WCI Cable, in support of the cooperative Pacific/Northwest Gigapop and national Internet 2 efforts, is providing to the 91探花a state-of-the-art fiber optic connection from Seattle to the University of Alaska Statewide System in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Three professors from the 91探花 School of Dentistry in Seattle were recipients of awards at the opening of the 77th General Session of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) held in Vancouver, B.
Like teenage boys hanging out on a street corner or fans cheering at a football game, animals behave differently when they’re in a large group than they do when they’re by themselves.
The 91探花 will hold a campus Diversity Fair on April 10 to recruit minorities from local high schools, community colleges, and nearby communities.
The Washington State Department of Health has re-designated Harborview Medical Center to provide Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Services.
Living donors can now donate a kidney using laparoscopic surgery
Parents should be part of the fun, not the No. 1 problem in youth sports, say 91探花 sport psychologists Frank Smoll and Ronald Smith.
A “Walk for Life” will mark the beginning of Suicide Prevention Week, which will be observed May 2 to 8. Suicide Prevention Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of suicide, which takes the lives of 30,000 Americans every year.
Julian Bond, a participant in movements for civil rights, economic justice and peace for nearly 40 years, will be the 91探花 commencement speaker June 12 at Husky Stadium.
Researchers at the 91探花 School of Public Health and Community Medicine have produced new analyses predicting the risk of heart disease among diverse population groups 鈥� younger women, middle-aged men and older Japanese-American men.
91探花 President Richard L. McCormick will recommend to the Board of Regents that Warren W. Buck be appointed chancellor and dean of the UW, Bothell. The regents are expected to act on this appointment at the board’s April 16 meeting.
Radar data will help scientists in their quest to pinpoint climate change
Reflecting the growing public interest in alternative and complementary medicine, the 20th annual Don B. Katterman Lecture will focus on “Practical Herbal Medicine.” The lecture is sponsored by the 91探花 Pharmacy Alumni Association and the School of Pharmacy.
The 91探花 administration is recommending that its Graduate School of Public Affairs be named for Daniel J. Evans, former Washington governor, U.S. senator, college president and current 91探花regent.
After more than two decades of taking American marriage into the laboratory and placing it under the scrutiny of everything but a microscope, one of the country’s leading marital experts believes there is still reason for optimism and concrete steps that couples can take to avoid becoming just another statistic in divorce court.
For the sixth year in a row, the 91探花 School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.
The last 100 volunteers are being recruited for a clinical trial to determine whether an anti-bacterial oral rinse can help high-risk older adults prevent tooth loss.
Dr. Pamela Mitchell has been appointed associate dean for research at the 91探花 School of Nursing.
A package of interventions targeted at teachers, parents and children throughout the elementary school years had long-lasting effects in reducing levels of violent behavior, heavy drinking and sexual intercourse and in improving school performance at age 18 among a multi-ethnic sample of urban children.
Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the 91探花 have mapped the region of a gene associated with prostate cancer that runs in families.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is expected later this month to announce its decision about listing more than a dozen West Coast salmon and steelhead populations under the federal Endangered Species Act. 91探花 experts may be able to help reporters with general information on such things as salmon health and how human activities impact salmon habitat.
Two 91探花 professors are among 20 environmental scientists nationwide named today to fellowships in a new communications training and networking program.
Dr. Christopher B. “Chris” Wilson has been named chair of the 91探花 (UW) Department of Immunology, effective March 1.
Power outages are result of economic trade-offs, 91探花researcher says
During a weekend presentation at a Northwest weather workshop in Seattle, 91探花 researchers Philip Mote and Alan Hamlet presented what they consider to be mounting evidence of a shift in the cycle that influences Alaska and Pacific Northwest climate for 10, 20 or 30 years at a time.
David Hodge, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the 91探花 since July 1998, has been chosen by 91探花President Richard L. McCormick to be the dean of the college.
A collaborative study by Harborview surgeons and dietitians will evaluate the efficacy of anti-oxidant vitamin supplementation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients at Harborview.
Teams from Sedro-Woolley High School claimed first and third places, and a team from Garfield High School placed second Saturday during the state’s Ocean Science Bowl sponsored by the 91探花’s College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
More than 35 scholars and labor activists will convene at the 91探花 for “Strikes!,” a series of lectures and symposia from March 4 to 6 organized by the 91探花Center for Labor Studies (CLS).
The panel of six anthropologists and archaeologists that has been appointed to examine the 9,300-year-old remains of Kennewick Man, one of the oldest human skeleton’s found in North America, will meet with and answer questions from the news media and the public in separate sessions this week on the 91探花 campus.
As Harborview Medical Center, the state’s only Level 1 trauma center,
treats the most critically ill and injured patients from throughout the
region, its Pastoral Care staff are committed to tending to the spiritual
and emotional needs of patients and their families.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Henry J.
“Too sick for the streets, but not sick enough for the hospital” describes homeless people recovering from short-term health problems, such as minor trauma, chemotherapy treatments for cancer, or newly diagnosed chronic diseases.
For three decades social scientists have been trying to figure out, with little success, how a person’s race affects the outcome of criminal cases.
Flipping a nano-scale molecular switch may regulate the cell-binding function of a protein involved in healing and other fundamental biological activities.
Astudy by 91探花 social demographers indicates all forms of violent death — homicide, accidental death and suicide — are linked to joblessness and its detrimental effects on the formation and stability of families.
Researchers at the new WWAMI Center for Health Workforce Studies are looking at the availability, education, distribution, practice patterns and licensing of health professionals as well as many other factors that shape the region’s health workforce.
Doctors at the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System and the 91探花 School of Medicine have successfully used an innovative new technique to repair aortic aneurysm, a life threatening ballooning of the body?s main artery.
UWTV will broadcast Saturday’s scheduled launch of Stardust, a NASA mission to collect comet samples and return them to Earth.