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March 6, 2003
Decade-long study of weight loss and type 2 diabetes still needs participants; more than 200 already recruited
Look AHEAD, the first long-term study to look at the effects of weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes, has recruited more than 200 of the approximately 300 people being sought for the local study site.
UW, national lab initiate a nationwide effort to bolster nanotech education
An effort initiated by the University of Washington to broaden the scope of education in one of science’s hottest and most rapidly evolving fields has attracted a national audience of researchers.
March 5, 2003
Scientists gather at UW to discuss the intersections of engineering and biology
Leaders in the fields of biology and engineering and researchers from around the Puget Sound region involved in exploring the intersection of these rapidly advancing fields.
March 4, 2003
Companies must roam to stay competitive, say corporate information chiefs
The high-tech industry may be mired in a slump but it continues to stoke a business revolution that could leave some regions behind, University of Washington researchers have found.
February 28, 2003
Composted biosolids bind lead in soil, reducing danger of poisoning
Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to have bound the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside or are tempted to taste those delicious mud pies they “baked” in the backyard.
Celebrities to read for kids at Harborview on March 3
What: The general public is invited to Harborview’s Reach Out & Read in the Children and Teens clinic in the Ground West Clinic of the medical center.
February 27, 2003
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Opera is inspiration for new dance
Next week’s Faculty Dance Concert will offer a new interpretation of a scene from one of the world’s great operas.
They’re innocent: Scientists exonerate Clovis people in 11,000-year-old mystery
Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals.
February 26, 2003
Endless hotcakes make for hot debate among hungry engineering students
The International House of Pancakes restaurant just west of the University of Washington campus in Seattle is not usually considered a hotbed for science.
February 25, 2003
Doctors should consider providing more information to patients about medical errors
errors. Researchers who conducted a series of focus groups with doctors and patients say that patients want to be fully informed when an error happens, and believe such disclosure would increase their trust in their doctor. Yet while doctors want to be truthful, a variety of barriers may prevent physicians from disclosing errors to patients.
UW School of Dentistry opens Center for Leadership Education in Pediatric Dentistry
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February 24, 2003
Evidence acquits Clovis people of ancient killings, archaeologists say
Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals.
February 21, 2003
Top executives discuss opportunities, challenges of e-business
The push to digitize the workplace is changing the strategies behind how successful businesses strengthen security issues, revolutionize corporate travel and advance customer relationship management initiatives.
February 20, 2003
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Bremner to receive 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from UW medical grads
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Computer analysis finds patterns in viral RNA
Medical and health sciences researchers frequently conduct studies in vivo, within the body, or in vitro, in a test tube.
UW tutors help public school students prepare for the WASL
The small elementary school gymnasium is teeming with the unmistakable energy of youth.
Engines based on nature may someday improve synthetic world
For Viola Vogel, thinking big naturally comes coupled with the smallest objects imaginable.
Researchers learning about language learning
Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life.
Goodbye spam: New filter makes it possible
It happens to all of us.
Studying all life: New department combines botany, zoology, biology
The University of Washington has a biology department.
Ultrasound Provides a New Way to Look at Heart Health
Seattle — Every 53 seconds, someone in America has a stroke.
February 19, 2003
Landscape students from 2 nations to design for International District
Eleven landscape architecture students from Japan’s Chiba University will join their University of Washington counterparts to develop urban-design proposals for key sites in the Chinatown-Nihonmachi-Little Saigon-International District, where community groups seek to preserve the area’s heritage amid development pressure.
February 18, 2003
Car booster seat usage rises after community campaign
Few children aged 4- to 8-years old ride in booster seats despite evidence that these children are not adequately protected by adult seat belts and that booster seats are effective in reducing children’s risk of injury.
February 17, 2003
Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese
Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl reported today that 9-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language.
February 14, 2003
Tiny ‘nanotrains’ could power big changes in the future
According to Vogel, director of the University of Washington’s Center for Nanotechnology, understanding how nature does things at the molecular level and adapting those techniques into the synthetic world could drastically alter just about every aspect of our lives.
February 13, 2003
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Nickels wants to lift city’s lease lid on UW
The city of Seattle would remove a key barrier to UW growth if legislation proposed Wednesday morning by Mayor Greg Nickels comes to fruition.
February 12, 2003
Washington state;s health system ‘is in trouble,’ report says
“Washington’s health-care system is in trouble,” says a study released by the Health Policy Analysis Program (HPAP) of the University of Washington.
February 10, 2003
Harborview receives one of the highest JCAHO scores in the country
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released its final report and awarded Harborview Medical Center a score of 97 with no Type I deficiencies.
February 7, 2003
Whidbey grad, UW alum gives $1 million to send budding engineers to college
The founder and president of the company that makes the world’s top-selling civilian helicopter has given $1 million to help promising engineering students from Whidbey Island attend the University of Washington.
February 6, 2003
UW vision researchers produce images published in Nature
Using atomic-force microscopy, vision researchers have taken pictures of some of the eye’s photon receptors in their natural state, and have analyzed their packing arrangement.
Toward a vaccine for herpes
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Computer Science center nears completion
The new home of computer science at the UW has entered its final phase.
Teaching democracy: Book stresses need to educate for citizenship
While parents, teachers and school administrators are busy worrying about students’ declining reading and math scores on standardized tests, a UW researcher fears another basic educational tenet may have slipped off the radar screen.
Staffer feeds childhood fossil obsession at the Burke
Bruce Crowley is a man who loves his job.
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