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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.