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Bioengineering researchers at the University of Washington will lead a multi-million-dollar effort to grow functional human heart tissue, an undertaking that could lead to tissue-engineered replacement hearts and set in place the technology to grow other major organs in the laboratory.

Reconnecting Youth, a substance abuse prevention program from the University of Washington School of Nursing, was one of two Washington programs that won an Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award for 1999, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announced this week.

You might call it real virtuality. That’s how some University of Washington freshmen are describing the chance to finally meet Japanese students from Tohoku University with whom they collaborated fall quarter via cyberspace on a series of engineering projects. The teamwork was part of a new class designed to introduce beginning college students to hands-on engineering in the international arena.

Since January, volunteers with Black Data Processing Associates, a national non-profit organization, have been meeting with local high school and middle school students, providing them with a forum in which to nurture computer skills.