UW News Archive List: Page 02

• UW School of Medicine appoints new associate dean for clinical affairs
• Barnhart named medical director of Harborview Medical Center
• Stimulating growth hormone production in older adults can reduce body fat and increase hormone levels to those of younger adults
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Bill Nye to help dedicate sundial partially built by elementary students
• Study Shows Significant Decrease in Drowning in King County
• Statewide consortium aims to help teachers put it into
• 21st century population leadership program at UW funded by $2.3 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates
• Magnetic stimulation offers new hope for people with depression
• President appoints gay, bisexual, lesbian and transgender task force
• UW offers free public lectures on the neurobiology of learning and mental illness
• Predictions about fate of marine mammals in coming century among topics at mammalogists' meeting June 21-24
• UW Medical Center hosts free public forum on sex and aging
• University of Washington Department of Medicine honors five regional faculty members
• Rare 'corpse flower' ready to bloom in UW botany greenhouse
• Research universities to create distance learning web site
• Conference delves into the World Wide Web's power to communicate
• Scientists grow blood-producing stem cells outside the body
• Stench of &quote;corpse flower&quote; fills UW botany greenhouse as blooming begins
• Art from the heart: Anchorage artist Gerry Conaway shows his art at UW Medical Center, where he received a new heart
• MEDIA ADVISORY: UW's &quote;corpse flower&quote; begins its collapse
• UW Medical Center achieves top-20 rankings nationally in seven specialties
• UW professor's latest Web tool helps area bus riders travel smarter
• All in the family: husband-and-wife surgeons perform kidney transplant from wife to husband
• New certificate will give bioengineering grads entrepreneurial edge
• Redmond resident donates a kidney to her Kirkland sister using new minimally invasive surgery at UW Medical Center
• UW program shows students with disabilities they can DO-IT
• UW receives $500,000 to help schools teach genetics at all grade levels
• UW Medical Center and Children's Hospital perform region's first living-related split-liver transplant
• College men nearly as likely as women to report they are victims of unwanted sexual coercion
• Research on arctic expeditions suggests private sector may bebetter suited than government for exploring space
• UW professor's climate change theory leads to NASA mission
• UW awarded $11 million to study oral health issues for children
• 'Shared Space' allows users to meld virtual reality, real world
• University of Washington School of Medicine's family medicine clerkship sites in Wyoming welcome their first students
• $32 million GEAR UP project boosts education for Yakima Valley poor
• Former Husky football coach and wife give UW $100,000 for research into rare genetic disease
• Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International funds a Seattle trial of human islet transplantation
• New spacecraft propulsion method could be out of this solar system
• When it comes to business travel there's something stressful in the air
• High-achieving children off to a good Head Start academically and socially, but study shows some are not 'turned on' by school
• Exhibition tennis match and pro-am tournament will benefit UW Medical Center's Breast Care Program
• Children's inability to automatically retrieve building blocks of language, math leads to learning disabilities in reading, writing, arithmetic
• UW Medical Center reaches a milestone: performs 500th liver transplant
• Study links sobriety to money management among mentally ill patients
• Refugee outreach program to help stem tuberculosis
• Quality of death among AIDS patients depends on better communication
• Wrangell, Alaska, will be the newest family medicine clerkship training site for the University of Washington medical school
• Harvard Medical School authors of Living to 100 to speak at UW School of Nursing lecture and reception
• Understanding serotonin receptors can speed treatment for depression
• Teens with AIDS helped by new program
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Scientists set to unveil
• Popular Saturday Seminars give football fans exercise for their brains
• 'Soapy' droplets make brighter clouds
• 'Dry' SHIPS to continue investigation of seismic hazards in Puget Sound region
• Breaking the worst possible news in the best possible manner
• Drug offers new hope for victims of cardiac arrest
• New study for ARDS treatment begins at Harborview
• Study tests vitamins in recovery from trauma
• UW faculty among speakers at American Neurological Association meeting in Seattle Oct. 10-13
• State-of-the-art $79 million research building dedicated at Harborview
• Pristine Alaskan waterways and streams teeming with sockeye
• Award-winning history of Puget Sound Indians grew from historian's experience representing tribes in court
• International symposium studies bacteria-heart disease connection
• First-of-its-kind information fluency course prepares students to roll with punches in rapidly changing world of information technology
• Scholars, Internet visionaries, government strategists gather at UW
• First three minutes of discussion about on-going area of marital conflict are predictive of divorce for newlyweds
• Bridging the gap: new program encourages underrepresented minorities pursuing science careers
• Director-General of World Trade Organization to participate in campus dialogue
• Hudson named to endowed chair in pulmonary disease research
• Hudson named to endowed chair in pulmonary disease research
• Researchers say hormones are key to evolution of insect metamorphosis
• Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
• Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area
• Dick Thompson to become UW director of government relations
• UW Computer Science & Engineering awarded $3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Ford Motor Co. gift boosts UW student research, diversity recruitment
• Huge Antarctic ice sheet could be in its death throes
• Pre-WTO forum helps women, minority entrepreneurs go global
• Voluntary community service organization for UW medical students receives national Daily Point of Light Award
• Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
• 1999 Autumn Quarter Enrollments at University of Washington
• Forum to discuss Next Generation Internet and medical applications of new technologies
• Wade named University of Washington Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer
• Wade named University of Washington Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer
• 50 expectant couples sought for study, free workshop on improving marital satisfaction after the baby arrives
• University of Washington to create Technology Enterprise Institute, a new model for business creation and research
• &quote;Health of Hanford&quote; discusses worker health, site conditions
• University of Washington medical school adds new strategies in training physicians to address unmet societal needs
• UW expands Parent-Child Assistance Program to Eastern Washington
• UW awarded $10 million from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• University of Washington begins Campaign for Arts with $2.5 million gifts
• UW, Japanese freshmen team up via the Net for engineering course
• UW to begin clinical trials of an implantable hearing aid system
• Professor who headed MIT committee that found systematic discrimination against women faculty to speak at UW forum
• University of Washington Campus Master Plan meetings Nov. 16
• Two health screening programs find health problems among some former Hanford workers
• UW School of Medicine teaches doctor/patient communication at each level of physician training
• UW hosts seminar about preventing workplace violence
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Scientists to issue report detailing regional impact of climate change
• Ambassador and former House Speaker Thomas Foley to address UW Law School on Japan and the WTO
• &quote;Snow Falling on Cedars&quote; has special local premiere
• Study explores how people react to learning they have genital herpes
• Graduate math, science and engineering students can get PRIME experience through fellowships in new UW program
• Personality styles predict those at risk for recurring major depression
• Alcohol counseling for trauma patients halves risk of reinjury
• New grant for UW chronic fatigue syndrome study
• A language that students understand: Eyewitness accounts of E. Timor perils make for a gripping language course
• UW reaches across globe to pioneer interdisciplinary study program on human rights
• New Network Speed Records Set
• UW to create Center for Journalism and Trauma
• Earthquake engineers gather at UW for briefing on Taiwan temblor, discussion of safety issues and implications for the Seattle area
• Feeling Depressed? New UW study might assist you, others to find an effective treatment for America's most common mental health problem
• UW, WSU presidents meet the media on Apple Cup week
• UW professor's legacy of letters enriches Nabokov-Pushkin exhibit
• New government funding for Harborview crash research
• When it comes to heavy Seattle traffic, 'fuzzy logic' smooths the flow
• Seattle researchers uncover structure of blood-clotting protein involved in most common form of hemophilia
• Shelton woman provides Thanksgiving dinner for families of intensive-care patients at UW Medical Center
• Former South African President Nelson Mandela to visit UW Health Sciences Dec. 9
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Information on tentative speech by Fidel Castro
• Conference: The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round
• MEDIA ADVISORY: Castro speech at UW cancelled
• U.S. vs. Europe: Forum to air disputes over genetically modified crops, hormone-treated beef and other WTO sticking points
• Rats exposed to cell phone microwaves suffer long-term memory loss, according to new study by a University of Washington researcher
• Ralph Nader to address Law School on globalization and the WTO
• Dental school coordinator receives international poetry honor
• Puget Sound residents had misgiving about WTO even before conference began, survey finds
• Media Advisory: Hepatitis C Coalition formed to make people aware of 'silent epidemic'
• Air pollution from Asia could violate new federal ozone standard
• Harborview receives commendation from Joint Commission
• Dr. Peggy Schlesinger voted Volunteer Medical Faculty Member of the Year
• Leroy Hood leaving University of Washington to establish private institute
• Workshops to help public officials prepare for I-695
• Radar mapping could yield new clues to past Antarctic ice stream activity
• Physicians-in-training learn how to work in partnership with patients' families
• Antibacterial implants could prevent infections, save patients' lives
• UW law professor wins international prize for essay on the nature of time
• The ultimate gift of life: Healthy baby born to woman kept on life support for seven weeks at UW Medical Center; organs donated to four recipients
• Evidence mounts for Arctic Oscillation's impact on northern climate
• University of Washington medical students training at distant sites gather at Virtual Clinic to work together on case studies
• New research may help predict when an individual's HIV infection will progress to clinical AIDS
• One year later: Young recipient of Christmas Eve heart transplant doing well
• Dental students study in a classroom of the future
• UW Academic Medical Center affiliates with First Choice Health Network
• Do insurance policies discourage doctors from counseling patients on alcoholism?
• Algal food quality, not quantity, critical factor in healthy lake ecosystems
• Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. planned at UW Health Sciences Center
• LEARN Clinic offers comprehensive evaluations of children having problems in school
• HIV virus can alter the way genes function within days of exposure
• UW hires Crew as executive director of new K-12 leadership institute