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HISTORIC QUILT: Faculty and staff volunteers from the University of Pittsburgh’s Greensburg campus have commemorated some of the institution’s history in a 10-panel quilt.

A new study demonstrates the challenge facing the nation in carrying out the goal President Bush announced last month to give every young child a jump on literacy.

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Say you’re a student, thousands of miles from home in a foreign culture, where a language other than your own is spoken.

Craig Hogan, the divisional dean of sciences in the UW’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been named vice provost for research.

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The National Science Foundation said Tuesday it has tentatively chosen the UW as the host of one of six new science and technology centers, a designation that would place the University firmly at the leading edge of research to develop ground-breaking information technology.

The 2002 Taking Control of Your Diabetes conference is Saturday, May 4, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle.

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Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, will speak at 7 p.

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Craig Hogan, the divisional dean of sciences in the University of Washington’s College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the university’s vice provost for research.

A new center to be named in honor of Evans School of Public Affairs Dean Marc Lindenberg will be announced tomorrow by the University of Washington with the mission of increasing the university’s teaching, research and service connections with struggling regions around the world.

The number of 15- to 17-year-old boys having sex in the past decade dropped 8.5 percent, and teens were generally acting more responsibly when it came to sex with rates of pregnancy, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases all falling

A new study demonstrates the challenge facing the nation in carrying out the goal President Bush announced in April to give every young child a jump start on literacy. The workforce the nation must rely on to improve early learning is detailed in the new study: the 2.3 million people who are paid to take care of America’s preschoolers and make sure they are prepared to learn in school.

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The National Science Foundation said today it has tentatively chosen the University of Washington as the host of one of six new science and technology centers, a designation that would place the university firmly at the leading edge of research to develop groundbreaking information technology.

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More than 2,200 students in the first-, second- and third-grades and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.

Michelle McGowan, a warehouse supervisor in the UW recycle center, and Betty the Bottle share a light moment at the Earth Day fair last Friday in Red Square.

The Health Sciences Open House, an outstanding opportunity for the UW community and the general public to learn about advances in health and medicine, takes place this weekend, Friday, April 26, and Saturday, April 27.

Two of the eight winners of Gairdner International Awards for 2002, announced in Tornoto Tuesday, are faculty members in the UW School of Medicine.

A half-day program on using new technology for patient-centered care and self-management of chronic disease is set for 1 to 4 p.

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The 2002 Taking Control of Your Diabetes conference is Saturday, May 4, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in downtown Seattle.

Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran, will speak at 7 p.

More than 12 feet 6 inches long, it was caught in the Gulf of Alaska, frozen and sent by plane to Seattle where Ted Pietsch, professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences, picked it up Friday.

There was virtually nothing controversial about Bonnie Taylor’s first two jobs at the UW.

The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement last weekend from the National Research Council’s Committee on the Physics of the Universe.

The fossil — an underwater plant called a crinoid — is estimated to be at least 320 million years old and is about 1 square foot.

VICTORIOUS VIDEOS: Several videos produced by UWTV have been honored recently.

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

A limited number of free tickets for faculty and staff are still available for Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s UW appearance May 7.

Parasite-caused diseases such as malaria kill millions of people each year, and eradication efforts have been largely futile.

Ask children what musical instruments they would like to play and boys invariably will pick something like the trumpet, drums or saxophone while girls tend to favor the violin, clarinet or flute.

Robotics demonstrations, liquid nitrogen ice cream, the largest subsonic wind tunnel in the Northwest, telephones that communicate on beams of light, computer animation and levitating trains are all on the agenda for this year’s Engineering Open House at the UW.

ON THE MIDDLE ROAD: Educators in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District in suburban San Diego are reinventing the way middle schools operate.

Three UW professors are among 184 artists, scholars and scientists selected from more than 2,800 applicants for Guggenheim Fellowship awards.