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An elementary school intervention program that taught children impulse control and gave their teachers and parents better management skills has long-lasting effects extending into early adulthood, showing that the children are more productive and well-adjusted members of society at age 21, according to a new study.

Twenty-first century technology has deeply penetrated even strict, self-contained religious communities that try to shut it out, University of Washington researchers have found.

Migraine sufferers are twice as likely to experience a stroke, compared to people who do not get this type of headache.

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Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s – and not warmer temperatures of recent years – are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say.

The University of Washington has established a special office to support further development of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades.

The following is a statement by University of Washington Acting Provost David Thorud on today’s appointment of Denice D.

The Pacific Northwest has seen its share of major environmental battles.

Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history.

They’re down to the finishing touches.

If you took a stroll down Memorial Way this week, you might have noticed some wooden plaques leaning against the trees.

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

The Bottom Line Duo, made up of husband-and-wife team Spencer and Traci Hoveskeland, will be the featured guests for the Barry Lieberman and Friends concert at 2 p.

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When the UW’s Property and Transport Services holds a public auction on Saturday, Dec.

When the UW Motor Pool was honored recently for pollution prevention, it was the fourth time in the last year it has been singled out for its environmentally friendly efforts.

The connection between species richness and area occupied, recognized by biologists for more than a hundred years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level.

By today’s standards, pretending to be sick to get out of a day’s work, sneaking away to meet friends in the woods at night, learning to read and write or tacking up an abolitionist poster in their quarters may seem to be pretty tame infractions.

The Congressional response to the recommendations of the 911 Commission is unlikely to prevent future terrorist attacks in the United States, according to former Washington Senator Slade Gorton.

Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America’s school-age children.

The UW Faculty Senate is starting to get interested in intercollegiate athletics.

Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior.

As citizens of Washington state wait out a third count with 42 votes separating the candidates for governor, new research shows that Washington was not the only state where the voters’ true choice may never be known.

The connection between species richness and area occupied, recognized by biologists for more than a hundred years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level.

Pharmaceutical drug companies spend upward of $25 billion per year on promoting new drugs and distributing free samples to doctors, but new research shows such marketing devices have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior.

Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America’s school-age children.

Recent testing throughout the Seattle Public School District revealed that many schools have at least one drinking fountain with lead levels that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency guideline for lead in school drinking water.

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Mention Scrooge and what comes to mind? Miserly, check; mean, check; unsympathetic, check; tap dancer, ch — huh? Dickens’ famous curmudgeon doing a soft shoe routine? Not the picture we usually have of the old boy.

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

Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.

Maresi Nerad, director of the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.

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

Last spring, the children of Toppenish were asked what they wanted to liven up their city park.

Maresi Nerad, director of the UW’s Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE) and associate dean for research in the Graduate School, has powerful ideas about the future of doctoral education, in the U.

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