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The steady discovery of giant planets orbiting stars other than our sun has heightened speculation that there could be Earth-type worlds in nearby planetary systems capable of sustaining life.

Spokane, WA–The presidents of the University of Washington, Washington State University and Eastern Washington University today announced their plan to expand Spokane’s medical and dental education programs to meet the need for physicians and dentists locally and in nearby rural towns.

ACTING OUT: A certain section of a Statistics 101 class at the University of Missouri-Columbia was not quite what it seemed, according to an article in Mizzou Weekly, the university’s newspaper.

UNPAID INTERNS: A May 30 article in The New York Times took up the issue of internships, especially those without pay, and their effect on individual careers and the work culture in general.

The University of Washington Board of Regents has approved an operating budget request for the 2007-09 biennium that would increase the state general fund allocation by more than 20 percent, which would begin to close about a third of the funding gap with the UW’s competitor institutions, which currently is about $4,000 per student.

VA seeks participants for alcohol study

The UW and the Seattle VA are looking for people ages 18 to 65 who use alcohol frequently, have problems with it, and want to stop using it.

Education Professor James Banks spent the past school year as a Spencer Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, where he also finished a new book that was published to excellent reviews.

Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems, and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder.

No one can read the future.

Cultural proficiency center gets director

Amen Tsegai has been named project director for the Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education, a new National Institutes of Health-funded initiative to increase cultural competency training of medical students, residents and faculty.

Walk Softly, an exhibit of hand-woven carpets that opens July 21 at Consolidated Works, 500 Boren N.

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Artist Cat Clifford’s current work does not occupy a large part of the Henry Art Gallery.

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What if the tiniest components of matter were somehow different from the way they exist now, perhaps only slightly different or maybe a lot? What if they had been different from the moment the universe began in the big bang? Would matter as we know it be the same? Would humans even exist?

Scientists are starting to find answers to some profound questions such as these, thanks to a breakthrough in the calculations needed to understand the strong nuclear force that comes from the motion of nature’s basic building blocks, subatomic particles called quarks and gluons.

By Peggy Weis
Harborview Art Program Manager

As part of the Harborview art program’s series of temporary public art exhibitions, photographs from Seattle artist Spike Mafford’s “Braille Portfolio” are currently on view in the medical center’s Ground West Lobby, cafeteria, and the foyer of the Research & Training Building.

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

PSYCHED UP: The Department of Psychology announced its annual honors.

UW TechTransfer has announced that two-page pre-proposals requesting Technology Gap Innovation Fund (TGIF) money are due in the office of UW TechTransfer on Sept.

UW Medical Center has ranked in the top 10 among the nation’s best hospitals for fourth consecutive year, according to U.