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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.

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Two of the eight winners of Gairdner International Awards for 2002, announced in Toronto Tuesday, are faculty members in the University of Washington <A href="http://www.

Tofu hasn’t replaced apple pie, but from breakfast cereals to hamburger substitutes, soy products are becoming increasingly familiar items on the American menu.

Using a unique set of data collected over 30 years and six generations of captive-bred monkeys, researchers have found the first evidence that low birth weight is linked to a type of DNA only passed along by females.

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The weekend of April 26 and 27 will offer visitors to the University of Washington campus an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about research into engineering, medicine and health sciences through interactive exhibits and hands-on activities.

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

A Turner Construction worker labors high above Red Square on the face of Suzzallo Library repairing finials and other terra cotta that was damaged in last year’s earthquake.

KITTEN FEVER: Spring is kitten season, and if you’re in the market for a pet of the feline persuasion, Gaile Gamble wants you to know there’s an organization on campus that can give you a hand, or maybe a paw.

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

Patients in UW Medical Center’s antepartum unit on 6-South will soon have laptop computers to use during their stay at the medical center, thanks to a donation from Microsoft.

The School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Pathobiology will host the first San-pin Wang Endowed Lecture in early May.

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Would you like to share your thoughts with President McCormick, work with a dynamic group of classified and professional staff from all three UW campuses to provide input on problems at the University and have a positive impact on the UW in general and its staff in particular? If so, the President’s Staff Forum is the place for you.

The seed packets have labels with romantic-sounding names such as meadow mixture and wedding wildflowers, while others tout backyard biodiversity and make reference to Earth Day.

Students from the University of Washington have won a place on a team that plans to launch mice into space, seeking answers to the little-explored question of how Martian gravity affects mammals.

One of the wonderful things about teaching is, your students graduate and become professionals themselves.

David Silver definitely isn’t working in your father’s university.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will be on campus May 7 for two special events — a forum on the health of the world’s children and a formal academic convocation, at which he will be awarded an honorary degree.

Department chair’s name: Tony C.

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Madeline Drexler, author of the recently published book Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections, will speak to the Student Public Health Association from noon to 1 p.

Two UW researchers — Dr.

In conjunction with the art exhibit on the human genome now at the Henry Art Gallery, the UW Genome Center will have an evening open house with laboratory tours on Wednesday, April 24.

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Woodrow Wilson Foundation Announces the Innovation Awards Grant program that supports faculty and department outreach in humanities doctoral work.

RESCUE AT SEA: Members of the sailing teams at Texas A&M University at Galveston, Texas A&M University, and the University of Texas rescued six occupants of a van after the vehicle plunged into a bay near where a racing regatta was about to start.

The Washington Student Outreach Ambassador Program and the Business Education Opportunity Program were named recently as recipients of the 2002 Brotman Diversity Award.

Five UW professors are among 104 outstanding young scientists and economists from 53 colleges and universities to be selected for Sloan Research Fellowships.

The University will be trying to forge a budget plan during the next several weeks that inflicts the least amount of damage.

The seed packets have labels with romantic-sounding names such as meadow mixture and wedding wildflowers, while others tout backyard biodiversity and make reference to Earth Day.

Students from the University of Washington have won a place on a team that plans to launch mice into space, seeking answers to the little-explored question of how Martian gravity affects mammals.

As the tragic events of Sept.

Managed care controls do not appear to reduce access to specialized mental health care among depressive patients in primary care clinics, according to researchers at the University of Washington.

The annual turning of the Quad cherry trees has peaked, drawing large numbers of visitors and students to admire the spectacular beauty.

Throughout the Health Sciences Center, faculty, staff and students are making preparations for the Health Sciences Open House, set for Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27.

For the ninth consecutive year, the UW School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.