Sixty percent of Washington’s welfare recipients found jobs and left the rolls in a little more than a year, according to new findings from one of the most comprehensive studies ever undertaken of welfare reform.
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January 23, 2001
Parents of children with epilepsy are invited to attend a free Pediatric Epilepsy Public Forum from 4:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington, Seattle. The forum is sponsored by the UW Pediatric Epilepsy Research Center.
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January 22, 2001
While journalists, scholars and political pundits have speculated that negative media coverage of Bill Clinton’s most tumultuous time in office didn’t have any effect on the former president’s approval ratings, a University of Washington assistant professor argues just the opposite.
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January 19, 2001
The University of Washington has begun instituting measures to reduce energy consumption by 10%, in compliance with a directive to all state agencies from Governor Gary Locke.
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January 18, 2001
A number of University of Washington sources can help reporters put the current energy situation in perspective, both in terms of short-term issues and long-term effects.
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The number of black, Hispanic and American Indian freshman students enrolling at all universities and colleges in Washington dropped in 1999 following the passage of Initiative 200, which eliminated many affirmative action programs in the state.
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January 17, 2001
Dr. Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, an international leader in efforts to find gene therapies for muscular dystrophy, has been recruited to the faculty of the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. A 1985 Ph.D. alumnus of the UW, he returned to the UW this December as a professor in the Department of Neurology’s recently established Division of Neurogenetics.
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University of Washington President’s Task Force on Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian and Transgender (GBLT) Issues has released a draft version of its report, in order to obtain community reactions before finalizing the document. The report examines a variety of apsects of GBLT life at the UW.
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January 12, 2001
University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeter.
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January 11, 2001
The University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources recently brought together 10 experts on forest certification to provide information to state and Congressional leaders, county land commissioners, agency personnel, environmental groups and foresters. Following is a list of Web sites and experts that might be helpful for future stories about forest certification in Washington state and elsewhere.
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A child’s likelihood of experiencing adjustment problems following divorce depends on the interaction of the child’s temperament and the quality of his or her mother’s parenting style, according to a new study by University of Washington and Arizona State University psychologists.
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January 10, 2001
Top e-business executives will gauge the industry’s recent shakeout during a lecture series at the University of Washington Business School.
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A thousands-of-years-old peek at the effects of climate change on small mammals in the western United States may provide a snapshot of the future impact of global warming on animal populations.
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January 9, 2001
The DVD player that you just bought on-line suddenly stopped playing, and the merchant in another state or country denied responsibility.
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January 5, 2001
The Washington State Legislature that convenes Monday could face the state’s worst budget crisis in nearly two decades if the economy falters, according to a new fiscal analysis from the University of Washington.
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January 3, 2001
The University of Washington Business School today kicks off a new Technology Management MBA Program that creators say will help business leaders avoid becoming victims of “high-tech fallout.”
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January 2, 2001
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December 26, 2000
Recent computer engineering graduate and newly awarded Rhodes scholar Emma Brunskill will be the featured speaker at a gathering to honor the achievements of some of the UW’s top students.
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December 15, 2000
In January 2001, the UW School of Nursing will launch a “cybernetic time capsule” commemorating its long history as a school and its impact on nursing education and practice as the top-ranked school of nursing in the country, if not the world
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December 14, 2000
A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative research on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the University of Washington with a $35.
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December 12, 2000
A new hydrothermal vent field, which scientists have dubbed “The Lost City,” was discovered Dec. 4 on an undersea mountain in the Atlantic Ocean.
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December 11, 2000
A federal agency is providing $12.83 million over five years to the University of Washington School of Medicine to investigate both present and future uses of gene therapy.
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December 5, 2000
Rumors that record sub-zero temperatures will hit Seattle next week are based on sketchy data and have virtually no chance of coming true, a University of Washington scientist said today.
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December 4, 2000
A strike scheduled for today has been canceled. In eleventh hour negotiations, the University of Washington and the Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition/United Auto Workers (GSEAC/UAW) reached an agreement that each felt achieved its major goals.
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December 1, 2000
Either count the fish or count on many more decades of debate about what’s helping and what’s hurting Pacific Northwest salmon.
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If the Washington State Legislature just wants to maintain current spending on health care, it will exceed the mandatory-spending limit set by Initiative 601 by more than $800 million, according to the Health Policy Analysis Program (HPAP) at the University of Washington.
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November 30, 2000
Thirty-five senior electrical engineering students are gearing up for a mechanical fight on Monday to see who has created the top robot in a competition that provides the climax for a new senior design course in mobile robotics.
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November 28, 2000
Argentine penguins are turning up off the coast of Brazil in record numbers, and a University of Washington scientist believes it is because unusually prolonged cold water has kept their food supply – primarily sardines, anchovies and squid – farther north much longer than usual.
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November 16, 2000
Michael Sherry, president and co-founder of Seattle’s Convergent Technology Capital, has been appointed to the University of Washington’s International Business Advisory Council.
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The University of Washington’s nationally ranked Department of Bioengineering has established its first endowed professorship, a move that will help the department maintain its leading role in the fast-paced field of bioengineering, officials announced today.
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November 15, 2000
Thanks to work by a group of University of Washington engineers, mass transit riders can keep tabs on nearly 1,000 King County Metro Transit buses with the punch of a few buttons. All they need is a cellular telephone that can access the World Wide Web.
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The tear gas and barricades are long gone from the streets of Seattle, but the history of the World Trade Organization protests nearly one year ago is only starting to be written.
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November 14, 2000
With a small but growing number of male-to-female transgender clients, the need for consistently effective voice feminization therapy has increased in the United States.
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