University of Washington Biostatistics

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Hall Health Center: Hall Health offers free or low-cost service to University students and will provide care for most health problems. For those problems which cannot be handled at Hall Health, you will be referred to an outside physician. The Graduate Appointee Insurance Plan (for those students with Research/Teaching Assistantships and Traineeships) or the Student Accident and Sickness Insurance plan (available for a quarterly fee to students not covered by an RA/TA/Traineeship) usually covers the cost of these outside visits. Hall Health also has several specialized clinics such as the Women’s Clinic and the Mental Health Clinic. For some lab tests, these clinics charge a nominal fee.

UW Rec Sports: UW Rec Sports facilities includes weight rooms, tennis, racquet ball, squash, and basketball courts, a swimming pool and saunas, a golf range, and boat rentals, and is reserved for student, faculty, and staff use (free access for students). A wide variety of sports skills classes are offered each quarter, lasting five to eight weeks (fees are charged for these). Registration for these classes is usually during the second week of each quarter.

Students may also join men’s, women’s, and co-ed teams in sports such as soccer, baseball, basketball, volleyball, and football. Sometimes the Biostatistics department organizes a departmental team, including students, faculty, and staff.

HUB and South Campus Center: The Student (Husky) Union Building (HUB) is located near the center of campus and houses most of the student activities offices, a large dining area, television room, music room, bowling alley, hair salon, a branch of the University Book Store, MAC computer lab, bicycle repair shop, and the student housing office.

NOTE: The HUB will be undergoing renovations July 2010-2012, and most offices and services will be relocated to Condon Hall.

The South Campus Center (SCC) is just south of the Health Sciences Building and has a newsstand, hair salon, television area, games area, and bookstore. Textbooks for biostatistics courses are found at the SCC branch of the University Bookstore.

Students can receive a rebate ranging from 9-10% on purchases from any of the University Bookstore branches by submitting all of the related receipts to the bookstore before the end of June. This is called the “patronage refund.”

UW General Computer Labs: The University’s UWired Group maintains public terminal facilities in dozens of locations throughout the campus. Under a uniform access policy, basic services on UW computers are provided at no charge to all students, faculty and staff. All UWired computers can access the Biostat network and the general campus unix systems.

Drop-in Labs: UWired operates the University’s largest drop-in labs. UWired’s labs have been designed to be more than just a place to check email and do word processing; they are information commons, co-located with other services to provide students with a rich set of resources required to enhance learning.

Odegaard Learning Commons: The Odegaard Learning Commons, with hundreds of workstations, provides access to learning technologies in the heart of the undergraduate library. The computing help desk and library reference services are a single point of service, providing “one-stop shopping.” A variety of technology studios are available throughout the Odegaard Learning Commons.

The UWired Computing Resource Center in Mary Gates Hall holds nearly 200 computing workstations, and is conveniently co-located with Career Services, Advising and the Adaptive Technology Lab.

Collaboratories: Two wired classrooms specially designed for computer-based instruction, experimental education and student collaboration, Collaboratories, are maintained by UWired in Odegaard Undergraduate Library. These facilities are available to students and faculty to reserve free of charge.

Center for Learning and Scholarly Technologies: UWired operates the University’s Center for Learning and Scholarly Technologies, providing assistance, workshops and one-on-one faculty consultation. The UWired Center is equipped with a variety of hardware and software to allow faculty to experiment with different technology options and receive assistance in using them effectively.

The UWired Center is also home to the development efforts behind Catalyst, an ambitious project to support innovation in teaching via the Web. Catalyst provides educators with the resources, ideas, tools and information needed to make use of the Web in education and functions as a campus clearinghouse for new approaches to educational technology.

Schmitz Hall: Schmitz Hall is the administrative center of the campus, housing the Registrar’s office, the Financial Aid office, Cashier’s Office, the International Services Office, and the Minority Affairs office to name a few. Business involving your registration, tuition payments, and transcript requests, is conducted in this building.

The Graduate School: The Graduate School and administrative offices are located in the Communications Building. The Student Services Division, the office you will need more than others, is located on the main floor.

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