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New laws protected salmon spawning grounds in 17 rivers, prohibiting the streams from being blocked with dams or fishing nets and imposing stiff fines for violations.

The year was 1715, and King George I of England enacted laws in an effort to protect salmon runs throughout Great Britain.Today few salmon ply British waterways, the victims of overfishing, degraded habitat, harnessing water power for industry, and misguided use of hatcheries to restore salmon runs, which ultimately hurt more than helped. Strikingly, much the same scenario began playing out 100 years later in the rivers of northeastern North America.

The market’s looking bullish in Balmer Hall thanks to the University of Washington Business School’s new Nasdaq trading room.

University of Washington Interim President Lee Huntsman announced today a set of initiatives, designed in collaboration with student leaders, to address issues of noise, disturbance and security in the neighborhood bordering the University north of 45th St.

The UW Combined Fund is an easy and fun way for UW employees to contribute to their favorite charities through either payroll deduction or by check.

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By Mary Levin

The Board of Regents recently approved a new housing and parking complex that will meet the growing needs of a growing UW Tacoma campus. The $17.1 million facility is funded primarily through private investments and is scheduled for completion in 2006.

When the Spanish and Portuguese Studies Department played host to a delegation of consuls from Spain, Mexico and eight other Latin American and Caribbean countries recently, it was just part of the outreach it’s doing in an effort to grow.

A fresh batch of teaching assistants started their duties recently with a cram session designed to help them get ready to meet students. Graduate Dean Marsha Landolt called the three-day session a “signature event.”

New findings by a UW researcher studying the Amazon River reverse conventional wisdom about flood plains. He shows that La Niña is responsible for moving enormous amounts of sediment from the Andes Mountains into the Amazon’s flood plain.

The Center for Urban Horticulture broke ground yesterday on a replacement for Merrill Hall, which was torched more than two years ago by self-styled ecoterrorists. The new building should be ready in a year.

UW Medical Center’s new Surgery Pavilion was dedicated Friday evening, Sept.

Elections for employee representatives to the 11 organizational University Health and Safety Committees have begun.

Paul Burstein, professor of sociology and adjunct professor of political science, has been named chair of the Jewish Studies Program. On the faculty in Jewish Studies since 1987, Burstein centers his research on discrimination based on religion.

At least one thing became clear during a recent seminar: digital scholarship is changing the way things are done on campus. Participants said librarians will be at the forefront of storing and sharing information that often never makes it to print.

A growing group of non-native English speakers in Washington’s public schools means a major challenge for teachers. But a UW center is sharing strategies to help those kids succeed.

You’re in the middle of a major project when you get an e-mail message from Computing & Communications: “Your disk space is full. Delete something or your account will be shut down.” That needn’t happen anymore, thanks to a new tool on the MyUW site.

Dedication and open house for the new $72 million Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering.

The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Rather it was the end game in a long, deliberate process undertaken by the United States government, which was unable or unwilling to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, a University of Washington scholar contends in a new book.

Conventional wisdom says a river’s flood plain builds bit by bit, flood after flood, whenever the stream overflows its banks and deposits new sediment on the flood plain. But for some vast waterways in South America’s Amazon River basin, that wisdom doesn’t hold water.

A four-member panel will discuss how seismic faults are located, what faults look like above and below ground, the types of earthquakes the faults have produced and will produce in the future, and where scientists next will search for faults.

The remaining shell of Merrill Hall is coming down and construction fencing is going up at the Center for Urban Horticulture. A groundbreaking ceremony tomorrow will mark the start of construction to replace the building, which was fire bombed May 2001 by domestic terrorists.

When fires turn eastern Washington and Oregon forests into wastelands, valuable wildlife habitat is lost and it costs between $1,300 and $2,100 per acre in fire-fighting costs, lost buildings, economic suffering by nearby communities and degraded waterways, say University of Washington researchers in a recently published report.

A survey of 500 patients aged 18 to 64 in a Colorado primary-care clinic that serves only uninsured, low-income adults indicated that many were troubled by emotional distress and physical pain.

Dr. Sheila A. Lukehart, research professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, has been named the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine’s assistant dean of research and graduate education.

Scientists will present cutting-edge geological research and discuss geology topics of specific interest in the Pacific Northwest when the Geological Society of America holds its annual meeting in Seattle in November.

Researchers from the University of Washington School of Dentistry and health care providers in the Yakima Valley will cooperate on a clinical trial this fall to explore a new way of using fluoride varnishes to prevent cavities in high risk children.

A 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in the prey hunted by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, according to a new study.

Richard L. Nolan, professor emeritus of The Harvard Business School, will be named on Monday the inaugural Philip M. Condit Endowed Chair in Business Administration at the University of Washington Business School.

A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.

Archaeologists at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture had no idea what they would learn when they sent Nellie, the museum’s Egyptian mummy, to the University of Washington Medical Center to undergo a CT scan three years ago as the first step in a conservation process.

University of Washington Medical Center will offer the public a preview of its new Surgery Pavilion during a pair of open houses Sept. 19 and 20.

It’s been a hot summer in Washington, but it’s a dry heat. Literally. The state is experiencing its driest summer since at least 1900, with local rain amounts from 70 percent to 85 percent below normal.

A virtual reality researcher from the University of Washington and a Weill Cornell Medical College therapist have engaged the virtual world to treat victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Work done by researchers at the University of Washington and Group Health Center for Health Studies shows that depressed older adults use more health care services and have higher health care costs than their peers who do not suffer from depression.

University of Washington leads $50 million Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research

Design and construction planning began this week by Vulcan Inc. on the newest phase of UW Medicine Lake Union, the University of Washington’s new medical research hub that will be located in the heart of Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

The University of Washington, Seattle, today announced a new transfer admissions agreement with the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC).

Researchers studying physical and chemical processes at the smallest scales, smaller even than the width of a human hair, have found that fluid circulating in a microscopic whirlpool can reach radial acceleration more than a million times greater than gravity, or 1 million Gs.

Companies that offer interactive Web sites to consumers have a two to five times greater chance of selling their products than those that only provide static information, according to a University of Washington professor.