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Marie-Annette Brown, professor of family and child nursing at the 91̽»¨School of Nursing, is the recipient of the school’s new Group Health Endowed Nursing Professorship in Chronic Illness Care, Dean Nancy Woods announced last week.

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Political life in Muslim countries is surprisingly wired, according to researchers at the 91̽»¨.

Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake.

The 91̽»¨ received over $1 billion in grant and contract research funding for the most recent fiscal year, marking the first time it has reached this level.

Thirty miles west of Grays Harbor, 91̽»¨ scientists have discovered large colonies of glass sponges thriving on the seafloor.

Erin Lennon, who will be entering her third year in the 91̽»¨Law School, has been selected as student regent at the 91̽»¨for the 2007-08 academic year.

Neuroscientists are attempting to understand if structural changes in the brain are related to sensory experience or the performance of learned behavior, and now 91̽»¨ researchers have found evidence that one species of songbird apparently has something in common with a few baseball sluggers.

Kayanna Warren has traveled abroad and even lived a year in China.

Last year, students enrolled in a professional master’s degree program in Seattle sat 800 miles from their teacher.

Where are we? The photo at right was taken somewhere on campus.

91̽»¨longtimers might remember the days when you signed your name to check out a book from a 91̽»¨Library.

Professors may sometimes see their classes as a kind of theater, but it isn’t often that a University class is portrayed onstage at a real theater.

The 91̽»¨scored very high in a survey of published geosciences research by Thomson Scientific, both in the number of times 91̽»¨research was cited by other scientists and the average number of times a 91̽»¨paper was cited.

When Christoph Giebel was a medical rescue technician on a German Red Cross boat in the early 1980s, he treated Vietnamese boat people — men, women and children fleeing the government that took over after the war ended in 1975.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

The Fourth Annual Graduate Horizons Program met at the 91̽»¨Friday through Tuesday, providing information and advice to Native American college students visiting from across the country, here because of their interest in pursuing graduate work.

GOING BUGGY: David Gordon, science writer at Washington Sea Grant, is the author of a book that made it onto a rather dubious Top 10 list.

Fred Pitz really knows how to tell a story, even if he claims not to be prepared.

Should journalists and other witnesses of traumatic events receive mandatory counseling or debriefing in the aftermath?

No, concludes an article published July 1 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Clark Olson was in Hollywood last week, along with a plethora of top professional athletes, to attend the annual ESPYs, a sports award event created and broadcast by ESPN.

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For a lot of faculty and staff members at the UW, the waiting and wondering is over.

In 1999, the Academic Medical Center Service Culture Endowed Fund was created, thanks to an endowment from an anonymous donor made in part to honor the exemplary care a family member received at 91̽»¨Medical Center.

On July 27, John Coulter, associate vice president for medical affairs and executive director for Health Sciences Administration, will get on his bike and ride off into the sunset as he retires from the 91̽»¨after almost 29 years of service.