Crimes against people and property on campus dropped significantly from 2003 to 2004, according to the annual crime report released by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Police Department.
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KIDS COUNT: Nancy Amidei, senior lecturer in social work, was honored recently by the Children’s Alliance with a 2005 Voices for Children Award.
Joanne Suffis, executive director of HR operations for Upper Campus, Bothell and Tacoma, has been named Interim Vice President for HR as of July 1.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ took home several honors from the fourth annual Businesses for an Environmental and Sustainable Tomorrow (BEST) awards, including the Mayor’s Environmental Leadership Award.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Human Subjects Division is leaving the “Age of Paper.
The deadline to respond to the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative survey is June 30.
William Matchett, professor emeritus of English and former longtime editor of the journal Modern Language Quarterly, will read from and sign copies of Elementary, a new book of poems, at 7 p.
For people from the Seattle area, a trip to the Yakima Valley means encountering an environment very different from the one they’re used to.
Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution.
LEGAL NOTICES
New parking and transportation fees effective July 1
Last year, the Board of Regents approved a three-year transportation fee schedule that provides for increases on July 1.
Construction barriers are going up this week in preparation for the year-long project to remodel the main Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medical Center lobby and clinic areas on the third floor.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medical Center this spring completed the first installation in the western United States of a next-generation volume computed tomography (VCT) scanner.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is one of four sites to receive funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to train students in a new public health informatics program.
Skin cancer on TV
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medical Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance will be prominently featured in the KING TV “Cancer-Free Washingtonâ€� special on skin cancer this month.
Phyllis Wise’s voice over the phone sounded genuinely enthused as she talked about her new job at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.
Doubled in size through a recent renovation, the Burke Museum’s Special Exhibits Gallery will reopen this weekend with a nationally praised exhibit of photography from one of the most beautiful, pristine and remote regions of the world.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty and staff have a long tradition of supporting Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students in countless ways.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ atmospheric sciences professor and a research meteorologist have been named the winners of a Prize for Excellence in Weather Modification Research, awarded annually by the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization and the United Arab Emirates.
Want to help a diverse group of people learn to get along? Have them design and build something together, says Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Art Professor John Young.
Only the size of a button, the tiny plastic disc doesn’t look like much at first glance.
Like a collegiate version of “Extreme Makeover – Home Edition,” Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ architecture students are preparing to build a four-bedroom home for a Yakima Valley family in just nine weekends.
Researchers studying the factors behind out-of-wedlock births have found a significant variable that often is overlooked: child support.
Four Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty members are among 58 of the nation’s most promising young scientists and engineers being recognized at the White House today as winners of this year’s Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering.
EDITORS:
Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Mark A.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers have discovered that genetic variations may influence how individuals respond to a common coumarin-based anticoagulant called warfarin, according to an article published in the June 2 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Although the information-gathering phase of the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative is far from complete, members of the team are encouraged by the response thus far, both to the online survey and in-person discussion groups.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ TechTransfer has announced the recipients of the second round of Technology Gap Innovation Fund (TGIF) awards.
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ will soon begin implementing more vigorous procedures for preventing computers on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ network from being used to originate spam.
NATIONAL HONORS: News & Information staffers picked up national writing awards recently from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
The Tall Ships Festival will be held in Tacoma’s Commencement Bay from June 30 to July 4, and Thad Koza, author, photographer and expert on tall ships, will give a lecture titled Tall Ships: The Fleet for 2005 twice at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ locations during that time.
Experts on home remodeling projects will be on the Health Sciences campus and at Harborview Medical Center for the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Home Improvement Fairs in coming days.
LEGAL NOTICES
Equal Opportunity Statement
The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ reaffirms its policy of equal opportunity regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam era veteran.
Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ TechTransfer’s Invention Licensing group recently unveiled a dynamic web tool that makes searching for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ technologies easier than ever.
A number of changes to after-hours access in the Health Sciences Building are slated for late June and July, all related to overall security improvements in the building.