept as pristine as possible for research to be meaningful. Please don’t include the crane in travel or outdoors stories leading readers or viewers to think they can visit. This will only frustrate people and cause them to be upset with the research staff.
Going up — A key factor in forest growth, and subsequent carbon sequestration, is the way trees take up and give off water. Work at the crane covers this process from below the forest floor to the very tops of the trees. A new project at the crane site is trying to determine the significance of what scientists call hydraulic lift in the root zone.
Dr. Bobbie Berkowitz, professor and chair of the Department of Psychosocial and Community Health in the School of Nursing, and Dr. Cornelius Rosse, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Biological Structure in the School of Medicine, join 36 other ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members previously elected to the Institute of Medicine.
By Doug Wadden, Faculty Council on Academic Standards
and Steve Buck, Faculty Council on Educational Outreach
The role of distance learning in undergraduate education at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has long been a contentious issue.
Academic Opportunities
Applicants sought for exchange program
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-University of Ljublajana Exchange Program invites applications from faculty and senior graduate students to be an academic visitor to the University of Ljubljana, in Slovenia, during the 2002 calendar year.
NOBEL PITCHER: The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s newest Nobel Prize winner, Lee Hartwell, threw out the first pitch in the Mariners’ win over Cleveland Monday.
Students, faculty and staff from the College of Architecture and Urban Planning gathered on Oct.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Richard L.
Several seminars and workshops for the University’s Day of Reflection and Engagement preceded the presentation by Laurie Garrett, author of The Coming Plague, for the Hogness Symposium last week.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has received emergency funding to open an office in New York City to support journalists traumatized by their work covering the Sept.
By Steve Hill
University Week
The tragedy of Sept.
“Artists and Art Making: How Should We Proceed Post Sept.
As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound’s orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals’ plummeting population.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has received a $3.
Next month the Burke Museum will be welcoming a new director.
Lecture focuses on World Trade Center
New York World Trade Center: Reflections on the Engineering and Thoughts ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø the Future is the title of a lecture scheduled for 4 p.
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Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
By Walter Neary
HS News & Community Relations
Although more diagnostic tools are available now than ever, there has been no improvement in the rate of misdiagnosis of appendicitis during the last decade, according to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers.
Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel, John D.
By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations
Dr.
By Laurie McHale, CHDD
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has been awarded a $3.
Because youth sports are saddled with so many myths, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø sports psychologists Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll have spent a large part of their careers dispelling these misconceptions and trying to make youth sports more of a child-oriented, fun activity for everyone involved – players, coaches and parents.