December 6, 2004
Recent testing throughout the Seattle Public School District revealed that many schools have at least one drinking fountain with lead levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency guideline for lead in school drinking water.
December 2, 2004
Mention Scrooge and what comes to mind? Miserly, check; mean, check; unsympathetic, check; tap dancer, ch 鈥� huh? Dickens鈥� famous curmudgeon doing a soft shoe routine? Not the picture we usually have of the old boy.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.
Maresi Nerad, director of the 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.
Maresi Nerad, director of the 蘑菇视频鈥檚 Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.
鈥淭鈥檞as the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
Academic Opportunities
Faculty Senate position
The Senate Executive Committee seeks applications and nominations from faculty on all three 蘑菇视频 campuses for the vital position of Secretary of the Faculty.
Technology transfer activity at the 蘑菇视频 increased significantly in fiscal year 2004, reports 蘑菇视频 TechTransfer, the office that facilitates commercial development of innovations arising from 蘑菇视频 research.
With increasing global warming, Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus鈥� reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
The Human Subjects Division is either moving to a new place or coming home to an old one, depending on how you look at it.
The 蘑菇视频 Police Department will be offering a free 10-week Citizen鈥檚 Academy beginning Jan.
PRESS ON PREZ: If you missed 蘑菇视频 President Mark Emmert鈥檚 speech on Tuesday, you have another chance to hear him as he sits for an interview with Seattle Times higher education reporter Sharon Chan and executive editor Michael Fancher.
The world鈥檚 fastest glacier, Greenland鈥檚 Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth鈥檚 surface.
Preparations for new facilities to house the 蘑菇视频 Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
December 1, 2004
With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus’ reindeer will disappear from large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century.
Preparations for new facilities to house the 蘑菇视频 Business School will accelerate from the planning to the design phase with the receipt of a $10 million donation, the largest private gift the school has received.
November 29, 2004
Researchers at the 蘑菇视频 have identified the mechanism for a protein that can protect against formation of the toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington’s disease.
A new interpretation for temperature data from satellites, published earlier this year, raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that, on average, the lower atmosphere is getting warmer as fast as the Earth’s surface.
WHAT: Panel discussion about Grid West, a proposed nonprofit corporation that would manage key features of the Northwest’s electric-power system.
November 22, 2004
By today’s standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write, or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.
November 18, 2004
Neuroscience for Kids, a Web site established and maintained by Dr.
Name: Ann Spangler
蘑菇视频 Job: Administrative Assistant, Office of Institutional Studies
Volunteer Activity: Brownie, Junior and Cadette Girl Scout Leader
Organization鈥檚 main mission: To give young people leadership skills and training to be used currently and as they move through life.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
It鈥檚 a novel about the founder of a sect of assassins driven by an extreme interpretation of Islam.
Geography Professor Katharyne Mitchell has been named to a professorship that will give her time to do some concentrated research and writing.
Toshiaki Namiki takes the hand of his friend and colleague Sharon Lindsey, and places it on top of her head.
While President Bush and Sen.
FUNNY THING, HUMOR: What鈥檚 in a laugh? Richard Gonzalez, chair of the University of Michigan鈥檚 department of psychology (and formerly of the 蘑菇视频), intends to find out, with access to of one of the best cartoon archives in the world.
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