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A second season of Luce Lectures will focus on the U.

Community leaders and members of the UW family who have made outstanding achievements in promoting diversity at the UW and in the community will be honored when the Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) and UW Alumni Association holds the 14th annual Bridging the Gap Breakfast on Saturday, Oct.

As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.

When John Francis was an undergraduate biology major at the UW, he spent several summers studying northern fur seals in Alaska, and the experience hooked him on research.

POLL FIBBING: Anthony Greenwald, the UW professor of psychology who developed an online test to detect implicit biases called Project Implicit, was mentioned in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about voters lying in polls and surveys.

Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.

A report on the log-truck industry just delivered to the state Legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Hundreds of spring-blooming bulb selections and companion plants will be available at the Arboretum Foundation’s Fall Bulb and Plant Sale from 10 a.

Three finalists for the position of chief of the UW Police Department will be visiting campus this month.

There’s a lot of truth in the old proverb “experience is the best teacher,” and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.

The Capital Projects Office recently held its second highly successful networking event for companies seeking a share of the UW’s capital projects, which typically amount to at least $300 million annually.

The UW received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.

Seminal fluid contains protein factors that, when transferred from a male to a female at mating, affect reproductive success.

That patience and persistence pay off is dramatically illustrated by the scholarly work of Mona Atia, whose recent dissertation on trends in Islamic charitable giving was hailed by one reviewer as “the best dissertation I have read anywhere.

POWER PICNIC: Staff of the UW’s Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) enjoyed a picnic Sept.

“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.