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Bad behavior seems rampant in business, and scholars are divided as to why people act ethically or unethically.

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Rolling robots, mechanical monsters that follow you, spooky candy jars: all are motorized Halloween decorations built by 91̽»¨ electrical engineering students competing in a new departmental contest.

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Despite decades of ever more-exacting science projecting Earth’s warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur.

The 91̽»¨ has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued today by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.

Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of the Missouri River as speaking a similar-sounding type of English.

The annual statewide hunt for Washington’s most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the 91̽»¨.

Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.

Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.

The Internet offers wide appeal to people with disabilities.

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded 91̽»¨ researchers $10.

A pilot course taught at the 91̽»¨ has been expanded into a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers.

Undergraduate astronomy students at the 91̽»¨ combing through images from a specialized telescope have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never before been observed.

Four faculty members from the 91̽»¨ (including two who are also 91̽»¨alumni) and two other alumni from the 91̽»¨health sciences have been elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Priorities the Washington Department of Natural Resources might consider when spending the $70 million it has available to bolster the amount of working forestland in the state were on the agenda last month during the Northwest Environmental Forum at the UW.

Three new department chairs have been appointed in the 91̽»¨School of Medicine.

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91̽»¨staff are being sought to serve on the University Faculty Adjudication Panel.

The 91̽»¨ has been selected as a study center in the National Children’s Study to assess the effects of environmental and genetic factors on child and human health in the United States.

Loss of sea ice that is more than a year old – called perennial ice – may be the key predictor for how much Arctic ice melts each summer, a 91̽»¨ polar scientist says.

The target for reducing mortality of children under 5 worldwide is unlikely to be met and the international community is not doing a better job of reducing child mortality than it was 30 years ago, according to a study published Sept.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the UW, announced in June, will conduct independent, rigorous evaluations of health programs worldwide.

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If you’re a member of the 91̽»¨community and are looking for comprehensive and easily accessible dental care, check out the 91̽»¨Dentists Faculty Practice clinic.

Tami Sadusky’s secret dream is to own a gourmet cupcake shop.

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