Patrick A’Hearn, working here with a couple of radiometers, was among the UW employees spending months at Ice Station SHEBA on the Arctic ice pack. The field season for the station ended earlier this month and the icebreaker that’s been frozen into the pack for more than a year is now on its way toward Prudohe Bay, Alaska. Blou_153

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Sophomore Brant Robertson explains his poster on atomic force microscopy to his mother, Bonnie Robertson, during the Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium’s poster session at the HUB. Robertson was one of 75 undergraduates who displayed posters about their summer research; he was one of three first-place winners. Ks980739

At the UW 1998-99 Combined Fund Drive kick-off event Thursday, Chair L. G. Blanchard, director of Health Sciences & Medical Affairs News & Community Relations, tells campaign leadership that supporting CFD service organizations is a tangible way UW can be of service to the community and a way individual employees can directly contribute to building a better society. UW President Richard L. McCormick, who also spoke at the event in the HUB, announced that in a 1996 national survey, the UW ranked first in employee charitable giving among 73 large universities in the country. Last year UW employees were the only group of state employees to give more than $1 million to the statewide campaign. UW contributions of $1.1 million were one third of the $3.5 million raised even though UW faculty and staff are only one fifth of all state employees. This year’s goal is to increase the number of UW participants by 5 percent. Np980738

Al Alquist, rehabilitation medicine research superviser, dons a “cooling suit” for a demonstration of the apparatus that is used for studies of how patient function is affected by body temperature. Some research has shown that MS patients function better when their bodies are cooler. Dr. George Kraft is monitoring Alquist, assisted by Carolyne Dollar. Photo by Jordan Rehm.

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Wyoming medical student clerkships—Wyoming, the latest state to join the UW School of Medicine’s regional educational partnership, has opened its first clerkships for training UW medical students in Rock Springs and Jackson, with a third to open in November in Sheridan. Above, third-year medical student Timothy Johnson, left, the first student to take the Rock Springs obstetrics/gynecology clerkship, consults with Dr. Robert Fagnant, right. In addition to learning about women’s health care generally, Johnson worked with Fagnant on the Wyoming Health Initiative, which provides personal and financial support for pregnant teenagers. Johnson and Fagnant are discussing a patient chart with Mary Ann Austin, program co-director. Photo by Billee Jelouchan, Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County.

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