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LAWYER FOR THE LANDLESS: Law professor Roy Prosterman has received the Gleitsman Foundation International Activist Award honoring achievement in alleviating world poverty.

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April has definitely not been the cruelest month at University Book Store, where we are winding down our celebration of National Poetry Month with book displays and readings.

The Transportation Office invites faculty, staff and students to participate in its “Walk In” campaign Monday, April 21 through Friday, April 25.

A woman’s heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problems at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth.

The UW is seeking private funds to endow a scholarship in memory of Lt.

A quartet of undergraduate business students from South Korea proved they knew beans about Starbucks’ strategy for international expansion and took home top honors last weekend in the Business School’s fifth annual Global Business Challenge.

Business as usual will temporarily stop for some at the UW on Wednesday, April 23.

Business as usual will temporarily stop for some at the UW on Wednesday, April 23. Interim UW President Lee Huntsman has set aside the day, a “Time of Reflection: The War in Iraq,” so that the campus community can come together and explore the meaning and consequences of the war and its aftermath.

The remarkable Lost City hydrothermal vent field, so named partly because it sits on a seafloor mountain named the Atlantis Massif, was discovered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,500 miles off the East Coast of the United States during an expedition that wasn’t even looking for hydrothermal vents. Now the two scientists who were the first to travel in a submersible to the field after its serendipitous discovery Dec. 4, 2000, are leading a National Science Foundation-funded expedition to map and farther investigate the field.

A poll released today (April 14) indicates that nearly three-quarters of Washington state residents believe too little is spent on prevention research and that current spending should be more than doubled.

A woman’s heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problems at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth.

Eleven University of Washington (UW) scientists participated in the planning of a new national vision for genome research unveiled today. The National Human Genome Research Institute of the federal National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced publication of the plans for future genomic research at a news conference this morning in Bethesda, Md.

A quartet of undergraduate business students from Seoul National University proved they knew beans about Starbucks’ strategy for international expansion and took home top honors last weekend in the University of Washington Business School’s fifth annual Global Business Challenge.

Harborview Medical Center was recently selected under the auspices of Homeland Security as one of only three hospitals in the country to participate as a lead institution for an International Medical Surgical Response Team or (IMSURT).

The King County Council this week unanimously approved Harborview’s Bond Project Ordinance to move forward on the schematic design of the project. This marks a significant milestone and lays the foundation for the project to proceed through design and construction.

An international team of scientists has gathered evidence that suggests the parasite that causes malaria may have emerged as a human disease agent much earlier in history than previously thought. The malaria parasite is Plasmodium falciparum.

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

If high school students ran the world, Israelis and Palestinians would declare a ceasefire, land mines would be heading toward extinction and the United Nations already would be gearing up to rebuild Iraq.

In Vladi Chaloupka’s worldview we are living, quite precariously, on one small spark.

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Now that utility and paving crews have given “The Ave” a new foundation, University of Washington architecture students are about to give the shops a face-lift.

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Children whose mothers are the most depressed, anxious, and report high levels of psychosomatic symptoms are twice as likely to be taken to a doctor when they complain of a stomach ache or abdominal pain than are children whose mothers report the least amount of such mental stress.

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It’s a classic dilemma for air travelers in today’s world of wildly varying ticket prices — should you purchase now if the rate seems reasonable, or wait for a better deal and take the risk that the price will go up?

Researchers at the UW and the University of Southern California appear to have taken out some of the uncertainty with a new computer program that approaches a 90 percent score in saving money by predicting air fares.

Irregular heartbeats that put people at higher risk of stroke are more common than patients and doctors might think, according to a report in a recent issue of Circulation, which is published by the American Heart Association.

Now that utility and paving crews have given “The Ave” a new foundation, University of Washington architecture students are about to give the shops a facelift.

The mistaken belief that their young children are “too big for a car seat” leads many parents to assume their children are ready to graduate to adult seatbelts. By failing to protect their 4- to 8-year-old children by placing them in booster seats, these parents are leaving young passengers vulnerable to injury and death in motor vehicle crashes, the leading cause of mortality for children in this age group.

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The University of Washington School of Nursing takes the top honors again as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.S.News & World Report’s annual ranking of graduate programs in health care.

For the 10th consecutive year, the University of Washington School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S.News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

The University of Washington is No. 1 among primary care medical schools, and No. 1 among nursing schools in the new U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.

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