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The public can hear from the University of Washington School of Dentistry’s new dean and learn more about the latest research at the school on Wednesday, Sept. 25, during Research Day 2002.

Many founders are replaced after launching a successful company, say Warren Boeker, a professor of management and organization at the University of Washington Business School, and graduate student Rushi Karichalil. Ironically, the founders who do remain in control usually launch only moderate performing ventures.

As Congress marks the sixth anniversary of welfare reform this week, and workers look forward to a Labor Day break, a startling number of Washington families are working but still living in poverty.

Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations

You’ve tried over-the-counter painkillers, maybe glucosamine or chondroitin, modified exercise and even injections to calm the pain in your arthritic knees.

A half-day educational program on the medical device market and investing in medical device start-up companies is set for Thursday morning, Oct.

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People who have been living with diabetes 25, 50, 60 or more years will be honored at the first UW Purple and Gold Diabetes Recognition Awards ceremony at 9 a.

The Department of Surgery’s 53rd annual Strauss Lecture will be given this year by Dr.

Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

Connecting a monitor to the keyboard input on a computer’s CPU will result in neither the monitor nor keyboard functioning properly.

“Things Your Mother Never Taught You: How to Commercialize Technology in the University Setting” is the title for a new monthly series of presentations organized by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and the UW Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.

University Week is responding to the difficult budget situation on campus by shifting the publication schedule.

The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two UW researchers.

Steve Hill
University Week

Janice DeCosmo tried to keep a lid on it during a June meeting of the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Log on for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as the UW’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.

Steve Hill
University Week

Journalists covering the Sept.

Somewhere in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers may well be sharing a cave with vessels containing Buddhist texts that were created 2,000 years ago.

A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the University of Washington Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.

Log on starting Aug. 21 for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as University of Washington’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to a region of the Arctic where Atlantic and Pacific ocean waters interact in ways that could help explain the warming of the Arctic Ocean and thinning of the ice pack.

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Journalists covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath were unwittingly complicit to government and military communication strategies to rally public support, according to findings by University of Washington researchers.

With world attention focused on corporate lawbreaking and economic turmoil, Japan is trying to solve its problems by adding tens of thousands of new lawyers.
The vast legal reform now under way in Japan will be debated by some of its top designers and critics Aug. 23 and 24 at the University of Washington School of Law, sponsor of an international conference on “Law in Japan: A Turning Point.”

The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two University of Washington researchers.

Air bags were initially designed to protect an unbelted adult male in a 30 mph crash. But do air bags protect a child passenger? And are air bags really effective in protecting unrestrained adults?

The third annual Northwest Microarray Conference will be held Aug. 14 to 16 at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. The conference showcases research in gene identification and protocols, protein studies, bioinformatics, and array applications specific to cancer research.

WAY TO GO, PROFS: Psychology professors Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll will be honored in October at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Tucson, Ariz.

Endowment honors
first head of hematology

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an all-too frequent occurrence in the United States, with an estimated 1.

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