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Annual gathering draws thousands of students, teachers and their parents for the largest engineering fair in the Pacific Northwest. A miniseries featuring a mammoth earthquake and a fictional 蘑菇视频 seismologist is to air May 2 and 3. Real 蘑菇视频 earthquake experts say the production appears to have very little in common with reality. Business school students from Washington state universities will present their concepts in this exhibition-style format to 119 judges comprised of angel investors, entrepreneurs, lawyers and venture capitalists. Algal blooms in Puget Sound and off the coast are increasingly producing domoic acid, which can sicken and 鈥� in high enough doses 鈥� kill humans, other mammals and birds when they eat fish or shellfish contaminated with the toxin. These toxic blooms will be the focus of a new national research center 鈥� the Pacific Northwest Center for Human Health and Ocean Sciences 鈥� at the 蘑菇视频. Editor鈥檚 Note: This is one of a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate Councils and Committees. Both new and longtime employees now have online tools that will make analyzing and selecting their benefits much easier. WINNING VENTURE: Five 蘑菇视频 students won the National Venture Capital Investment Competition held last weekend in Chapel Hill, N. The United States now has sovereign responsibility under international law for much of the health and sustainable use of 3. Beth Kalikoff, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, has been named the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award at the 蘑菇视频 Tacoma. Professor Peter McLaren of the University of California at Los Angeles will give a lecture titled Capitalists and Conquerors: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Post-Democratic Times at 5:30 p. The McNair Scholars/Early Identification Program and Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Spring Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, April 30 and May 1, at the South Campus Center. The spring Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning will feature Pat Hutchings, vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, giving a presentation titled Students and Faculty Learning Smarter: Lessons from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Two research divers with the 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Friday Harbor Laboratories are safe and well this week after an underwater incident Thursday, April 15, where one lost consciousness and was brought to the surface and given emergency medical assistance by the other. Reference Update The series on 鈥淭hings Your Mother Never Taught You,鈥� sponsored by the School of Medicine鈥檚 Office of Industry Relations, will offer a program at Harborview Medical Center on Thursday, April 29. A new imaging technique used by a group of researchers at the 蘑菇视频 and elsewhere has revealed a previously unknown cellular structure in the retinas of mice. Approximately 300 lives are lost each year in the United States as a result of vehicle crashes related to police pursuits, and one third of these fatalities occur to people not involved in the chase. Researchers at the 蘑菇视频 School of Medicine have found that bone marrow stem cells do not convert into heart muscle cells in mice. Three groups of researchers based at the 蘑菇视频 had papers announcing their results in the March 25 issue of the journal Neuron. 蘑菇视频 Medicine Web site The 蘑菇视频 community has a special invitation to the 2004 Health Sciences Open House this weekend. While most of us are going about our business today, about 40 University employees from about 15 units across campus will be responding to a major 鈥渆arthquake. A planned new resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, faculty and staff will start small but may have a big future, says Jennifer Self, the Social Work graduate student hired to run the center when it opens this fall. When Ed Taylor, associate professor, Education Leadership and Policy Studies, began a new outreach effort to principals of schools in South African townships, he set out to help them fulfill their mission to educate their students and build a new nation. It鈥檚 a notable milestone when any department experiences its first faculty retirement. Samantha Ogle and her carpool friends look forward to 鈥淐alvin day. Two visiting artists in the 蘑菇视频 Ethnomusicology Department will perform in a concert titled 鈥淢usic of Persia and Bali鈥� at 7:30 p. With flowers and photo flashes, cheers and applause, Jennifer Annable, principal of the 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Experiment Education Unit, was surprised Tuesday by the crew of KING television and given the station鈥檚 award for Most Popular Principal in Western Washington. Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus. Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation associated with an inherited form of motor neuron disease in which symptoms first appear in childhood or young adulthood. Researchers have discovered a genetic mutation associated with an inherited form of motor neuron disease in which symptoms first appear in childhood or young adulthood. The finding is slated for publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.</I. Parasite-caused diseases such as malaria kill millions of people each year, and eradication efforts have been largely futile. The 蘑菇视频 Board of Regents has approved an employment contract with Mark Emmert, Louisiana State University chancellor who will become the president of the 蘑菇视频, effective June 14. The American dream of buying and owning a home all too frequently doesn’t have a happy ending for many low-income families. Three 蘑菇视频 professors are among 185 artists, scholars and scientists selected from 3,200 applicants for this year鈥檚 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships. |