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The Hub UW BOTHELL CHANCELLOR
Kenyon Chan announced that he will leave his post in July 2013 when his term ends. Under Chan, who became UW Bothell’s leader in 2007,
WatchFrog, Inc., a company that uses technology developed at the UW and Georgia Tech to deliver sensors and web services to those at risk to home hazards, conditions and
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the campus has doubled its enrollment and tripled the number of degree programs it offers. Chan will remain on the faculty and return to his own scholarly work in educational psychology.
threats. A former computer software engineer for Boeing, he was vice president of business tools division at Microsoft and co-founded and ran numerous other corporations.
ENTREPRENEUR JEREMY
THREE FACULTY MEMBERS
Jaech, ’77, ’80, was appointed to the UW Board of Regents. Jaech is co-founder and CEO of
of the UW School of Public Health were elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, one of the
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highest honors in the fields of health and medicine: Chris Elias, ’90, clinical professor of global health and president of global development for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Thomas Fleming, professor of Biostatistics and professor of Statistics; and Andy Stergachis, professor of Epidemiology and of Global Health, adjunct professor of Health Services and adjunct professor of Pharmacy. LARRY COREY, PRESIDENT
and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine, and Edward Francis Diener, ’74, senior scientist
with Gallup, were among 180 people inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Scientists in October. THE SCHOOL OF LAW HAS
been selected to join the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Law School Clinic Certification Pilot Program. ABRAHAM FLAXMAN, assistant professor of Global Health, was named to MIT’s Technology Review magazine’s annual list of “35 Innovators Under 35.” His research at the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation focuses on figuring out which populations suffer from various diseases. FIVE YEARS in the making, the new Molecular
Engineering & Sciences Building opened this fall. Clean energy and biotechnology are the main themes of the Molecular Engineering & Bioengineering Institute, which will work with research partners, private companies and the UW Center for Commercialization to transition research into real-world applications. A $350,000 GRANT FROM
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation was awarded to Andrea M. Landis, assistant professor of Family and Child Nursing in the School of Nursing, to support her research into the connection between sleep deprivation and hunger signals in healthy adolescents ages 13-18.