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November 20, 2001

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø speech traces history of African-American nurses in Seattle

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing Professor Lois Price-Spratlen will discuss the experiences of early African-American nurses in Seattle who overcame racial discrimination and adversity to achieve their dreams. Her free public presentation at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, in Hogness Auditorium at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences Center is titled “Seattle African-American Nurses: How They Have Overcome.” It is the third in a series of public lectures sponsored as a community service by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing.

Team Transplant

By Craig Degginger
HS News & Community Relations

A unique team of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center staff and faculty, transplant recipients and donor family members will run and walk as part of the Seattle Marathon on Nov.

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Visiting Professorships at the University of Bergen, 2002-2003


The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-University of Bergen Faculty Exchange Program announces its annual competition for Visiting Professor appointments at the University of Bergen, Norway, for a minimum term of one quarter.

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RESEARCH/TEACHING HONOR: Gretchen Kalonji, Kyocera Chair in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, was among seven university educators nationwide to be honored with a new National Science Foundation award during a ceremony in Washington, D.

November 9, 2001

Growing importance of minority-owned businesses to be recognized at awards ceremony

When young brothers David and Rick Cantu launched Redapt Systems and Peripherals in the mid-90s, they ran the computer resale business out of their home. That would make things a little crowded now. With $59 million in annual revenues, the Redmond company is not only the fastest-growing Hispanic-owned business in the state, it is the state’s fastest-growing small business — period.

New consortium gets $7 million

By Kristin Woodward
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will be participating in a federally funded, $37 million research consortium to study how individual genetic makeup affects one’s response to various environmental agents, from asbestos to tobacco smoke.

Surgery simulation

Elected officials and leaders in higher education and health from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho were at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences Center in late October for a WWAMI Legislative Conference focusing on the School of Medicine’s regional medical education and training programs.