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

For many years molecular biologists have watched the process of cell division under the microscope.

It’s a financial jungle out there, especially for college students.

You wouldn’t expect a play called The Suicide to be a comedy.

The first of a series of public forums to be held in connection with the UW presidential search will be held 4-6 p.

New employee orientation goes online

Training and Development has created a new online employee orientation to replace the in-person sessions.

Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well being.

Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to bind up 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.

Obesity in the United States is in part an economic issue, according to a review paper on the relationship between poverty and obesity published in the January 2004 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well-being. However, nature is suffering, and so are our children, who are growing up in increasingly bleak environments far from the natural world in which humans evolved.

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.

The world of dance may be overwhelmingly female, but the world of choreography is overwhelmingly male.

New badges for staff, faculty and students are coming to the Health Sciences Center, and wearing them when the building is closed to the public will soon be the rule.

Transplantation of solid-tissue organs has become fairly common, if not routine, and bone marrow transplants are being improved and tried for many different autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer.

UW Medicine is offering the general public and the UW community the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research by attending Mini-Medical School 2003.

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

Everyone, it seems, knows one of them — the people who can’t say no to a chocolate treat.

Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resources, and also indicates that early Indians’ harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable.

Find someone’s fingerprints at the scene of a crime and you know they were there.