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Shortly after Ian Taylor arrived in Seattle in 1975, he got a job at the UW.

The Internet has opened up Distance Learning to a whole new level, with courses once offered through the mail being delivered instantaneously online — across town or worldwide.

Quick quiz: Which members of the campus community get to use the UW Faculty Club?

You could hardly be blamed for answering only “faculty.

When the Nisqually earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, brick chimneys in parts of West Seattle and Bremerton were left looking like so much straw after the Big Bad Wolf had gone huffing and puffing through.

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

For five weeks this summer, the University will be home to about 1,000 middle school and high school students from throughout Washington State, here to soak up atmosphere, see the sights and begin considering their college options.

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A UW eye surgeon performed the Pacific Northwest’s first artificial cornea implant June 9 at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt.

When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, hundreds of brick chimneys in two neighborhoods were seriously damaged or toppled. New research suggests the shaking in these areas might have been intensified by the Seattle fault, even though it was not the source of the earthquake.

The major trends in the American diet can be described as more calories, more refined grains, more added sugars, and more added fats. The reasons behind these trends are largely economic, says Dr. Adam Drewnowski, director of the Nutritional Sciences Program in the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine

Virtual reality appears to dramatically change how the brain physically registers pain, not just how people subjected to pain perceive the incoming signals, according to a new study by a group of University of Washington researchers.

Scientists expected the Stardust spacecraft to send back pictures of comet Wild 2 showing a chunk of rock and ice coated with dust, obscuring any interesting features. Instead, they got images filled with sharply defined mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons.

Banks located in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii did a better job of managing operating costs in 2003 than the national average, yielding investors a healthy 12 percent return on equity.

New findings indicate that the endangered callimicos are not a missing link between small and large New World monkeys.

Although pedestrian injuries have decreased in recent years, they still remain a significant health problem, accounting for 13 percent of traffic fatalities in the U.S. The growing popularity of light trucks, a category that includes sport utility vehicles (SUVs), has presented a new challenge for pedestrians and raises an important question: Do light trucks increase the risk of severe injury and death for pedestrians?

Adults often struggle trying to learn a second language, but the process may not be as tedious and slow as commonly believed.

Thirty new UW professors and librarians will venture on a five-day tour of Washington in order to discover the culture, geography and economics of the state as part of the seventh annual Faculty Field Tour.

Bonnie Dunbar, one of the world’s most experienced women astronauts and a 1970s-era engineering graduate, will be honored this week as the UW’s Alumna Summa Laude Dignata winner for 2004.

Ovarian cancer has often been called the silent killer because it’s so hard to detect. New UW research indicates that ovarian cancer may not be silent, and both women and their health-care providers should be alert for symptoms.

Members of the Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition/United Auto Workers union, representing 4,600 academic student employees, have voted overwhelmingly to ratify the first-ever agreement reached between the union and the UW.

Scientists know that tectonic stresses have left dips and folds deep within the Earth’s crust across a large swath of the Puget Sound region called the Seattle uplift.

About 12,000 students will receive their degrees and stroll toward the future in University of Washington commencement exercises this month that will feature two two-time Pulitzer Prize-winners, an author-activist and an astronaut.

The signs have begun to appear on campus.

OUTSTANDING DIETITIANS: The Washington State Dietetic Association named Cristine Trahms the 2004 Outstanding Dietitian of the Year at its recent annual meeting.

Three UW mathematical science departments have received top billing in a National Science Foundation program designed to bolster mathematics as it relates to student research and fellowships, and have won $3 million in funding over the next five years.