Researchers trying to understand why high school-age boys are involved in serious delinquency more often than girls have found that males are exposed to higher levels of risk factors and lower amounts of protective factors.
June 12, 2007
The latest news from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
National concrete canoe races come to Seattle
WHAT: 20th Annual American Society of Civil Engineers National Concrete Canoe Competition
WHO: 700 civil engineering students from 22 of the nation’s top schools whose teams won their regional championships
WHEN: Thursday, June 14, and Saturday, June 16
WHERE: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Seattle campus and Lake Sammamish
DETAILS: On Thursday the teams will display their canoes, weigh the boats and “swamp” them underwater in a tank to prove their buoyancy in the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Red Square.
June 11, 2007
The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don’t blame global warming
The “snows” of Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro inspired the title of an iconic American short story, but now its dwindling icecap is being cited as proof for human-induced global warming.
June 7, 2007
Sheila Edwards Lange selected as vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark A.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to receive art and furniture from Safeco Insurance
Early next year, when the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø moves into the property recently acquired from Safeco Corp.
High self-esteem may be culturally universal, international study shows
The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the picture revealed by recently developed measures of self-esteem, according to a new study by a team of researchers from the United States, China and Japan.
June 5, 2007
Hitchin’ a ride: Stray penguins probably reached northern waters by fishing boat
Guy Demmert got quite a surprise when he hauled a fishing net into his boat off the coast of southeast Alaska in July 2002.
Ports could hasten freight traffic by doubling up on crane trips
A massive crane reaches down 25 stories, picks up a container filled with Asian goods, and sets it on a truck for delivery.
May 31, 2007
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø signs on to Designated Suppliers Program of anti-sweatshop coalition
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has become a signatory to the Designated Suppliers Program of the Worker Rights Consortium, which works to assure that all university-licensed apparel is made in factories meeting specific criteria regarding fair labor practices.
Shingles pain is subject of lecture June 19
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Police launch night walk
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Police Department launched a new program this week to provide uniformed escorts for faculty, staff and students to and from buildings, from parking lots and within close proximity of the campus.
Home Improvement Fair set
Has spring cleaning got you thinking of making changes to your home? Maybe a bit of remodeling, or some new landscaping? ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Benefits & Work/Life, in partnership with Home Street Bank, is ready to help with its Home Improvement Fair.
Mystery photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Official notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1 p.
White Center Heights: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø landscape architecture team creates gathering space for neighborhood
Soft, wet concrete slid into the curving channel like cake batter into a pan, and teams from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and King County smoothed it into place.
A long way from recovery: Staffer working on Gulf Coast finds continuing devastation from hurricane
Editor’s Note: News & Information staffer Vince Stricherz traveled to the Gulf Coast last week to work with Habitat for Humanity.
Kevin Desouza: Small office, big impact
Clearly, Kevin Desouza is not much on décor.
Faculty Senate: Planning, budgeting panel takes on big issues
As we all know, the Faculty Senate is the mechanism by which faculty govern themselves and share the governance of the University with the administration.
Are babies like birds — learning by listening in?
Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors.
Concrete floats at annual races
By Hannah Hickey
News & Information
Don’t tell these paddlers that concrete isn’t the best material for building boats.
She helps students reach their dreams
Mona Pitre-Collins once swore she would never be a teacher like most of the members of her family.
Etc: campus news and notes
RUNNING THE NUMBERS: You’ve heard the expression “trash into treasure” applied to recycling, but ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Recycling probably hadn’t thought of its trash as being the inspiration for art.
Time flies as ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø artist has fun with pig
For Jennifer Carroll, happiness is a gold pig .
Giving back: Faculty, staff and retirees contribute to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø out of their values
Each faculty, staff or retiree gift to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is a story of relationships — of how people choose to work at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø because it reflects their values, and how those values are carried out not just in their working days but in the gifts they choose to make.
Alzheimer’s disease Public Forum set for June 13
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Commencements slated June 8-10
June features Foege, life sciences, biostatistics, and brain injury
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøMC wins national environmental award
Gary Butrymowicz has empty pop cans in his office.
Rotary-ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ‘Saving Lives’ Partnership: Creative collaboration to address rural poverty
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has entered into a partnership with Rotary International to fast-track dissemination of interventions and technologies to improve quality of life to those in greatest need throughout the world.
Scientists to catalog differences in human genome
A major new effort to uncover the medium- and large-scale genetic differences within the human species may soon reveal DNA sequences that contribute to a wide range of diseases, according to a paper by Evan Eichler, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø associate professor of genome sciences, and 17 colleagues published in the May 10 issue of Nature.
Lipsky honored for amputation prevention efforts
Integrative health program application deadline is June 7
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Faculty Integrative Health Program is accepting applications for the upcoming school year.
2007-08 Magnuson Scholars announced: Current scholars at work on array of projects
Six graduate students, one from each ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2007-08 academic year.
Elise Saba
Elise Saba, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, has been awarded a President’s Medal for scholarship as a transfer student — an award given to a student who entered the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø with at least 60 transfer credits from a Washington community college.
Minh-An Nguyen
Minh-An Nguyen, 21, majoring in biochemistry and chemistry, has been named a President’s Medalist — the outstanding student to complete at least three-fourths of her education at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Dawn Williams
In 1990, Dawn Williams was a recent business school grad who wanted to reconnect with the University.
Dan Evans
Dan Evans came close to becoming the vice president of the United States twice, but luckily for his home state, it didn’t work out either time.
Raj Bordia
German graduate student Andre Zimmerman moved to Maryland to complete his doctoral research.
Eve Riskin
Eve Riskin sometimes strolls into the office wearing a pair of cow boots.
Don Wulff
When Don Wulff was 7 years old, his parents decided he and his two siblings would attend school in town, not the one-room schoolhouse they’d been attending.