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91̽»¨ astronomers, with an assist from local amateur astronomical societies, are preparing to head into Puget Sound-area schools for the second year to bring hands-on science experience to K-12 students.

Surgical Dynamics today announced that it will establish the Surgical Dynamics Endowed Chair for Spine Research at the 91̽»¨ School of Medicine.

Unusual sulfide structures shed light on origins of life on earth and possibility of life on other planetary bodies

Sulfide chimneys are pinnacle-shaped structures that form when super-heated seawater, richly charged with metals and volcanic gases, rises into the bitterly cold deep ocean from hot regions below the seafloor.

Both specially designed apparatus and off-the-shelf equipment – including three women’s regulation softballs – were part of a suite of devices used successfully to cage and lift four sulfide chimneys from the seafloor off the coast of Washington and British Columbia.

The 91̽»¨ Board of Regents today approved a budget request for 1999 to 2001 that would allow the University to transform education, building on the strengths and quality of its human resources.

Two 91̽»¨ faculty members in the Department of Medicine have received Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Awards, the first ever awarded.

91̽»¨ Medical Center is again ranked among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 1998 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” available on newsstands July 20.

The 91̽»¨ School of Nursing has named Dr. Linda Teri director of its de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging. She will also be a tenured professor in the school’s Department of Psychosocial and Community Health.

Following Charles Lindbergh and the Concorde on the well-traveled, trans-Atlantic path to aviation history, researchers next month will attempt the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by an autonomous, civilian aircraft.

Press briefing to announce results of “black smoker” expedition

The Human Interface Technology (HIT) Laboratory at the 91̽»¨ has received the 1998 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in the sight category.

Eight 91̽»¨ (UW) health sciences students, representing a variety of health-care fields, will visit Othello, Wash., Thursday, July 23, and Friday, July 24, to participate in several local health information and public service projects.

Almost five years to the day after receiving a double-lung transplant at 91̽»¨ Medical Center, cystic fibrosis patient Ken Price plans to ride in the annual Seattle-to-Portland bicycle trek this weekend.

Boys, who just completed grades 3 through 6, are eligible to volunteer as subjects for a study investigating dyslexia. Those selected can describe what happened as their brains were imaged while they played sound and meaning games and listened to sound tones.

The “Leonardo Lives” exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum last fall and winter generated $15.5 million in business activity in King County, supported 314 jobs and created $5 million in labor income, according to an economic impact study conducted by a 91̽»¨ researcher.

91̽»¨ researchers on a scientific genealogical hunt are looking for 100 families in the Puget Sound area that have a history of dyslexia.

It might sound like something from a popular science fiction movie, but a 91̽»¨ astronomy professor’s nearly two-decade dream of launching an unmanned spacecraft to collect interstellar dust from a comet is close to coming true.

STARDUST MISSION TIMELINE

1929: Hoagy Carmichael publishes the song “Stardust.

Treating older men with testosterone may help improve spatial and verbal memory, according to a small study conducted at the 91̽»¨ in Seattle.

Researchers probing people’s memories of sexual abuse report two ordinary mechanisms may be responsible for temporarily forgetting and later remembering genuine instances of childhood sexual abuse. Their findings suggest that it is possible to explain such forgetting without repression.

Dr. Judith Olson and Dr. Wesley Wilson, who practice adult medicine in Missoula, Mont., have been honored by the Department of Medicine at the 91̽»¨ School of Medicine for their outstanding contributions to teaching medical students at the WWAMI community clinical training unit in internal medicine in Missoula.

Dr. George Novan will be honored by the Department of Medicine at the 91̽»¨ (UW) School of Medicine for his outstanding contributions to teaching medical students at the WWAMI community clinical training unit in internal medicine in Spokane.

A six-week camp in the rugged Montana backcountry promises to transform 20 91̽»¨ undergraduates into full-fledged geologists.

Dr. James E. Branahl has been honored by the Department of Medicine at the 91̽»¨ (UW) School of Medicine for his outstanding contributions to teaching medical students at the WWAMI community clinical training unit in internal medicine in Boise.

Dr. Ronald H. Smith has been honored by the Department of Medicine at the 91̽»¨ (UW) School of Medicine for his outstanding contributions to teaching medical students at the WWAMI community clinical training unit in internal medicine in Billings.

91̽»¨ (UW) physicians based at Harborview Medical
Center are evaluating the use of magnesium sulfate in preventing the
negative effects generally associated with severe head injuries.

Neither isolation, a chance encounter with a giant Kodiak brown bear or dismal weather marked by long periods of non-stop rain or drizzle is expected to dampen the enthusiasm of 15 budding archaeologists who will spend their summer digging into North America’s past.

The 91̽»¨ School of Nursing has entered into an agreement with SafeWare Inc., a Bellevue-based software company, to join a distance-learning cooperative to provide continuing education courses and related online services to health care professionals across the nation.

U-Link is a 91̽»¨ (UW) pilot project to make medical records available immediately over the Internet to a patient’s 91̽»¨and referring physicians in a confidential, secured fashion.

The brightest object yet observed in the universe has been discovered by a 91̽»¨ astronomer and his colleagues.

Elisabeth Marie Zeller, 26, will be recognized as the outstanding senior at the university’s 123rd Commencement June 13 in Seattle. She is receiving bachelor’s degrees in history and economics.

The 91̽»¨’s Class of 1998 totals 9,952, a preliminary count of undergraduate, graduate and professional students receiving degrees at three Commencement ceremonies.

The 91̽»¨ is a key player in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious new effort to create the first-ever digital map of the heavens.

The numbers paint a grim picture. While women and minorities are projected to make up 68 percent of new entrants to the U.S. labor force by the year 2000, only a small fraction of them are likely be trained as scientists and engineers.

A physics collaboration that includes a team from the 91̽»¨ has unveiled evidence indicating that subatomic particles known as neutrinos have mass.

New research indicates that young women who are compelled to exercise at excessive levels are at risk for developing eating disorders and general psychological unhappiness.

Physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva have created the highest-energy electrons and positrons, the anti-matter counterparts of electrons, ever produced in a man-made particle accelerator.

The UW’s animation arts class has been transformed into a full-blown production studio in which art, music and computer science students blend their diverse talents to produce a movie — from storyboards to soundtracks.

Investigators reviewing three decades of research into body weight regulation conclude that it may not be possible to find a single effective treatment for obesity. Instead, drug therapy may have to target the multiple systems that control weight.