Volume 4, Number 36September 8, 2000

Last year UW researchers co-authored two of the top 10 best papers that influenced surgical practice, according to a listing in the July 2000 issue of the Archives of Surgery.

The papers were:

"Alcohol Interventions in a Trauma Center as a Means of Reducing the Risk of Injury Recurrence" published in the Annals of Surgery, with Larry Gentilello, associate professor of surgery, as the lead author.

"Neostigmine for the Treatment of Acute Colonic Pseudobstruction," published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with Michael Kimmey, professor of medicine, as a co-author with R.J. Ponec and M.D. Saunders.

In a special meeting Aug. 31, the UW Board of Regents approved renaming the Cascade Tower at UWMC as the Robert H. Muilenburg Tower in honor of the medical center's longtime executive director. (Full story)

Today the UW School of Medicine celebrates the opening of a Gene and Cell Therapy Core Laboratory as part of the newly remodeled General Clinical Research Center. (Full story)

The UW's astrobiology graduate program, among the first of its type in the world, is entering its second academic year. (Full story)