The latest news from the UW

Steve Hill
University Week

The UW’s Sciences and Tribes Educational Partnership (STEP) is entering its third summer on some kind of a roll.

A restoration plan has been approved for the open area to the south of Suzzallo Library — an area that has been fenced off for the last two years and occupied by construction trailers and a variety of equipment and supplies.

As the world’s increasing population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration.

Steve Hill
University Week

The third annual Summer Arts Festival at the UW is being billed as an exploration of beat.

At 550, 8 1/2-by-11 pages, it’s hardly bedtime reading, but Keith Benson thinks Oceanographic History: the Pacific and Beyond is more interesting than the average “Proceedings” that comes out of a conference.

In a story last week on the June 5 Alzheimer’s Public Forum, Linda Teri was identified as director of the School of Nursing’s de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging.

Withdrawal symptoms and how to ease them

First lecture June 20; discussion groups begin June 26

The UW Center for AIDS Research will hold an afternoon conference on Friday, June 14, at Harborview Medical Center’s Research and Training Building.

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
Instructors are reminded that the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 requires that the University treat student records in a confidential manner.

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Sixteen of the nation’s top ocean-policy experts, scheduled to meet in Seattle June 13 and 14, want to hear what Pacific Northwest residents consider to be the most pressing coastal and ocean issues facing the region and the nation.

Life on the street is dangerous for any homeless youth, but a new UW study shows that danger increases for sexual minorities.

Only two teams remain in the running for this year’s National Basketball Association championship, which began yesterday. Teams that want a better shot at making it to next year’s finals might want to consider forfeiting their upcoming draft picks, a University of Washington researcher says.

The Becoming Parents Program consists of 27 hours of class–21 hours over six weeks during pregnancy and three two-hour “booster classes” when the baby is 6 to 8 weeks old and 6 months old. The classes focus on the couple, rather than just the mother, and teach people skills to strengthen their couple relationship and make it all they want it to be–especially with the challenges of parenthood.

Six-month-old hearing infants exposed to American Sign Language (ASL) for the first time prefer it to pantomime, lending new evidence that humans show a broad preference for languages over “non-languages,” according to a University of Washington researcher who will present her findings here Friday at the annual convention of the American Psychological Society.

University of Washington researchers are looking for 40 Puget Sound area boys and girls who are good spellers and who are finishing up the fourth, fifth or sixth grades to participate in a study that is designed to help other children who are having difficulty learning to spell.

Laboratory rats that have been repeatedly depleted of salt become sensitized to amphetamine, exhibiting an exaggerated hyperactive response to the drug and an unusual pattern of neuronal growth in a part of their brains, neuroscientists have found.

As the world’s spiraling population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration. But University of Washington zoologists and a Falkland Islands researcher have found that such interest could prove detrimental to Falklands penguins, whose numbers already could be declining.

FOUL FRAGRANCE: Sunshine and May rains are bringing forth the earthy fragrance of field and flower, but meanwhile, UW botanists are expecting a corpse flower to bloom this week, filling the air with a very different “fragrance” — one that drives flies, carrion beetles, sweat bees and their brethren wild.

Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations

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Claire Dietz
HS News and Community Relations

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The well-known link between stress and heart disease starts with stress and other factors that can lead to poor health habits, according to a new UW study led by Dr.

Roberto Sanchez
Educational Outreach

Whenever Priscilla Long collects assignments from her writing students, there’s a name on the pile that pops up every time — her own.

If you can create an aquarium exhibit that fascinates and entertains kids and their parents with green crabs, tiny zebra mussels and the cute Chinese mitten crab, along with vibrant graphics and stories that warn of alien invaders, then education sneaks into a fun adventure.

UW units are sponsoring an Alzheimer’s Disease Public Forum from 6:30 to 8:30 p.

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