Columns - June 2011

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PH OTO COURTESY DIA NA INCH

I beat them all. —DIANA INCH, ’96, high school librarian, who was the only participant out of approximately 3 million in the Yahoo! University to correctly pick the Final Four of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Eighty percent of participants in the Yahoo! Tourney Pick ’Em game failed to select even a single Final Four team.

UW Graduate Programs Among Nation’s Best The University of Washington has been ranked first among primary-care medical schools in the nation for the 18th consecutive year, according to the annual rankings of graduate and professional programs issued March 15 by U.S. News and World Report.

UWAA on Facebook

The School of Nursing also retained its top ranking for the 27th year. Its master’s program tied for No. 1 with Johns Hopkins and the University of Pennsylvania. The School of Medicine ranked ninth among research medical schools, ahead of such schools as Columbia, Michigan, University of Chicago, UCLA, Cornell, Vanderbilt and Northwestern. The rankings:

Let’s win the Pac-12! With more than

School of Medicine Rankings

School of Nursing Rankings

6,000 fans on Facebook, the UWAA

1

Primary care, family medicine, rural medicine

1

Community/public health nursing

5 8

AIDS, geriatrics

2

Internal medicine, pediatrics, MEDEX program for training physician assistants

Adult nurse practitioner, Family nurse practitioner

3 9

Pediatric nurse practitioner

Huskies are the most proud and loyal

Psychiatric/mental health

alumni in the conference, so become

9

Research medical school

has the fifth most 12 alumni associations. We all know

friends among Pac-

a friend of the UWAA on Facebook and let’s win the Pac-12.

Other Rankings 5 Biomedical/bioengineering graduate program,

6 6 7 9 10 16

CC O O LL U UM MN N SS

As a friend of the UWAA on Facebook, you’ll enjoy alumni news, fun facts,

computer systems, elementary education

prize drawings and more. To ‘Like’ us,

School of Public Health master’s/doctorate programs

visit facebook.com/UWalum.

Artificial intelligence program Computer science graduate program,computer science theory program, special education College of Education graduate program, education curriculum/instruction, secondary education Education administration/supervision


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