July 6, 2006
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.
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.
When Eric Godfrey became the interim vice president for student affairs last fall, he did not intend to pursue the permanent position, which is now called the vice provost for student life.
The July issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine includes a number of stories about Health Sciences and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medicine.
An informal gathering for Denice Denton’s ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø colleagues and friends is scheduled for 1 p.
Starvation typically has dire consequences for an organism’s growth.
Hypertonic resuscitation — a concentrated intravenous dose of saline, with or without dextran, a sugar solution — has the potential to help survivors of traumatic injury by improving blood flow and delivery of oxygen to the injured brain while decreasing high pressure in the brain, a common problem for patients with brain injury.
William Shakespeare may not really have been thinking of recruiting departmental coordinators for the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s fall Combined Fund Drive when he wrote that “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
When Sibrina Collins entered graduate school in chemistry at The Ohio State University, it suddenly became obvious to her that minority groups were far outnumbered in graduate study of the sciences.
Tina Wood and Laura Foy, co-hosts of Microsoft’s online technology program The Ten Show, are about to find out what happens when a patient’s heart stops beating in the OR.
July 5, 2006
July 3, 2006
Women with a serious mental disorder called borderline personality disorder who received a specialized form of cognitive behavioral therapy were half as likely to attempt suicide as women who were treated by expert therapists in dealing with difficult patients.
June 30, 2006
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June 29, 2006
It’s pretty difficult to overlook the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, or even an average-size person dressed in a gorilla suit.
Restoring degraded ecosystems around Seattle — and giving them a fighting chance to stay healthy — can be as much about PR as the right plants.
June 24, 2006
“We mourn the loss of Denice Denton.
June 22, 2006
I recently listened in on a conversation between two savvy people.
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Research Studies
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center seeks women for study
The Nutrition and Exercise for Women (NEW) Study — A study that examines the effects of exercise and nutrition on breast cancer risk factors — seeks to recruit more than 500 Seattle-area participants.
Steven Goodreau, assistant professor of anthropology, won $100 worth of Flexcar use after completing a quiz sponsored by the Facilities Services Conservation Campaign Committee.
At about lunchtime last Tuesday, the parking lot of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Motor Pool was lined with several attractive vehicles, gleaming with showroom polish but a bit smaller than most you see on the street.
Visually Speaking: MFA and BFA Student Artworks, curated by Charlotte Beall, opens June 22 and runs through Oct.
Some major earth moving will be taking place in the shadow of George Washington this summer.
By Ed Kromer
Business School
Bill Resler, an eccentric senior lecturer in tax accounting and part-time basketball coach whose scruffy appearance has been described as “Santa Claus in Birkenstocks,” doesn’t exactly fit Hollywood’s image of a leading man.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark Emmert was in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai June 12–21, meeting with dignitaries, educators and government officials.
The National Science Foundation has reversed an earlier decision and will support ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø efforts to draft a conceptual design proposal for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory in the Washington Cascades, University officials have learned.
A task force appointed by Provost Phyllis Wise has completed an interim report that calls for articulating a vision for the future of the University’s information systems, and thinking about how future hardware and software development would fit into that vision.
WHERE ARE WE? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the first study drawn from the nation’s general youth population.
Taking a page from the treatment book on alcohol abuse, researchers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøhave successfully tested a brief, low-cost intervention to deal with depression, the No.
TOURING TROMBONIST: School of Music doctoral trombone student Philip B.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark Emmert was in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai June 12-21, meeting with dignitaries, educators and government officials.
The National Science Foundation has reversed an earlier decision and will support ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø efforts to draft a conceptual design proposal for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory in the Washington Cascades, university officials have learned.
A task force appointed by Provost Phyllis Wise has completed an interim report that calls for articulating a vision for the future of the University’s information systems, and thinking about how future hardware and software development would fit into that vision.