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2010 |
| December 2010 |
Polar bears still on thin ice, but cutting greenhouse gases now can avert extinction
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Too much retinoic acid disrupts development in zebra fish embryos
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Harborview Medical Center named to Target: Stroke Honor Roll
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UW, WSU collaborate in landmark national study of children?s health
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?Array of arrays? coaxing secrets from unfelt seismic tremor events
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Decline of West Coast fog brought higher coastal temperatures last 60 years
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Assessing the environmental effects of tidal turbines
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Calculating tidal energy turbines? effects on sediments and fish
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UW Medicine to expand use of Microsoft Amalga to support clinical, translational research
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International law permits abusive fathers custody of children
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New research shows rivers cut deep notches in the Alps? broad glacial valleys
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| November 2010 |
UW Medicine health system tackles, reduces infection rates
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Neuroscience of instinct: How animals overcome fear to obtain food
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As Nov. 28 election approaches, Egyptian opposition builds larger presence online than government
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?Finger trap? tension stabilizes cells? chromosome-separating machinery
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Get paid to change the world: New book shows how to find jobs in public service
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Free college preparation for high-school students with disabilities
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MRSA exposure for fire fighters, medics greater than for general public: UW study
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Peace Corps director visits UW
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IQ scores fail to predict academic performance in children with autism
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Scientists question widely adopted indicator of fisheries health and evidence for ?fishing down marine food webs?
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UW is fourth in country in students studying abroad
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Several DNA sequence variations linked to electrical signal conduction in the heart
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UW to lead in five-year, $40 million Head Start grant promoting early childhood learning
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Volunteers needed for studies on substance abuse, domestic violence interventions
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Undergraduates? low-cost ultrasound system wins Gates Foundation grant
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Study shows universities may be failing to sufficiently teach basic research skills
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UW Medicine health system lauded for transplant, organ donation excellence
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New book investigates the cost ? and payoff ? of great teaching
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Tiny marine creatures could help diagnose the health of Puget Sound
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| October 2010 |
UW losing 60-year tradition of salmon returning to campus
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Murray leads Rossi, voters against income tax, new KCTS 9/KPLU/Washington Poll shows
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Molecular imaging and therapy center to develop, commercialize technologies
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New methods detect subtleties in human genomes' repetitive landscapes
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Scented consumer products shown to emit many unlisted chemicals
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New class of biomolecules triggered in response to respiratory virus infection
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Volunteers needed for study on suicide intervention strategies
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Researchers develop first implanted device to treat balance disorder
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From obscurity to prime time: viral political videos can spring from non-political sites
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Biologist hopes new ?condos? will help Galapagos penguins stave off extinction
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Molecular Engineering and Science Institute to address energy and medicine; UW bioengineer named director
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New survey shows voters oppose income tax, favor Murray over Rossi
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I want to see what you see: Babies treat ?social robots? as sentient beings
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Forget the Coppertone: Water fleas in mountain ponds can handle UV rays
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Fact Sheet: New buoy designed to gather information in changing Arctic
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UW Part of Team to Transform African Medical Education; Funding Part of $130m Investment by U.S. Government to Increase Health Care Workers
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When in Rome: Study-abroad students increase alcohol intake
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Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics
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Media advisory: UW Medicine Tumor Vaccine Group holds open house, lab tours
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UW researchers land $24 million in patient-centered research grants
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UW-built device reveals invisible world teeming with microscopic algae
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Depression during pregnancy increases risk for preterm birth and low birth weight
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?Living Voters Guide? invites Washington voters to hash out ballot initiatives
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| September 2010 |
Scarless brain surgery is new option for patients
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UW leading $7.5 million study of animal flight and aerial vehicles
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34 University of Washington doctoral programs rated highly on national assessment
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New U.S. Census data show more Washington residents living in poverty
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Trio of PNW universities to develop new tools for climate change planning
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Sudden ocean cooling likely contributed to Northern Hemisphere global warming pause in mid-20th century
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Freshman Convocation features UW ?genius award? winner
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Mice engrafted with human immune cells may provide clues to better prevention and treatment of typhoid fever
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New research shows massive ad campaign didn?t reduce meth use
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Rising education levels among women save children's lives worldwide
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New U.S. Census data show West more hurt by recession than rest of country
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UW ranked 23rd in the world, fourth among American publics in new study
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Home?s electrical wiring acts as antenna to receive low-power sensor data
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UW to Host Largest University-Based Global Health Conference Sept. 19-21
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UW researchers seek to improve access to personalized drug therapy for underserved populations
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80 percent of agricultural expansion in tropics came at expense of forests
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Handouts for college research assignments are often poor roadmaps
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UW search committee holds forum in Spokane Sept. 8
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| August 2010 |
Labor movement, UW collaborate on labor archive for Washington state
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Army ant raids help birds survive the winter in Costa Rica
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In cracking apple DNA code, Apple Cup rivals join in international team effort
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Tuning into cell signals that tell where sensory organs will form inside the ear
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Prospects for democracy in Iraq? Research shows Internet indispensable
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Astronomy conference at UW to explore the sun and other cool stars
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UW, Sound Transit build ?Great Wall of Us? on construction site
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UW ranked 16th nationally by Washington Monthly based on service
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UW Regents finalize Emmert departure
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Tom Stritikus selected dean of UW College of Education
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Italy?s foreign minister to deliver address at UW?s Rome Center
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Deaf, hard-of-hearing students do first test of sign language by cell phone
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Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care
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UW named one of America?s 20 ?coolest? schools by Sierra Magazine
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Researchers discover genetic link between immune system, Parkinson?s disease
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Genetic alterations common to Kabuki syndrome discovered through streamlined DNA sequencing
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National Research Council endorses project in which UW is a major player
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Surf your way to a deep ocean research expedition
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New study indicates tea party ideas may be
out of step with mainstream conservatism
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Distracted drivers benefit from in-car driving coach
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Slow-moving ?earthquake? under Olympic Peninsula will be well recorded
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A strategy to fix a broken heart
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Newly discovered mechanism controls levels and efficacy of a marijuana-like substance in the brain
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Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding
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Retail prices of healthy foods rising: UW study
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| July 2010 |
Scientists uncover mechanism behind Salmonella virulence and drug susceptibility
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Prescription-type opiate overdoses, deaths continue to rise in King County
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Multifunctional nanoparticle enables new type of biological imaging
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Nike?s actions resolve all outstanding issues, UW president says
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UW professor?s lifetime efforts receive international recognition
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University of Washington names Lidstrom interim provost
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UW Medical Center ranks 12th in U.S. News Media Group?s 2010 edition of America?s Best Hospitals
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UW?s annual economic impact on Washington is $9.1 billion
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State?s most sophisticated buoy to sample for acidification, oxygen-starved waters
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UW Board of Regents Names Provost Phyllis Wise as Interim President
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Media advisory: Ocean acidification findings for Puget Sound to be announced
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UW alliance for comparative effectiveness gains ground in research efforts, kicks off training programs
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Thermal-powered, insectlike robot crawls into microrobot contenders? ring
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| June 2010 |
Dr. Howard Frumkin, special assistant at CDC, selected as dean of UW School of Public Health
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Frances J. Youn selected as student representative on Board of Regents
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All ages enjoy free brainy activities at ?Neuroscience for Kids? website
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Industry fishing for profits, not predators
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Scientists discover spikes of nutrients fueling mid-ocean plankton
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UW team wins $1.3 million to radically reduce hospital energy use
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UW Medicine researchers receive $12.6 million grant to fund work in stem cells, cardiovascular repair
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Grand reopening of ?Husky Central? downtown tomorrow
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Virus infection may trigger unusual immune cells to attack the brain and spinal cord in multiple sclerosis
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People with autism have more duplicated and deleted DNA sequences in their genomes than do those without the disorder
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UW institute to get as much as $100 million to study atmosphere, ocean
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University of Washington and UAW reach new agreement
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Patients with diabetes and depression control glucose, blood pressure, lipid levels just as well as non-depressed counterparts
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135th Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m. June 12 at Husky Stadium
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UW engineers help U.S. government estimate seepage rate of Gulf oil spill
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Biosensors reveal how single bacterium gets the message to split into a swimming and a stay-put cell
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UW moves to new admissions process
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| May 2010 |
Board of Regents names presidential search committee members
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Genome comparison tools found to be susceptible to slip-ups
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Longtime UW climate researcher is new Washington state climatologist
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Unexpected decline in newborn mortality drives child deaths below 8 million
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Weird orbits of neighbors can make 'habitable' planets not so habitable
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Ignoring seat belt law costs Montanans $36 million in health-care costs
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UW names Lisa Graumlich first dean of College of the Environment
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Voters dissatisfied with Congress and state Legislature but willing to accept state income tax
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UW research helps consumers, policymakers identify and access healthy, affordable food
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Ultraviolet radiation not culprit killing amphibians, research shows
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Media alert: Arboretum BioBlitz 2010 starts Friday, teams reveal findings Saturday at public open house
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Neandertal genome sequencing reveals new clues on human-specific gene changes
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Flexible approach to anxiety treatment may result in better symptom relief
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Media alert: Presentation on the security of modern automobiles
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Major depression is common and disabling after traumatic brain injury
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Francia Russell, Kent Stowell to receive honorary UW doctorates
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University of Washington scores a triple-A grade from Moody?s
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UW Tacoma Chancellor Spakes announces leadership transition
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Scrutinize arboretum?s plants, critters, crawlies as part of city?s first 'bioblitz'
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Experts list: Lessons from Mount St. Helens being applied today
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University of Washington to dedicate study center in Leon, Spain
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| April 2010 |
Adult mortality trends reveal massive rise in global inequalities
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Comparative-effectiveness study confirms new treatment for diabetic macular edema
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Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods
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Statement from UW Board of Regents Chair Herb Simon
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Survey shows that among whites, tea party supporters more willing than others to curtail civil liberties
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William H. Gates Sr. to be UW Commencement speaker
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UW energy- and water-sensing technology acquired by Belkin
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UW's observatory is finalist for restoration grant
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Campus gone green: UW blooms with activities for Earth Day 2010
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New methods identify thousands of new DNA sequences missing from reference map of the human genome
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Latest rankings show UW programs among best in nation
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Engineering Summit to address challenges in aerospace, computing, biotech
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Genome scientist Dr. Jay Shendure receives Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award
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Maternal deaths fall worldwide from a half-million annually to less than 350,000
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Traumatized trees: Bug them enough, they get fired up
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Developing countries worldwide devote more funding to health, except many in sub-Saharan Africa
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PhotoCity, virtual game of capture-the-flag, happening now on UW campus
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Survey finds that racial attitudes influence the tea party movement in battleground states
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UW Hometown News
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UW student wins mathematics contest, named Putnam Fellow
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| March 2010 |
What if all software was open source? A code to unlock the desktop
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Dangerous plaques in blood vessels rupture by overproducing protein-busting enzymes
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New University of Washington Center for Systems and Translational Infectious Disease Research established
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UW Students for Equal Health Hosts Free Conference on Media and Health April 10 with Major Media Experts
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UW study finds Wikipedia first stop for many student researchers
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UW Department of Global Health and Physicians for Social Responsibility Host War & Global Health Conference April 23-25 on UW Campus
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Difficulty trusting and reaching out to others may shorten diabetes patients' lives
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Media Advisory: UW students present phone apps for people with disabilities
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Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
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UW research team finds one in 16 Seattle drivers yakkin' on the phone
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Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers
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The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
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Male batterers consistently overestimate rates of violence toward partners
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Judge upholds freeze of UW faculty salaries
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Major depression more than doubles risk of dementia among adults with diabetes
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Researchers discover gene that affects susceptibility to tuberculosis and clues to how it works
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Dr. Hunter Handsfield wins award for STD prevention
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Trying to kick the marijuana habit? UW study wants you
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Media advisory: U.S. chief information officer to speak at UW
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Federal stimulus funds for UW create 2,000 jobs directly and indirectly
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| February 2010 |
Media advisory: UW expert on great earthquakes, tsunamis available for media on Chile quake
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Media Advisory: UW hosts student entrepreneurs in global competition to address issues of poverty and global health
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Common Language Project practicing new, hybrid journalism
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Earthquake engineers release report on damage in Haiti
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Local social dynamics key to success of tropical marine conservation areas
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UW?s Dennis Lettenmaier elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Brain-controlled cursor doubles as a neural workout
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Obama to appoint artist and UW grad Chuck Close to presidential arts committee
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University of Washington leaders give salary to fund scholarships, programs
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Workplace gendered tradeoffs lead to inequalities for women
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Radical new directions needed in food production to deal with climate change
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Adapting to clogged airways makes common pathogen resist powerful antibiotics -- even without previous exposure
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3-D scaffold provides clean, biodegradable structure for stem cell growth
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| January 2010 |
How many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube?
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Students recreate story of Great Depression that transformed Washington
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Surgeon studies effect of a pre-operative ?warm up?
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Severe complications of diabetes higher in depressed patients
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New formula helps gauge the winds of change
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UW President endorses bill that would encourage undocumented students to go to college
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UW begins statewide tour to promote Husky Promise
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Managing Pacific Northwest dams for a changing climate
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Herpes medication does not reduce risk of HIV transmission, UW-led international study finds
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Why hasn?t Earth warmed as much as expected? New report explores reasons
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UW experts on the crisis in Haiti
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Dog genome researchers track paw prints of selective breeding
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New research resolves conflict in theory of how galaxies form
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?Greenroads? rates sustainable road projects
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Statement from University of Washington President Mark Emmert on Gov. Gregoire's State of the State Address
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Microbe understudies await their turn in the limelight
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First Earth-like planet spotted outside solar system likely a volcanic wasteland
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Toxicants detected in Asian monkey hair may warn of environmental threats
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2009 |
| December 2009 |
University of Washington?s Dr. Edwin G. Krebs, recipient of 1992 Nobel Prize for discovering biological switch in cells, dies at 91
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Air bags not a risk to pregnant women in motor vehicle crashes, study finds
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UW raises a record $2 million in Combined Fund Drive donations
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Scientists witness for first time magma streaming from volcano in deep ocean
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Pay attention to that man behind the curtain: Climate Wizard makes large databases of climate information visual, accessible
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Several novel genetic links to lung function in large-scale, multi-institutional study
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Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle
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Scientists seek Seattle-area volunteers to host special seismographs
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Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science
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Low-cost temperature sensors, tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack
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'One keypad per child' lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math
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Mechanism discovered by which body?s cells encourage tuberculosis infection
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UW Medicine?s Institute of Translational Health Sciences presents Breast Cancer Screening - The New Guidelines: Can We Make Sense Out of the Controversy?
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Grinch at work: one of arboretum's rare conifers cut down, stolen
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Student uncovers ancient Native American artifact on UW campus
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High-school students with disabilities can apply for college prep program
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| November 2009 |
UW researchers discover groundbreaking approach to predicting life expectancy among patients with malignant brain tumors
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Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds
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Free e-samples of prescription drugs: At what cost?
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Media advisory: UW expert to discuss alcohol, anger, aggressive driving
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UW to be pilot site for smart grid technology
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New report says climate change accelerating much faster than expected
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Fish food fight: Fish don't eat trees after all, says new study
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Coaches can shape young athletes' definition of success
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110 local infants needed for autism brain imaging study
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For the first time, scientists discover causative gene of a rare disorder by sequencing all protein-coding regions of the genome
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UW Medicine and Northwest Hospital & Medical Center sign final documents
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UW first educational institution to offer mobile tool for BlackBerry devices
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UW to dedicate new Medal of Honor memorial on Veterans Day
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Black veterans were vital in the civil rights fight, says book by University of Washington political science professor
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Media advisory: UW Medical Genetics Clinic celebrates 50th anniversary
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Media advisory: UW Medicine Tumor Vaccine Group hosts third annual open house
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UW Evans School of Public Affairs to collaborate with X Prize Foundation
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| October 2009 |
Stress-induced changes in brain circuitry linked to cocaine relapse
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Pregnant women risk early delivery from using psychiatric medication
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UW smoothes pathway to 3-year bachelor's degree
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Cell phones become handheld tools for global development
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Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion
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New UW poll shows voters in favor of Referendum 71 but undecided about other issues
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First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
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Researchers make key step towards turning methane gas into liquid fuel
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Taking medicine for HIV proves hard to swallow for many people
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ResearchToolkit.org provides one-stop web resource for health researchers
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It takes two to tutor a sparrow
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Infant sucking habits may affect how baby talks
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New University of Washington memorial honors alumni who hold the Congressional Medal of Honor
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Depression in older cancer patients more effectively treated
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Research gives glimpse of tectonic history on Puget Sound-region fault zones
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Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture
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Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells.
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UW breaks ground on nation's largest molecular engineering building
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UW oceanographer is a lead scientist in largest airborne survey of polar ice
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Household robots do not protect users' security and privacy, researchers say
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Genome-wide hunt reveals new genetic links in autism
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Pacific Northwest doctors gain more options for end-of-life care training
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UN Secretary-General to receive honorary UW degree Oct. 26
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UW's newly named 'Lamborghini Lab' brings composite parts to sports-car arena
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No longer lost in the weeds: History of farmworkers comes to life on Web
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Dedication of UW 'Lamborghini Lab' that will test composite sports-car parts
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Dean of UW Evans School of Public Affairs is elected to national academy
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UW to explore genetic origins of common heart, lung, and blood diseases in federal project
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UW's television station reshapes itself
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| September 2009 |
Planet's nitrogen cycle overturned by 'tiny ammonia eater of the seas'
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Surgery provides modest benefit over non-surgical treatment for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome
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UW lab demonstrates 3-D printing in glass
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UW opens "Husky Central" in downtown Seattle
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New links among alcohol abuse, depression, obesity in young women found
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UW poet named MacArthur Fellow
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Adolescent alcohol exposure may lead to long-term risky decision making
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UW researchers to study impacts of climate change on health in the Pacific Northwest
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Freshman Convocation features David Horsey as speaker
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Northwest Hospital & Medical Center to join UW Medicine
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Nine international teams operate biomedical robots from numerous locations
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The pen may be mightier than the keyboard
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Get a jump Sept. 16 on covering the 2010 Winter Games
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Gene therapy used to successfully treat color blindness in adult monkeys
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Rome was built in a day, with hundreds of thousands of digital photos
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UW royalties top $1 million; top licensees recognized
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UW joins other leading research universities to launch futurity.org
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Universities report doubling of students enrolled in global health programs in last three years
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New U.S. Census report shows poverty increasing more in West than elsewhere
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Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records
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UW medical, public health experts and students provide fodder, facts for health-care reform debate
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UW experts available to discuss U.S. Census Bureau poverty report
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Electrical circuit runs entirely off power in trees
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Rate of teen binge drinking cut more than one-third by prevention system
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UW?s new tools for iPhones, mobile devices launched today
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Fact sheet: UW receives largest-ever federal award to construct ocean observatory off the Pacific Northwest
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UW report shows increasing support for domestic partnership rights
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| August 2009 |
Parents play key role in whether teen tobacco use becomes daily habit
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Counting duplicated genome segments now possible
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The cost of being self-sufficient continues to rise throughout Washington
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The price isn't right: Cost of self-sufficiency climbs in Washington
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$2.6 million grant will create alliance to double number of degrees awarded to minorities in technical fields
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Washington forests may be solution to state's green-energy quest
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Let there be light: Teaching magnets to do more than just stick around
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U.S.-born Asian-American women more likely to think about, attempt suicide
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Organic electronics a two-way street, thanks to new plastic semiconductor
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Faster, cheaper way to find disease genes in the human genome passes initial test
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UW experts on health care policy
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'Puter Profs: Experts who can address a variety of computer-related issues
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Life and death in the living brain: Recruitment of new neurons slows when old brain cells kept from dying
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Post-stroke depression recovery improved by adding brief psychosocial/behavioral intervention to standard treatment
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Nickels leading tight field of contenders; voters oppose bag tax, poll says
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Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
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Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
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Nanoparticles cross blood-brain barrier to enable 'brain tumor painting'
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Health Alliance International receives $10 million grant to improve primary health care management in Mozambique
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| July 2009 |
Scientists compile most comprehensive look at fish stocks
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Crashing comets not likely the cause of Earth's mass extinctions
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Seattle area could see record-setting high temperatures this week
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All-in-one nanoparticle: A Swiss Army knife for nanomedicine
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UW researchers find heroin, cocaine top drug treatment admissions in King County; prescription-type opiates cause most deaths
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Screening for childhood depressive symptoms could start in second grade
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This article will self-destruct: A tool to make online personal data vanish
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Sea lampreys jettison one-fifth of their genome
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Learning is social, computational, supported by neural systems linking people
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Photo Gallery --The Science of Learning
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University of Washington Medical Center ranks 12th in U.S. News Media Group?s 2009 edition of America?s Best Hospitals
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New study uses wastewater to map large-scale patterns of illicit drug use in Oregon
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Vanderbilt researcher, clinician named director of UW Autism Center
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Longevity pill on the horizon?
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Western Washington appears poised for another extremely dry summer
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Diets bad for teeth are also bad for the body
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Mothers of children with autism have higher parental stress, psychological distress
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Media advisory: University of Washington clinic hosts ?Kruzin? Kent? kids
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Finding fear: Neuroscientists locate where it is processed in mammalian brain
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Survival rates for elderly patients receiving in-hospital resuscitation did not improve from 1992 to 2005
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| June 2009 |
Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward
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Stirred, not shaken: Bio-inspired cilia mix medical reagents at small scales
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Fact Sheet: Depression after a Stroke
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Straighten up and fly right: Moths benefit more from flexible wings than rigid
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Media advisory: Aquatic robots, autonomous planes at UW robotics conference
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Changes in brain architecture may be driven by different cognitive challenges
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Obsidian 'trail' provides clues to how humans settled, interacted in Kuril Islands
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Media advisory: UW team takes off tomorrow for rocket competition
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Got ear plugs? You may want to sport them on the subway, researchers say
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UW experts: Iran
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Study supports validity of test that indicates widespread unconscious bias
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Crustacean shell with polyester creates mixed-fiber material for nerve repair
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If the shoe flits, duck: A real-life example of humans' dual vision system
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Renowned global health figure Dr. Paul Farmer speaks at UW June 18
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Pre-pregnancy depressed mood may heighten risk for premature birth
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New definition could further limit habitable zones around distant suns
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Comic sketch on UW ?coup? wins grand prize in Pocketmedia Film Festival
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UW Experts: Search, Social Media and Web 2.0
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UW Medical Center performs 500th heart and 500th lung transplants
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140 Washington, Oregon, Idaho families needed for UW autism studies
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More costly private model of foster care could save $6.3 billion in long term
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| May 2009 |
UW to award honorary degree to Virginia Beavert, Yakama tribal elder
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New technique could find water on Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns
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134th Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m. June 13 at Husky Stadium
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New book suggests Earth perhaps not such a benevolent mother after all
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Kellye Testy selected as dean of the UW School of Law
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Parental guidelines, consequences may be why fewer black teens smoke than whites
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Researchers gain fine-scale, genome-wide insights into patterns of human population structures around the world
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Harborview/UW Medicine and Seattle Children?s Hospital Launch Sports Concussion Program
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Media advisory: UW Undergraduate Research Symposium features 700 young minds
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Any way you slice it, warming climate is affecting Cascades snowpack
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Herpes medication does not reduce risk of HIV transmission from individuals with HIV and genital herpes, UW-led international study finds
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UW Medicine demonstrates use of the WHO/SCOAP surgical checklist
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Brain cell mechanism for decision making also underlies judgment about certainty
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UW will be prominent in space shuttle mission to service Hubble telescope
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New UW poll shows strong Hispanic support for Obama
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UW, state launch project to improve understanding, coverage of mental illness
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Better diets more costly, enjoyed by the most educated
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| April 2009 |
Finding a stereotype that is true: Mexicans more sociable than Americans
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Update on the Evolving Swine Influenza Outbreak with Leading Experts: Panel Discussion at UW May 4
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Contrary to recent hypothesis, 'chevrons' are not evidence of megatsunamis
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Autism genes discovered; help shape connections among brain cells
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Seaglider monitors waters from Arctic during record-breaking journey under ice
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Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides
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Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
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Six in UW community named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 16th straight year
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Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to be UW Commencement speaker
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Workshop seeks to lure women researchers from industry to academia
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Undocumented students face barriers to higher education
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Survival mode that protects cells when oxygen is low also slows aging
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Scorpion venom with nanoparticles slows spread of brain cancer
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Jet lag disturbs sleep by upsetting internal clocks in two neural centers
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UW scientists partner with northwest researchers to form regional center aimed at combating infectious diseases
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Harnessing cloud computing for data-intensive research on oceans, galaxies
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People's misperceptions cloud their understanding of rainy weather forecasts
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Picture this: Digital album puts focus on kids' health
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Ice-free Arctic Ocean possible in 30 years, not 90 as previously estimated
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Humans may be losers if technological nature replaces the real thing
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| March 2009 |
3-D printing hits rock-bottom prices with homemade ceramics mix
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Media advisory: Briefing to explore if housing for homeless alcoholics can save taxpayers money
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State may have brief window to slow loss of working forests to development
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Genetic variants associated with sudden cardiac death are found
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Do Americans have an identity crisis when it comes to race and ethnicity?
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Support for racial equality may be a victim of Obama's election
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UW scientists one step closer to stopping bone loss during spaceflight
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Recession will push nearly 40,000 more Washington State children into poverty
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Heightened level of amygdala activity may cause social deficits in autism
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DEIMOS joins MARS and its satellite of instruments on seafloor
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Media advisory: UW medical students get ?matched? with residency programs
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Brain abnormality found in boys with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Media advisory: Brain Awareness Week brings neuroscience to the masses
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Single molecule tracking helps reveal mechanism of chromosome separation in dividing cells
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A dead gene comes back to life in humans
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Tropical lizards can't take the heat of climate warming
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Program successfully teaches domestic violence victims safe use of technology
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Fundraising office cutbacks affect 86 positions
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| February 2009 |
All prejudice isn't created equal; whites distribute it unequally to minorities
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'Journalism on the Brink?': UW, online journalists host panel Feb. 25
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UW terminates licensing agreement with apparel maker Russell Corporation
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DNA evidence is in, newly discovered species of fish dubbed H. psychedelica
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Huge inequalities found in Washington's system for court-imposed fines and fees
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UW transfers human remains from anthropology archive to Medical Examiner
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Global health ?hero? Dr. Peter Piot at UW March 2
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Billions of years ago, microbes were key in developing modern nitrogen cycle
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Adding genetics to a patient's clinical profile might lead to more accurate blood-thinner dosing
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Clinical trials? review finds only exercise to prevent low-back problems
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Anti-social behavior in girls predicts adolescent depression seven years later
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Changing ocean conditions turning penguins into long-distance commuters
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Ancestral genome of present-day African great apes and humans underwent burst of DNA sequence duplications
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In families with a heroin-addict parent, girls are more resilient than boys in overcoming adverse childhood experiences
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New state climate report indicates coming decades will be challenging
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UW to open second European campus in Leon, Spain
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Bus left you waiting in the cold? Use your cell phone to track it down
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Proposed 2009-11 UW budget cuts would cost 600-800 jobs
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Cancer diagnosis: Now in 3-D
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Matthew O'Donnell, David Auth elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Bipolar disorders linked to risk of early death from natural causes
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Seattle's striking history comes into focus with year-long celebration
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| January 2009 |
Research links seismic slip and tremor, with implications for subduction zone
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Some of Earth's climate troubles should face burial at sea, scientists say
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UW's Neighborhood Clinics earn fourth consecutive perfect score from national accrediting organization
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Advancing the status of women in Afghanistan with Afghan leader Feb. 5
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Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people's behavior
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Tree death rate in Pacific Northwest doubled in 17 years
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New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
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?Astronaut food approach? to medical testing: Dehydrated, wallet-sized malaria tests promise better diagnoses in developing world
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UW Medical Center participates in global safe surgery study
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Tuberculosis bacteria co-opts body's defenses to gain a foothold
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Half of world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100
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Compostable Coca-Cola cup launched at University of Washington
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Study finds failure to include nurses in process of admitting errors to patients, families
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Martin Luther King tributes planned at Harborview, Health Sciences
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Statement regarding death of UW student
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2008 |
| December 2008 |
Hubble telescope to get last tuneup during International Year of Astronomy
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Washington infants needed for autism study looking at brain images, behavior
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Two UW faculty receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers at White House ceremony
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President Mark Emmert's statement regarding Gov. Gregoire's proposed budget
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Most women report satisfaction with egg donation; some claim problems
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What does it take to make New Year's resolutions a reality?
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Global childhood immunization coverage growing at only half the officially reported rate
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Europa does the wave to generate heat
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Great Indian Ocean earthquake of 2004 set off tremors in San Andreas fault
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UW physicians, researchers tops on 2008 lists
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Pavlov's neurons: Researchers find brain cells that are a key to learning
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DO-IT Scholars now accepting applications from high school sophomores and juniors with disabilities
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First World Report on Child Injury to be Introduced at UW:
Global Experts to Speak at Forum on the Health of Children Dec. 11
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Spicing up your holidays is recipe for spicing up Puget Sound as well
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Elementary school intervention increases mental, sexual health, economic status
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| November 2008 |
Research shows for first time that mammals can be stimulated to regrow damaged inner retina nerve cells
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HIV/AIDS Pioneer Dr. Catherine Wilfert at UW on World AIDS Day
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University of Washington biochemist David Baker to receive 2008 Sackler International Prize in Biophysics for discoveries in protein folding
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Track your fitness, environmental impact with new cell phone applications
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UW over-enrolled by more than 1,000 students
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Stephen E. Hanson selected as vice provost, UW Office of Global Affairs
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Stress hinders rats' decision-making abilities
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Pinning down the fleeting Internet: Web crawler archives historical data for easy searching
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What do you have in mind? Ethical questions in neuroscience
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Save money and resources: free energy assessments for 20 Seattle-area businesses
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New book will tell much you didn't know about Northwest weather
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Web site exposes previously undocumented KKK activity in Washington
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John Vinson selected as UW chief of police
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Newly tested compound makes Gram negative bacteria less virulent
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UW researchers find that having a big heart is not always a good thing
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DNA provides 'smoking gun' in the case of the missing songbirds
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Today is election day
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| October 2008 |
Are all precinct voting sites created equal? Maybe not
|
Friend or foe? How the body's clot-busting system accelerates atherosclerosis
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Scientists find evidence of tsunamis on Indian Ocean shores long before 2004
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Like rest of society, doctors implicitly favor whites over blacks
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Study finds racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences, with some minority groups clustered in lower-performing primary care practices
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New state poll shows Gregoire ahead of Rossi and Obama ahead of McCain
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Weaver, Merati lauded by national medical society
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Five UW researchers receive $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research
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Child abuse increases risk for later sexually coercive behavior in some men
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National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases awards UW nearly $17 million for systems biology research on emerging respiratory viruses
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Brain nerve cells can directly control stimulation of paralyzed muscles through an artificial connection
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Visiting scholars from Afghanistan reported missing
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Mouse study shows fetal heart can grow cells to repair disease damage
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Scientists develop new cancer-killing compound from salad plant
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Top UW administrators receive national honors
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UW researchers to lead two CDC-funded projects exploring communications with vulnerable populations, health-care providers in emergencies
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Polls may underestimate Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent
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Preserved by ice: Glacial dams helped prevent erosion of Tibetan plateau
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Atomic-resolution views give clues to the function of an enzyme critical in regulating light-detecting signals inside the eye
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Media Advisory: Professionals to discuss the melding of neuroscience and engineering
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University of Washington, Washington State University, Oregon Health & Science University collaborate in landmark national study of children's health
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Finalists for UW police chief to visit campus
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| September 2008 |
Psychologists show experience may be the best teacher for infants
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Compared to all commercial carriers, log truckers have better safety record
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Study links depression to higher death rate from all causes among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes
|
UW again receives grade of A- for sustainability
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Co-founder of University of Washington programs in Italy dies
|
Just in time for school: Free Adeona service tracks stolen laptops
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UW-led study finds wide variability in survival after emergency treatment for cardiac arrest
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UW professor wins prestigious MacArthur fellowship
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University of Washington architecture and urban planning renamed the College of Built Environments
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New Song of Washington selected, "Rise Up with Pride for Washington"
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UW honors Rep. Helen Sommers with Regents Medal
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New UW research can help product manufacturers effectively shift to service-centric business strategies
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Emmert picks Woodward as athletic director
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Baby eyes are taking in the world, applying self-experience to other people
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Immigrant Sun: Our star could be far from where it started in Milky Way
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Regents to act on honorary degrees for three members of Gates family
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Freshman Convocation features Bill Gates as speaker
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UW Medicine invites public to free Fall Prevention Fairs beginning Sept. 18
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My, what big teeth you had! ? Extinct species had large teeth on roof of mouth
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Researchers associate aberrations in aspecific region of chromosome 1q21.1 with broad range of disorders, levels of impairment in children
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Cause of conduct problems among girls appears to be different than in boys
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UW doctoral student in environmental health to receive 2008 Bullitt Foundation prize
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Patients with mild to moderate heart failure who receive ICD shock therapy are at higher risk of future death from heart failure
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How media covered Katrina aftermath affects response by blacks and whites
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| August 2008 |
UW buys multimillion-dollar tool for nanotech research
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Whether brown or red, algae can produce plenty of green fuel
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Obama builds large lead among Latinos in key Southwest states, McCain leads among Latinos in Florida
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UW filmmaker's documentary on small-business struggle in New Orleans debuts on Katrina anniversary
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New space telescope gives UW physicist ringside seat for gamma-ray study
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University of Washington ranked 11th best public university by U.S. News
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'Can you see me now?' Sign language over cell phones comes to United States
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The 160-mile download diet: Local file-sharing drastically cuts network load
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Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment
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New robot scouts best locations for components of undersea lab
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Bugs put the heat in chili peppers
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Residence hall move in days Sept. 18 and 19
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UW ranked 16th among 500 universities the world over
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Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds
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When it comes to abstinence teens, adults aren't speaking the same language
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Bulging prison system called massive intervention in American family life
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Simian foamy virus found in several people living and working with monkeys in Asia
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UW Medicine physicians obtain national recognition for diabetes care
|
| July 2008 |
Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?
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Eileen Whalen Appointed New Executive Director for Harborview Medical Center
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New research challenges notion that dinosaur soft tissues still survive
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Newly discovered proteins in seminal fluid transferred during mating may affect odds of producing offspring
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A bee's future as queen or worker may rest with parasitic tropical fly
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Husband, wife raise funds for UW Medical Center?s NICU
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Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field
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Toxic chemicals found in common scented laundry products, air fresheners
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Serious school failure turns out to be a real bummer for girls, but not boys
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UW proposes plan to provide greater access for freshmen, produce more degrees in areas of critical state need
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UW concludes most successful fundraising campaign in its history
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Researchers link Huntington's disease to overactive immune response in the brain
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For your eyes only: Custom interfaces make computer clicking faster, easier
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Rx for time-crunched physicians: communication skills that increase physician efficiency and patient satisfaction
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Asians who immigrated to U.S. before age 25 have poorer mental health than older immigrants
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Too much information? UW study shows overreliance on ?unfiltered? financial reports reduces inexperienced investors? returns
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Reseachers foil seasonal programmed brain cell death in living birds
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UW Medical Center takes part in WHO surgical checklist initiative
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| June 2008 |
Penguins setting off sirens over health of world's oceans
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Online service lets blind surf the Internet from any computer, anywhere
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Gene silencer and quantum dots reduce protein production to a whisper
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Scientifically valid prevention programs cut rates of juvenile delinquency
|
Seattle high-tech leader selected to head UW TechTransfer
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Gregoire and Sims to address Green Jobs conference at UW
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Latino voters favor Obama over McCain, according to UW pollsters
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UW undergraduate resident tuition to increase about $400
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UW regents approve proposed College of the Environment
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'Faulty' brain connections may be responsible for social impairments in autism
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Like a rock: New mineral named for UW astronomer
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Harborview celebrates opening of new inpatient expansion building named in honor of Norm Maleng
|
iRobot secures licensing agreement for UW's Seagliders
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Scenes of nature trump technology in reducing low-level stress
|
International arrests of citizen bloggers more than triple
|
When it comes to nitrogen, the 'fix' is in
|
Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica
|
Teenagers attending college less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior
|
School of Robofish provides basis for teams of underwater robots
|
133rd Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m. June 14 at Husky Stadium
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| May 2008 |
UW Medicine to honor outstanding alumni at all-school celebration
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200 Washington, Oregon families with one autistic child each sought for study
|
Did walking on two feet begin with a shuffle?
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Some biofuels might do more harm than good to the environment, study finds
|
UW scientists join hunt for 'God' particle to complete 'theory of everything'
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UW communities organize vigil and fund drive for China earthquake victims
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UW students unharmed in China earthquake but administration considered evacuation
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New college to meet growing complexity, scale of environmental threats
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Collaboration between UW and IBM will use donated computer time to tackle rice crisis
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UW recognizes 40 years of diversity May 20
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University of Washington awards honorary degrees May 18 to Japanese American students incarcerated during World War II
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Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine
|
Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species
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University of Washington ranked fourth best public research university
|
Eight new human genome projects offer large-scale picture of genetic differences among individuals and find previously unknown human DNA
|
| April 2008 |
Chalk one up for coccolithophores
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Accreditation assessment team for UW Police seeks public comment
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Specialized white blood cells coordinate 'first responders' to viral infection
|
Thomas Baillie selected as dean of UW School of Pharmacy
|
Idaho foundation establishes scholarship for medical students
|
Bill Gates III among speakers at two-day UW Genome Sciences symposium on the Personal Genome: Consequences for Society, Implications for Medicine
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UW to launch Northwest Institute for Genetic Medicine with support from Life Sciences Discovery Fund
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'Bill Gates Unplugged': UW final stop on tour of North American universities
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Researchers uncover details about how dietary restriction slows down aging
|
While stability far from assured, Greenland perhaps not headed down too slippery a slope
|
UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes
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Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells
|
Photos of convocation at UW April 14 with Dalai Lama receiving honorary degree
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Repeated methamphetamine use causes long-term adaptations in brains of mice, researchers find
|
Expect congestion in Montlake area this week
|
Hubble maps the changing constellation of Internet 'black holes'
|
Finalists for UW police chief to visit campus
|
New fish has a face even Dale Chihuly could love
|
Want docs to treat the underserved? Make sure they train at community health centers, researchers say
|
Does greater trust improve financial performance of joint ventures in China? New research challenges conventional wisdom
|
In remembrance of Rebecca Griego April 2
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| March 2008 |
UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 15th straight year
|
Researchers link genetic errors to schizophrenia
|
Engineers Without Borders-USA international conference this week in Seattle
|
Department of Medicine researcher mounts new attack on lupus
|
Scientists uncover how superbug Staph aureus resists our natural defenses
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Quincy Jones to be UW commencement speaker, receive honorary doctorate
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Some moms quit cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol during pregnancy, but dads don't
|
Molecular engineers design new enzymes from scratch
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Spring training for Parents? Youth sport programs would benefit
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Satellites can help Arctic grazers survive killer winter storms
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It's easy for Washington residents to obtain, take their pain medicine
|
UW undergraduates scrutinize Glacier Bay, share exploits by blog
|
Sand dollar larvae use cloning to 'make change,' confound predators
|
300 Seattle-area families sought for study on how children learn self-control
|
Researchers find implantable cardiac defibrillators may expose patients to security and privacy risks; potential solutions suggested
|
Which came first, social dominance or big brains? Wasps may tell
|
How do infections and toxins launch a cell's self-destruct and alarm system?
|
This is not a drill: The earth actually is moving beneath western Washington
|
Mother-daughter conflict, low serotonin level may be deadly combination
|
Washington minority business owners are optimistic; UW survey points to growth
|
| February 2008 |
Search advisory committee for director of intercollegiate athletics appointed
|
Zebrafish provide useful screening tool for genes, compounds that protect against hearing loss
|
UW students hit the road to cover presidential campaigns
|
UW president selected as member of Council on Foreign Relations
|
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to speak with students at University of Washington
|
It came from outer space ? and likely disintegrated over northeastern Oregon
|
In the race to the top, zigzagging is more efficient than a straight line
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UW research shows Wisconsin primary results could provide strong clue about Texas and Ohio primaries
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uwnews.org interview ?|? Violence in Kenya
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Future of social networking explored in UW's computer science building
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Despite media coverage of politics, voters not likely to choose carefully, UW professor says
|
Good bacteria in women give clues for slowing HIV transmission
|
Team treatment for depression cuts medical costs for older patients
|
Super Tuesday results indicate race card may be a joker in primaries
|
Herpes medication does not reduce risk of HIV infection in individuals with HSV-2, international study finds
|
Use of baby personal care products associated with higher levels of phthalates
|
Screening for domestic violence woefully weak in welfare offices
|
| January 2008 |
Water planners call for fundamental shift to deal with changing climate
|
Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers
|
Campaign UW: Creating Futures surpasses $2.5 billion
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Accelerated head growth can predict autism before behavorial symptoms start
|
Graduate students and Native American tribes will tap forests, farms for biofuels
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UW launches sustainability program with national leaders in architecture
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UW, 1,500 colleges and groups across nation
to brainstorm climate change solutions next week
|
Camera in a pill offers cheaper, easier window on your insides
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Distinguished Librarian Award established
|
Ecologists, material scientists pursue genetics of diatom's elegant, etched casing
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Finalists for dean of School of Law announced
|
Ray Wittmier appointed interim UW police chief
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Author David Shields is featured in Libraries event Jan. 25
|
Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision
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Washington state sea levels could rise considerably by end of century
|
Finnish prime minister visits UW
|
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle receives $100,000 Foster G. McGaw Prize for excellence in community service
|
Small is beautiful: Gallery celebrates the art of microfluids research
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SOURCE IMAGES: Microfluids photo gallery
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Forty years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, last campaign relevant to 2008
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UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics receive leadership award from Premera Blue Cross
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Marla Salmon chosen as dean of UW School of Nursing
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200 Puget Sound infants needed for first autism prevention study
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2007 |
| December 2007 |
GOP policies ruining the economy, UW political scientists say in new book
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Study suggests polls may overestimate support for Obama, underestimate backing for Clinton among Democrats
|
Tiny dust particles from Asian deserts common over western United States
|
Without its insulating ice cap, Arctic surface
waters warm to as much as 5 C above average
|
Earth's magnetic field could help protect astronauts working on the moon
|
UW graduate student Peter Kithene named CNN Heroes Honoree
|
Contrarian approach could mean more fish: Maximizing fishery profits could be new strategy for conservation
|
Free software brings affordability, transparency to mathematics
|
Price of lower-calorie foods rising drastically, UW researchers find
|
Religious politics now pervasive, says new book, 'The God Strategy'
|
| November 2007 |
Study of social science PhDs recommends changes for 21st century
|
Puget Sound residents put together $11.8 billion roads and transit package
|
Rising tides intensify non-volcanic tremor in Earth's crust
|
2002 Alaskan quake left seven areas of California stirred but not shaken
|
Ana Mari Cauce selected as dean of UW College of Arts and Sciences
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Statement from UW President Mark Emmert regarding reports on new UW North Sound campus
|
UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning announces Roll of Honor inductees
|
UW launches cutting-edge DNA ?fin-printing? project for salmon
|
Washington Poll shows Gregoire slightly ahead in governor race
|
Body-weight regulation scientists give perspective in Science on obesity-related research; suggest a new approach
|
Research team finds link between asthma and depressive and anxiety disorders
|
Relationship marketing builds illusionary loyalty as salespeople capture customers? hearts
|
Association of American Medical Colleges honors Seymour Klebanoff with Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
|
Vacation photos create 3D models of world landmarks
|
| October 2007 |
Motivational coaching climate outscores winning for young athletes
|
Washington Poll indicates three ballot measures may pass, but two others are tied
|
Holier than thou? Employees who believe they are 'ethical' or 'moral' might not be
|
Like it or not, uncertainty and climate change go hand in hand
|
Media advisory: Engineering students create electrifying Halloween decorations
|
Linguists looking for a Pacific Northwest dialect
|
University of Washington receives A- grade in sustainability
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UW renews its search for Washington's brightest fifth- through eighth-graders
|
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
|
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
|
Generating 'oohs' and 'aahs': Vocal Joystick uses voice to surf the Web
|
UW researchers play major role in next phase of Human Genome Project
|
Conifers or condos? NW Environmental Forum develops strategies
|
Institute of Medicine announces newly elected members; four UW faculty members and two alumni among those named
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UW undergrads discover more than 1,300 asteroids
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'Google 101' class at UW inspires first Internet-scale programming courses
|
University of Washington to lead local center in landmark national study of children's health
|
| September 2007 |
Fact sheet: Perennial ice, sometimes thick enough to
defy icebreakers, may be key to predicting Arctic thaw
|
NW Kidney Centers, Kirin-Amgen to establish endowed UW professorship in kidney research honoring kidney physician ? the late Dr. Joseph W. Eschbach
|
City birds better than rural species in coping with human disruption
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UW computer engineer wins MacArthur Foundation 'genius' award
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University of Washington and state agencies join to forecast and respond to human health effects of climate change in Washington state
|
Victimization for sexual orientation increases suicidal behavior in college students
|
Rare albino ratfish has eerie, silvery sheen
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Experts list: Arctic sea ice minimum for 2007 sets new record
|
Collapsing structures to be tested in revamped UW engineering lab
|
NIH funds University of Washington Institute of Translational Health Sciences
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Cell death in sparrow brains may provide clues in age-related human diseases
|
Research overturns accepted notion of neutron's electrical properties
|
A rose is a rozsa is a 薔薇: Image-search tool speaks hundreds of languages
|
UW honors The Foster Foundation's philanthropy with new name for Business School
|
David Kopay, alum and gay athlete, donates $1 million to UW's Q Center
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University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to coordinate National Human Genome Research Institute disease studies
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Stephen Zieniewicz to lead UW Medical Center
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NIGMS awards University of Washington $10 million for human embryonic stem cell research
|
Having the right timing 'connections' in brain is key to overcoming dyslexia
|
ZIP codes and property values predict obesity rates
|
| August 2007 |
Star Trek medical device uses ultrasound to seal punctured lungs
|
Washington state has fourth lowest child poverty rate in U.S.
|
Human derived stem cells can repair rat hearts damaged by heart attack
|
University of Washington presents live free broadcast of Washington National Opera's La Boheme
|
Coastal/global awards dovetail with proposed $130 million ocean observatory
|
University of Washington to open China office in Beijing
|
New UW faculty member led technical development of Sky in Google Earth
|
UW reorganizes administration of police department;
Chief Vicky Stormo announces January retirement
|
China's Ambassador to the U.S. to visit UW Aug. 22
|
University of Washington is ranked 11th best public university by U.S. News
|
UW President rejects Disney complaints
|
Fewer degrees of separation make companies more innovative, creative
|
UW's College of Engineering wins three of Technology Review's TR35 awards
|
Older climbers face uphill battle on Mount Everest
|
Impacts on human health, agriculture to round out
most comprehensive assessment of climate change on state
|
Computers expose the physics of NASCAR
|
Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
|
President Emmert signs letter protesting threatened British boycott of Israeli universities
|
Baby DVDs, videos may hinder, not help, infants' language development
|
Infrastructure Experts: Engineers who can speak on building and bridge safety
|
Satellite tracking will help answer questions about penguin travels
|
Expect increased traffic Sept. 20 and 21 for residence hall move-in
|
Muslim political parties grow online but digital divide continues to widen
|
Alaskan earthquake in 2002 set off tremors on Vancouver Island
|
University of Washington achieves $1 billion research milestone
|
| July 2007 |
Waters off Grays Harbor only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
|
Governor Gregoire selects Erin Lennon as UW student regent
|
Steroids, not songs, spur growth of brain regions in sparrows
|
New consensus on trauma support for journalists and other first responders
|
Rawlins to serve as interim director of WSU/UW Ruckelshaus Center
|
Technology summer camp welcomes disabled high-school students
|
Microsoft picks new UW center to develop distance learning technologies
|
UW Medical Center, specialty programs rank among best in nation
|
Domestic violence, psychological distress are recipe for higher unemployment
|
Judith Wasserheit named Global Health Research Ambassador
|
National Science Foundation picks South Dakota site for underground lab
|
Study shows cane sugar, corn sweeteners have similar effects on appetite
|
John R. Hogness, former UW president, dies at 85
|
| June 2007 |
Mothers' second-hand smoke exposure linked to psychological problems for kids
|
Study finds connection between teenage violence and domestic violence
|
UW president forms work group to consider new campus
|
CEOs reap financial benefits from mergers regardless of stock performance
|
Deaf computing academy welcomes first participants in national program
|
University of Washington researchers play leading role in major study of human genome function
|
When it comes to delinquency boys are exposed to more risk, less protection
|
National concrete canoe races come to Seattle
|
Sound Transit begins soil sampling near Husky Stadium
|
The woes of Kilimanjaro: Don't blame global warming
|
Sheila Edwards Lange selected as vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity
|
University of Washington to receive art and furniture from Safeco Insurance
|
High self-esteem may be culturally universal, international study shows
|
Hitchin' a ride: Stray penguins probably reached northern waters by fishing boat
|
Ports could hasten freight traffic by doubling up on crane trips
|
| May 2007 |
UW signs on to Designated Suppliers Program of anti-sweatshop coalition
|
Eavesdropping comes naturally to young song sparrows
|
Congestion expected near Husky Stadium for 2007 University of Washington Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, June 9th
|
Elise Saba named President's Medalist for transfer students
|
Minh-An Nguyen named President's Medalist for four-year students
|
University of Washington to develop specifications for large
ocean observatory off coast of Washington and Oregon
|
Underwater turbines could turn Puget Sound's tides into electricity
|
MAP | 132nd Commencement: Access to Husky Stadium for media
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MAP | 132nd Commencement: Husky Stadium layout
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132nd Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m. June 9 at Husky Stadium
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Washington's minority businesses guardedly optimistic despite hurdles
|
UW undergraduates to present research at symposium May 18
|
State turns to Ruckelshaus Center to mediate land-use dispute
|
Latino poet Martin Espada rescheduled at the University of Washington
|
40 percent of 3-month-old infants are regularly watching TV, DVDs or videos
|
Congressman Norm Dicks to be UW Commencement speaker
|
Children with autism have difficulty recognizing ordinary words
|
Two well-known American poets to speak at the University of Washington
|
UW's undergrads dominate international math competition
|
Low water pressure, bus route changes follow water main break
|
Latest treatments, possible causes of autism to highlight press conference
|
| April 2007 |
Memorial for Rebecca Griego April 30
|
Rising entrepreneurs present diverse business plans at UW competition
|
UW deals with party-related issues, safety concerns north of campus
|
Autism conference to look at link to mercury poisoning, mirror neurons, genetics
|
Space launchers, robotic fish will be on display at Engineering Open House
|
Standardized testing of college students won't work, says new book by UW researchers
|
Robotic surgeon to team up with doctors, astronauts on NASA mission
|
Media Advisory: Robot surgeon shows its stuff prior to departure on NASA mission
|
Earth's dirty little secret: Slowly but surely we are skinning our planet
|
Kenyon S. Chan selected as chancellor of UW Bothell
|
Rhesus macaque genome may hold clues for human health and evolution
|
Competition challenges undergraduates from around the world
|
Statement from the family of Rebecca Griego and UW President Mark A. Emmert
|
UW junior selected as student likely to "make a difference"
|
UW hosts reception for Medal of Honor recipients exhibit
|
Shooting in Gould Hall, two dead
|
UW will launch Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at April 12 celebration
|
| March 2007 |
UW School of Medicine ranks No. 1 among primary-care medical schools for 14th straight year
|
UW School of Nursing ranks No. 1 in nation, a spot held since 1984
|
UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 14th straight year
|
UW Bothell to host an additional finalist in chancellor search
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UW presents diversity award to Alan Sugiyama
|
'Smart' sunglasses and goggles let users adjust shade and color
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Toddlers engage in 'emotional eavesdropping' to guide their behavior
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UW teams win international math contest
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UW Bothell to host first two finalists in chancellor search
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UW becomes charter member of group to address global warming
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Eavesdropping nuthatches distinguish danger threats in chickadee alarm calls
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UW, Micron launch materials-testing lab in quest for next-generation microchips
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Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria
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Chicana, Chicano scholars, community leaders, activists to meet at UW
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UW students to spend Alternative Spring Break working in schools around Washington state
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Aging boosts chances that a family line will be long-lived
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Free energy assessments for region's small- to medium-sized factories
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Hackers get bum rap for corporate America's digital delinquency
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Should I stay or should I go?
What makes employees voluntarily leave or keep their jobs
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Having fun, mastering skills outscore 'winning at all costs' for young athletes
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UW Medical Center enters second year as title sponsor of Seattle Marathon
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Individuals and populations differ in gene activity levels, not just genes
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Hurricane can form new eyewall and change intensity rapidly
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| February 2007 |
Custom cell phones for microfinance co-ops, fair-trade coffee growers
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African carnage: One year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
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UW Business School to create new entrepreneurship program with gift from Leonard Lavin
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Student competition showcases ways to end poverty in developing countries
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Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism
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Better freshwater forecasts to aid drought-plagued West
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Photo software creates 3-D world
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Glaciers not on simple, upward trend of melting
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Habitat matters: 'Walkable' communities may make elders healthier
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Mobile phones facilitate romance in modern India
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Rotten to the core: How workplace 'bad apples' spoil barrels of good employees
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Microsurgery and Super Glue show how antennae aid moth navigation
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'Good vibrations' from deep-sea smokers may keep fish out of hot water
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Northwest scientists contribute to international report, see increased warming
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Women in polluted areas at higher risk of cardiovascular disease
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| January 2007 |
UW College of Forest Resources kicks off centennial with Gov. Gregoire Wednesday
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Human preference for other species could determine whether they survive
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UW Foundation raises campaign goal by $500 million
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UW Medicine receives $2.5 million for stem cell research
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UW receives $3.5 million for first endowed nursing deanship
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Chuck Blumenfeld selected as executive director of UW Alumni Association
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Bumblebee house warming: It takes a village
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Study uncovers lethal secret of 1918 influenza virus
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Students who attend college at early age rate experience positive, enduring
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New findings blow a decade of assumptions out of the water
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Earth's strongest winds wouldn't even be a breeze on these planets
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Forum recommends incentives, innovation, investment for state's forests
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Superstrings could add gravitational cacophony to universe's chorus
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Astronomers detect black hole in tiny 'dwarf' galaxy
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BitTyrant makes a turbulent entry into digital filesharing
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2006 |
| December 2006 |
How does a zebrafish grow a new tail? The answer may help treat human injuries.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Robotic crawler to explore subterranean UW power lines tomorrow
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Robotic crawler detects wear in power lines
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'Speechless' and 'Mute' help break the silence of the leaves
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Teacher retention in Washington State bucks common wisdom
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UW snags Stanford political science professor
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Virtual experiences can cause embellished, false memories
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Researchers demonstrate direct brain control of humanoid robot
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Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C, may offer clues to evolution of nitrogen fixation
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Stardust findings override some commonly held astronomy beliefs
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UW-led team discovers gene for inherited pancreatic cancer
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NIH awards additional $10.2 million to UW research team to grow heart muscle
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UW Press launches two Scandinavian series
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Immigrants of a feather don't necessarily flock together
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UW gets major role in Energy Department project to study properties of nuclei
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| November 2006 |
Scientists want to solve puzzle of excess water vapor near cirrus clouds
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Asian immigrants report fewer mental health problems
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Nike+iPod Sport Kit raises privacy concerns
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UW researchers advocate creation of national climate service
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Resilient form of plant carbon gives new meaning to term 'older than dirt'
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Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
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DO-IT program seeks students with disabilities for college preparation
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$1.5 million to advance promise of woody biomass for fuel in Washington
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Cervantes Institute comes to the UW
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David Domke named Washington professor of the year
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Brain, behavior may have changed as social insect colonies evolved
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Governor releases final Washington Learns report
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World-renowned public health physician speaks as part of the UW Common Book program
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A company's reputation is what gets fried when its books get cooked
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Toddlers needed for brain development study
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UW experts available for background information on flooding, landslides
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Backgrounder: Dispelling fears of a worldwide fisheries crisis
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Stem cells engage in dialogue with cells that regulate their future
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| October 2006 |
Insect population growth likely accelerated by warmer climate
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Inaugural vendor fair to encourage use of minority- and women-owned businesses
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Film based on novel by UW professor Shawn Wong to be distributed nationally
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Online activism may make the difference on Election Day
|
Earthquake swarms not just clustered around volcanoes, geothermal regions
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Tiny electronic chip, interacting with the brain, modifies
pathways for controlling movement
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Opiate-addicted people, women with suicidal behavior needed for studies
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Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures
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Bargain or waste of money? Consumers don't always agree
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Washington's most valuable resource -- its brightest kids -- being sought by UW
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Are trauma centers prepared for mass-casualty disasters?
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New guide to electronic grant submission now online
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Despite popular belief, the world is not running out of oil, UW scientist says
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Very long-term forecast: Northwest winters will be even wetter
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Brain regions do not communicate efficiently in adults with autism
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Costco Scholarship Fund Breakfast raises $2.6 million for underrepresented students
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We need better yardstick to measure digital divide, researcher says
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University of Washington promises free tuition to low-income students
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WSU and UW establish the William D. Ruckelshaus Center to help resolve contentious issues
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David Auth named 2006 Inventor of the Year
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UW prof leads board advising NOAA on critical science issues
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Emotionally ambivalent workers are more creative, innovative
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UW 'stellar archeologist' gets biggest share of Hubble observing time
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Depressed and suicidal, self-harming girls needed for study
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| September 2006 |
Justice Alan Page to speak at the Costco Scholarship Fund breakfast Thursday at Seattle University
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UW Botanic Gardens site of first regional conference on invasive plants in PNW
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Stock analysts likely punished for unfavorable recommendations
|
CEOs gather to develop collective vision for 21st century
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University of Washington awarded $6.8 million to improve workplace health and safety in agriculture
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Pioneering work assessing sustainable fisheries earns international award
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Violence in the home leads to higher rates of childhood bullying
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Postpartum suicide risk linked to fetal or infant death
|
World-renowned infectious disease expert King Holmes to lead UW Department of Global Health
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Washington state parched by one of driest summers ever
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New evidence shows Antarctica has warmed in last 150 years
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UW Medical Center to help patients better understand charges for services
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| August 2006 |
School of Social Work to train future Cambodian social work facullty
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Evolution of Old World fruit flies on three continents mirrors climate change
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UW Business School receives $4.5 million from former Starbucks CEO
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Coastal ocean observatory extends miles up Columbia River
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Tiny shock absorbers help bacteria stick around inside the body
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Electrical engineering prof gets prestigious Rigas Award
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UW to purchase Safeco property in University District
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Stevens Way closure extended
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Researchers launch effort to build flexible solar cells to power aircraft
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Viruses can jump between primates and humans, researchers warn
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Tiny ion pump sets new standard in cooling hot computer microchips
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Residence hall move in Sept. 21 and 22
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UW Medical Center recertified as a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence for the fourth time
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Freshman Convocation, Sept. 24 in Seattle, Sept. 26 in Bothell
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University of Washington moves up in U.S. News rankings
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Avoid Montlake on August 21
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University of Washington among elite in two new rankings
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Two University of Washington graduates selected as Jack Kent Cooke scholars
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UW study to test whether women will bridge gap in birth control coverage by going directly to pharmacists
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Climate change was major factor in erosion of Alps 6 million years ago
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Current desires distort children's choices about the future
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New biomarkers could help doctors spot Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases
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Parental cigarette use is 'double whammy' for children
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FACT SHEET : Montana Track for Medical Student Training
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Medical students will be able to spend entire third-year of medical school in Montana
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Ancient bison teeth provide window on past Great Plains climate, vegetation
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Association between famine and schizophrenia may yield clues about inherited diseases and conditions
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Pigment formulated 225 years ago could be key in emerging technologies
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Different genes may cause autism in boys and girls
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| July 2006 |
Woodland Park Zoo, UW to expand collaboration, cooperation
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National workshop puts blind students, professionals on path to success
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Models show one nearby star system could host Earth-like planet
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Universities present plan to expand medical education and dental education in Spokane
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UW Regents approve operating, capital budget requests for coming biennium
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High court decision dumping exclusionary rule undermines established balance
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Newer, less aggressive air bags protect adults and pose less risk to children
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Supercomputers help physicists understand a force of nature
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Practice builds brain connections for babies learning language, how to speak
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UW among national leaders in producing certain minority undergraduate degrees
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UW Medical Center ranked in top 10 among nation's best hospitals for fourth consecutive year
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UW's Jackson School scores with feds
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UW alumnus gives $6 million to building campaign, endowed chair in marketing
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Women given specialized treatment half as likely to attempt suicide
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| June 2006 |
Students with disabilities gather at UW to find success through technology
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'Ape-earances' can be deceiving for many under the influence of alcohol
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Planning for stewardship an important part of successful ecological restoration
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Statement from UW President Mark Emmert on the death of Denice Denton
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Wanted: Skilled tradesmen
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National Science Foundation reinstates Cascades underground lab proposal
|
Brief intervention reduces symptoms of depression
|
Researchers find physiological markers for cutting, other self-harming behaviors by teenage girls
|
'Puter Profs: Experts who can address a variety of computer-related issues
|
New satellite set to collect most-detailed data yet about atmospheric particles
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Bacteria have their own immune system protecting against outside DNA
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Decreased Alcohol Consumption, Increased Use of Seat Belts Save Lives
|
We should welcome them to the melting pot
|
Mussel strain: Same species responds differently to same warming, depending on location
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Study shows our ancestors survived 'Snowball Earth'
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Blacks hit hardest by HIV infection among nation's young adults
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Hormone's role in insects could give insight for cancer treatment, malnutrition
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Panic disorder difficult to diagnose but very treatable
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| May 2006 |
Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research
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Public invited to tour UW Regional Heart Center June 13
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Congestion expected near Husky Stadium for University of Washington Commencement Saturday, June 10th
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Faster atmospheric warming in subtropics pushes jet streams toward poles
|
Patchwork system working in Massachusetts
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When it comes to privacy, gender matters
|
Materials Science & Engineering logs banner year in research funding
|
Student entrepreneurs compete for seed money in UW Business Plan Competition
|
131st Commencement: Husky Stadium layout
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131st Commencement: Access to Husky Stadium for media
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New federally funded research program aims to improve survival from severe trauma
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131st Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m., June 10, Husky Stadium
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Professor John Delaney named to endowed chair in sensor networks
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History of Black Panthers to come alive in classrooms, meeting, Web site
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No Headline
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UW undergraduates to strut their research 'stuff' Friday
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Gas prices getting cruder
|
Sixth expedition to North Pole installs mooring in 2 ? miles of ocean
|
UW licenses innovative cardiovascular software to VPDiagnostics
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William D. Ruckelshaus, first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be UW Commencement speaker
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Is a Russian peninsula really part of North America?
|
Multiracial youth more likely to engage in violence, substance abuse
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Building on parental safety concerns to motivate booster use among Latino families
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| April 2006 |
Suicide awareness, prevention programs needed in schools
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Gene needed for butterfly transformation also key for insects like grasshoppers
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The punishing price of incarceration
|
Media Alert: Arbor Day, Earth Day photo opportunities
|
New method designed to analyze one of the most complex regions of the human genome, the genes that regulate the immune system
|
Sheila Edwards Lange selected as interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity
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Charles Mitchell wins award for leadership in diversity
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UW extends search for new chancellor at UW, Bothell
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WASL column: Split decision
|
Current understanding, emerging issues of coastal rivers is topic Wednesday
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UW Health Sciences Open House will demonstrate the latest in research and technology April 28 and 29
|
Donate your unused computing power to aid medical research through Rosetta@home project
|
Highway mergers
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UW honored nearly 700 local students for outstanding academic abilities
|
Real-world business case challenges undergrads from around the globe
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UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 13th straight year
|
| March 2006 |
Sariah Khormaee receives biomedical scholarship to study at Cambridge University in England
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Novel newborn screening can open door to treating rare but devastating diseases
|
New class blends social welfare, employee relations and business ethics issues
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UW leads national effort to bring people with disabilities into computing
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Levy appointed new Department of Computer Science & Engineering chair
|
Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers
|
Greenland's glaciers pick up pace in surge toward the sea
|
UW introducing new specialty license plates
|
WASL: Is there a better way?
|
Report finds growing inequality across global information society
|
Expert in children's literature to discuss the role of libraries
|
University of Washington Regents increase president's salary
|
UW settles class-action faculty pay suit
|
Michigan biomedical engineer Matthew O'Donnell to lead UW engineering
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Project to make Internet searches more credible
|
Basketball badness
|
Seattle Heart Failure Model is able to accurately predict survival rates for patients with heart failure
|
Comet from coldest spot in solar system has material from hottest places
|
Tax increases, advertising bans may reduce harmful alcohol consumption among youth
|
Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
|
Conference provides educators with new tools to combat effect of media on youth
|
There's more than meets the eye in judging the size of an object
|
Rainy day budgeting
|
Daniel S. Friedman selected as dean of College of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Washington
|
| February 2006 |
Devices tease out individual sounds from underwater racket
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University students tackle poverty in socially responsible business plan challenge
|
Edwina Uehara named dean of UW School of Social Work
|
Scott Woodward appointed vice president for external affairs
|
Researchers take steps toward overcoming biological obstacles to cell therapy for cancer
|
Shopping list gets longer -- not less choosy -- in some of world's largest fisheries
|
UW's Eggers elected to National Academy of Engineering
|
Silver-LEED winning Merrill Hall exemplifies energy-conservation efforts
|
Brain images show individual dyslexic children respond to spelling treatment
|
Spyware poses a significant threat on the Net, according to new study
|
Team care for older adults with diabetes and depression improves health and saves money
|
| January 2006 |
Chronic oil pollution takes toll on seabirds along South American coast
|
Sediment could be a major factor in biggest subduction zone earthquakes
|
Flap over fishes: Who's the smallest of them all?
|
Self-knowledge can be a sweetheart of a Valentine's Day gift
|
Trauma-center care significantly lowers risk of death
|
UW to establish Department of Global Health with $20 million Gates Foundation grant
|
UW astronomer hits cosmic paydirt with Stardust
|
Stardust parachutes to soft landing in Utah with dust samples from comet
|
Rainfall records falling: Background experts available on flooding, landslides
|
UW Medical Center first in nation to install next-generation PET/CT scanner
|
UW chosen as top 10 value in higher education in US
|
Profit-driven corporations can make management blind to ethics, study says
|
100 families with two or more children with autism sought for genetics study
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Follow-up care for adolescent trauma survivors' emotional distress: A need unmet
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Stardust nears end of epic journey; researchers await its treasure
|
2005 |
| December 2005 |
Tiny pikas seem to be on march toward extinction in Great Basin
|
Preventing Injury Death Around the World: 'The 1,000,000 Lives Campaign'
|
New study scientifically links dancing to attraction, genetic advantage
|
Study finds genetic link between asthma and obesity
|
Celebrity voice-overs: that not-too familiar voice could be selling you something
|
Ancient Chinese remedy shows potential in preventing breast cancer
|
DO-IT program prepares students with disabilities for college and careers
|
Ability to capture large prey may be origin of army ants' cooperative behavior
|
Ford Foundation grant focuses on Southeast Asian American students, communities
|
Digestive problems may impede overweight people from exercising
|
Mercury in atmosphere could be washed out more easily than earlier believed
|
WWI's first effective fighter plane gets test in UW wind tunnel
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Warming could free far more carbon from high Arctic soil than earlier thought
|
Washington's financial institutions post greater returns than national average
|
Think money in politics got 'reformed?' Just try running for Senate in 2006
|
Professor Harry Bruce named dean of Information School
|
Specialized neurons allow the brain to focus on novel sounds
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Gates Foundation gives $33 million to UW for scholarships to spur careers in public service law
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| November 2005 |
Parents slow to adapt to booster seat law
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School programs targeting antisocial behavior also can boost test scores, grades
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UW Medical Center becomes title sponsor for 2006 Seattle Marathon
|
Charter schools serving more urban and disadvantaged students, study finds
|
'The Southern Diaspora' tells how black, white migrants changed America
|
UW bioengineering selected for national partnership to accelerate the transfer of promising technology from the lab to the real world
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When it comes to babies learning language, the eyes have it
|
State ballot measures draw record amounts of cash
|
Walk a Mile pairs King County policymakers with former foster youth
|
| October 2005 |
New book expands biological classifications to account for 'alien' life
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Effects from global warming tops agenda
|
Type 2 diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix
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Rivara elected to Institute of Medicine
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Researchers find gland that tells fruit flies when to stop growing
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Proposed Arboretum Bridge and interchange not acceptable to UW, officials say
|
Who people live with, not where, gives different picture of immigrants in U.S.
|
2005 Engineering Lecture Series delves into responding to disaster
|
Hunt is on again for Washington state's brightest fifth- through eighth-graders
|
People with opiate addiction, women with suicidal behavior needed for studies
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Memorial service set for UW seismologist Anthony Qamar
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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's the Burke Museum's new super duck
|
UW bioengineering tops in National Institutes of Health funding again
|
MEDIA ADVISORY: President of St. Louis Fed to discuss market effects of openness and transparency
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Local quake could cause $33 billion in damage, report says
|
| September 2005 |
Scientists believe open water in summer has become key to declining arctic ice
|
Children whose parents smoked are twice as likely to begin smoking between ages 13 and 21 as offspring of nonsmokers
|
Physicists say universe evolution favored three and seven dimensions
|
Faculty sources on topics in the news: BIOLOGY AND BELIEF
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500 adults dependent on marijuana needed for anonymous survey
|
Penguin chicks exposed to human visitors experience spike in stress hormone
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Researchers discover gene mutations linked with a type of chronic pain and weakness syndrome
|
Public to see live broadcast for first time of surreal seafloor off Washington
|
UW consortium selected to help explore nanotech/cancer frontier
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New clue to tooth decay could lead to advances in screening children at high risk of dental disease
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UW taking in students displaced by Hurricane Katrina
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UW President appointed to National Security Higher Education Advisory Board
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Symbols can help children control impulses, get more of what they want
|
University of Washington Freshman Convocation Sept. 25
|
Northwest Indians continue efforts to revive languages at UW workshop
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Academics, industry experts launch Internet innovation symposium
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Statement from President Emmert about Gulf Coast Catastrophe
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| August 2005 |
Big differences in duplicated DNA distinguish chimp and human genomes
|
UW engineering creates university's first deanship with $4 million gift
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New chemistry method uses 'test tubes' far smaller than the width of a hair
|
Thousands more low-income rural youths to get help preparing for college
|
Toyota dealers commit $1 million to Harborview Medical Center
|
Study finds that school-funding loopholes leave poor children behind
|
Study reveals a way disease bacteria sense antimicrobials and initiate a counter-defense
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Emotional, not factual, ads win skeptical consumers, study shows
|
Warming most evident at high latitudes, but greatest impact will be in tropics
|
UW options promising anti-cancer compound to Ascentia Biomedical Corp.
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Intimate partner violence often ignored in determining child custody
|
Model gives clearer idea of how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere
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Rainbands and Hurricane Intensity: Collaborative hurricane research project ultimately could improve forecasting
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Drill to test emergency response to be held at UW Aug. 3
|
Study confirms parents' claims: Birthday home videos prove existence of autistic regression.
|
| July 2005 |
Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath
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Oceanographers work a quarter of the world away from ship they're 'on'
|
UW Botanic Gardens new umbrella name for Seattle's key horticultural features
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On the good ship Mary Gates: Researchers visit Lost City's undersea vents from landlocked command center
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On the good ship Mary Gates: Researchers visit Lost City's undersea vents from landlocked command center
|
University of Washington unlikely to receive grant for biocontainment lab, president says
|
National Science Foundation eliminates Cascades lab site from consideration
|
Drug-related deaths on the rise in King County
|
Robotics experts from around the world will meet in Seattle next week
|
Teaching adults more effective parenting skills is best tool for treating children with serious conduct problems
|
Primate virus jumps species barrier to humans for first time in Asia
|
Native lore tells the tale: There's been a whole lotta shakin' goin' on
|
UW Medical Center again ranked ninth among nation's Best Hospitals
|
Trio of plant genes prevents 'too many mouths'
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UW receives $15 million Grand Challenges in Global Health grant as leader of Pacific Northwest consortium to develop pocket-size diagnostic device.
|
MEDIA ADVISORY: Governor, academics and business leaders to speak on Washington's economic competitiveness
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| June 2005 |
Chickadees' alarm-calls carry information about size, threat of predator
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Architecture students to design and build experimental 'green' home for Yakima Valley family
|
Tough child support laws may deter single men from becoming fathers, study finds
|
White House gives presidential early career award to four UW profs
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Global experts stage talks on nuclear showdown -- inside North Korea
|
130th Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m., June 11, Husky Stadium
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Phyllis Wise selected as University of Washington provost
|
Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution
|
UW researchers identify major genetic factor responsible for patient variability in warfarin response
|
| May 2005 |
Congestion expected near Husky Stadium for University of Washington
|
Computer scientist gets presidential award for mentoring
|
MEDIA ADVISORY: President of Ireland to speak Tuesday on Europe-America relations
|
UW library turns 20, offers public glimpse of 'treasures'
|
Taking care of business: Enterprising students vie for seed money, chance to cultivate, grow their ideas
|
Plan to privatize most forecasting would cripple weather service, expert says
|
130th Commencement: Access to Husky Stadium for media
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130th Commencement: Husky Stadium layout
|
Harborview conference to focus on best practices in trauma care
|
Early failure to pay attention to faces, speech may influence later development in autism
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Earth's reflectivity a great unknown in gauging climate change impacts
|
Color coding by size helps caregivers treat young patients with greater accuracy
|
Backlog of community college transfers to UW is eliminated
|
Washington students honored for outstanding verbal, mathematical abilities
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Plan to improve accountability of nonprofits to be discussed May 19
|
| April 2005 |
Dr. Deb Harper heads eastern Washington clinical training programs
|
South Asia disaster shows tsunamis are an ongoing threat to humans
|
Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
|
Robert Rubin, former Secretary of the Treasury, to be UW Commencement speaker
|
Washington Legislature strengthens booster seat law
|
Method shows how precisely gene expression signals are copied in DNA replication
|
Engineering Open House 2005 brings Puget Sound students, technology together
|
To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter
|
Steven G. Olswang appointed interim chancellor at UW Bothell
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Low oxygen likely made 'Great Dying' worse, greatly delayed recovery
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UW team takes top honors in international math contest fourth year straight
|
Journalists to gather Friday at UW to gauge tsunami coverage
|
Paralytic shellfish toxins cause mutation that allows clams to accumulate 100 times more toxin
|
James Jiambalvo named dean of UW Business School
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UW researchers identify potential therapeutic target for Huntington's disease
|
UW Medical Center installs first volume CT scanner in the western United States
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UW to dedicate collection of art by artists of color
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Pairs of Seagliders set endurance records
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UW tops national primary care medical school rankings for 12th straight year
|
UW study shows weight loss reduces markers of inflammation associated with increased risk of heart problems
|
Selected local dentists in five-state region will join in UW research collaborative
|
| March 2005 |
Separate genes influence speed, accuracy in decoding written words in dyslexia
|
Port Angeles woman receives Goldwater scholarship
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Immigration has become hallmark of America's image at home and abroad
|
Chancellor of UW Bothell to step down
|
UW students win national, international awards
|
New York woman receives Goldwater scholarship
|
Silverdale woman receives Gates scholarship for study in England
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Richland man receives prestigious scholarship to study in Cambridge, England
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Oregon man receives Goldwater scholarship
|
Colorado woman awarded Javits fellowship
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UW student awarded scholarship for 'making a difference'
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Snohomish woman receives Gates scholarship for study in England
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Continents, colleges converge at UW Global Business Challenge
|
Economist finds that Cuba's state-run baseball league doesn't go to bat for players
|
Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
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Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
|
Ice core 'dipstick' indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed
|
Exhibit of emerging architectural ideas offers 'glimpse of future'
|
Exotic physics finds black holes could be most 'perfect,' low-viscosity fluid
|
Pregnant women face risk after motor vehicle crashes regardless of the presence of injuries
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Suzanne Trager Ortega selected as dean of the UW Graduate School
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UW alum first recipient of award for outstanding achievements in biomaterials
|
Researchers find evidence of dark energy in our galactic neighborhood
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Answer from 'dusty shelf' aids quest to see matter as it was just after big bang
|
Mock named injury prevention center director
|
Scientists search for seafloor eruption
|
Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'
|
VIDEO | Multi-story hydrothermal vent
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Retrovirus struck ancestors of chimpanzees and gorillas millions of years ago, but did not affect ancestral humans
|
Student researchers to present tactile maps of campus to blind students, staff
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Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
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| February 2005 |
Tiny flies could lead to understanding potential for non-embryonic stem cells
|
UW Consolidated Laundry installs state-of-the-art water recycling system
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Sexual banter in workplace may have its benefits, study shows
|
New journalism awards to honor broadcast reporting on victims of violence
|
More than half of high school seniors employed, mostly in near minimum-wage jobs
|
Were bigger brains really smarter?
|
International business plan competition measures 'social return' on investment
|
Public lecture will focus on Northwest tsunamis
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Murder case research shows why it's easier to identify someone close than far away
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Tree-ring data reveals multiyear droughts unlike any in recent memory
|
Endowed seat in children's librarianship named for author Beverly Cleary
|
Paun first recipient of new Fulbright on U.S.-Canadian trade
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Safe storage of guns, ammunition reduces risk of firearm injury risk to youth
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Researchers blend folk treatment, high tech for promising anti-cancer compound
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From flames to flowers, lecture series focuses on sustaining NW world
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UW joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical service
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UW Medicine joins national campaign to ensure patient safety in hospitals
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Business before pleasure: Emotions play key role in guiding consumer spending
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| January 2005 |
Dwindling snowpack is bad news for Washington's summer water needs
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UW to display conceptual drawings for proposed underground lab
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April journalism conference set to probe tsunami aftermath, next steps
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UW Bothell presents biotechnology and regional economic development forum
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UW Bothell helps 5th and 6th graders design a Mission to Mars
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Mental health crisis looming for survivors of tsunami, warns UW psychologist just back from Indonesia
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New fund to help bring UW innovations to market
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New evidence indicates biggest extinction wasn't caused by asteroid or comet
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UW's Rosetta software to unlock secrets of many human proteins
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In big speeches, Bush cites God more often than predecessors did, analysis shows
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Experts to gather Thursday in Kane Hall to explore tsunami aftermath
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UW is top dawg in nation's 'Rose Bowl' of MBA case competitions
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Alcohol screening and intervention in the trauma setting save health-care costs by preventing further injuries
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From the ashes, Center for Urban Horticulture dedicates Merrill Hall Jan. 19
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Federal government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 released
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Electrical engineering Professor Mani Soma named acting engineering dean
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180 people with post-traumatic stress disorder needed for UW study
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Patricia Spakes named chancellor of UW Tacoma
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Pinatubo's rivers show the danger isn't over when volcanic eruption ends
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Shepherds whistle while they work and brains process sounds as language
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Elementary school intervention boosts positive functioning in early adulthood
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2004 |
| December 2004 |
Study shows how religious group fended off the Internet -- then adapted it
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Stroke risk is greater for migraine sufferers, especially those on oral contraceptives
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Statement from UW President Mark Emmert and WSU President V. Lane Rawlins on Gov. Locke's 2005-07 Budget Proposal
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Winds, ice motion root cause of decline in sea ice, not warmer temperatures
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UW opens office to foster communications on underground lab proposal
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UW dean of engineering named chancellor at UC Santa Cruz
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Hudson's Bay Company policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
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Historic Himalayan ice dams created huge lakes, mammoth floods
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Who did voters pick on Nov. 2? In some cases, we'll never know
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Birds, butterflies, bacteria: same law of biology appears to apply
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Fastest glacier in Greenland doubles speed
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Pharmaceutical marketing tactics hold little sway with prescribing physicians
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Two-thirds of school-age children have an imaginary companion by age 7
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A review of the health implications of lead in Seattle School District drinking water
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Say goodbye to Rudolph and other reindeer if global warming continues
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UW Business School receives $10 million from The Foster Foundation
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| November 2004 |
UW group blocks formation of toxic protein clumps seen in Huntington's disease
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Stratosphere temperature data support scientists' proof for global warming
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Media Advisory: Panelists to discuss proposal for managing Northwest power grid
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Everyday resistance to slavery far more common than believed, historian says
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UW Regents approve appointment of UW's first chief investment officer
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Major-party candidates work the Web, while many challengers stay offline
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Ocean ecosystems at risk if plug pulled on Mother Nature's 'blenders'
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Pioneering work on biological integrity earns conservation award
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Black mothers who gave up custody of a child sought for study
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Beauty and elegance of math is topic for lecture
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UW Bothell releases growth plan
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Researchers to gather in Seattle for international meeting on fluid dynamics
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Award will help unlock mysteries of one of Earth's most important organisms
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Symposium weighs science's role in improving fisheries management
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| October 2004 |
Russell McDuff becomes director of UW School of Oceanography
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Democrats outgunning GOP in e-mail wars, researchers find
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UW Medical Center to implant first-ever Cs-131 brachytherapy seeds to treat prostate cancer
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Crash injuries result in large and potentially preventable productive losses to U.S. workers
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UW Bothell Professor and Snohomish County Red Cross present panel on Humanity in War
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How to make schools better? Bring in outside help, experts say
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2004 Autumn Quarter enrollments
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Charter schools would add little to state education costs, study predicts
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UW licenses potential cancer treatment derived from ancient Chinese folk remedy
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Emotion coaching can help children overcome impacts of family violence
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New propulsion concept could make possible 90-day round trip to the red planet
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Washington state's brightest fifth- to eighth-graders sought by UW
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Successful development of new products requires anticipating customers' needs
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UW computer scientists help find rare cooperative RNA switches in nature
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Distinguished molecular microbiologist to chair department at UW School of Medicine
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Fred Hutchinson researcher wins Nobel Prize
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Smart watch system could help busy, forgetful people keep track of necessities
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UW Bothell continues year-long series on community/ university partnerships
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| September 2004 |
Collaborators designing data, control architecture for new generation of ocean observatories
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Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
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UW lands $12.4 million federal grant to create science of learning center
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ADVISORY -- Campus debate-watch gatherings tonight
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UW chemist Daniel Gamelin earns Presidential Early Career Award
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Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
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Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
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Trial lawyers and lawsuits --- researchers. find public doesn't get whole truth
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Mount St. Helens activity increasing likelihood of hazardous event
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Mount St. Helens hit by swarm of small earthquakes
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Americans had strong need for spiritual support following 9/11 attacks
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'Come Together Washington' October 15
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Free public forum to present balanced analysis of stem cell issues
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UW included among national sites to perform 1918 influenza research
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Volunteers needed for borderline personality disorder treatment studies
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UW chemical engineering celebrates 100 years of life-changing innovations
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Oceanographers seek to better understand ferocity of hurricanes like Frances
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Work together, live apart: Study shows racial divide in America's cities
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Injuries due to mismatch crashes support need for vehicle redesign
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Sugar-coated sea urchin eggs could have sweet implications for human fertility
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UW launches computer forensics studies to thwart cyber-threats
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Boot camp for budding entrepreneurs debuts at the UW
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Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
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Bone marrow cells routinely help with wound healing
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The September Project to celebrate democracy on Sept. 11, 2004
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UW receives $4.7 million to study implications of genomics in medically underserved populations
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Paper or mouse-click? What's on computers is easier to find, study shows
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| August 2004 |
New national research center at UW aims to solve big chemistry problems
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Harborview to offer free Legs For Life? screening event Sept. 18
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Modest climate change could lead to substantially more and larger fires
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Time isn't money: Study shows that consumers would rather waste minutes than cash
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Botanist known internationally for research, plant dictionary joining UW
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Colville tribes, UW alliance to advance economic growth and education
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Two warbler species find the West isn't big enough for both of them
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Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
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TABLE: Environmental performance indices for residential construction
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Women who have donated eggs sought for national study
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Risks of falling lowest in older adults who wear athletic shoes
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2004-05 University of Washington Undergraduate Scholar award recipients
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American Indian language teachers will begin three-day computer 'camp'
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2004-05 University of Washington President?s Scholarship recipient
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2004-05 University of Washington National Merit Scholarship recipients
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Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
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Tuttle named new head of UW mechanical engineering department
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Protests more help in passing environmental laws than working on 'inside'
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Dart Center names 2004 Fellows
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Indian tribes gained power by exploiting ambiguities in federal policies
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New hope for fetal alcohol syndrome shown in study
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Unlikely partners join forces to speed aid to world's disaster zones
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Research details use of religion to help sell war on terror, Iraq
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Promising hospital anti-infection strategy probably won't work, study shows
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UW Libraries to help preserve agricultural literature
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Binge drinking, harmful drinking linked to U.S. death rates
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| July 2004 |
UW Bothell names new Education Program director
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UW to lead most comprehensive study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease
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New theory links neutrino's slight mass to accelerating universe expansion
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Gene therapy reaches muscles throughout the body and reverses muscular dystrophy in animal model
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Students with disabilities gather at UW to learn success strategies
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Northwest's rural beauty hides economic crisis, study finds
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UW School of Pharmacy researcher receives $2.8 million grant
for study of medications in pregnant women
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When male fish hum females swim in, thanks to hormones, adaptable hearing
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School study finds more equity after shift to weighted student funding
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Some of the biggest raindrops on record found in both clean and dirty air
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Study links obesity, other health problems to adolescent binge drinking
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UW Medical Center ranked ninth among nation's Best Hospitals
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| June 2004 |
UW Fertility and Endocrine Center to close in September
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GEAR UP helps student plan for, succeed in higher ed
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Wott acting director, Hinckley steps down at Urban Horticulture
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USDA study to address obesity and poverty
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Brick chimneys can double as strong-motion sensors in earthquakes
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Virtual reality significantly reduces pain-related brain activity
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A celestial surprise: Comet Wild 2 unlike any other body in solar system
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Banks in Pacific Northwest, Hawaii prove to be a boon for shareholders
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Light trucks pose greater injury risk to pedestrians
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Monkey business: Studies show tiny callimicos have unusual characteristics
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Brains at work: Learning a second language may not be as laborious as believed
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Certain symptom patterns may provide clues for presence of ovarian cancer
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Top astronaut Bonnie Dunbar visits campus as UW alum of the year for 2004
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UW awards first President's Medal to transfer student
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Hong Kong native named President's Medalist
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Seventh Annual University of Washington Faculty Field Tour:
Five-day journey connects new faculty to Washington?s communities
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129th Commencement: Husky Stadium layout
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129th Commencement: Access to Husky Stadium for media
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129th Commencement at UW's Seattle campus--2 p.m., June 12, Husky Stadium
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Leukoreduced transfusions may help severely injured patients
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Folds at surface show ancient seismic stresses still at work in Washington
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Momentum investing: UW research zeroes in on transaction costs
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| May 2004 |
Homes gobbling twice the land outside as inside designated urban areas
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UW scientists say new Hollywood climate thriller is so bad it's good
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Academic student employees ratify first agreement between union and UW
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Denman series tackles menace of invasives
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Cost and confusion deprive 17,000 immigrant children and parents of insurance in Washington
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National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome to implement $1.5 million prevention project
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Don't laugh -- research shows comedy can give candidates a serious boost
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60 local families needed for childhood depression, conduct disorder study
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Researchers identify gene linked to sperm-producing stem cells in mammals
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Male susceptibility to disease may play role in evolution of insect societies
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Spokane physician Dr. Paul Crosby selected as WWAMI Distinguished Teacher
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More young black men have done prison time than military service or earned college degree, study shows
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Author of "The Drake Equation" to deliver lecture at UW
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Water-chemistry monitoring company wins business plan competition
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Playwright August Wilson is University of Washington commencement speaker
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UW scientists issue preliminary plan for underground lab near Leavenworth
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Scientists hope current silent earthquake will help to understand big quakes
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Artificial light-dark cycles expose circadian clocks at odds with each other
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Childhood conduct problems may predict depression among young adults
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Elevated rates of sexual, physical trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
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Penguins ingest mollusk shells to obtain calcium for thicker eggshells
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UW Dean of Engineering receives presidential award from White House
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New Web-based resource helps college graduates find health insurance
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UW researcher to receive presidential early career award
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Five UW faculty elected to society for world-renowned scholars
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Collaborative care may prevent PTSD, alcohol abuse among trauma survivors
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New interpretation of satellite measurements confirms global warming
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Remake Seattle City Council? Forum explores how it happened before
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| April 2004 |
A letter from the dean of the UW Medical School
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Billing documentation settlement Q & A
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Settlement announced after billing documentation investigation
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Five physicians in Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho named outstanding teachers of University of Washington medical students
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Mars hardware, levitating metal balls and robotic fish mark the 2004 Engineering Open House
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Aspiring entrepreneurs showcase diverse business plans at UW competition
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Miniseries featuring huge West Coast quake rooted in fiction, not science
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UW center to explore link between oceans and human health
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Gene mutation found for a form of juvenile-onset motor neuron disease
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Protein research illustrates how drugs fight malaria, other diseases
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Kayla Burt to speak at UW Open House
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University of Washington Regents approve employment contract with Mark Emmert
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American dream of home ownership turns sour for many low-income buyers
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Freeing Nemo: Aquarium owners releasing non-native fish could endanger marine ecosystems
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Europe, Canada ahead of U.S. in creating family-friendly policies, say authors
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New policies cut more than 20,000 people from Washington Medicaid
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Learn about health, medicine and science at UW Open House
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International students flock to Seattle for undergrad case competition
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UW physicists preparing underground lab proposal for national science panel
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For 11th year, U.S.News ranks University of Washington as best primary-care medical school
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| March 2004 |
UW team takes top honors in worldwide math contest for third year in a row
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Air pollution hurts people with cystic fibrosis
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Educated women less likely to skip marriage and motherhood, study shows
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Students from the University of Washington School of Dentistry rank No. 1 in the nation
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Bone marrow stem cells do not help regenerate heart muscle tissue, UW study finds, contradicting earlier study
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University of Washington Regents offer UW presidency to LSU's Mark Emmert
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Fledgling 'scientists' sought for study on how brain changes with learning
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Wasps' brains enlarge as they perform more demanding jobs
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UW developing AI caretakers that could assist the elderly and disabled
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UW's MBA program makes key changes to maintain real-world relevance
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Kids learn more from nationally certified teachers, study shows
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Rueben Mayes named assistant dean of UW Business School
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Family discipline, religious attendance, attachment to school cut levels of later violence among aggressive children
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Before symptom onset in inherited paralytic disease, levels of growth factor VEGF fall in the spinal cord
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Web site launched today features pioneer EarthDials from around the globe
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Providence Journal wins 2004 Dart Award
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| February 2004 |
Publicly reported earnings may not tell whole story, UW study shows
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UW feasibility study looks at direct access to birth control for women visiting at eight Bartell and Fred Meyer pharmacies
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Steven G. Olswang selected as interim chancellor at UW Tacoma
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Exposure to low-level magnetic fields causes DNA damage in rat brain cells, researchers find
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Imaging technique reveals new structure in retina cells
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Breakthroughs in capacity, power consumption set to revolutionize photonics
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Research on tiniest particles could have far-reaching effects
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Recession's silver lining? More top students head for graduate school
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Tiny heaters may pave way for easier tissue engineering, medical sensors
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Researchers target computer recognition of speech as the next-generation data source
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Dirty air from Asia can push U.S. air pollution to unhealthy levels
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Local, regional governments could take lead in curbing global air pollution
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Astronaut and UW alum Janet Kavandi to speak at chemistry seminar
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Special training may help people with autism recognize faces, UW study shows
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Children must learn relationship among spoken, visual, meaning of word forms
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It all adds up: mathematical model shows which couples will divorce
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'Total Confinement' paints portrait of life inside maximum security prisons
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UW Business School wins Venture Capital Investment Competition
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Online subscriptions to scientific journals often no bargain for universities
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Small, smart, smooth: Seagliders topic of Feb. 11 public lecture
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Challenges of forest stewardship focus of public lecture
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Child Passenger Safety Week: A good time to start riding safely
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Seattle Seahawks Chris Davis and UW athletes will speak at UW School of Dentistry mouthguard event
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| January 2004 |
Four UW electrical engineers awarded one of discipline's highest honors
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Gift of Tektronix test equipment gives UW students a jump on the competition
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One type of carbon so resilient it skews carbon cycle calculations
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Yakima Valley students attend dental camp at UW School of Dentistry
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UW Business School seizes second place in nation's 'Rose Bowl' of MBA case competitions
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Unbelted drivers and passengers can cause fatal injuries to others who ride with them
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KeyBank donation of $250,000 becomes the first corporate gift for UW Medicine South Lake Union project
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Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma gains five-year, $5 million funding
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University of Washington Health Sciences Center presents Martin Luther King Day observance
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266 volunteers needed for UW borderline personality disorder studies
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Tiny heaters may pave way for easier tissue engineering, medical sensors
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Memorial for Dean Marsha Landolt and Robert Busch
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2003 |
| December 2003 |
Randy Hodgins, Washington senate staffer, appointed UW Director of State Relations
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UW researcher links rising tide of obesity to food prices
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UW lands role in $70 million national network for nanotechnology research
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Comet encounter is key moment in UW astronomer's long scientific quest
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Comet encounter is key moment in UW astronomer's long scientific quest
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Rainfall may govern geological structure of Cascade mountain range
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Erosion on arid-north, monsoon-drenched flanks of Himalayas surprisingly similar
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Potential for pathogens to evolve missing from emerging-disease models
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Planet-formation model indicates Earthlike planets might be common
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UW Business School announces $20 million in gifts to fund new facility
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Mediation made Hanford safer and could work elsewhere, too, report says
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UW invites the public to presentations on world health ethics
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Children whose mothers are victimized at greater risk for behavioral problems
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| November 2003 |
Mars landers create opportunity for Web-linked sundials around the world
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Science wed with policy key to using, protecting ocean resources
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State's top minority-owned companies honored for economic contributions
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Digital secret agent asks students' help in battling evil, beating heart disease
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Researchers find new form of hormone that helps songbirds reproduce
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Some large Pacific Northwest quakes could be limited in size by their location
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Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
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UW receives almost $6 million to study common cause of cognitive disability
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Washington's brightest fifth to eighth graders sought by UW
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UW architecture program gives youth a voice on Seattle waterfront
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Role in Type 1 diabetes provides clue for researchers who discovered 'obesity gene.'
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Nisqually quake damaged 90 percent of Puget Sound businesses surveyed
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| October 2003 |
Japanese shipwreck adds to evidence of great Cascadia earthquake in 1700
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Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered mass extinctions, spurred bird breathing system
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Touch doubles the power of VR therapy for spider phobia, study finds
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2003 Autumn Quarter enrollments
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Scientists trying to make sense of Arctic changes
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UW named a nationwide center to help study surgical treatments for obesity
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News briefing Tuesday, new B-roll video available: 400 to attend landmark SEARCH meeting in Seattle on all aspects of Arctic change
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Study pinpoints high rate of cancer among people with genetic mutations; but date of onset can be delayed by exercise and healthy weight in adolescence
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Inequality prevails in public schools, researchers find
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Gay, lesbian couples can teach heterosexuals how to improve relationships
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UW offering places to pause and Take Back Your Time on Oct. 24
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UW engineering faculty members speak to hot topics in 2003 lecture series
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Patterns of brain activity differ with musical training, not cultural familiarity
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UW Aeronautics and Astronautics celebrates 100 years of flight with lecture series
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Proposal to require child restraint seats in airlines could cause more deaths than it prevents
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Pioneer in information visualization and computing usability speaks to UW audience about 'Leonardo's Laptop'
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Researchers launch four-year study to retarget America's school dollars toward student achievement
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MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. official to describe efforts to rebuild Iraq
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Grant Awarded to Evaluate Effectiveness of EHealth Technologies
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Book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as in Northeast, England
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UW Business School opens West Coast's first Nasdaq student trading room
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UW announces plan to improve security off campus
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Community gears up for celebration and dedication of UW's new Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
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Roots of WWII imprisonment of Japanese Americans go back to 1920s
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La Ni?akes Bolivian Andes on a sedimental journey
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Earthquake hazards in Puget Sound region to be focus of public forum
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| September 2003 |
Center for Urban Horticulture begins rebuilding Merrill Hall
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Without thinning the worst is yet to come for fire-prone forests
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Many low-income, uninsured adults could benefit from better integration of mental health services and primary medical care
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Dr. Sheila Lukehart named UW medical school assistant dean of research and graduate education at Harborview Medical Center
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Geological Society to meet in Seattle; topics include geology of salmon, wine
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UW to study preventing cavities in underserved populations
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Bones from French cave show Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon hunted same prey
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Harvard professor named to Condit chair in business administration at UW
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UW researchers continue AIDS vaccine research with $15 million grant
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This mummy has four feet, few bones and a new climate-controlled home
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UW Medical Center to give public a preview of new Surgery Pavilion
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This summer is state's driest in more than a century
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Researchers turn to virtual reality to treat 9/11 post traumatic stress
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Depression in the elderly leads to higher health costs
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University of Washington leads $50 million Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
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UW Medicine Launches South Lake Union Research Hub
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UW announces new transfer admissions agreement
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Smallest whirlpools can pack stunningly strong force
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Seeing really is believing: study shows virtual demonstrations lead consumers to make real purchases
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Workshop designed to give 'sleeping' Indian languages a breath of life
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Harborview to offer Legs For Life(TM) screening event Sept. 13
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| August 2003 |
Leading cosmologist to speak about 'dark matter' and mysterious 'dark energy' that make up most of the universe
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Non-judgmental intervention may help binge eaters overcome disorders
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Disparity in wealth is killing democracy, scholar warns
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Children with sickle cell anemia often don't receive antibiotics to prevent deadly infections
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Tacoma welcomes light rail
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UW signs licensing agreement for study of eye disease
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Dental Research Day 2003 will be Sept. 24
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Genomes of tiny microbes promise insight into oceans, climate change
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Astronomers will give public view of Mars' closest approach in 600 centuries
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Using the Internet may hurt, not help, unemployed people in finding a job
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Ultrasound imaging advance improves prostate cancer treatment
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| July 2003 |
Washington state gets climatologist just in time for national meeting
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University of Washington licenses diagnosis and treatment method for bacteria found in arterial disease
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Superintendents say lack of clout holds them back from improving schools
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U.S. News & World Report Magazine Names Harborview's Orthopaedics Department as 9th in the Country
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Hydrothermal vent systems could have persisted millions of years, incubated life
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Homestake collaboration completes new underground lab design
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UW Medical Center joins top 10 among nation's Best Hospitals
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Research shows link between child and parental mental-health problems
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Social interaction plays key role in how infants learn language, studies show
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Blacks more likely to be shot than whites even when holding harmless objects
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Youth get opportunity to 'practice dentistry' at UW Dental Camp
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UW Computer Science & Engineering begins move to new home
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UW licenses two technologies for development by Teranode Corp.
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Booster Seat Coupons Help young passengers during summer drives
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Historic Japanese Language School building could be leveled in late fall
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| June 2003 |
Charting seismic effects on water levels can refine earthquake understanding
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Internal waves appear to have the muscle to pump up mid-lats
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Memorial service will be held June 30 for Dr. Belding H. Scribner
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Saving Aleut: Linguist begins new effort to preserve native Alaskan language
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Is the cessation of abuse enough to resolve depression for victims of intimate partner violence?
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UW mourns loss of Dr. Belding H. Scribner
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Social programs may provide hidden 'spillover' benefits, study finds
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Hypertonic resuscitation may help victims of blunt trauma
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Washington state financial institutions yield substantial returns for investors
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Major gift by Milgard family names business school at UW Tacoma
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Architecture students joining Montana tribe for 'barn raising'
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Researchers find association between dietary intake of iron and manganese and Parkinson's disease
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UW researchers develop local test for West Nile virus
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Child-passenger safety training focuses on Latino families
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UW study shows MRIs have no advantage over traditional radiography in diagnosis and treatment of low back pain
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Sandra Archibald named dean of Evans School
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| May 2003 |
$8.6 million grant nearly doubles autism research at UW
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System takes from poor schools and gives to the rich, study shows
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Physicist to lead UW oceanography, engineering laboratory
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UW researchers win award for research on groundbreaking class of anti-malarial drugs
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Past PNW climate not a good guide for future, researcher says
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Budding biotechnology company takes UW business plan competition
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Low-dose diuretics are the most effective way to treat hypertension, according to analysis of 42 studies
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People only slightly more likely to die after episodes of stagnant air
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Aerosols' effects could change current understanding of global climate change
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Just back from expedition: Scientists taking pulse of Arctic Ocean
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Impulsive, hyperactive or fidgety youngsters sought for UW study
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Solid management, natural resilience both key to sockeye success
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UW's Lazowska selected to lead President Bush's IT Advisory Committee
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Lessons from lives of 37 Texas murderers show different paths to death row
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What makes a difference in Mom's life? Whether it's a boy or a girl
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New course introduces future librarians to data-rich world of sports
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UW offers free public lecture by RWJ president on unequal treatment
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| April 2003 |
National Academy of Sciences names two from UW, one from Fred Hutchinson as new members
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Photo opportunity -- UW's Arbor Day Fair attracting hundreds of youngsters
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Homegrown talent dominates worldwide mathematics competition
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Record gift boosts UW's position as world leader in genomics research
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Study shows that workers seek information from people they already know
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Sherman Alexie to be UW Commencement speaker for 2003
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240 families sought for study of childhood depression, conduct disorder
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Eclectic ideas abound for UW's sixth annual Business Plan Competition
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Time of reflection on war in Iraq April 23
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Scientists returning to field of eerie thermal spires
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Poll shows Washington residents believe too little is spent on protecting health with disease prevention research
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Mothers' heavy prenatal alcohol use triples offsprings' chances of having drinking-related problems at age 21
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National vision for future genome research unveiled today; eleven University of Washington scientists among planners
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South Korea claims victory in 5th annual UW Global Business Challenge
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Harborview selected as one of only three hospitals in the country for an International Medical Surgical Response Team
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King County Council Unanimously Approves Funding to Move Forward on the Design Phase of Harborview's Bond Project
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Malaria may be a much older disease than previously thought, according to data gathered by international team of scientists
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Atrial fibrillation is more common than suspected
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Architecture students to help give The Ave a makeover
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Parents often mistaken about protecting kids in cars
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Surprise to physicists -- protons aren't always shaped like a basketball
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University of Washington School of Nursing again No. 1 in U.S.News' rankings of America's Best Graduate Schools
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For 10th year, U.S. News ranks University of Washington as best primary-care medical school
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UW tops national primary care medical school, nursing school rankings
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Annual UW astronomy open house to feature astronaut 'Pinky' Nelson
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Principals abound but avoid certain schools and districts, study finds
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Airfare analyzer could save big bucks by advising when to buy tickets
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| March 2003 |
Swinging Into Action: April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Week
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International business competition takes center stage at UW
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Mothers' psychological symptoms influence which children go to the doctor
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New proteomic techniques reveal workings of bacteria linked to cystic fibrosis
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Children in SUVs at greater risk of injury in rollover crashes
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15-foot hypodermic needles provide evidence for vast oceanic crustal biosphere
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Internet may mobilize largest antiwar protests ever seen, professor predicts
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Parts of Washington, British Columbia in the midst of a 'silent earthquake'
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Crows alter their thieving behavior when dealing with kin, other birds
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Managed care plans generally refer patients with pain symptoms to specialists
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More political candidates turning to Web to foster participation, mobilize support
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UW, national lab initiate a nationwide effort to bolster nanotech education
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Scientists gather at UW to discuss the intersections of engineering and biology
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Companies must roam to stay competitive, say corporate information chiefs
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| February 2003 |
Composted biosolids bind lead in soil, reducing danger of poisoning
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Celebrities to read for kids at Harborview on March 3
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Endless hotcakes make for hot debate among hungry engineering students
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Doctors should consider providing more information to patients about medical errors
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UW School of Dentistry opens Center for Leadership Education in Pediatric Dentistry
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Evidence acquits Clovis people of ancient killings, archaeologists say
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Top executives discuss opportunities, challenges of e-business
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Ultrasound Provides a New Way to Look at Heart Health
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Landscape students from 2 nations to design for International District
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Car booster seat usage rises after community campaign
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Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese
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Tiny 'nanotrains' could power big changes in the future
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Washington state;s health system 'is in trouble,' report says
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Harborview receives one of the highest JCAHO scores in the country
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Whidbey grad, UW alum gives $1 million to send budding engineers to college
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Northwest's summer water supply under siege from warmer climate
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Conference on pesticide issues will be held Feb. 26 in Yakima
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Turner Construction named general contractor construction manager of Harborview's bond project
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| January 2003 |
Randy Hodgins, Washington senate staffer, appointed UW Director of State Relations
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UW researcher links rising tide of obesity to food prices
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World gets bleaker for our children, contends psychologist
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Vision researchers find that photon receptors pair up in neat rows
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UW's new computer science building nearing completion
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Research shows NW Indians hunted fur seals on sustainable basis
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Children's injury risk is greater after injury to a sibling
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Heroin and cocaine deaths rebound in Seattle-King County in 2002, while methamphetamine use appears to plateau
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UW Medicine offers Mini-Medical School to the public
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The 11th Annual Salute Harborview!! Gala
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'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say
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Expert seeks ways to foster development without depleting resources
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UW researchers discover gene mutation associated with a form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited nerve disorder
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Faculty experts list on world events
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Nation's brightest minds increasingly shun science, study finds
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Digital sky survey shedding light on faint Milky Way stars
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UW study of risk of herpes transmission from mother to infant at birth shows surprising results, confirms old assumption
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Need for social support deters HIV patients from taking their drug 'cocktails'
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Finding life away from Earth will be tough task, paleontologist says
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Hitchhiking rocks provide details of glacial melting in West Antarctic
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Protection Orders Curb Partner Violence, But Few Seek Them
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| December 2002 |
In mutually beneficial relationship, slowest-evolving species gains upper hand
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Annual faculty lecture will paint history of Northwest Coast Indian art
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UW Educational Outreach Web site, registration available following last week's fire
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UW Educational Outreach relocating, phones working following Thursday's fire
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Update on fire at UW Educational Outreach building at 5001 25th Ave. NE
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Rain will take greater toll on reindeer, climate change model shows
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1 million children in state live in counties with polluted air, researchers find
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Why are men less religious? It may be form of risk-taking, impulsivity just as criminal behavior is
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Students go head-to-head in end-of-the-quarter robot tournament
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UW's network of neighborhood clinics earns another perfect score from national accrediting organization
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Smart polymers provide light-activated switch to turn enzymes on and off
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11 visions for a post-Viaduct Seattle to be unveiled
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UW study shows how tuberculosis moves through the body
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UW study shows patient education and psychiatric care in primary care medical offices can save money for the health care system
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Center for Public Health Nutrition makes funds available to communities for healthy youth program
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Studies dispute ultraviolet effect on declining amphibian populations
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DO-IT program seeking students with disabilities for college, career prep
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Lecture will focus on using Hubble Space Telescope to glimpse the birth of the universe
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800 Puget Sound-area businesses needed for study exploring impacts of earthquake-caused transportation disruptions
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Enron anniversary: Despite scandal, research suggests stock options boost company earnings
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Search for sympathy uncovers patterns of brain activity
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Center will study hepatitis-induced liver disease
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Kirkland group that will compete in New Zealand for the America's Cup is using the Kirsten Wind Tunnel in a bid for sleeker, faster sailboats
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| November 2002 |
Jupiter-like planets formed in hundreds ? not millions ? of years, study shows
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Academy for Young Scholars seeking Puget Sound's best and brightest
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Partnerships between architecture students and community showcased in new book
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Research reveals a cellular basis for a male biological clock
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Northwest residents facing tough decisions in a warmer future
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Vaccine against HPV-16, a virus linked to cervical cancer, appears effective
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Minority business award winners evade impacts of slowing economy
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Nisqually quake damaged nearly 300,000 Puget Sound area households
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UW chooses vice provost of intellectual property and tech transfer
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National program expands to educate campus leaders and encourage students with disabilities to enter science-oriented careers
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Half of older adults with high blood pressure don't have it under control, and face significant risks
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Natural or synthetic secretin does not reduce symptoms of autism, study shows
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Association of American Medical Colleges honors University of Washington medical school for community service
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Association of American Medical Colleges honors University of Washington medical school for community service
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150 preschoolers sought for study exploring link between self-control, pretend play
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Kennewick Man, draft rules for disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains on Seattle agenda
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Infants more likely to view an object when another person looks with open, not closed, eyes
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| October 2002 |
Overfishing may diminish genetic diversity even when millions of fish remain
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New $9.5 million grant to support Male Contraception Research Center
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Flyby of Annefrank asteroid to help Stardust prepare for primary mission
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New Coalition Focuses on Reducing Injuries to Seattle's Kids
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Statement from UW Board of Regents President Jerry Grinstein
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Statement from UW President Richard L. McCormick
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New Coalition Focuses on Reducing Injuries to Seattle's Kids
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Nearly 90 percent of MBA grads find jobs despite weak job market
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ACE linked to calcium growth on aortic valve
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Communities need technology, training for complexities of today's forestry
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2002 Autumn Quarter enrollments
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Families with two or more children with autism sought for $10.2 million study of genetic, neurobiological causes of autism
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UW professor Dr. Bertil Hille named to Institute of Medicine
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UW's Barnard receives national honor for work with infants
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Expert on reuniting families to speak at University of Washington
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Leader in search for extraterrestrial life to speak at UW
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Grant will enable School of Dentistry to expand student opportunities for clinical practice and increased service to underserved populations
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Walker named medical director of UW Medical Center
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University of Washington awarded $1 million grant from The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research
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50 elementary school archaeologists dig into Rainier Valley's past
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Scientists, students, technophiles gather to see latest in wearable computers
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Difficulty with daily living related to dissatisfaction with medical care
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Researchers find evidence that Antarctic ice stream has reversed its flow
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| September 2002 |
UW to lead effort exploring how engineering students think and learn, and how best to teach them
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Dr. Belding H. Scribner receives Lasker Award
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Veritas Software CEO to give insight on preparing for economic recovery
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Economists weigh if housing will remain as bright spot for forest sector
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Economists weigh if housing will remain as bright spot for forest sector
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Applicants sought for public health leadership training and development
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UW co-sponsoring global summit to improve breast cancer care in developing regions of the world
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Researchers mesh technology with life at conference on wearable computing
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Professor crosses disciplinary boundaries to teach biology to student engineers
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Gene therapy reverses muscular dystrophy in animal model
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Woman power counters terrorism in Arab world, say UW advisers heading to Morocco for historic vote
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University of Washington Medical Center puts planning into practice in face of bioterrorism threat
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Things Families Can Do to Cope with Post-September 11 Reactions
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UW's Dental Research Day 2002 will be Sept. 25
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| August 2002 |
Startup founders likely to be replaced if company thrives
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Jobs are not enough to keep families out of poverty, report shows
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One of earliest Buddhist manuscripts acquired by University of Washington
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Local teacher documenting expedition bound for crossroads of the Arctic
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MEDIA ADVISORY: News conference at trench exposing Seattle fault
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Newsmagazines downplayed opposition voices after Sept. 11, researchers find
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UW conferees seek to shape epochal reform of Japan's legal system
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Professors predicting a big boom in the tiny world of microfluidics
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Air bags offer little protection to unrestrained passengers and may endanger young children
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Annual Northwest Microarray Conference is Aug. 14 to 16
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Intimate Partner Violence Against Women: Some, But Not All, Protection Orders Help
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People with low self-esteem less motivated to break a negative mood
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| July 2002 |
Chemical used to break up blood clots may also cause narrowing of blood vessels, a major problem in heart disease
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Conference considers ultrasound for cancer treatment, noninvasive surgery
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UW regents approve budget request with no increase in enrollment
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UW helping communities to get next-generation Internet to the 'last mile'
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UW developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers, other impaired patients
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Dust in 'Earth's attic' could hold evidence of planet's earliest life
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Dental camp will give youth a rare close-up view of profession
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Collaborators receive $10.5 million to explore progression and treatment of prostate cancer
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Collaborators receive $10.5 million to explore progression and treatment of prostate cancer
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New book is road map to help parents 'find' their child who has Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
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Heroin and cocaine deaths dropping in Seattle-King County as use of methamphetamines and oxycodone increases
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North Pacific climate cycle likely to lessen El Ni?ffects in Northwest
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UW Medical Center ranked 11th among nation's Best Hospitals
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Pioneering genome scientist to head UW's Department of Genome Sciences
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$2.2 million grant from Hughes institute will support UW biology education
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Your relationship could be in 'jeopardy' unless you try this quiz book
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More than half of the 'Best Doctors' in Western Washington are from Children's, Fred Hutchinson, Harborview, UW Medical Center, VA Medical Center
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Donor tiles paving way for better service to gardeners at UW
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Gene also found in humans contributes to type 1 diabetes in animal model
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| June 2002 |
Fluid forces within the body help invasive bacteria
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Preventing lawn mower injuries to children
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Electrical engineering alumnus awarded university's highest honor, inventions scheduled for permanent display at Smithsonian
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Harborview expert notes firework safety is the key to a fun Fourth of July
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Washington state called a leader in getting broadband to 'last mile'
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Students heading to Montana to help tribes combat housing crisis with tough 'new' material -- straw
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Executive education program bucks national trend in dropping revenues
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Dr. Christina Surawicz named assistant dean for faculty development of UW School of Medicine
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The public is invited to the second annual Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer Conference
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Genetic engineering could salvage once-promising anti-cancer agents
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Summer teen volunteer opportunities available at Harborview Medical Center
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Executives should take hiring cues from the basketball court
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Becoming parents: it's more than having a baby
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Hearing infants show preference for sign language over pantomime
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Participation in study may spell help for youngsters with spelling woes
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Rats depleted of salt become sensitized to amphetamine
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Falklands penguins forage far enough from home to get into trouble
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| May 2002 |
Homeless sexual minorities at greater risk for physical and sexual violence, mental illness, substance abuse
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Smell like rotting animal flesh filling UW botany greenhouse again
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Graduate students win $30,000 to start company to make cancer-fighting drug
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Lecture by Harvard expert marks launch of new UW climate program
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Building bridges, colonizing planets and extracting DNA from onions: Middle school students flex math, science muscles at second annual PRIME Showcase
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Governor to speak at campus Memorial Day ceremony
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Marc Lindenberg, Evans School dean and leader in global relief work, is dead at 56
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Industry adopts UW researchers' innovation that promises huge boost in speed and efficiency for high-traffic computer chips
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Observing zoo residents is regular part of some students' schedule
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Global experts to confer on social impact of a wired (& wireless) world
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Teachers from across Washington state join UW sea-going expedition
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Special seminar: Rural landowners laboring to understand, comply with Forest-Fish rules
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Seat Belts Offer More Protection Than Air Bags
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Researchers studying whether a robot dog is kid's best friend
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Pregnancy, birth rates fall among young women exposed to intervention program in elementary school
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Scientists recover North Pole mooring from 2? miles deep in ocean
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'Sex Gets Even Louder,' a May 13 and 14 conference and health fair, to educate public about HIV and STDs
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Harborview Presents
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Quality of life enterprises outweigh technology ideas among would-be entrepreneurs
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Craig Hogan named UW vice provost for research
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Lindenberg Center to extend UW's global humanitarian reach
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Number of teens -- primarily boys -- having sex declined in '90s as adolescent girls lead way in redefining relationships
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Study finds a huge child care workforce waiting to be trained
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| April 2002 |
Brain imaging reveals new information about medications commonly used to treat children with autism or other pervasive developmental disorders
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NSF award would cement UW position as information technology research leader
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Somerman named dean of UW School of Dentistry
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Thousands of youngsters to visit UW's Arbor Day Fair starting May 1
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UW faculty receive prestigious Gairdner Awards
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UW seeks volunteers for phytoestrogen and soy study
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Link found between low birth weight and DNA from mothers
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Madeleine Albright to speak at University of Washington commencement
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Thousands to explore UW research in health, engineering at weekend open houses
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National Research Council committee backs national underground lab
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Wildflower seed mixes include some wicked bloomers
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UW students picked to help send mice into space
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Spirit of globalization renewed at international competition
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Managed care doesn't skimp on referrals to mental health specialists
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UW undergraduate trio wins big in international mathematics competition
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The beat begins early in life when it comes to children's choice of instruments: boys favor drums and horns, girls flutes and violins
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Tropical streams, rivers 'exhaling' millions of tons more CO2 than thought
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Researchers at the University of Washington and in China release genome sequence of rice
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UW tops national primary-care medical school rankings
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For ninth straight year U.S.News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
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First cousins face lower risk of having children with genetic conditions than is widely perceived
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Study shows genetic variants put some patients at risk for dangerous drug reactions
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UW study links gene to success of a treatment for high blood pressure
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Researcher named winner of presidential award
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| March 2002 |
Younger generation takes on world's problems at April 5-6 Model UN
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Statins may inhibit calcium growth on aortic valve in the elderly
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Management Agreement Approved for Harborview Bond Project
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Science close to viewing the beginning of time, UW cosmologist says
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Number of passengers experiencing air travel stress jumps to 81 percent
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Nasdaq grant to help fund student trading room
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UW joins Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project cultural caravan
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Mavis Leno, women's rights activist and wife of Tonight Show host, talks March 26 about women's rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan
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Mulally to speak on the future of Boeing Commercial Airplanes
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ADVISORY: UW astronomy open house will show off major planetary conjunction
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Sailing icon ready for more adventures with new shoulder
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UW hosts Pacific Northwest Regionals of national robotics competition
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E-business expert: Executives need to treat symptoms of
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Mathers Foundation grant will help study cell growth, differentiation
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Summer chum return to Big Beef Creek in numbers not seen since '70s
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Hanford cleanup information available on the Internet
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New center to build on and develop genetic and protein technology to fight deadly microbial pathogens
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Symptoms of burnout common among medical residents; UW taking steps to help
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| February 2002 |
More precise solar neutrino production figure determined by UW scientists
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Reputation outweighs regulation in preventing future Enron-style scandals
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Researchers Find Region of Gene for Inherited Pancreatic Cancer
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MEDIA ADVISORY: With Peace Corps popularity soaring, volunteers to gather at UW
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Alaskan waters growing hospitable to sharks while seals and sea lions decline
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The 10th Annual Salute Harborview!! Gala
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Asteroid or comet triggered death of most species 250 million years ago
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Study finds relatives, friends and neighbors provide majority of child care, and want support to do a better job
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Hawaiian Ridge HOME to efforts to understand deep-ocean mixing
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Oceans to Stars Lecture Series: Molecular explorations reveal secrets of ocean life
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Temperature inversion brings ultra-clean air between layers of pollution
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UW's new computer science building named for Paul G. Allen
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Ninety percent of young male workers now doing worse than they would have 20 years ago
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200 Puget Sound families needed for free study exploring relationships, communication in children's transition to adolescence
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Dean Bruce Bare and College of Forest Resources turning to concepts of environmental and resource sustainability
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Weyerhaeuser chief to discuss renewing company, recent merger
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UW scientists discuss 'Life in the Rocks' at annual AAAS meeting
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Rival robots go head-to-head in practice meet for UW regional robotics smackdown
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Scientists delve into North Pacific mystery of changing oxygen
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Paul B. Robertson named WDS Foundation Distinguished Professor
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DO-IT program takes award-winning techniques nationwide via the Internet
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Harborview Urges King County to Increase Booster Seat Usage in Preparation for Upcoming New Law
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End of an era: UW's state-of-the-art airborne research facility grounded after 30 years
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University of Washington women physicians featured in anthology
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Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak here
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Researchers try an old trick to battle common STD
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While most immigrant teenagers stay in school, dropout rate for Mexicans is 28 percent
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| January 2002 |
Senior fellow in Dentistry named Magnuson Scholar, clinical scholar
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Neuroscientists searching for roots of empathy find brain regions involved in learning by imitation
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Madeleine Albright to speak at University of Washington commencement
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New center will study barriers between people and dental care
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Scientists apply Earth's hydrothermal plume dynamics to Europa
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UW researcher plans project to pin down moon's distance from Earth
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El Ni?ould be brewing a warmer, drier Northwest winter in 2002-03
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Panel considers land trusts, conservation easements for private forests
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Harborview Medical Center event honors Martin Luther King Jr. in speech, song and celebration
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Series examines sustainability of marine resources
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If it's winter, the Skokomish River must be flooding
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University of Washington Academic Medical Center offers mini-medical school to the public
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Individual neurons reveal complexity of memory within the brain
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Study finds there's a critical time for learning all languages including sign language
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2001 |
| December 2001 |
Pulsating 'space hairs' could help small satellites dock with their mother ship
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Analysis illuminates risk connection of herpes virus, HIV
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UW research boosts understanding of how hydrogen transfer works
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Discovery Health documentaries premiere on Jan. 6
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UW seeking children who learn to read easily but struggle with spelling
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Surveillance of patients at risk for pancreatic cancer, research into early diagnosis point to cure in next decade
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Robots tee off in UW electrical engineering cyber-golf tournament
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UW, Ethics Board reach settlement on bowl game allegations
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UW dentistry students learn high-tech photography for patients
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Pollution in Asian air mass likely measured on both sides of Pacific
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Dr. Eugene Natkin presented with first distinguished teacher award
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A little larceny comes naturally to northwestern crows
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Statement from Dr. Eric Larson, medical director at University of Washington Medical Center
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Information about medical errors
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UW establishes Center on Infant Mental Health and Development
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Autistic preschoolers have larger-than-normal brains, can't distinguish emotions from facial photographs
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Improving quality of child protective services in Washington, Oregon, Alaska is goal of $2.2 million grant
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| November 2001 |
Treatment reduces risk of heart attack by 60 to 90 percent, reverses arterial plaque buildup; antioxidant vitamins diminish beneficial effect
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Take the Web test to measure your prejudice against Arab Muslims
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Brains of deaf people rewire to 'hear' music
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Personal decisions exercise the emotional part of the brain
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Ancient Chinese folk remedy may hold key to non-toxic cancer treatment
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UW speech traces history of African-American nurses in Seattle
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UW researchers hope to improve rain, flood forecasts in the Northwest
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Nov. 27 community forum will discuss public health and bioterrorism
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Organ transplant surgeons and staff, organ recipients and donor family members to run in Seattle Marathon
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Growing importance of minority-owned businesses to be recognized at awards ceremony
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Local researchers join in national effort to study health impact of toxic substances
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One of world's smallest self-propelled satellites nearly ready for Air Force, NASA
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Expert on disparities in international health to speak Nov. 14
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Urban Horticulture to brief public Nov. 19 on concepts, design for rebuilding
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Former surgeon general to speak Nov. 8
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Marrakech conference prompts expert briefing on NW climate change
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| October 2001 |
UW consolidates departments to form Department of Genome Sciences
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University of Washington to study use of medications by pregnant women
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When sperm whales talk, UW researcher listens
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Digital 'factory' invents tools that can unlock designers' creativity
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2001 autumn quarter enrollments at the University of Washington
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Blame North America megafauna extinction on climate change, not human ancestors
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2001 Autumn Quarter Enrollments
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Hospitals, Health Departments Prepare for Possible Bioterrorism
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Publisher to address business leaders, UW faculty and alumni on future of Internet gold rush
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UrbanSim to pit computer's ingenuity against gridlock, pollution, sprawl
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Two University of Washington professors are among 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine this week.
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Story ideas for reporters: Investigations using crane range from water works to witches' brooms
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Fact sheet for reporters: Canopy research could lead to better forest management
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Psychologists have answers to myths surrounding youth sports
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UW receives $3.5 million grant to establish National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education (AccessIT)
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Misdiagnosis of appendicitis continues despite new tools
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Education Forums establish links between African-Americans and UW
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UW scientists seek whiplash victims to study causes, treatment
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NIGMS Awards "Glue Grant" to Probe Body's Response to Burn and Trauma Injury
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| September 2001 |
Washington is only state outside the South to see drop in household incomes
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Helping first graders master handwriting is goal of UW researchers
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Scientists explore new directions in Lou Gehrig's disease research
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UW breaks gifts and grants record second year in a row
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Professor among seven nationally to receive new National Science Foundation award for expanding scientific research to education
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Firefighter Jason Emhoff Speaks to Media Thursday, September 20
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List of UW faculty with insights into terrorist attacks, aftermath, now available on the Web, being regularly updated
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President McCormick's statement to UW community regarding day of remembrance Sept. 14
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Statement of UW President Richard L. McCormick regarding plane crash in Mexico
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World Trade Center architect was Seattle native, UW graduate
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Statement of UW President Richard L. McCormick in the wake of Tuesday's terrorist attacks
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Northwest forecasts hurt by too few Doppler radar sites, UW professor says
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UW Freshman Convocation Sept. 30
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Business School moves up five spots in U.S. News & World Report rankings
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Ground-breaking study to target investment gap hindering minority entrepreneurs
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UW receives two major grants for human genome research
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Dorothy Van Soest to become dean of UW School of Social Work
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Digital mammography research study enters trials at UW with faster imaging technique
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Many Washingtonians work longer hours just to keep pace
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| August 2001 |
Boeing gift of $1 million to fund new chair at UW Business School
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Whale of a Puget Sound problem lures researchers
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Paychecks & power: Husbands lose household control when they retire, study finds
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Researchers make key genome public on the Internet
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Columbia River trumps Pacific Ocean when conditions are right
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Nanoscience workshop to cover big range of small topics
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Pictures show three phases of UW botanist's rare "corpse flower"
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Tee up Sept. 10 for the annual Harborview Medical Center Classic!
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Microsoft gives $7.2 million for new computer science building at UW
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200 expectant couples sought for Baby Makes Three study, free workshop on improving marital satisfaction
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Firefighter Jason Emhoff is Upgraded to Satisfactory Condition
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Cell Systems Initiative and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will jointly probe mysteries of the cell's inner workings
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Dr. Stephen Petersdorf named first holder of Endowed Chair in Cancer Care
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| July 2001 |
MEDIA ADVISORY: UW Astrobiology program to host its first national conference
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Alcohol-related problems among high-risk college-age drinkers significantly reduced by brief intervention program
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Grant program reaches out to women who have fetal alcohol syndrome
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UW 'Robodawg' soccer players ready for international competition
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Seattle-area middle and high school students to take part in physics research
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New campus-wide center for technology entrepreneurship to combine research with real-world learning
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How babies acquire building blocks of speech affects later reading and language ability, UW researcher tells White House Summit on Cognitive Development
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Descendants of Takuji Yamashita endow scholarship in human rights
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Press Conference Regarding Firefighter Jason Emhoff
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UW program shows students with disabilities they can DO-IT
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450 children with reading, spelling or handwriting problems needed for study seeking genetic markers for learning disabilities
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Keck Foundation funds major new initiative into deep-sea quakes, life
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Dr. Robert Rushmer, diagnostic ultrasound pioneer, dies at age 86
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UW Medical Center ranked 12th among nation's Best Hospitals
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Scientists seeking secrets of 'Lost City'
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Controversial SEC regulation may be faring well for small investors
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UW details effects of TA strike in June
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Arctic Oscillation has moderated northern winters of 1980s and '90s
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Women with prior Caesarean at risk of uterine rupture during labor
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Dr. Paul Strandjord, UW Laboratory Medicine founder, dies at age 70
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Image shows "corpse flower" as it nears blooming
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| June 2001 |
The Rufer Verdict
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Greater condom use could help prevent spread of genital herpes
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Bush names two from Washington to draft new ocean policy
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UW study of oxygen-deprived tuberculosis bacteria shows a chink in the genetic armor of a deadly disease
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UW physicists to discuss first results from Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
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Polluted clouds might bring patchy cooling in a warming world
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Lost in virtual space: Gender differences are magnified
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'I tawt I taw' a bunny wabbit at Disneyland; New evidence shows false memories can be created
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Students assist inner-city businesses during toughening economic times
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Connie Kravas selected as vice president for development and alumni relations
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Single Hubble picture captures key phases in the stellar life cycle
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UW scientists say Arctic oscillation might carry evidence of global warming
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Work of 50 faculty, staff and students harmed including research on plant genetics and ecosystem health
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Biting may drive division of labor among social wasp workers
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UW submits emergency funding request, seeks public's help to restore work after fire guts Center for Urban Horticulture
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ADVISORY: China to get first look at marching, American-style
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| May 2001 |
Women should have regular Pap smears regardless of sex partner's gender
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Researchers' description of the regulation of a new family of ion channels may open doors for therapies for a variety of conditions
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Migrating impurities in ancient ice can skew climate research findings
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UW receives $5.3 million grant to study male reproductive systems
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Babies have a different way of hearing the world by listening to all frequencies simultaneously
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Forbes publisher compares investing freeze, economic downturn to PC fallout of mid 1980s
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Local high school students will dramatize genetic choices
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UW condemns arson as misguided act that destroyed ecosystem research
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University of Washington Health Sciences Library awarded $6.65 million contract by the National Library of Medicine
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New concept in supercomputing wins top prize at business plan competition
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Bicycle design, water testing and colonies on Mars: Middle school students push math, science boundaries during first PRIME Showcase
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Designing public art gets interesting when the 'clients' are 9 years old
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New technique for sound transmission makes sweet music on Internet
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Mock trials begin at Law School next week to give teens a taste of justice system
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Smell like rotting animal flesh fills UW botany greenhouse
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'The Relationship Cure' is manual for emotional connection
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Not listening to Prozac: Puget Sound residents who took antidepressants sought for UW study
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New certificate prepares students to lead programs that improve living conditions around the world
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Proteins are vastly more complicated than previously realized
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Cancer researcher and genome scientist named today to National Academy of Sciences
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| April 2001 |
'The Art of Book Collecting' to be discussed June 2
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Authors yank infidelity out of closet: Monogamy appears to be unnatural in the natural world
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Near light-speed ion collisions create brief, violent explosions
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UW professor helping create digital replicas of Michelangelo's sculptures
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Dot-com ideas lose popularity among would-be entrepreneurs
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Professor's new book seeks to rewrite understanding of cell biology
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Most-serious greenhouse gas is increasing, international study finds
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UW students build Chief Seattle Social Club in Havana
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High-tech telecommunications executive joins international business advisory board
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U.S. needs major steps to overtake European climate research, UW scientist says
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Opportunities for learning abound at UW College of Engineering Open House
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MBA students raise $90,000, prepare to defend charity title
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UW and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory think big, aim small with creation of new joint nanotechnology institute
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Damaged chimneys and unexpected liquefaction from Nisqually temblor yield earthquake insights, UW scientists say
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Mother is just another face in the crowd to autistic children
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The perils of online bidding -- report on Internet auctions to open conference on Information Superhighway
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Albert Berger Named Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education
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William H. Gray, III to speak at Commencement
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Graviton executive to discuss groundbreaking wireless technology at UW lecture
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UW Prematurity Prevention Program grads meeting in Husky Stadium at the end of WalkAmerica
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Astronomy open house focuses on UW observatories in three centuries
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Software and IT executive joins UW's Cell Systems Initiative
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UW professor wins fellowship to finish book on Chicano performers
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Children who love to read needed for UW study to help others with learning disabilities
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| March 2001 |
UW tops national primary-care medical school and nursing rankings
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For eighth straight year, U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
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Economic program reaches out to Hispanic- and American
Indian-owned businesses in Yakima Valley, kick-off event March 30
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Economic program reaches out to Hispanic- and American Indian-owned businesses in Yakima Valley, kick-off March 30
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Kathleen Sellick named executive director of UW Medical Center
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By making spectacles of themselves female entertainers helped reshape the world, says UW historian
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UW highlights undergraduate research in symposium May 4
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds UW digital tribal outreach project
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UW team tries out new ways to help a neighborhood chart its future
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Study seeks 500 Puget Sound children with reading, spelling problems
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Humans have feared comets, other celestial phenomena through the ages
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National dental group honors UW Professor Roy Page
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Symposium on dentistry's future set for May 24, 25
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Celebrate 50 years of ocean discoveries at UW open house March 31
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Workshop will talk about aging and exercise
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UW astrobiology research gets huge boost from $4.9 million NASA award
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Seismic network uses schools, public facilities to chart ground shaking
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Animal model for Alzheimer's illuminates mysterious neurotransmitter
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Phyllis Campbell of U.S. Bank to speak about changing economy
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New revenue forecast may be too optimistic, UW analysis shows
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Nisqually quake moved Puget Sound region to the southwest
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Nancy 'Rusty' Barcel?lected as vice president for minority affairs
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UW study indicates follow-up care by phone helps reduce risk of relapse into serious depression
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Washington's Schools selected as partner in Next Generation Internet
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Students from 15 countries to compete at Global Business Challenge, April 1 - 7
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UW student named Computing Research Association undergrad of year
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So-called earthquake 'predictions' only scare people, UW scientists say
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Finding fragments of the Northwest's past
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Having a regular doctor protects children from a variety of ills
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Physicists hope to strike scientific gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota
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University Libraries earthquake update
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UW, USGS scientists plan news conference to dissect quake information
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W.H. 'Joe' Knight Jr. selected as dean of School of Law
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UW scientists find signs of liquefaction from Wednesday's earthquake
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Takuji Yamashita ceremony moved to Tacoma
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| February 2001 |
UW receives $3.6 million for studies in new field of space medicine
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Retiring Microsoft chief operating officer to speak
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UW's Ed Lazowska elected to the National Academy of Engineering
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UW study indicates possible drug-gene interaction associated with heart
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Genetic therapies for aging will face many challenges
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Beyond Viagra: other phosphodiesterase inhibitors are candidates for potential therapies
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Rival robots go head-to-head in practice meet for national competition during University of Washington Robotics Festival
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Sustainable timber harvests, habitat in Washington is topic Feb. 28
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Business School applications rise as economy falters
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Conference to focus on the healing power of art
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Who takes out the garbage? 200 gay, lesbian, straight couples sought for study of household chores
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Takuji Yamashita: State's leaders honor a man once rejected because of his race
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UW Business School dean kicks of lecture series
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UW Hall Health Primary Care Center accredited by national body
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Million dollar grant by the Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research to University of Washington medical scientist program
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UW study offers a method to keep physicians up-to-date
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UW's HIT Lab gets international award for medical/virtual reality work
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UW researchers show that the human genome is helpless in the face of chocolate
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| January 2001 |
Benefactor splits $10 million between Business School and athletics
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Welfare recipients are finding jobs but lack benefits, study shows
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Free workshop for parents of children with epilepsy
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Media-driven public backlash spurred Clinton's high job approval
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UW institutes plans to reduce energy consumption by 10%
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MEDIA ADVISORY: EXPERTS LIST -- University of Washington has sources for stories on the West's electric power drain
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Number of black, Hispanic, American Indian freshmen drops from 9 percent to 6 percent in wake of I-200
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McCaw/Muscular Dystrophy Association Fund supports UW recruitment of internationally noted gene therapy researcher
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Task force on Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian and Transgender Issues releases draft report
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UW physicists find that extra dimensions must be smaller than 0.2 millimeter
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Experts list: Would state forestlands profit from 'green' certification?
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Chances of children experiencing problems following divorce depend on mother's parenting style, child's temperament
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E-business leaders to weigh in on industry's future
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Past climate change effects on mammals may mirror global warming impact
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UW to lead way toward protecting consumers on the Internet
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Tax cuts, shrinking reserves put state at risk of budget crisis, report shows
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New MBA program puts high-tech spin on management degree
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2000 |
| December 2000 |
UW's first Rhodes scholar in 20 years headlines gathering of top students
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Nursing School launches a time capsule on the Internet
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New $35.5 million Center for Mind, Brain and Learning created at UW
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Hydrothermal vent system unlike any seen before found in Atlantic
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UW receives $12.83 million for gene therapy research
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Seattle temperatures won't drop below zero, UW scientist says
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University and union agree on historic union recognition pact
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Counting salmon essential measure of recovery efforts
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State's health-care fiscal crisis is topic of upcoming legislative conference
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| November 2000 |
Engineering students' mechanized creations vie for top 'bot billing
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Cold water off Brazil might be causing Argentine penguin nest failures
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High-tech investment banker joins UW international business advisory board
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Nationally ranked bioengineering department gets its first endowed professorship
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New project allows commuters to keep tabs on their bus by cell phone
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Scholars and sea turtles: WTO History Project chronicles awakening of a global protest movement
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Therapy gives new voice to the person some people believe they should be
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Three judges receive UW Law School alumni honors
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Survey shows patients need education on end-of-life issues
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Computer model adds to doubts about Palm Beach County election tally
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Statin and niacin treatment reduces risk of heart attack by 70 percent, can reverse arterial buildup
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New archaeology kits will recreate 4,200-year-old Puget Sound Life
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Kissing may spread Human Herpes Virus 8, the cause of Kaposi's sarcoma, among men
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Betsy Wilson selected as director of University Libraries
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Leading artists to demonstrate skills at Burke Museum's Native American Art Celebration
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| October 2000 |
Some media can increase public's confidence in government by increasing knowledge
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New company launched on UW professor's photonics technology
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Researchers receive $4 million, five-year grant to study hepatitis C
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Most parents and children dread the time when they sit down and have "the talk." You know, the one about the birds and the bees.
But uneasiness does not have to be part of the conversation, according to University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz.
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Educators seek right buttons to tune young people into the election
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Good news for expectant couples: Arrival of first baby doesn't mean wife's marital satsfaction has to take big nose dive
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Clinton names two University of Washington researchers as Presidential Early Career Award winners
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Progress in auditory hair cell studies in birds points way to possible human hearing improvement
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Researchers announce plans to attempt first unmanned flight across the Pacific Ocean
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Transplanted sockeye salmon show rapid differentiation
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New director for UW's Center for International Trade in Forest Products brings market knowledge from Asia
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Preview tours available for Burke Museum's basket exhibit
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Two University of Washington School of Medicine leaders are among the newly elected members of the Institute of Medicine
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UW and Insitu testing latest miniature robotic aircraft design for attempted flight across the Pacific Ocean
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New wave of exorcisms seen; some people can be convinced they witnessed a demonic possession as a child
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Grant allows researchers to study genetic variations in the human genome
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2000 Autumn Quarter enrollments at the University of Washington
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UW joins with Peace Corps to train leaders in global aid
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UW hosts diversity breakfast Oct. 21
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Ballet dancer injuries as common, severe as athletic injuries
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Study explains discrepancy in number of sexual partners reported by men and women
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Genetic pioneer to receive 'City of Medicine' award
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UW honored for use of information technology in education
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UW receives $5.3 million for genetic research with blood stem cells
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| September 2000 |
Police chief Kerlikowske to join Law School forum on gun violence
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Junior archaeologists will dig into Northwest's past on Sunday
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Major universities launch consortium in Internet studies
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Mild depression in older adults responds well to medication
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UW receives grant to help Seattle students prepare for college
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Administrator who led UW Medical Center for 22 years dies
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'Argo' on quest for better climate forecasts
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No apparent connection between periodontal disease and coronary heart disease
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Editorial calls for making defibrillators available for home use to save lives of heart attack victims
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Is everything you know about love and sex wrong?
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UW coordinates analysis of Ginkgo biloba study
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Quake jars assumptions about crustal plumbing, life at mid-ocean ridges
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Talking to the Internet: UW researchers win $4 million to bring people and cyberspace together
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Readers become part of the action through high-tech mixture
of traditional storytelling and virtual reality in UW's 'Magic Book'
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Subliminal 'rats' ad could backfire on Bush, GOP
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Dr. Douglas S. Paauw named to Rathmann Family Foundation Chair
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Gifts to University of Washington set record
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UW establishes first Endowed Chair for Women's Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness
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Marital researchers now can predict not only which couples will divorce but when they will split
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Political parody sites pack a serious information punch, study shows
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New evidence indicates huge vegetation loss accompanied mass extinction
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White House honors Washington MESA program with Presidential Mentoring Award
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Environmental health issues come front and center at town meeting
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Institute for K-12 Leadership Receives $5.76 Million Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Create Small Model Secondary Schools
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UW establishes special lab for gene and cell therapy
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| August 2000 |
Lazowska steps down, Notkin is new UW computer science chairman
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Scientists sequence the largest bacterial genome yet
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Children growing up in families with physical or verbal abuse more likely to smoke
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Some antihypertensive drugs may cause unnecessary illness
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Sedro-Woolley, Kelso, Steilacoom, Bellingham teachers join UW expedition
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Flying showers, winning water skis, better fishing rods: UW professor taps group brainpower to push engineering projects forward
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Teen 'guest hackers' to attempt digital intrusion during UW workshop on computer security
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Russia scholar paints startling portrait in 'Yeltsin' documentary
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Washington Research Foundation supports UW's Cell Systems Initiative
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MOSAIC 2000 to explore places where math and art intersect
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Microscopic bone evidence supports dinosaur-bird evolution link
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Students 'GEAR UP' for college through summer institute at UW
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Washington public school teachers join UW expedition
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Scientists map first structure in crucial family of proteins
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| July 2000 |
UW names Nancy Wells vice president for development and alumni relations
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DO-IT summer camp for disabled students to begin at UW
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UW to launch nation's first doctoral program in tiny world of nanotechnology
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UW scientist leads the way in computer graphics research by melding traditional art and high tech
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200 volunteers sought for study to find better depression treatment
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Sharon Nelson to head Center for Law, Commerce and Technology
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Firm parental rules can deter or delay teen use of alcohol, marijuana
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UW team to examine effects of change in southern Africa on air pollution
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Extra oxygen improves survival odds for climbers on Mount Everest, K2
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Researchers find gender differences in the treatment and outcome of heart attacks
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UW Names Ed Lazowska to Bill & Melinda Gates Endowed Chair in Computer Science
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| June 2000 |
Intriguing archaeological sites, isolated lake targets of Kuril expedition
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Inner health, outer embarrassment: In between it's interesting history
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Study finds untapped political clout among Americans with disabilities
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Robert Mugerauer named dean of UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning
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Burke Museum prepares to conserve, stabilize 'Nellie' the mummy
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Dr. Alan M. Weiner will chair Department of Biochemistry at the UW School of Medicine
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New scholarship provides full funding for women studying science or technology
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UW concrete canoe team takes aim at national title
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University of Washington researchers develop a HER-2/neu vaccine targeting breast and ovarian tumors: human trials show promising results
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The gender effect: Fatherhood spurs men to work longer hours - especially if it's a boy!
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STEP institute introduces Quinault students to fisheries, forestry research
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UW Center on Human Development and Disability receives record donation to fund new Autism Center
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Third annual field tour connects faculty with life of Washington state
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UW president, professors arrive in Yakima Valley June 15 to tour clinic, visit Heritage College and review GEAR UP partnerships
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UW professors to explore Wenatchee orchard industry June 12 during Faculty Field Tour
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UW president, professors to tour penitentiary June 14; join Tri-Cities panel on salmon and dams June 15
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Do automatic shoulder seatbelts provide a false sense of security?
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UW president, professors to meet with Colville leaders June 13 to discuss planning, development and education
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| May 2000 |
Students help inner-city businesses cross 'Digital Divide'
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UW, Seattle law firm set pace in tricky area of intellectual property by teaching techies the legal ins and outs
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Tropical tree distribution could have implications for forest management, conservation
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Novel treatment helps dyslexics significantly improve reading skills, shows the brain changes as children learn
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Northwest Coast Indian information available on Web
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UW partners with Advanced Tissue Sciences and others in $10 million grant to 'grow' human heart tissue
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Gender switching on the Internet isn't as common as believed
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UW program wins national substance abuse prevention award
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Kennewick Man not affected by minor Burke Museum flood
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UW to launch Technology Management MBA
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Student foresters bring annual celebration back to Seattle campus
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UW School of Nursing receives record endowment from Bellingham couple
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Mutant mice voluntarily drink more alcohol, recover faster from its sedative effects
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Groundbreaking course helps future teachers get art into classrooms
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Patricia Wasley selected as dean of College of Education
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Five Seattle scientists selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators
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UW family practice residents research gun ownership, gun safety practices and gun safety counseling
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Gun Safety Editorial by Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng: Common Ground in the Gun Debate
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Dean of Dentistry Dr. Paul B. Robertson to Step Down; Will Remain on Faculty
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Women who have Caesarean or assisted vaginal delivery are more likely to be rehospitalized
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Influential journalist to speak May 16 on Taiwan and China at crossroads
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Educational Opportunity Program banquet May 17
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Key DNA enzyme can tolerate more mutations than expected
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From virtual to real: UW and Japanese students to meet face-to-face after cyberspace collaboration
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Third Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday, May 12
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'Opto-chips' are high-speed communications breakthrough
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Two UW scientists elected to National Academy of Sciences
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Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
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Evans School hosts leaders in global humanitarian relief and development
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May 8 dedication of Mary Gates Hall marks new era
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Real-world job training cuts the odds of returning to prison
|
| April 2000 |
UW physicists find more precise gravity number -- and weigh the Earth
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Center for Law, Commerce and Technology fights for public interest on the Internet
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Make a comet, see the stars at second UW astronomy open house
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Engineering from A to Z: Opportunities for learning abound at more than 100 exhibits at UW College of Engineering Open House
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UW Business School launches e-business management program
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MEDIA ADVISORY -- UW Business School to announce technology program and gift
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Twenty years after big blast: Mount St. Helens leaves legacy of more accurate eruption predictions
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UW study finds many farm children are exposed to pesticides
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Harborview opens Gamma Knife Center for new-generation treatment of neurological problems
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Making life compute: Volunteers spend weekends helping minority students learn computing skills at the University of Washington
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UW's Arbor Day Fair named one of best in the nation by National Arbor Day Foundation
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UW honors distinguished alum who resisted World War II internment
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Brazilians top students from 13 nations in UW's Global Business Challenge
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Organized systems of trauma care improve survival rates for car-crash victims
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Kristiina Vogt to return to UW as dean of College of Forest Resources
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Stock study finds that for Internet firms, popularity pays
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Schoolchildren, teachers and parents to get hands-on engineering experience at UW College of Engineering Open House
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Older children, boys more likely to be physically abused in families with history of wife abuse, study indicates
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UW co-hosts conference about healthy weight in adolescent women of color
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Poet laureate of United States to be UW commencement speaker
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Clinton names Seattle researchers as Presidential Early Career Award winners
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UW's Innocence Project Northwest spurs national effort to free the wrongly imprisoned
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UW researchers still monitoring plants, forest stands and seismic activity 20 years after eruption
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Jack Faris selected as UW vice president for university relations
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Future of doctoral education is subject of conference
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University of Washington hosts nurses for international conference
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Automated North Pole Station to take pulse of Arctic Ocean
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UW/Bellarmine Preparatory School robot shines in regional robo-rumble, team members head to Florida for national contest
|
University of Washington researchers map rice genome
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UW tops nursing school and primary-care medical school rankings
|
| March 2000 |
For seventh straight year U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
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University of Washington School of Nursing again No. 1 in U.S. News' rankings of America's Best Graduate Schools
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Students from 13 countries to converge April 9-15 for Global Business Challenge
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Magnetic fields may hold key to malaria treatment, UW researchers find
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Documentaries from around world to be featured at Mead film festival
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UW School of Medicine will honor Wenatchee clinical teaching sites in medicine and surgery
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UW researchers can predict newlywed divorce, marital stability with 87 percent accuracy
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UW hosts Sen. George Mitchell on peace, activist Ralph Nader on dissent, and David Broder and Tim Eyman on ballot initiatives
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People unknowingly spread epidemic of sexually transmitted disease
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Kingdome implosion could give greater understanding of Seattle Fault
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Harborview program teams with FBI to help victims of bank robberies
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Isis and the University of Washington's 'Cell Systems Initiative' to collaborate on pioneering functional genomic initiative
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Winds in Pacific climate cycle can foretell Gulf of Mexico hurricanes
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UW sponsors public forum on pediatric epilepsy
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Anita Hill to speak at UW School of Social Work building dedication
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New UW medical division will seek causes, treatments of brain diseases
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UW article in New England Journal highlights rare but deadly disease
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Children more vulnerable to trauma after injury to a sibling
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High school science fans go head to head at UW in Techno Bowl 2000
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UW Health Sciences Open House 2000 set for April 7 and 8
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UW hosts free all-day public seminar on hearing loss
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"Genomic Views of Human History" is topic of March 14 lecture
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High school students test "ocean IQ" at contest sponsored by the UW
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| February 2000 |
Burke exhibit looks at a culture that wouldn't be assimilated
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Human rights authority honored with Brotman law professorship
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UW pharmacy professors publish doctors' guide to drug interactions
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Labor,environmental and human-rights activists will gather to build on WTO protest coalition
|
Ecosystem health depends on complex relationship between organisms
|
UW- and Microsoft-sponsored high school teams set for robot battle
|
Internet entrepreneur makes $2 million gift to support UW's nationally ranked creative writing program
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Former City Council leader Sue Donaldson joins UW
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UW vice president for minority affairs to step down
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Venture capitalist Dempsey donates $3 million to kick off UW Business School's technology initiative
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Gates Foundation gift bolsters statewide program that encourages minorities and women to pursue their interests in math, science and engineering
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Immunex joins forces with UW's Cell Systems Initiative
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New infrared technology could exterminate your computer mouse
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Progress Project hosts brainstorming session with two key architects
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Volcanos, oceans and life in our solar system subjects of Feb. 15 lecture
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Father, daughter collaborate on book to promote bioliteracy
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UW survey shows residents support trade, distrust the WTO
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A family's legacy to Persian studies
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Harborview is first hospital to dispense methadone through pharmacy
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| January 2000 |
UW study gauges growing economic clout of Washington's African American businesses and consumers
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UW explores aftermath of 'Battle for Seattle' and future of WTO
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Hailey and Sandpoint, Idaho; and Soldotna, Alaska; each welcome UW medical students for six months of training in rural practice
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Women's problems with alcohol have far-reaching consequences
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Pediatric training unit marks 25th anniversary in Spokane
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Independent audits reveal no major problems
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Doctors perform region's first nerve graft to preserve erectile function
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Jon Jory joins faculty at UW School of Drama
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UW surgeon performs region's first surgery to clear lung arteries
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University of Washington president outlines strategies for coping with loss of affirmative action
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with a classical passion leaves $2.9 million to UW classics department
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Lunar eclipse will be spectacular in Northwest - if weather cooperates
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100 families from variety of racial, ethnic backgrounds needed for study exploring origins of aggressive behavior in children
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We are not alone - or are we?
|
Space Grant resource center provides tools for K-12 science teachers
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Rapid size change in introduced species indicates it is evolving as it invades North America
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Runstads give $1 million to UW real estate program
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Jimmy Carter to address human rights and global progress
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"Millennium Twins" being transferred from UW Medical Center to Wenatchee hospital
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Astronomers use Hubble telescope to further Hubble's research
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You were cooked in a star - UW faculty lecture will explain how
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UW's network of neighborhood clinics earns a perfect score from national accrediting organization
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Study provides information for circumcision decision
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Russian reform leader to assess nation at crossroads: Yeltsin, elections and Chechnya
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81-year-old recovers from kidney surgery quickly, thanks to new technique
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UW hires Crew as executive director of new K-12 leadership institute
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HIV virus can alter the way genes function within days of exposure
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LEARN Clinic offers comprehensive evaluations of children having problems in school
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Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. planned at UW Health Sciences Center
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Algal food quality, not quantity, critical factor in healthy lake ecosystems
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Do insurance policies discourage doctors from counseling patients on alcoholism?
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1999 |
| December 1999 |
UW Academic Medical Center affiliates with First Choice Health Network
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Dental students study in a classroom of the future
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One year later: Young recipient of Christmas Eve heart transplant doing well
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New research may help predict when an individual's HIV infection will progress to clinical AIDS
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University of Washington medical students training at distant sites gather at Virtual Clinic to work together on case studies
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Evidence mounts for Arctic Oscillation's impact on northern climate
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The ultimate gift of life: Healthy baby born to woman kept on life support for seven weeks at UW Medical Center; organs donated to four recipients
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UW law professor wins international prize for essay on the nature of time
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Antibacterial implants could prevent infections, save patients' lives
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Physicians-in-training learn how to work in partnership with patients' families
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Radar mapping could yield new clues to past Antarctic ice stream activity
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Workshops to help public officials prepare for I-695
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Leroy Hood leaving University of Washington to establish private institute
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Dr. Peggy Schlesinger voted Volunteer Medical Faculty Member of the Year
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Harborview Receives Commendation from Joint Commission
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Harborview receives commendation from Joint Commission
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Air pollution from Asia could violate new federal ozone standard
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Media Advisory: Hepatitis C Coalition formed to make people aware of 'silent epidemic'
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Puget Sound residents had misgiving about WTO even before conference began, survey finds
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Dental school coordinator receives international poetry honor
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Ralph Nader to address Law School on globalization and the WTO
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| November 1999 |
Rats exposed to cell phone microwaves suffer long-term memory loss, according to new study by a University of Washington researcher
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U.S. vs. Europe: Forum to air disputes over genetically modified crops, hormone-treated beef and other WTO sticking points
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Castro speech at UW cancelled
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Conference: The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Information on tentative speech by Fidel Castro
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela to visit UW Health Sciences Dec. 9
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Shelton woman provides Thanksgiving dinner for families of intensive-care patients at UW Medical Center
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Seattle researchers uncover structure of blood-clotting protein involved in most common form of hemophilia
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When it comes to heavy Seattle traffic, 'fuzzy logic' smooths the flow
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New government funding for Harborview crash research
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UW professor's legacy of letters enriches Nabokov-Pushkin exhibit
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UW, WSU presidents meet the media on Apple Cup week
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Feeling Depressed? New UW study might assist you, others to find an effective treatment for America's most common mental health problem
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Earthquake engineers gather at UW for briefing on Taiwan temblor, discussion of safety issues and implications for the Seattle area
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UW to create Center for Journalism and Trauma
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New Network Speed Records Set
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UW reaches across globe to pioneer interdisciplinary study program on human rights
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A language that students understand: Eyewitness accounts of E. Timor perils make for a gripping language course
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New grant for UW chronic fatigue syndrome study
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Alcohol counseling for trauma patients halves risk of reinjury
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Personality styles predict those at risk for recurring major depression
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Graduate math, science and engineering students can get PRIME experience through fellowships in new UW program
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Study explores how people react to learning they have genital herpes
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Climate change will have major Northwest impact in next 50 years
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"Snow Falling on Cedars" has special local premiere
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Ambassador and former House Speaker Thomas Foley to address UW Law School on Japan and the WTO
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Scientists to issue report detailing regional impact of climate change
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UW hosts seminar about preventing workplace violence
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UW School of Medicine teaches doctor/patient communication at each level of physician training
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Two health screening programs find health problems among some former Hanford workers
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University of Washington Campus Master Plan meetings Nov. 16
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Professor who headed MIT committee that found systematic discrimination against women faculty to speak at UW forum
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| October 1999 |
UW to begin clinical trials of an implantable hearing aid system
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UW, Japanese freshmen team up via the Net for engineering course
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University of Washington begins Campaign for Arts with $2.5 million gifts
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UW awarded $10 million from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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UW expands Parent-Child Assistance Program to Eastern Washington
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University of Washington medical school adds new strategies in training physicians to address unmet societal needs
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"Health of Hanford" discusses worker health, site conditions
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University of Washington to create Technology Enterprise Institute, a new model for business creation and research
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50 expectant couples sought for study, free workshop on improving marital satisfaction after the baby arrives
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Wade named University of Washington Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer
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Wade named University of Washington Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer
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Forum to discuss Next Generation Internet and medical applications of new technologies
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1999 Autumn Quarter Enrollments at University of Washington
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Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
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Voluntary community service organization for UW medical students receives national Daily Point of Light Award
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Pre-WTO forum helps women, minority entrepreneurs go global
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Huge Antarctic ice sheet could be in its death throes
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Ford Motor Co. gift boosts UW student research, diversity recruitment
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UW Computer Science & Engineering awarded $3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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Dick Thompson to become UW director of government relations
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Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area
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Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
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| September 1999 |
Researchers say hormones are key to evolution of insect metamorphosis
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Hudson named to endowed chair in pulmonary disease research
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Hudson named to endowed chair in pulmonary disease research
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Director-General of World Trade Organization to participate in campus dialogue
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Bridging the gap: new program encourages underrepresented minorities pursuing science careers
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First three minutes of discussion about on-going area of marital conflict are predictive of divorce for newlyweds
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Scholars, Internet visionaries, government strategists gather at UW
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First-of-its-kind information fluency course prepares students to roll with punches in rapidly changing world of information technology
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International symposium studies bacteria-heart disease connection
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Award-winning history of Puget Sound Indians grew from historian's experience representing tribes in court
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Pristine Alaskan waterways and streams teeming with sockeye
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State-of-the-art $79 million research building dedicated at Harborview
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UW faculty among speakers at American Neurological Association meeting in Seattle Oct. 10-13
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Study tests vitamins in recovery from trauma
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New study for ARDS treatment begins at Harborview
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Drug offers new hope for victims of cardiac arrest
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Breaking the worst possible news in the best possible manner
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'Dry' SHIPS to continue investigation of seismic hazards in Puget Sound region
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'Soapy' droplets make brighter clouds
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Popular Saturday Seminars give football fans exercise for their brains
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Scientists set to unveil
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Teens with AIDS helped by new program
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Understanding serotonin receptors can speed treatment for depression
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Harvard Medical School authors of Living to 100 to speak at UW School of Nursing lecture and reception
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| August 1999 |
Quality of death among AIDS patients depends on better communication
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Refugee outreach program to help stem tuberculosis
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Study links sobriety to money management among mentally ill patients
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Wrangell, Alaska, will be the newest family medicine clerkship training site for the University of Washington medical school
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UW Medical Center reaches a milestone: performs 500th liver transplant
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Children's inability to automatically retrieve building blocks of language, math leads to learning disabilities in reading, writing, arithmetic
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Exhibition tennis match and pro-am tournament will benefit UW Medical Center's Breast Care Program
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High-achieving children off to a good Head Start academically and socially, but study shows some are not 'turned on' by school
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When it comes to business travel there's something stressful in the air
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New spacecraft propulsion method could be out of this solar system
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Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International funds a Seattle trial of human islet transplantation
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Former Husky football coach and wife give UW $100,000 for research into rare genetic disease
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$32 million GEAR UP project boosts education for Yakima Valley poor
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University of Washington School of Medicine's family medicine clerkship sites in Wyoming welcome their first students
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'Shared Space' allows users to meld virtual reality, real world
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UW awarded $11 million to study oral health issues for children
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UW professor's climate change theory leads to NASA mission
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| July 1999 |
Research on arctic expeditions suggests private sector may bebetter suited than government for exploring space
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College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
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UW Medical Center and Children's Hospital perform region's first living-related split-liver transplant
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UW receives $500,000 to help schools teach genetics at all grade levels
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UW program shows students with disabilities they can DO-IT
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New certificate will give bioengineering grads entrepreneurial edge
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Redmond resident donates a kidney to her Kirkland sister using new minimally invasive surgery at UW Medical Center
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All in the family: husband-and-wife surgeons perform kidney transplant from wife to husband
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UW professor's latest Web tool helps area bus riders travel smarter
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UW Medical Center achieves top-20 rankings nationally in seven specialties
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UW's "corpse flower" begins its collapse
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Art from the heart: Anchorage artist Gerry Conaway shows his art at UW Medical Center, where he received a new heart
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Stench of "corpse flower" fills UW botany greenhouse as blooming begins
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Scientists grow blood-producing stem cells outside the body
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| June 1999 |
Conference delves into the World Wide Web's power to communicate
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Research universities to create distance learning web site
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Rare 'corpse flower' ready to bloom in UW botany greenhouse
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University of Washington Department of Medicine honors five regional faculty members
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UW Medical Center hosts free public forum on sex and aging
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Predictions about fate of marine mammals in coming century among topics at mammalogists' meeting June 21-24
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UW offers free public lectures on the neurobiology of learning and mental illness
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President appoints gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender task force
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Magnetic stimulation offers new hope for people with depression
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21st century population leadership program at UW funded by $2.3 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates
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Statewide consortium aims to help teachers put it into
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Study Shows Significant Decrease in Drowning in King County
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Bill Nye to help dedicate sundial partially built by elementary students
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Stimulating growth hormone production in older adults can reduce body fat and increase hormone levels to those of younger adults
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Barnhart named medical director of Harborview Medical Center
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UW School of Medicine appoints new associate dean for clinical affairs
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UW undergraduates reveal their design for 'Dawgstar' nanosatellite
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Saturday memorial service scheduled for Neil Jacobson, UW psychology professor
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Teaching emotional control could be the best Father's Day present
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Women, men view and judge childhood sexual abuse cases differently
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Simply reading about a childhood event people said didn't happen can alter their memories, award-winning undergraduate research shows
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Showing pictures of admired blacks or elderly can lower levels of unconscious prejudice
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Projected snowpack decline could mean drastic changes for region
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| May 1999 |
Dr. Andrew Ziskind named associate dean for clinical affairs and UW associate vice president for clinical specialty programs
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Expanded University of Washington faculty field tour to introduce new professors to people, places and problems around the state
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Randomized contolled study shows neostigmine is an effective treatment for acute colonic pseudo-obstruction
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UW studying new therapy using heat to manage pressure ulcers
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Intermittent hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps preserve bone mass density
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UW and Seattle Seahawks agree on the use of Husky Stadium
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Number of minority students headed toward UW freshman class declines sharply
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Intermittent hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps preserve bone mass density
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Chip Hanauer's restored voice gives him a new lease on life
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Scientists use fossilized emu eggshells to discern changes in vegetation, provide additional evidence of human impact on Australian landscape
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Educational Opportunity Program honors students at banquet
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Harborview unit provides critical support to thousands of residents in need
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Endangered species' recovery plans face comprehensive scientific review
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Scientific trials of so-called 'wonder' hormone treatment for autism will be conducted in Seattle, Denver
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School of Nursing's 20th Soule Lecture focuses on ethical challenges posed by genetics testing
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Evidence found for three prehistoric Everett-area earthquakes
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Geologists review history of huge Cascadia earthquakes
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Log pinpoints timing of Puget Sound earthquake 1,100 years ago
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| April 1999 |
UW professor wins only Guggenheim Fellowship given in medicine this year
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Student entrepreneurs woo investors in UW business plan competition
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300 couples experiencing marital troubles sought for study, free marriage enrichment program
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New techniques in prostate surgery improve quality of life
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Sundial will mark passage of days, seasons on Mars
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UW's Hood and National Library of Medicine's Lindberg to speak at 50th anniversary symposium
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UW bringing together students from around the world for first Global Business Challenge competition
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New "walking epidural" technique developed at UW Medical Center
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New coating process may prevent body from rejecting medical implants
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UW Scientific Instruments Division celebrates its 50th anniversary
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Portable pump implanted at UW Medical Center keeps Maple Valley man's heart beating as he awaits a transplant
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Yash P. Gupta chosen dean of UW Business School
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Seismologists to mark 50th anniversary of 1949 earthquake
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Alcohol consumption, related problems among high-risk college-age drinkers can be slashed using brief intervention developed at UW
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UW student named 1999 Truman Scholar
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New research points the way to restoring noise-induced hearing loss in mammals, including humans
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UW Business School bringing Eastman Kodak CEO, Harvard professor to Seattle to discuss inner-city economic development
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Upward Bound students learn to build computers--and get to keep them
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Singapore opposition leader to speak at UW on free speech
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Magnuson staffers to discuss senator's legacy
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Three UW School of Dentistry professors receive international awards
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Alaska Gets A High Speed (OC-12) Connection to Internet2
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UW Diversity Fair to recruit minorities set for April 10
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In animal groups, scientists see patterns that could predict the future
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| March 1999 |
Living donors can now donate a kidney using laparoscopic surgery
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Harborview re-designated for Level I trauma services
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"Walk for Life" marks start of Suicide Prevention Week, May 2-8
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Parents should be part of the fun, not the biggest problem in youth sports, say sport psychologists
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Risks for heart disease associated with size of LDL particles
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Julian Bond to speak at UW Commencement
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Warren Buck selected as chancellor and dean of UW, Bothell
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Radar data will help scientists in their quest to pinpoint climate change
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School of Pharmacy's annual Katterman Lecture focuses on herbal medicine
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Graduate School of Public Affairs to be named for Dan Evans
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Pamela Mitchell named associate dean at UW School of Nursing
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Clinical trials examine a low-cost rinse to prevent tooth loss
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For sixth straight year U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
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Men, women aren't that different, says leading marital researcher who points to friendship with spouse as glue that binds marriages together
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High school students' violent behavior, drinking, sexual activity drops, and school performance rises from elementary school interventions
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Puget Sound salmon runs among those considered for Endangered Species Act listing
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Seattle researchers zero in on location of gene for inherited prostate cancer; gene also linked to brain cancer
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Dr. Christopher B. Wilson to head Department of Immunology at the UW School of Medicine
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UW scientists get fellowships to learn science communications
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Power outages are result of economic trade-offs, UW researcher says
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Study tests vitamins in recovery from trauma
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David Hodge selected as dean of College of Arts and Sciences
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Shift in climate cycle would mean winters that are wetter than average
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Labor activists, academics come together for lectures and symposia on strikes
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High school students test
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| February 1999 |
Medical Respite Program helps the homeless
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Harborview's House Calls program cited
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Harborview Pastoral Care receives teaching accreditation
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Media advisory: Scientists examining Kennewick Man to meet with news media, public
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Babies, the greatest learners on Earth, and how they crack the speech code are topic for faculty lecture Feb. 24
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Does race affect outcome of criminal cases? Reports portraying juveniles differently lead to tougher sentencing recommendations for blacks
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Computer simulation reveals nano-switch that regulates cell-binding function of key protein in the body
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Joblessness, not race, drives rates of violent deaths among working-age Americans in Chicago study
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New UW research center asks tough questions to help policy makers with decisions about health workforce issues
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UWTV to broadcast Stardust media briefing, launch
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New minimally invasive technique repairs ballooned aorta without major surgery
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UW astronomy professor's Stardust quest set for launch Saturday
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| January 1999 |
UW symposium to address quality of health care
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Stardust launch audio available on UW web page
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Long-term forecasting could give nations tools to survive climate change
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Astrophysicist gets $1 million McDonnell grant to hunt for dark matter
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200,000 Web tests show people's unconscious roots of racism, ageism
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Sixteen American Indian and Alaska Native communities selected for program to provide Internet access to health resources
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Extrasolar planets favor stars with overabundance of heavy elements
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Great Falls, Mont., and Pocatello, Idaho, to be honored for 25 years as UW School of Medicine training sites in children's health care
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Stardust prelaunch science briefing scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 13
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Libby, Mont.; Sandpoint, Idaho; and Thermopolis, Wyo., each welcome a UW medical student for six months training in rural practice
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Yongmin Kim selected to lead UW bioengineering department
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Nature Medicine paper highlights potential for treating HIV: UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers publish data on adoptive immunotherapy for HIV:
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Nature Medicine paper highlights potential for treating HIV: UW and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers publish data on adoptive immunotherapy for HIV:
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Stardust mission information available through UW web site
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1998 |
| December 1998 |
Don't trip over your New Year's resolutions
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Rathmann Family Foundation commits to funding Endowed Chair in Patient-Centered Clinical Education
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UW astronomers have a hand in 'Science' Breakthrough of the Year
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First complete fossil of fierce prehistoric predator found in South Africa
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West Coast measurements confirm Asian air pollution can travel to U.S.
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Asian pollution may have triggered stream changes at peninsula research site
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Statement from UW President Richard L. McCormick regarding Initiative 200
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William Bremner named chair of the Department of Medicine
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Subduction zone quake could shake Puget Sound area harder than expected
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100 policymakers from eight states paired with welfare recipients, will feed their families for a month on food-stamp budget
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| November 1998 |
Pilot project launched on Olympic Peninsula to educate nurse practitioners
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Alcohol consumption, resistance to its effects related to levels of neurotransmitter, say UW researchers
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UW professor to lead American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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NASA Video File includes local angles for Leonid shower, Stardust launch
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Leonid meteor shower coming, but "big storm" won't be visible here
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Rare brain mapping procedure provides unique picture of two areas concerned with language processing and production
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Medical Center raises parking fees for non-patients who use patients' garage
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'New' plane will enhance UW climate and weather research
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'Smart computer' researcher at UW wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
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| October 1998 |
1998 Autumn Quarter Enrollments at University of Washington
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UW president leads delegation to Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan
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Making the University District safer for homeless, runaway youth is focus of November conference open to public
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UW designated a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
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UWMC Center for Adoption Medicine provides care for special needs of adopted children and their families
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UWMC Center for Adoption Medicine provides care for special needs of adopted children and their families
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UW lecture series will focus on "Extreme Worlds"
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Conference addresses implications of global economic conditions for forest products industry
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Kennewick Man remains to be transferred to Burke Museum noon Thursday
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UW receives $3.5 million in federal funds to establish the country's only Multiple Sclerosis Research and Training Center, based at UW Medical Center
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Largest study of twins shows delay in language acquisition has strong genetic component among children at low end of developmental scale
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Dr. Steven Gabbe elected to Institute of Medicine
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Inspiring undergraduates to reach new heights,Salesin named 'Washington Professor of the Year'
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"Health of Hanford" conference gathers diverse audience to review and discuss health issues
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Pacific Northwest Roundtable bringing together leaders from academia, government and industry to assess region's engineering education
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UW School of Medicine receives funds from grateful patient for endowed professorship in orthopaedics
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UW School of Medicine establishes Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology
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33,000 Web tests show unconscious roots of racism, ageism
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New project will provide real-time weather and road reports covering all of Washington state
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Former president of Harvard to address UW Board of Regents on affirmative action
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Rumors of disastrous winter amount to irresponsible hype, UW scientists say
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New studies could help predict Snoqualmie Pass avalanches
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| September 1998 |
Wyoming towns Powell and Buffalo chosen as family medicine training sites for University of Washington third-year medical students
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UW prepares for first graduate program in astrobiology to train those who will hunt for life in outer space
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Roots of unconscious prejudice affect 90 to 95 percent of people, psychologists demonstrate at press conference
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University of Washington raises the Internet speed limit for the Northwest
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University of Washington lecture series in October plumbs the ocean realm
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Pervasiveness of prejudice to be demonstrated at press conference; Americans can go on line to test themselves
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Grant will help encourage low-income and first-generation students to go to college
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Study shows calcitonin-salmon nasal spray helps prevent new spinal fractures in women with existing osteoporosis
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Response to synthetic growth hormone depends on dosage
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Microsoft's gift to tribal colleges will increase technological access
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University of Washington athletes to share stories with kids in Tacoma
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Another record year for UW research awards
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UW gets $1.2 million Hughes grant for biological science education
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Foundation celebrates 50 years of building international relationships
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Treatment programs for batterers must be tested to see if they prevent abuse or actually place women in further peril, says expert
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Popular Saturday Seminars give football fans exercise for their brains
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Interactive video consultations with UW experts will help several rural school districts serve children with special needs
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UW announces campus CEO title changes
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Hunting for Fort Clatsop: How UW archaeologists are trying to find Lewis and Clark's winter camp
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The hunt for Fort Clatsop goes on: Archaeologists trying to pinpoint site of Lewis and Clark's winter camp
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Monument to Spanish Civil War volunteers to be dedicated Oct. 14
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Although many Americans wish all that talk about sex would go away, sociologist sees healthy, positive side to frankness about sexuality
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White House honoring UW Women in Science & Engineering center
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New European Union Center makes University Of Washington a "major player" in European Studies
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| August 1998 |
Museum displays earliest known fossil of a toothless whale
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Novel approach to measuring ocean temperatures proved successful
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$170.3 Million in Private Support for UW Sets New Record
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Freshman Convocation Sept. 27, 1998
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Aerosonde robotic airplane completes historic trans-Atlantic flight
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Wyoming opens its first two clerkship sites for University of Washington medical students this week in Rock Springs and Jackson.
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Pediatrician Susan Marshall named assistant dean for curriculum at the University of Washington School of Medicine
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Faith flourishes in face of competition, study of Catholic dioceses shows
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Researchers to debate value of student evaluations in San Diego
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International participants sought for 50th reunion at UW
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UW Medical Center opens Iron Overload Clinic
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If you have a real hankering for the taste of salt, it may stem from your mother's morning sickness
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Eastern Washington outranks Texas for above-normal July heat
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UW scientists discover a gene that causes deafness and dizziness in mice
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Transatlantic crossing attempt by Aerosonde miniature autonomous aircraft moving ahead with new itinerary
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| July 1998 |
Mentoring curriculum shares lessons from award-winning UW program
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Project Astro enters second year of stargazing for K-12 students
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Surgical Dynamics endows spine-research chair at UW School of Medicine
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First time ever retrieval of "black smokers" from ocean floor reveals one of Earth's strangest and most enigmatic ecosystems
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Brief scientific background on sulfide chimneys (black smokers)
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UW ocean engineers design unique tools, adapt equipment for seafloor quest
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UW proposes budget to prepare students for the future
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Two young UW clinical researchers receive grants of $300,000
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UW Medical Center once again ranked among nation's Best Hospitals
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School of Nursing names director of de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging
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Trans-Atlantic crossing attempt by Aerosonde aims to prove viability of robotic planes for weather reconnaissance, make aviation history
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First ever retrieval of complete "black smokers" from ocean floor reveals one of Earth's strangest and most enigmatic ecosystems
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Human Interface Technology Lab's virtual retinal display wins 1998 Discover magazine Technological Innovation Award
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Team of University of Washington health sciences students will visit Othello, Wash., area to participate in public service projects
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Double lung transplant recipient plans to ride the STP in one day
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Young boys who are good readers needed for brain imaging study
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Leonardo still lives and he packs an economic punch
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Researchers looking for families with multiple dyslexics
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| June 1998 |
February launch planned for UW mission to collect samples of comet dust
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Project Stardust Facts, Figures, and Timeline
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Can testosterone improve memory in men? Study provides initial findings
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Remembering and forgetting childhood sexual abuse: it's how events are encoded in memory and how people view themselves, not repression
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Two Missoula adult medicine physicians honored for dedication to teaching University of Washington medical students
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Dr. George Novan of Spokane honored for excellence in teaching adult medicine to University of Washington medical students
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UW undergrads set for geology camp in Montana
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Dr. James E. Branahl of Boise honored for excellence in teaching adult medicine to University of Washington medical students
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Dr. Ronald Smith of Billings honored for excellence in teaching adult medicine to University of Washington medical students
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New use of an old drug may help patients with serious head injuries
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Undergraduates will head for Alaska to dig into North America's past
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School of Nursing contracts to provide online continuing education courses for health care professionals
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U-Link Internet medical records pilot described in June 13 edition of The Lancet
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Brightest object in universe discovered by UW astronomer
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123rd Commencement, President's Medalist: Elisabeth Marie Zeller
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123rd COMMENCEMENT
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University of Washington plays key role in space map project
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Wanted: More women and minority engineers to meet industry demand
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Physicists find evidence that neutrinos have mass
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Too much exercise may put some young women at risk for bulimia
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Physics experiment produces highest-energy electrons and positrons ever created in man-made accelerator
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Unique UW animation arts class producing a series of hit graduates
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| May 1998 |
Effective obesity treatment likely to require targeting of multiple weight control systems
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Increasing frequency of El Nino takes toll on Northern Hemisphere's only penguins
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Move over Weather Channel: Traffic TV covers local commuting conditions
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Carl J. Herzog Foundation gives $1.5 million to medical school for Endowed Student Support Fund and for Odland Endowed Chair
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First holder of the Theodore J. Phillips Endowed Professorship in Family Medicine named
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Dr. Richard Blandau, an international figure in research on reproductive biology, died May 11 at age 86.
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Researchers unable to document existence of transient HIV infection in infants
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Carl J. Herzog Foundation gives $1.5 million to medical school for Endowed Student Support Fund and for Odland Endowed Chair
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Seattle area celebrates National Cancer Survivors Day
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University of Washington receives another Gold Award from American Academy of Family Physicians
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Transgenic mice with widest known range of vision among mammals created to investigate human vision problems, evolution of sight
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UW senior well prepared to live on Greenland glacier
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Most specialists don't assume primary-care role for older patients even when they are the only source of care
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University of Washington unveils APEC Internet Collaboration Center:
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| April 1998 |
Stroke is Brain Attack. Know the symptoms. Call 911.
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Stanford biologist to address politics of global warming in UW lecture
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Promising nuclear waste management plan earns UW students prize at international competition
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UW developing fleet of unmanned airplanes to gather Pacific Ocean weather data needed to improve accuracy of Northwest forecasts
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UW College of Engineering Open House shows why there's never been a more exciting time to be an engineer
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New surgery at Harborview offers hope for epileptics
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Breast cancer screening exams produce high level of false-positive results
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New center aims to promote policy that supports good teaching
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Assertive partners can inhibit learning when students work in pairs
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Weight loss, not weight gain, a health risk for older adults
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UW engineering students paddle concrete canoe to regional title
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New test identifies people who can handle high-pressure jobs requiring rapid decision making, large amounts of information
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| March 1998 |
UW hosting concrete canoe races, bridge-building contest as part of civil engineering 'olympics'
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UW anthropologist uses engineering, mathematics to show short-legged human ancestors were very efficient walkers
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Novel method of gene replacement reported by University of Washington researchers
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First Northwest Hispanic Nurses Conference to be held at the UW
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Health Source: Medical News From the University of Washington
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New study of BRCA1 shows no need for widespread screening of American women
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Stone 'jigsaw puzzles' yield clues about mysterious Saharan nomads
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Mouse gene reveals clues to human deafness
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School of Pharmacy's annual Katterman Lecture focuses on herbal medicine
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Federal drug expert to give free lecture at Wenatchee Valley C.C.
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New clinical trials unit established at UW to combat STDs
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Nursing research benefits people in their daily lives
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Cost, use of health services is not affected by physician compensation: a study of Washington state medical groups/managed care organizations
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Journalist Jim Lehrer to speak at UW commencement June 13
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Sen. Warren Magnuson's life to be honored at fundraiser
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First Community Conversation in Seattle March 16
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Internet privacy and other emerging technology issues focus of 24th annual UW Computer Fair March 18-19
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| February 1998 |
International dental symposium to focus on caries and periodontal disease
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It's emotional abuse, not vicious beatings, that often spurs women to leave battering husbands
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Nobel Prize-winner, acclaimed science photographer kick off UW Center for Nanotechnology
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Pilot study explores how people seek information on the Web
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University of Washington physicians comprise more than half of the "Best Doctors" in Western Washington
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Husband's willingness to be influenced by wife, share power are key predictors of newlywed happiness, stability, UW study shows
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UN ambassador to speak at UW Feb. 23
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For fifth straight year U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
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Understanding obesity: Knowledge of weight control leading way for future treatments
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El Nino expected to shrink spring snowpack, may reduce water supply
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Regents issue statement on diversity
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New chemical processing technique being studied at UW may hold key to cleaning up Hanford, reducing industrial waste
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Need a solution for that biomedical problem? The answer could lie with mathematics, says researcher
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Dental Implant Program established at the University of Washington School of Dentistry
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Mysterious fate of vast dissolved organic matter in oceans may be to mitigate the greenhouse effect
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It doesn't add up: First study of talented young mathematicians shows boys out-perform girls
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| January 1998 |
How do I love thee? Instead of counting the ways, 'The Love Test' offers couples 32 scientific quizzes to measure their relationship
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In spite of computers, handwriting instruction is important because of carry-over to composition
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Nancy Woods named dean of the UW School of Nursing
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New pacemaker implant helps patients with tremor
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Images of the brain in action may hold clues to recovery from stroke
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UW conference helps women engineering students build bridges to top firms
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Five rural towns slated as training sites for new, six-month program for University of Washington medical students
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Magnetic stimulation offers new hope for people with depression
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University of Washington marks 50th anniversary of anti-Communist investigations with
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1997 |
| December 1997 |
How to keep up with those New Year's resolutions, researchers find commitment is the secret of success
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In 17 days at sea, four UW undergraduates help investigate ocean's ability to absorb greenhouse gas
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UW astronomer to show spectacular pictures of distant stars in the final stages of death
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Asian industrial smog: it's increasingly blowing in the wind across the U.S. West Coast
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Asian industrial smog: it's increasingly blowing in the wind across the U.S. West Coast
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Researchers puzzle over the source of mysterious, high-energy X-rays recorded above the Earth
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UW president appoints advisory committee to help search for new dean of School of Public Health and Community Medicine
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Student evaluations don't get a passing grade: Easy-grading professors get too-high marks, new UW study shows
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Researchers identify asbestos, beryllium, noise exposure in former nuclear site workers
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Wake up during surgery? Chances are reduced with innovative new brain wave monitors at UW Medical Center
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| November 1997 |
New role for brain receptor in control of body weight - research findings identify pathway for development of drugs to treat obesity
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UW engineering students exploring 'distant planet' with robots
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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How little gray cells process sound: they're really a series of computers
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Coping with twins, triplets -- and more: UW Medical Center offers special classes for expectant parents
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UW to establish Center for Molecular Genetic Pathology, using $3.25 million in federal and university funds
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UW physicist earns highest government award
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For street kids the streets are mean, but they may be better than home
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New simulator technology to give surgeons 'feel' of really operating
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Engineer behind Mars Sojourner rover to speak at UW
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First annual "Health of Hanford" conference -- scientists gather to report, discuss research findings
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State colleges and universities unite to propose higher education endowment
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The Earth's mysterious inner core is turning independently, but more slowly than previously thought
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Drug shows promise in keeping cardiac arrest patients alive until they reach the hospital
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New endowed professorship will enhance community-focused teaching and research in family medicine.
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New endowed professorship will enhance community-focused teaching and research in family medicine.
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University of Washington geneticist clones gene for an inherited form of deafness
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UW professor to coordinate National Science Foundation's external year 2000 efforts
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The world's most detailed weather system gives forecasters a "dramatic" view of local conditions
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| October 1997 |
Drug-free depression treatment study looking for Seattle volunteers
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Tree-ring study enables researchers to link massive American earthquake to Japanese tsunami in January 1700
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Parts of male sparrow brains grow when birds paired with females
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Overfeeding normal infant rats affects three generations: Overfeeding normal infant rats affects three generations:
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Hutchinson Center, University of Washington, and Children's Hospital forming new alliance in the fight against cancer
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School of Nursing's Nancy Woods receives Vivian O. Lee Women's Health Award from U.S. Public Health Service
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Biracial siblings sought for study that explores differing racial identities
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1997 Autumn Quarter enrollments at University of Washington
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UW cystic fibrosis researcher receives 928-ton accolade - an oil barge christened in her name
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Move over El Ni?a major new climate cycle has been discovered, and it lasts for decades
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Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, UW to launch statewide series of workshops for youth sport coaches
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Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, UW to launch statewide series of workshops for youth sport coaches
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Using one liver to save two lives: University of Washington expands split-liver transplant program
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The UW, coming soon to a high school near you
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UW, community groups send draft City-University Agreement to city of Seattle
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UW to help lead $20 million earthquake hazard prevention project
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Life-like simulator readies health professionals for real-life emergencies
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Top students graduate from an intensive summer of cloning, coatings and controlling mosquitoes
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| September 1997 |
Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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International conference on textual studies to be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1
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Medicare reimbursement system encourages increased payments to rehabilitation hospitals
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International conference on textual studies to be held Oct. 29-Nov. 1
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International meeting to highlight latest developments in liver transplantation
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Diver-held sonar helps divers locate objects when visibility is zero
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Fall Fling Welcomes Students to UW Campus
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University of Washington Tacoma building to be topped off by Seattle artist Buster Simpson
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Public workshops to help U.S. Department of Energy improve information access
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Grand opening celebration for UW, Tacoma, set for Sept. 26 and 27
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Will your child become an overweight adult? Step on the scale
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Ships depart to launch Ice Station SHEBA in the Arctic Ocean
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Oldest existing New World mound complex identified
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Oldest existing New World mound complex identified
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Member of IBM team behind Deep Blue speaking at UW
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UW School of Nursing names new head of Nurse-Midwifery Program
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UW School of Nursing names new head of Nurse-Midwifery Program
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University of Washington scientists look for cellular clues to explain how estrogen replacement therapy may protect against Alzheimer's disease
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"The Face of Breast Cancer" exhibit comes to Seattle during Breast Cancer Awareness Month
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Local minority youth help UW researchers understand teen smoking
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UW offers free public lecture series in Wenatchee on Addiction and the Brain
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A new state of matter turns a solid world into a melting one
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A new state of matter turns a solid world into a melting one
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Discovery of a shiny marine fossil is latest evidence that British Columbia was once part of Baja California
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Discovery of a shiny marine fossil is latest evidence that British Columbia was once part of Baja California
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White House honors UW program for mentoring students with disabilities
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Ice Station SHEBA, Fact Sheet 3: Opportunities for reporters to visit in spring 1998
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Ice Station SHEBA, Fact Sheet 2: SHEBA goal to improve climate predictions
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Ice Station SHEBA/Fact Sheet: Establishing ice station in October
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UW President Richard L. McCormick names acting dean of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine
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Dr. William M. M. Kirby, long-time medical school faculty member, dies in Seattle
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| August 1997 |
UW sensors take chemical analysis out of lab and into the field
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Freshman Convocation Sept. 28
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University of Washington researchers call for routine testing of expectant women
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A 'CAT scan' of Mount Rainier provides the first look inside potential earthquake hazards in the volcano's backyard
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Is same-sex marriage the death-knell for matrimony?
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Is same-sex marriage the death-knell for matrimony?
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Is Chicago No. 1 or No. 23 among most livable cities? It all depends on how you look at the numbers
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Intel awards University of Washington $5.9 million in computer equipment and service
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Learning self-defense teaches women far more than just how to protect themselves, it kick starts self- esteem
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Learning self-defense teaches women far more than just how to protect themselves, it kick starts self-esteem
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Warm, unusually calm weather may be reason Bristol Bay sockeye run was far smaller than expected
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First workshop on science education for K-12 teachers to be held in Forks Aug. 18-22
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UW smogmobile is cleaner, safer alternative to gas or electric cars
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| July 1997 |
Orcas Island Medical Center becomes a family medicine teaching site for the University of Washington School of Medicine.
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It may be baby talk, but 'parentese' is an infant's pathway to learning the language, international study shows
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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UW Medical Center opens Melanoma Center to provide advanced treatment of deadly skin cancer
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UWMC among top 10 in the nation in U.S. News' Best Hospitals
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Seven UW doctors named among the best in America for women's health care, in Good Housekeeping magazine poll
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Formal exchange program with universities in Thailand and Taiwan established
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Montana opens its first training site for teaching University of Washington medical students about women's health care
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UW materials technology institute gives teachers new ways to turn students on to science and engineering
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| June 1997 |
Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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New trauma drug may save patients from shock-related death
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Rural physicians talk about the importance of evaluating the Internet's potential in health care
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A professor's lost butterfly collection is replaced with young children's gift of words, color and caring
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How the brain knows when the body loses weight -- Research provides clues about the role of the nervous system in regulating body fat
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Interpretive walks offered to see world's largest canopy crane
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Fredric Wolf named chair of the Department of Medical Education at the UW School of Medicine
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New method of tracing metastatic breast cancer to the lymph nodes decreases the need for extensive surgery
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UW interventions with aggressive children involve parents and teachers
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Implanted pump keeps Puyallup man's heart beating as he awaits a transplant at UW Medical Center
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Families with two autistic children sought for new study that hopes to discover genetic, neurobiological causes of disorder
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Senior Vice President of CARE Selected As New Dean Of The UW Graduate School
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For a happy Father's Day, divorced dads need to look beyond the support check to involvement in their children's lives
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Software robot uses UW technology to ease on-line shopping
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Canopy research could lead to better forest management
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About the Wind River Canopy Crane
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| May 1997 |
Ramsey named UW vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine
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Anti-Violence Curriculum Gets Good Grade
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Enzymes targeted as key to understanding of drug interactions
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Greenhouse warming puzzle deepens with finding that the main consitutent of atmospheric particles is carbon, not sulfate
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1997 graduating medical students honor four teachers
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State approves agreement between UW Academic Medical Center and Northwest Hospital for first of joint clinical programs
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Brain attack flyer available at Western Washington drug stores
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Vitamin supplements may help asthmatics cope with air pollution
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UW system helps improve Java security on Microsoft, Sun web browsers
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How are we going to teach safe behavior if parents are afraid to talk to their children about sex?
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Professor brings health care research center to the UW
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Whimsical worms and local TV weathercaster among hosts on UW's CD-ROM "The Sound"
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Beset by human competition, penguins have to take marathon food trips to avoid starvation, a UW researcher discovers
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Beset by human competition, penguins have to take marathon food trips to avoid starvation, a UW researcher discover
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Social equity of public transit is topic of 1997 UW Evans lecture
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UW undergraduate wins Mellon Fellowship
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UW undergraduate wins national scholarship for public service
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UW MEDEX satellite training site to remain in Yakima
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Allen Foundation pledges $3.2 million for prostatitis research at the University of Washington
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Dr. George N. Aagaard, former dean and long-time medical school faculty member, dies in Seattle
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UW graduate and professional students present research May 17
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UW researcher who found way to measure infant vision to be honored
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University of Washington School of Medicine honored nationally for percentage of graduates entering family practice residencies
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New lecture series brings top Japanese high-tech business leaders to UW
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| April 1997 |
New study of the genetic causes of obesity defies traditional thinking about the role of adrenaline
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The UW's super-spanners set their sights on becoming the nation's champion bridge builders
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The UW's super-spanners set their sights on becoming the nation's champion bridge builders
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Dean of Nursing Sue T. Hegyvary to Resign; Will Remain on Faculty
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Second candidate for vice president for medical affairs/dean of medicine scheduled to visit UW campus for interviews
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UW program for students with disabilities to be featured
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UW's $154.6 million in private giving is second highest among public universities
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South Seattle resident is among four UW undergraduates to win national scholarship awards
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Wyoming will enter University of Washington medical school's multi-state educational partnership
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UW faculty members appointed to Pew Health Professions Commission
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The elusive neutrino may not be disappearing at all, but simply changing its "flavor"
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Get Fit For Summer: UW Physicians sponsor free talks at REI
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UW Health Sciences Open House to feature latest medical advances
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"TREEmendous Forest Story" is theme for Arbor Day
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Race puts UW engineering students up a creek with a concrete canoe
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Gun Ownership and Domestic Violence: A Lethal Combination
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University of Washington discovery may point the way to new treatment for hepatitis C cases that do not respond to interferon therapy
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Memorial services scheduled for founding coordinator of medical school's Spokane programs.
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Student oceanographers to experience shipboard research April 16- 18
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Women with low-risk pregnancies receive fewer obstetrical interventions when cared for by midwives, compared to women attended by physicians
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Alternative medicine treatment using pulsing magnetic device may offer benefits for some MS patients
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UW begins study of effects of estrogen lack on women's heart disease
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School of Pharmacy's annual Katterman Lecture focuses on impact of managed care
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Washington state's new official insect is a little bizarre, but also darn marvelous, says UW professor
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Largest gift to UW School of Dentistry will establish first endowed chair
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Drs. Blackman and Cleveland named assistant deans for the University of Washington School of Medicine
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Dr. Samuel Dworkin honored for dentistry research
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Health Sciences Open House coming April 25 and 26
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How much old-growth forest is there?
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First heart patient successfully treated with new laser surgery at University of Washington Medical Center
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Candidate for vice president for medical affairs/dean of medicine scheduled to visit UW campus for interviews
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Self-confidence is a key factor for females pursuing non-traditional fields
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| March 1997 |
Biosolids power plants taking hold in unused roadbeds and log landings
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UW's department of astronomy will host a public open house to provide a close-up view of Comet Hale-Bopp
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Humans have feared comets, other celestial phenomena through the ages
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New UW alumni executive director appointed
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Lee L. Huntsman selected as University of Washington provost
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A partial lunar eclipse and a brilliant Comet Hale-Bopp could provide a celestial light show for Palm Sunday
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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UW engineering alumnus behind Ivory, Pampers to turn 100
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Juvenile Offenders: Impacts Felt from Courtrooms to Emergency Rooms
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UW students to conduct Zero-G experiments
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Four UW undergraduates take to the skies by doing research with one of the world's most advanced telescopes
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Coveted Space Grant scholarships to study at the UW are awarded to 28 top students from across the state
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Continuing the tradition: Architectural style maintains Harborview's history and character
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Harborview Medical Center artwork helps with healing
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Latest technology a feature of new Harborview facility
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Harborview's new trauma center: an overview
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University of Washington computing team tops elite universities at international programming contest
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Analysis of clinical trials yields new appreciation of low-dose diuretic therapy for high blood pressure
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| February 1997 |
U.S. News ranks UW as top primary-care medical school for fourth consecutive year.
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UW receives top rankings in U.S. News & World Report survey of graduate programs and professional schools
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UW physician receives national award for primary care achievement
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Nancy Woods named UW School of Nursing's associate dean for research
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A lush volcanic island in Indonesia provides clues about Mount St. Helens' recovery from its moon-like state
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Clinton names UW librarian to White House advisory committee on computing and communications
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Experiments show that simply imagining fictitious childhood events sometimes makes people believe they experienced them
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Protective effect of progestin in hormone replacement therapy appears to be dose-related
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UWTV Airs NASA's Second Shuttle Servicing Mission to the Hubble Space Telescope
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University of Washington Reaches Spokane Through UWTV
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UW Researchers Open Labs to Junior Scientists -- Thursday, Feb. 13
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An icy comet with a long, dusty tail is now speeding into view
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| January 1997 |
Hormones may place women at greater risk for facial pain
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Educational report outlines state's challenges, possibilities
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Health Source Medical News from the University of Washington
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UW offers free public series on Addiction and the Brain
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There are solutions to the epidemic of social problems bedeviling America's youth, says researcher
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A supercomputer gives the Pacific Northwest a super-detailed view of its often-capricious weather
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What are scientists seeing over the rainbow? The CIA would like to know
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New approach encourages greater community input in decisions about minority affairs efforts at UW School of Medicine.
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Hubble team reveals a stellar odd couple among thousands of suns in the Milky Way
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Hubble team reveals a stellar odd couple among thousands of suns in the Milky Way
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UW Medical Center seeks patients for clinical trial of improved cochlear implant to restore hearing
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UW president appoints search committee for vice president for medical affairs and dean of medicine
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UW Scholar Center supports South Seattle and Renton students in academics
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UW Biology Students From Underrepresented Groups Help Each Other Succeed
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UW Nursing Students Travel Abroad to Receive Hands-On Training and Life Enriching Experiences
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So you made New Year's resolutions: Now UW researchers want to know what they are and why people do or don't keep them
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| December 1996 |
Infrared technology makes it possible to "see" breaking waves in open ocean as never before
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Infrared technology makes it possible to "see" breaking waves in open ocean as never before
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Interpreting mammograms: Radiologists less accurate in detecting breast cancer when they know patient's medical history
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Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 16
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Engineers celebrate a topping out with a shake, rattle and roll
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UW Medical Center selected to participate in national trial of new surgery for emphysema
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Promising research on gel to prevent most common STD
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Wasps aren't automatons; they have individuality, says UW researcher
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Methane deep in ocean crust could feed chemical-hungry microorganisms
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Methane deep in ocean crust could feed chemical-hungry microorganisms
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The numbers game: UW psychologist's urban ardor leads to a better way of rating North America's cities
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Research crosses continents, disciplines and generations
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Lightning research is charged with finding a rain gauge in space
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Removing brain chemical helps reduce body fat in genetically obese mice
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| November 1996 |
Rwandan civil war isn't just a conflict half way around the world: UW students, staff plan Tuesday benefit concert to aid former student
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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UW and Siemens develop diagnostic breakthrough with new programmable ultrasound imaging technology
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APEC unveils Internet-based "Education Network," and launches its inaugural project
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Twenty years of bird songs: It's a record filled with scientific high notes
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Seattle gang study shows small minority of teens responsible for more than half of adolescent crime
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New marriage therapy treatment achieves extremely high success rate in pilot study, UW and UCLA psychologists report
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Dental simulators revolutionize training of future dentists
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State politicians matched with immigrants to gain greater understanding of low-income newcomers' problems
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UW News Release from Health Sciences News
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UW News Release from Health Sciences News
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Philip J. Fialkow, M.D. and Helen Fialkow found dead in Nepal on Nov. 3, 1996
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Statement responding to questions on the current whereabouts of Philip J. Fialkow, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UW School of Medicine
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Statement responding to the whereabouts of Philip J. Fialkow, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UW School of Medicine, and his wife, Helen
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| October 1996 |
Computers with "ears" and other user interfaces to be unveiled at UW as part of international conference
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The following statement responds to questions on the current whereabouts of Philip J. Fialkow, M.D
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Are dental fillings harmful to kids' health? UW researchers to begin study examining safety of mercury amalgams in children
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Health Source: Medical News from the University of Washington
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Today's anti-immigrant sentiment isn't unique
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Heart attack outcomes are similar with anti-clotting drugs and balloon angioplasty
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UW program exposes Native American high-school students to legal profession
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John Idstrom named director of development at the University of Washington, Tacoma
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New UW center to focus on health and safety of foresters, fishers and farmers throughout the region
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Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at UW
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UW, Seattle Public Schools host in-service day and build ongoing partnerships
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UW to host premiere of documentary about racial issues on campus UW News Release: 07 October, 1996
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University of Washington to Develop Health-Care Applications of
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UW School of Nursing to hold 18th annual Soule Lecture and Friends of Nursing Dinner UW News Release: 07 October, 1996
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Celebrating the Beginning of a New Educational Resource in Wenatchee Valley UW News Release: 04 October, 1996
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UW rewarded for efficiency UW News Release: 02 October, 1996
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UW researchers testing miniature blood analysis devices
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Harborview Medical Center will establish its first family medicine service and family practice residency in 1997
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| September 1996 |
UW professor elected to National Academy of Engineering
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Older adults with and without memory loss needed for Alzheimer's studies
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4th annual Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk fundraiser
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Facts About Alzheimer's Disease
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Declining respect for legal system threatens society, author says
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Higher Education Day in Tacoma: Oct. 7
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UW lectures to probe relationships between and threats to cultural, biological diversity
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Higher Education Day in East King/South Snohomish counties: Oct. 7
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UW engineer helping Washington company develop instrument enabling semiconductor manufacturers to make faster, cheaper computer chips
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UW psychologists develop first reproducible method showing subliminal messages can influence behavior, thought processes
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1996-97 University of Washington President's Scholarship Recipients
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Fall Fling welcomes students to UW campus
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UW experiment sends shock waves through petrochemical industry
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Recently discovered virus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma is frequently present in saliva and may be transmitted by this route, University of Washington study shows
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University of Washington Department of Family Medicine Turns 25
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UW ranked 10th among public universities by national magazine
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UW participates in second phase of Diabetes Prevention Trial
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MR technique for analyzing rattlesnake tail muscles can also be used to study muscle tone and function in the elderly
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| August 1996 |
Freshman Convocation Sept. 29, 1996
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UW researchers helping NASA plan affordable missions to Mars
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School teachers leave Monday for one of the best "field trips" ever offered by the UW
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First study of small-town lesbian and bisexual women indicates significant percentage may be at risk for contracting HIV
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UW names 1996 Martin scholar
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Archaeologists find stone point that may link North America, Siberia
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| July 1996 |
Naturally occurring microorganisms gobbling toxic wastes at bottom of Eagle Harbor
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Salesin takes UW undergraduates to the forefront of computer graphics
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| June 1996 |
Rural high school girls get science, math, engineering experience at special UW camp, now through June 29
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| January 1900 |
Giant snowballs in space? No, says researcher, they're simply black snow on the TV screen
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Washington state school teachers on voyages of discovery
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Quick facts and figures about SHEBA
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Marked crosswalks may pose risk to older pedestrians
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UW Medical Center once again ranked among nation's Best Hospitals
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