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In the beginning, there was the printed paycheck.

Ask the average Seattleite where the “gay/lesbian district” is, and he or she is likely to point to Capitol Hill.

From computers to cancer treatment, wheelchairs to semiconductors, six Washington companies have teamed with researchers from the UW to conduct critical research as a result of funding awards from the Washington Technology Center.

Washington Sate is the first in the nation to secure federal approval for an enhanced plan to prevent and manage natural disasters, and the UW is one of the state agencies that participated in its development.

A small fish with a remarkable hearing system that enables females to zero in on the love hums broadcast by males during the breeding season is providing scientists with clues that someday might provide a treatment for people with high-frequency hearing loss.

Urbanites escaping to the majestic beauty of the rural Northwest this summer may not realize that the families living in those scenic communities face a growing struggle to hang on.

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.

A small fish with a remarkable hearing system that enables females to zero in on the love hums broadcast by males during the breeding season is providing scientists with clues that someday might provide a treatment for people with high-frequency hearing loss.

A finance reform known as weighted student funding enabled two major school districts to shrink inequities and direct resources to pupils in need, researchers have found.

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.

Polly Olsen has been named director of the Native American Center of Excellence (NACOE), part of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the School of Medicine.

Susan Grant, senior associate administrator for Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer of UW Medical Center, has been appointed as an assistant dean for clinical nursing practice in the UW School of Nursing.