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July 20, 2004

UW School of Pharmacy researcher receives $2.8 million grant for study of medications in pregnant women

Dr. Mary Hebert, associate professor of pharmacy, and her University of Washington team of researchers have received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institution of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) to research the clinical pharmacology of drugs in pregnant woman.

July 13, 2004

Some of the biggest raindrops on record found in both clean and dirty air

On two occasions, separated by four years and thousands of miles and in very different conditions, raindrops were measured at sizes similar to or greater than the largest ever recorded. The largest ones were at least 8 millimeters in diameter and were possibly a centimeter, about four-tenths of an inch or a quarter the size of a golf ball.

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Notices

UW Weekend Homestay

English Language Programs is looking for individuals and families to host Japanese university students for the Summer 2004 Weekend Homestay program.

News Makers

CLIMATE CHAOS: Author Charles Wohlforth consulted Gerard Roe, a UW associate professor of Earth and Space Sciences, when Wohlforth researched his book on climate change titled The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change.

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TOP ACADEMIC: Law Professor Anita Ramasastry received the 2004 National South Asian Bar Association’s Outstanding Academician Award.

July 7, 2004

Study links obesity, other health problems to adolescent binge drinking

A new UW study has found that people who began binge drinking at age 13 and continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to be overweight or obese and almost 3 1/2 times as likely to have high blood pressure when they were 24 years old than were people who never or rarely drank heavily during adolescence.