The latest news from the UW

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California have developed a new computer program that approaches a 90 percent score in saving money by predicting air fares.

To help draw attention to child abuse and sexual assault prevention, Children’s Response Center is holding the annual “To Heal A Child’s Heart” luncheon to coincide with the April observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Week (April 7-13).

Undergraduate students from 14 countries will converge in Seattle April 7-12 to compete in the University of Washington Business School’s fifth annual Global Business Challenge case competition.

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.

Researchers have identified a cell signaling system that may help the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa establish itself in the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients.

Crashes involving children riding in sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are more likely to be rollover crashes than those involving passenger cars, and these rollover crashes are associated with a greater risk of death and injury.

Samples of fluid drawn from the crustal rocks that make up most of the Earth’s seafloor are providing the best evidence yet to support the controversial assertion that life is widespread within oceanic crust, according to H. Paul Johnson, a University of Washington oceanographer.

The Internet could help unleash the largest antiwar protests in human history, according to a University of Washington expert in the rise of online activism.

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

A Noah’s ark of sorts, meant to protect seeds of rare and endangered native plants in Washington, has just been launched at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture.

This is the story of how Professor of English Shawn Wong became a television star.

When classes resume after spring break, a group of faculty and students from drama and dance will be presenting the culmination of a project they’ve been working on since fall.

The Work/Life Resource Center now has information about summer programs for children of all ages.

Just one year after a merger between two Human Resources units, the new Recruiting and Candidate Services seems to be hitting its stride.

Two friends are taking a conversation that has gone on for years and inviting other friends, and the community, to sit in on it.

Animal behaviorists have something new to crow about.

The Search Advisory Committee on the deanship of the Daniel J.

The necessity for a good president to collaborate with faculty in administering the institution was the overriding theme expressed during a forum this week on the search for a new president.

At this moment, parts of Washington and British Columbia are having an earthquake, but it is a slow-moving temblor that can’t be felt and won’t cause any injuries or damage. Still, by the end of the event, which already has lasted more than two weeks, it is likely to have released about as much energy as the Nisqually earthquake did in February 2001.

Researchers at the University of Washington have found a species of crow that distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or not the other bird is a relative.

Primary care physicians under a managed care system were more likely to refer patients to a pain specialist than other physicians were, according to a University of Washington study.

Eighty-four percent of political campaigns last year used Web sites designed to encourage participation in the political process, according to a University of Washington researcher. That’s up from less than 70 percent of campaign sites in 2000 that offered opportunities for involvement.

The intricacies of reconstructing the human nose will be the topic for the 10th annual Buehler Lecture, sponsored by the Department of Surgery’s Division of Plastic Surgery.

The UW General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) has received a five-year grant renewal for $36 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2002-2003 academic year.

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Citizens of the UW love their trees.

Craig Sheppard has performed more than half of Beethoven’s sonatas over the years.

Perhaps bowling can bridge a gap between Seattle’s professional artists and its aspiring art students at the UW.

Imagine you’re a junior at the UW, maybe 20 or 21 years old.

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Options for financing newly formed companies will be the topic for the next program in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations.

“Cover the Uninsured Week” is a series of national and local activities from Monday, March 10, to Sunday, March 16.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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