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Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a UW scientist says.

When UW staffer Jenny Mao and her husband attend a Mariner game, they arrive about three hours early.

UW deans are more satisfied with support services than they were two years ago, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement.

A new NIH-supported center housed on the UW campus will develop modular microscale instrumentation systems for the detection and analysis of how, when, and why very small populations of living cells interact with each other and their environment.

The UW has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.

Greg Crowther, a graduate student in Physiology and Biophysics and winner of the 1999 Dawg Dash, encourages UW departments to sign up as teams in the annual walk/run Oct.

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BOEING BUST: Well, not exactly, according to Christopher Haugen.

Human rights speaker slated for UW appearance

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor will speak on Human Rights: Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Asian Pacific Region as the Severyns-Ravenholt Lecturer at 7 p.

Search Continues for Dean of Undergraduate education

The University of Washington invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost, with a term to begin July 1, 2002.

ARCHITECTURAL ACCOLADE: The UW received a presidential citation from the American Institute of Architects recently.

Researchers at the University of Washington have been awarded a five-year grant of more than $2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study whiplash injuries from motor vehicle accidents (MVAs).

People who survive serious injuries caused by burn or trauma face a long and difficult recovery period riddled with many potentially fatal complications along the way. Researchers yearn to understand the critical features that can tip the delicate balance of a severely injured body toward recovery, and those factors that cause people to die from such injuries–sometimes weeks after the injury occurred. Identifying those factors could help guide physicians in choosing the best treatment in response to a life-threatening injury.

Even before the latest round of terrorism-related layoff announcements, cutbacks in Boeing employment had contributed to a significant drop in average family incomes in Washington state, according to a University of Washington analysis.

Now that the first weeks of the new school year are over, parents of some first-graders may notice that their children are having problems writing the alphabet. University of Washington researchers want to help, and they are looking for two dozen Puget Sound youngsters who are having difficulty mastering writing to participate in a study that includes an intervention component to help them.

Researchers will test the effectiveness of transforming growth factor alpha infusions in mice who have a condition similar to the form of amytrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that runs in families.

Total private support to the University of Washington totaled $231,918,169 in fiscal year 2000-2001, an increase over last year’s record-breaking total of $225,575,162.

A professor at the University of Washington is one of seven university educators nationwide selected to receive a new National Science Foundation award for integrating research into education, the NSF announced today.

Jason Emhoff, the firefighter burned in the Thirty Mile Fire in Okanogan County, will speak to the media Thursday, September 20 at 10 a.m.

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President Bush has declared Friday, September 14 to be a national day of mourning for the victims of Tuesday’s terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Governor Locke has announced a statewide day of prayer and remembrance, highlighted by an observance at Westlake Center from 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Joining Governor Locke will be King County Executive Ron Sims, Mayor Paul Schell and religious leaders. At sites around the state, sirens will sound at 12:29 in honor of fallen emergency response personnel, followed by a minute of silence and concluding at 12:31 with the ringing of bells.

The University of Washington suffered a terrible, sad loss yesterday when a number of very good friends and supporters went down in a plane crash in Mexico.

Minoru Yamasaki, designer of New York’s World Trade Center, was born in a Seattle tenement and put himself through the University of Washington by working in Alaskan fish canneries. His most famous work was destroyed today by terrorist attacks, 35 years after the twin towers were completed.

The unspeakable attacks this morning are an assault on America and on civilized society everywhere. These acts come from a source that combines hatred, ignorance and remorseless violence.

Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don’t provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a University of Washington scientist says.

At least two thousand freshmen, their parents and guests are expected to attend the 2001 UW Freshman Convocation, to be held at noon, Sunday, September 30 in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. The annual event officially marks the beginning of the new academic year, with classes starting on Monday, October 1.

Today’s U.S. News & World Report 2002 rankings of undergraduate business programs at public and private universities in the United States moves the University of Washington Business School up five notches from 21 to 16.

While the U.S. Census Bureau reported earlier this year that the number of African American- and Hispanic-owned businesses are on the rise, such businesses still do not receive equal access to the venture capital crucial to staying competitive, according to a University of Washington researcher.

The University of Washington has received two five-year grants of $15 million each from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) for inaugurating the next phase of research into understanding how the human genome functions.

Dorothy Van Soest, professor and associate dean of the School of Social Work of The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected as dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Washington, UW President Richard L. McCormick announced today.

The University of Washington Medical Clinic-Roosevelt, at 4245 Roosevelt Way NE in Seattle, is the only local site for an international study of the use of digital imaging in mammography. The research study currently recruiting about 2,500 patients will examine the ability of digital mammography to find breast cancer as compared it to current film-based techniques.

Growing numbers of Washington state residents are working extra hours and multiple jobs just to keep up with the cost of living, according to a new University of Washington study.

The University of Washington Business School will announce a gift today of $1 million from The Boeing Co.

As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound’s orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals’ plummeting population.

Society may honor the homemaker, but it’s the family wage-earner who is more likely to control household spending.

Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine, DuPont and the University of Campinas in Brazil, with partial funding from the National Science Foundation, have sequenced the genome of an important organism, Agrobacterium, and made it freely available on the Internet.

About three quarters of the water pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the West Coast comes from the Columbia River.

The University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will hold their first nanoscience workshop since joining forces in the spring to form the Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

The 2001 Harborview Classic golf tournament is set for Monday, September 10

Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced today that the company has given $7.2 million toward a new building to house the University of Washington’s nationally ranked Department of Computer Science & Engineering.