A scientific evaluation of an anti-violence curriculum developed in Seattle and used in over 10,000 schools throughout the US and Canada reveals that the curriculum is successful in reducing aggressive behaviors in elementary school-aged children.
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The state Department of Health has granted a certificate of need to 91探花 Medical Center and Northwest Hospital, approving an application filed last summer to develop a collaborative cardiac care program
The 1997 graduating medical school class at the 91探花 School of Medicine has selected four faculty members to honor. Dr. Mindy Cooper, Dr. Douglas Paauw and Dr. Nicholas Ward were named distinguished teachers.
Vitamin supplements may help asthmatics cope with air pollution
More than 500,000 Americans each year may suddenly experience numbness or muscular weakness, lose the ability to speak, and have difficulty seeing. These frightening symptoms are common to stroke, the number-one cause of adult disability in the United States and at least 150,000 deaths each year.
A system for running Java programs that is more secure than those found in commercial World Wide Web browsers has been developed by computer scientists at the 91探花.
When it comes to talking to their teenagers about sex, health and condoms, mum’s the word for most American parents.
A CD-ROM created at the 91探花 mixes quirkiness with the very latest information about Puget Sound.
The 91探花 will receive a new resource in health care management and organization research with relocation of the Center for Health Management Research — a cooperative industry / university research center.
Who should be served by public transit and who should pay for it? These were among the questions that confronted Puget Sound voters in November’s Regional Transportation Authority ballot issue and that will be addressed in the 1997 Daniel L. and Irma Evans Lecture May 29 at the 91探花.
Starvation is a major cause of death for newly hatched penguins, the result of dwindling marine food reserves. To feed their families, adult birds are forced to forage great distances from their breeding colonies, says Dee Boersma, professor of zoology at the 91探花 and one of the world’s leading authorities on temperate-zone penguins.
Starvation is a major cause of death for newly hatched penguins, the result of dwindling marine food reserves. To feed their families, adult birds are forced to forage great distances from their breeding colonies, says Dee Boersma, professor of zoology at the 91探花 .
A 91探花 undergraduate has been selected to receive a prestigious national scholarship for students preparing for careers in public service. R. Paul Stimers, a junior majoring in political science, has been selected to receive a scholarship awarded by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
A 91探花 undergraduate is among the 85 students nationally who have been awarded Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies.
The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research has committed $3.2 million for research at the 91探花 into the causes of and cures for prostatitis, a common but under-studied infection of the prostate gland.
The 91探花 will maintain a full two-year Yakima training site for its MEDEX Program, 91探花officials announced today, in addition to establishing a new satellite site in Spokane this fall.
Chimaera, a 91探花 graduate and professional student research forum, will be held from 1 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17 at the HUB
Dr. George N. Aagaard, former dean and long-time medical school faculty member, dies in Seattle
A scientist’s curiosity about exactly what her infant children could see nearly three decades ago opened up a lifetime’s work that has provided a new view of how human vision develops.
The 91探花 (UW) was one of only three medical schools in the nation to maintain a three-year average of more than 30 percent in the rate of graduates entering family practice residencies from 1993 to 1996.
Leading research managers from Japanese high-tech giants NTT Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. will kick off a new lecture series sponsored by the technical Japanese program and technical communication department at the 91探花.
New studies reported in the May 1 edition of Nature appear to contradict traditional thinking about the sympathetic nervous system’s influence in people who never gain weight no matter how much they eat, versus those who seemingly put on pounds if a piece of cheesecake is merely passed under their nose.
A NEW LASER HEART SURGERY TECHNIQUE for patients with coronary heart disease is being tested at 91探花 Medical Center.
She’s only 22, but already Cheryl Burwell, a 91探花 senior, is a champion bridge builder. A month ago, Burwell and her team of nine other civil engineering seniors, showed their mettle, as well as their metal, with an upset victory at the regional bridge-building championships in Alaska.
She’s only 22, but already Cheryl Burwell, a 91探花 senior, is a champion bridge builder. A month ago, Burwell and her team of nine other civil engineering seniors, showed their mettle, as well as their metal, with an upset victory at the regional bridge-building championships in Alaska.
A second candidate for the position of vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine has been invited to visit the 91探花 campus for formal interviews in May.
Dr. Sue T. Hegyvary, dean of the 91探花 School of Nursing since 1986, will resign from her administrative post effective July 1, 1998. She will remain on the faculty in the Department of Biobehaviorial Nursing and Health Systems.
As Gen. Colin Powell convenes the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future this weekend in Philadelphia to promote volunteerism and service, representatives of a unique 91探花 program will be on hand to demonstrate how to DO-IT.
The latest figures on private giving to universities show that the 91探花 ranked second in the country among public universities last year.
Four 91探花 students, including a South Seattle resident, have been awarded one of the most prestigious national scholarships for mathematics, science, and engineering majors.
The 91探花 School of Medicine will enter into a regional medical education partnership with Wyoming, Dr. John B. Coombs, acting vice president for medical affairs and acting dean of the School of Medicine, announced today, April 21.
Like the Cheshire cat, the elusive neutrino particle can appear and disappear, seemingly at will. And like the smile on the face of the Cheshire cat, the neutrino may be a mere wisp, or have actual substance.
91探花 faculty members Ruth Ballweg and Dr. Mimi Fields have been named to the third phase of the Pew Health Professions Commission.
Flood waters will rise and fire will befriend the forest when thousands of elementary-school youngsters descend on the 91探花 April 24, 25 and 26.
See, hear and touch the latest advances in medical teaching, research and patient care at the 91探花 Health Sciences Open House Friday and Saturday, April 25 and 26, at the 91探花Health Sciences Center, 1959 N.E. Pacific St.
91探花 Physicians are sponsoring a free series of talks on Get Fit For Summer, at the REI main store, 222 Yale Ave. N. in Seattle.
A group of 91探花 civil engineering students will compete April 27 in concrete canoe races on Lake Sammamish.
Researchers at the 91探花 report in the April 14, 1997 issue of Virology that they may have an explanation for why the currently approved drug treatment for hepatitis C is ineffective much of the time. The drug, recombinant alpha interferon, is ineffective in 60 to 80 percent of cases.
Gunshot wounds are the single most common cause of death for women in the home, accounting for 42 percent of suicides and 46 percent of homicides, concludes a study released today.
Undergraduates with the 91探花’s School of Oceanography will have a chance this month to learn about shipboard research while gathering data about the waters west of Everett for the Washington State Department of Ecology.