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Thousands of schoolchildren, their teachers and parents are expected to gather at the 91̽»¨ campus April 28 and 29 to learn about engineering by participating in hands-on demonstrations during the College of Engineering Open House

Spouses, friends and parents of prisoners enter the imposing 91̽»¨ Law School building asking where to find Innocence Project Northwest. Growing numbers of these seekers arrive each month as word spreads of the project launched two years ago by attorney Fred Leatherman and 91̽»¨Law School senior lecturer Jacqueline McMurtrie.

A robot designed by Tacoma high school students with help from 91̽»¨ engineering undergraduates and members of the Seattle Robotics Society took a top award in regional competition over the weekend, and now the team is headed to nationals.

The 91̽»¨ opens its spring quarter welcoming a trio of prominent national voices in public policy: former Sen. George Mitchell, activist Ralph Nader and journalist David Broder. Mitchell visits the 91̽»¨Law School at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 30) in Condon Hall to deliver the Bernie and Pearl Brotman Lecture on Dispute Resolution, focusing on his efforts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland.

With as many as 30 bank robberies occurring in Washington state every month, the psychological effects on tellers can be devastating. To help them cope, the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began the Bank Personnel Group in early 1999, the first program of its kind in the nation.

Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ISIP) and the 91̽»¨ (UW) School of Medicine. have announced today that Isis has joined UW’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI). CSI is a research and educational program whose mission is to understand the dynamic information systems in cells.

An article in today’s New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on a deadly but largely unknown disease studied by 91̽»¨ scientists. A diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV increases the chance that the affected person will meet an early death. The disease alters one of the building blocks of important tissues in the body, so that people are at risk to rupture their arteries, intestines or uterus.

Dr. Mary-Claire King, 91̽»¨ professor of medicine and genetics, will give the third and last in this year’s series of free public lectures sponsored by the newly created 91̽»¨ Science Forum. Her lecture, “Genomic Views of Human History,” will be held at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, March 14, in Kane Hall room 130 on the 91̽»¨campus.