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Across generations: New center unites researchers in womens, childrens, adolescents health

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s new Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents and Children (Global WACh) wants to help researchers overcome a daunting task – seeking solutions across generations. Global WACh officially launches Dec. 8 with a campus event featuring speaker Leslie Mancuso, CEO of the health advocacy group Jhpiego.

Microsoft alumna works with Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Global Health to bridge faith and science in Ethiopia

When people fall ill in northern Ethiopia, theyre more inclined to call a priest than a doctor. Nancy Andrews has been convincing religious leaders to embrace medicine to prevent the spread of HIV and increase care for those infected.

November 21, 2011

Bennett to deliver University Faculty Lecture

Longtime Political Science Professor Lance Bennett will deliver the University Faculty Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, in 130 Kane. Its the highest recognition the faculty can bestow on someone in its ranks, and the roster has included artists, musicians, historians, scientists and engineers – some of them Nobel laureates.

Pushing the envelope on paper-based diagnostics

Paul Yager, chair of the Bioengineering Department at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, leads several subcontractors in two major grants totaling up to $26 million pushing the envelope on paper-based diagnostics. Their hope is that in two to three years, people miles from a lab will be able to cough, spit or urinate on a piece of paper, upload the image on a cell phone and get lab-quality results for a range of illnesses.

Graduate School calls for increased minority recruitment, fellowships for grad students

Only about 10 percent of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµs graduate students are underrepresented minorities, a Graduate School report finds. The report calls for establishing diversity as an “immediate priorityâ€� in recruitment and making graduate support a focus of the next capital campaign.

Etc.: Campus news & notes

A video on waste reduction features Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ staffers J.R. Fulton, Micheal Meyering, Clive Pursehouse, Ruth Johnston and Eric Johnson as well as students Martin Su and Dan Brody. Also, the School of Social Work gets a gift from the estate of an alum and Friday Harbor resident scientist Megan Dethier is named Naturalist of the Year.