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UW launches new science and technology magazine

NORTHWEST

 

The University debuts a new magazine on the rack this week that delves into developments in science and technology in the Pacific Northwest.

Northwest Science & Technology is a quarterly, full-color publication. Its first issue, with 52 pages, contains a mix of articles by regional writers covering research news, technology, environment, science education, book reviews, a calendar of events and opinion pieces.

“We are launching this publication,” said Alvin Kwiram, vice provost for research at the University, “with the goal of fostering a deeper understanding of the profound changes that the knowledge-based economy will bring, and of promoting more extensive communication about the exciting developments that are happening all around us.”

Among the articles in the first issue are:

  • University-related startup companies. New data show that more than 120 companies have been spawned by research at the UW alone. These companies have sales revenues of more than $1 billion and market capitalizations of more than $7 billion.
  • A major upgrade is being proposed for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network. This would improve the early warning capabilities and help Northwesterners prepare for “the big one.”
  • An exclusive interview with the new director of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, discussing the role of this premier research facility in the Hanford cleanup.
  • Perspectives by Nobel Laureate Michael Smith of the University of British Columbia on science in the next century.
  • Outcomes from research at Ice Station SHEBA, deliberately frozen into the Arctic ice, which will help develop a better picture of the process of global warming.

    The magazine’s cover story features NASA’s Stardust Mission, led by principal investigator Donald Brownlee, UW professor of astronomy.

    Besides providing more comprehensive coverage of science and technology in the Northwest, the magazine also is serving as a platform for an expanded science writing curriculum at the UW.

    The newsstand price will be $4.95. The initial circulation is 20,000. Most copies will be mailed directly to members of regional science and trade associations, the high-technology business community, high school science teachers, legislators and other elected officials, community leaders, members of the academic community, technology-oriented government laboratories and the news media. Northwest Science & Technology will be available at the University Book Store in Seattle and Bellevue, and Powell’s in Portland, plus other selected outlets.

    Northwest Science & Technology is edited by Deborah L. Illman, research assistant professor of technical communication and senior assistant to the vice provost for research. It is a joint publication of the UW Office of Research and the Department of Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. Sponsors include: W. Hunter Simpson, retired president and CEO of Physio-Control; the Washington Research Foundation; and, for the first issue, advertisers SeaMED, Battelle-Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Immunex, and Boston Scientific. ¶

    Bob Roseth, News and Information


    University Week
    The faculty and staff publication of the University of Washington
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    March 4, 1999