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An unusual grant for the professional development of graduate students in the chemical sciences will both unify and broaden their experience.

The UW is seeking nominations for the second annual Faculty Award for Distinguished Contribution to Lifelong Learning.

The Senate Executive Committee is accepting nominations for faculty members to serve as Faculty Legislative Representative and Deputy Legislative Representative during the 2002–03 academic year.

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The University of Washington is No.

For the ninth consecutive year, the <A href="http://www.

Cousins contemplating marriage or concerned about a pregnancy arising from their union have often found it difficult to get accurate information about risks to their offspring.

Genetic variants in the human enzyme that metabolizes the drug warfarin, the frequently prescribed anticoagulant Coumadin, make some patients more susceptible to serious or life-threatening bleeding.

Someday, people taking medications for high blood pressure may undergo genetic screening tests that help identify which drug therapies are best for them.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is naming <A href="http://www.

With terrorism and a Middle East crisis setting the stage, UN “Secretary-General” Jasmine Marwaha will convene 450 delegates at the University of Washington next Friday and Saturday to debate pressing world problems.

People who take statins may have at least 60 percent less aortic valve calcium than people who do not take statins, according to a University of Washington study in the March 30 edition of The Lancet.

The University of Washington Board of Regents unanimously approved a project management agreement authorizing UW Capital Projects Office to serve as project manager of the $193 million voter approved bond project to finance earthquake stabilization and bed expansion at Harborview Medical Center.

When it comes to inflation, cosmologists are pondering a future that probably would leave even Alan Greenspan scratching his head.

The number of commercial air travelers who now find flying to be at least somewhat stressful has risen dramatically to 81 percent of passengers, according to the first survey measuring the attitudes of people before and after the events of Sept. 11.

Building on a trend to bring Wall Street into the classroom, the Nasdaq Stock Market Educational Foundation has given its first-ever grant to help create a virtual trading room at the University of Washington Business School.

An extensive Internet art exhibit and dozens of educational events presented by the University of Washington will enhance cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project when the international extravaganza hits Seattle starting this month.

For the last five years Mavis Leno has used her status as an author and celebrity wife to bring attention to the plight of women under the Taliban rule. Leno will speak about the restoration of women’s rights in post-Taliban Afghanistan in a lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 26 at Town Hall, 6th and Seneca.

Alan Mulally, president and chief executive officer of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, will speak about the plans and prospects for the company’s commercial airplane business during an address at the University of Washington Business School.

The astronomy open house this year occurs on International Astronomy Day and comes during a major planetary conjunction. Five planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury — will line up in the western sky, with a crescent moon supplying illumination.

Former Olympic sailing gold medallist Lowell North of Point Loma, Calif., is back at the helm of a sailing yacht, after his painful left shoulder was repaired during a surgical procedure at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle last month.

Visiting artist Lee Higgins teaches students at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School to perform Brazilian music during “Samba in the Schools” week last week.

Researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.

“Bioterrorism: What Clinicians Need to Know” is the topic for this year’s annual Don B.

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The juvenile salmon released last week from the UW’s Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station are offspring of summer chum that returned 900-strong last year to the stream.

It’s the most prolific plant in the world’s oceans, explains assistant professor Ginger Armbrust.

Lauro Flores just wanted to see that a deserving artist got more recognition.

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

The Department of Bioengineering’s 14th annual Rushmer Lecture will be given the first week of April by Dr.

“The Medicine of Lewis and Clark” will be the topic for the next Healthy U program at 7 p.

In research, there’s a very fine line between persistence and obstinacy.