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Oct 14, 2004 | Science and Tech

New propulsion concept could make 90-day Mars round trip possible
A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.

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Oct 15, 2004 | Law and Policy | Education
Charter schools would add little to state education costs, study predicts
Despite concerns that passage of a charter schools measure could lead to a drain on public coffers, a new study predicts that the cost to taxpayers would be modest.

Oct 14, 2004 | Science and Tech
UW licenses potential cancer treatment derived from ancient Chinese folk remedy
A group of promising cancer fighting compounds derived from a substance used in ancient Chinese medicine will be developed for potential use in humans, UW officials announced this week.

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•	Ancient Chinese folk remedy may hold key to non-toxic cancer treatment (Nov 26, 2001)

Oct 14, 2004 | Social Science | Health and Medicine
Emotion coaching can help children overcome impacts of family violence
When women engage in a technique called emotion coaching, even in families where there is domestic violence, their children are less aggressive, depressed and withdrawn, researchers have found.

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Oct 12, 2004 | Social Science | Education
Washington state's brightest fifth- to eighth-graders sought by UW
Once again the University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state as part of its Washington Search for Young Scholars program.

Oct 11, 2004 | Business
Successful development of new products requires anticipating customers' needs
Paying attention to what customers do, not what they say, is key in the creation and development of new products that can best satisfy customers' needs and desires.

Oct 8, 2004 | Science and Tech
UW computer scientists help find rare cooperative RNA switches in nature
Two University of Washington computer scientists are part of a team that has discovered a pair of rare, naturally occurring RNA "switches" in a class of bacteria. The finding could support the notion of an "RNA world," or an evolutionary period when RNA played a much greater role in metabolic processes.

Oct 8, 2004 | Health and Medicine

Distinguished molecular microbiologist to chair department at UW School of Medicine
Dr. E. Peter Greenberg, a pioneer in the study of bacterial cell-to-cell signaling,has been selected to chair the University of Washington School of Medicine's Department of Microbiology.

Oct 7, 2004 | Health and Medicine
Fred Hutchinson researcher wins Nobel Prize
Linda B. Buck, member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centers Basic Sciences Division, investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and affiliate professor of physiology and biophysics at the UW School of Medicine, will share the 2004 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for discoveries of some of the underlying molecular mechanisms of the sense of smell.

Oct 6, 2004 | Science and Tech

Smart watch system could help busy, forgetful people keep track of necessities
A UW computer science professor and a team of students have developed a prototype system for a watch that can keep track of essentials -- cell phone, keys, wallet -- to make certain they're not left behind.

Sep 30, 2004 | Science and Tech

Collaborators designing data, control architecture for new generation of ocean observatories
Oceanographers and computer scientists designing cyberinfrastructure to link research institutions on land with several existing and planned ocean observatories off the west coasts of the United States, Canada and Mexico today received $3.9 million toward that effort.

Sep 30, 2004 | Science and Tech

Scientists sequence genome of kind of organism central to biosphere's carbon cycle
The first ever genomic map of a diatom, part of a family of microscopic ocean algae that are among the Earth's most important inhabitants, has yielded surprising insights about the way they may be using nitrogen, fats and silica in order to thrive.

Sep 30, 2004 | Education | Social Science
UW lands $12.4 million federal grant to create science of learning center
An interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers has been awarded $12.4 million by the National Science Foundation to establish a center to investigate how humans learn and to create environments that will help prepare people of all ages for future learning.

Sep 30, 2004 | Campus | Law and Policy
ADVISORY -- Campus debate-watch gatherings tonight
Two University of Washington student groups have planned gatherings – open to the public and press – to watch and discuss tonight's first presidential debate:

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