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Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a change in the central part of the retina, the thin film coating the back of the eye.

Three faculty development workshops are planned this spring, sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Department of Medical Education.

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The little bubbles in a baby’s tummy might cause a problem with colic, or just a really big burp on Daddy’s shoulder.

Academic Opportunities

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

COP SHOP OPEN: The UW Police Department’s annual open house is 2 to 4 p.

Finalists for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost at the UW will speak in special forums beginning today.

Hiroo Kanamori, one of the world’s most respected seismologists and a scientist who helped define the seismic threat to the Puget Sound region, will speak at the UW next week.

Driving alone and parking on campus is not the only way for departmental visitors and guests to get to the UW.

An ambitious project in the Graduate School, making extensive use of the Web and e-mail, is eliminating more than 38,000 pieces of paper each year.

For the first time in decades hundreds of summer chum returned to Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station last fall. This follows five years of work to re-establish the run, an effort involving the UW, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the citizens of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group.

People with Internet access and an interest in the Hanford cleanup are invited to help University of Washington researchers evaluate a new Web tool. The Decision Mapping System is designed to help people participate in decisions related to Hanford — a former plutonium production facility.

The University of Washington School of Medicine has established the Keck Center for Functional, Structural, and Chemical Genomics of Microbial Pathogens. The Keck Center will use state-of-the-art technology to mount an assault on some of the most dangerous and deadly infections on earth.

In the largest study so far of burnout in medical residents, the syndrome of emotional detachment and exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment struck about 76 percent of the internal medicine residents who responded to a February, 2001, University of Washington survey.

Countess Sonja Bernadotte of the Swedish royal family, above, was at the UW Monday to describe a program that brings Nobel laureates and college-age students from around the world to Lindau Island in Germany for informal meetings each year.

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Photography students in a course called “Installation, Context and collaboration,” taught by Associate Professor Ellen Garvens, have created an exhibit especially for the hospital environment.

In recognition of her outstanding leadership, scholarship and passion for the well being of infants and young children, Dr.

Genetic sciences provide key insights into many health-care conditions — but the more scientists learn, the more they need to know, says Dr.

More than 150 scholars, students and attorneys helped celebrate the dedication this week of the School of Law’s Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology.

Just about anyone who has flown knows the sensation of climbing through smog and bursting into bright, clear air.

The promise of upward mobility — a centerpiece of the American dream, which fosters the notion that anyone can get ahead with hard work — may have disappeared with the 20th century.

Buddy Ratner, director of the UW Engineered Biomaterials research center (UWEB), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

By teaching middle school teachers about the earth sciences, Liz Nesbitt hopes she’s sowing the seeds of the discipline’s next generation.

For a number of years now, Michael Reagan, the UW’s director of trademarks and licensing, has been hanging out with celebrities.

Vikram Prakash knew what he was doing when he finally sat down to write the story of Chandigarh.

Unlike “paper or plastic,” the choice of PERS 2 or PERS 3 could have long-term, profound implications.

The UW is chipping in to keep a bad state budget situation from getting worse.

MEET A DINOSAUR: The Burke Museum will host its annual Dinosaur Day from 10 a.

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

A van crushed by falling bricks in Pioneer Square is part of the new Burke exhibit, “The Big One,” which opens today.

McDermott to speak
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You feel perfectly fine – no headaches, no eye-strain, no clumsiness.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

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In years past, scientific speculation about how life began on Earth envisioned primordial soups and slimy goo as the incubators in which the first tiny microorganisms developed, billions of years ago.

An open house next week in Mary Gates Commons will give business communications students a chance to hone their skills while introducing ideas to improve campus communications.

Scientists working at huge underground laboratories in Japan and Canada have made major strides in understanding neutrinos during the last three years. Now a team working with a particle accelerator at the University of Washington has added another significant finding, determining with the greatest precision yet just how many energetic neutrinos are generated in the sun’s nuclear furnace.

The financial value of a law-abiding reputation — not tighter government regulations — is the best way to prevent future scandals like those enveloping energy giant Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen, a University of Washington researcher says.

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

Peace Corps Day offers interview/photo opportunities with 200-300 returned Peace Corps volunteers and people interested in joining the Peace Corps.