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The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from 91探花 faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.
The 91探花has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium.
A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.
Seeking to realize the full potential of the emerging field of e-health 鈥� the use of interactive technologies to improve health behavior and disease management 鈥搕he 91探花School of Medicine is one of 18 sites to have been awarded a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Health e-Technologies Initiative national program.
An online Style Guide is now available to assist with using the new 91探花Medicine brand and logos.
Genome ethics
鈥淯nderstanding the Human Genome: Ethical Challenges for Public Health Policy鈥� is a one-day continuing education course organized by the Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety and co-sponsored by several other 91探花programs.
It鈥檚 as if Michael Stern listened to some of his own advice.
Thirty picket-wielding protesters shouted at the loggers cutting down a forest of mature spruce trees.
A new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia that was released, appropriately enough, on Halloween, indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
Editor鈥檚 Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
The 91探花Speakers Bureau is making it easier for people in the community to find campus speakers and also for faculty and staff to register with the bureau.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
It鈥檚 been in all the newspapers, so you know it鈥檚 true: The style pages all tell us that the 70s and 80s are back.
Seattle’s post-Viaduct waterfront should provide an outdoor educational environment for studying history, culture and ecology — as well as a skateboard park. So say high school students at Queen Anne’s Center School who were asked to inject the voice of youth into the future of the downtown waterfront.
Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by 91探花 researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
A 91探花 paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which eradicated 90 percent of all species on Earth.
Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue.
Just in time for Halloween, a new study of the use of virtual reality to treat spider phobia indicates that touching the fuzzy creepy-crawlers can make the therapy twice as effective.
Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study.
High-stakes tests are having the wrong effect on many of the K-12 students who need the most help, according to two scholars in Washington state.
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Eric Ragde advanced his 91探花education a couple of weekends ago, without getting anywhere near campus, turning on the computer or cracking a book.
It took 2陆 decades for the benefits of the original Internet to diffuse broadly into the education community.
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It was something polar veteran Jamie Morison hadn’t seen in that part of the Arctic Ocean before.
Editor鈥檚 Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov. The 91探花’s Seattle campus enrollment for autumn quarter 2003 is 39,136, including 1,652 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach. The 91探花 has been designated as one of five centers nationwide to participate in the National Institutes of Health Bariatric Surgery Clinical Research Consortium. 400 researchers traveled to Seattle this week for the first and largest meeting of international scientists studying all aspects of change in the Arctic The 91探花has received an award of $5. 鈥淎IDS Treatment in Africa: Making It Work鈥� is the title for the next Distinguished Faculty Lecture sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine. A series of articles published Oct. Advice on starting a company |