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April 5, 2000
UW/Bellarmine Preparatory School robot shines in regional robo-rumble, team members head to Florida for national contest
A robot designed by Tacoma high school students with help from University of Washington engineering undergraduates and members of the Seattle Robotics Society took a top award in regional competition over the weekend, and now the team is headed to nationals.
April 4, 2000
University of Washington researchers map rice genome
Researchers at the University of Washington, under the sponsorship of Monsanto Company, have produced a working draft of the rice plant genome. This will give scientists the potential to dramatically improve the production of rice, a vital food source for half of the world’s population.
April 3, 2000
UW tops nursing school and primary-care medical school rankings
The University of Washington is No. 1 among both nursing schools and primary-care medical schools in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
March 31, 2000
For seventh straight year U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
For the seventh year in a row, the University of Washington School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.
University of Washington School of Nursing again No. 1 in U.S. News’ rankings of America’s Best Graduate Schools
The University of Washington School of Nursing has again been ranked as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of graduate programs.
Students from 13 countries to converge April 9-15 for Global Business Challenge
The University of Washington will conduct America’s newest and most international contest for business students April 9-15, bringing young competitors from nearly every part of the planet.
March 30, 2000
Magnetic fields may hold key to malaria treatment, UW researchers find
Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a method of treating malaria with magnetic fields that could prove revolutionary in controlling the disease the World Health Organization calls one of the world’s most complex and serious human health concerns.
March 29, 2000
Documentaries from around world to be featured at Mead film festival
Fourteen documentary films from around the world will be shown free of charge at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery April 13-16 as the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Seattle. The
UW School of Medicine will honor Wenatchee clinical teaching sites in medicine and surgery
The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine this week will recognize the internal medicine and surgical teaching sites in Wenatchee, Wash., for more than a quarter-century of teaching UW medical students and surgical residents.
March 27, 2000
UW researchers can predict newlywed divorce, marital stability with 87 percent accuracy
Psychologists trying to determine why marriages flourish or end in divorce have refined a tool that predicts with 87 percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later.
March 24, 2000
UW hosts Sen. George Mitchell on peace, activist Ralph Nader on dissent, and David Broder and Tim Eyman on ballot initiatives
The University of Washington opens its spring quarter welcoming a trio of prominent national voices in public policy: former Sen. George Mitchell, activist Ralph Nader and journalist David Broder. Mitchell visits the UW Law School at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 30) in Condon Hall to deliver the Bernie and Pearl Brotman Lecture on Dispute Resolution, focusing on his efforts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland.
March 23, 2000
People unknowingly spread epidemic of sexually transmitted disease
A study from the University of Washington published in the March 23 New England Journal of Medicine warns that an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease is likely to continue unless people learn whether they have genital herpes.
March 22, 2000
Kingdome implosion could give greater understanding of Seattle Fault
Since the discovery of the Seattle Fault in the early 1990s, many people have worried how the region’s most-recognizable sports stadium would fare in a major earthquake. Now scientists hope the planned destruction of the Kingdome will give them a better picture of the fault and its associated risks to downtown Seattle.
March 21, 2000
Harborview program teams with FBI to help victims of bank robberies
With as many as 30 bank robberies occurring in Washington state every month, the psychological effects on tellers can be devastating. To help them cope, the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began the Bank Personnel Group in early 1999, the first program of its kind in the nation.
March 20, 2000
Isis and the University of Washington’s ‘Cell Systems Initiative’ to collaborate on pioneering functional genomic initiative
Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ISIP) and the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. have announced today that Isis has joined UW’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI). CSI is a research and educational program whose mission is to understand the dynamic information systems in cells.
March 16, 2000
Winds in Pacific climate cycle can foretell Gulf of Mexico hurricanes
A short-term climate cycle that builds in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward through the equatorial Pacific Ocean is a key factor in the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms over the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean Sea, University of Washington researchers have found.
March 15, 2000
UW sponsors public forum on pediatric epilepsy
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March 14, 2000
Anita Hill to speak at UW School of Social Work building dedication
WHO: Controversial law professor Anita Hill is the keynote speaker.
March 13, 2000
New UW medical division will seek causes, treatments of brain diseases
The University of Washington School of Medicine has opened a Division of Neurogenetics to study the root causes of hereditary diseases that rob people of their minds and bodies: the diseases that ravage the human brain and nervous system.
March 9, 2000
UW article in New England Journal highlights rare but deadly disease
An article in today’s New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on a deadly but largely unknown disease studied by University of Washington scientists. A diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV increases the chance that the affected person will meet an early death. The disease alters one of the building blocks of important tissues in the body, so that people are at risk to rupture their arteries, intestines or uterus.
March 6, 2000
Children more vulnerable to trauma after injury to a sibling
Children are more likely to suffer unintentional injuries within 90 days of a sibling’s injury, according to a study conducted at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center published in the March 2000 issue of Pediatrics.
March 3, 2000
High school science fans go head to head at UW in Techno Bowl 2000
Four-student teams from 12 Western Washington high schools competing to show their science and mathematics mastery.
UW Health Sciences Open House 2000 set for April 7 and 8
Around the theme of “Step into the Future,” the UW Health Sciences Open House 2000 will highlight the latest advances in medical research, patient care and teaching, as well as offer information on exciting careers in health care.
March 2, 2000
UW hosts free all-day public seminar on hearing loss
“Ears, Hearing and Beyond” is the subject of a free public conference on hearing loss, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the HUB Auditorium on the University of Washington campus.
“Genomic Views of Human History” is topic of March 14 lecture
Dr. Mary-Claire King, University of Washington professor of medicine and genetics, will give the third and last in this year’s series of free public lectures sponsored by the newly created University of Washington Science Forum. Her lecture, “Genomic Views of Human History,” will be held at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, March 14, in Kane Hall room 130 on the UW campus.
March 1, 2000
High school students test “ocean IQ” at contest sponsored by the UW
Teams from Sedro-Woolley High School claimed first place – for the second year running – and teams from Garfield High School placed second and third Saturday during the state’s Ocean Sciences Bowl sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences.
February 29, 2000
Burke exhibit looks at a culture that wouldn’t be assimilated
Probably not one in a thousand Puget Sound residents has ever heard of the Nuosu people of remote southwestern China. Stevan Harrell wants to change that.
February 25, 2000
Human rights authority honored with Brotman law professorship
An expert on international human rights law, Joan Fitzpatrick, has been named the holder of a new endowed professorship at the University of Washington School of Law.
UW pharmacy professors publish doctors’ guide to drug interactions
Patients filling a prescription usually can rely on their pharmacist to warn of possible negative side effects caused by interactions with other prescriptions and over-the-counter medications that they may be taking. But two top national experts on drug interactions from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy believe the health-care provider actually writing the prescription should be the first line of defense against such interactions.
February 24, 2000
Labor,environmental and human-rights activists will gather to build on WTO protest coalition
A two-day event to explore labor’s role in furthering global justice, in an interactive setting that includes labor and the coalition partners who helped make history the week of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle.
February 16, 2000
Ecosystem health depends on complex relationship between organisms
University of Washington research, to be published in the Feb. 17 edition of the journal Nature, suggests the health of the ecosystem is rooted in a complex codependency between plants and animals that produce organic matter and simple organisms that break it down.
UW- and Microsoft-sponsored high school teams set for robot battle
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Two teams of high school students, one sponsored by the University of Washington’s Department of Electrical Engineering and the Seattle Robotics Society and the other by Microsoft Corp.
Internet entrepreneur makes $2 million gift to support UW’s nationally ranked creative writing program
Ravi Desai may be an Internet entrepreneur, but his first love is poetry. To ensure that poetry continues to thrive at the University of Washington, he has made a $2 million gift to the UW’s Creative Writing Program.
February 15, 2000
Former City Council leader Sue Donaldson joins UW
After a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the University of Washington to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and lawAfter a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the University of Washington to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and law
February 14, 2000
UW vice president for minority affairs to step down
Myron Apilado, vice president for minority affairs at the University of Washington since 1990, announced today his intention to step down from that position by the end of the year 2000.
February 10, 2000
Venture capitalist Dempsey donates $3 million to kick off UW Business School’s technology initiative
Venture capitalist Neal Dempsey has donated $3 million to kick off an initiative by the University of Washington Business School to infuse technology into every aspect of training the next generation of managers.
February 9, 2000
Gates Foundation gift bolsters statewide program that encourages minorities and women to pursue their interests in math, science and engineering
A $1.6 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will allow expansion of a statewide program designed to involve students in math, science and engineering into the elementary grades, a move the program’s leaders call crucial in encouraging more women and minorities to enter science and engineering careers.
Immunex joins forces with UW’s Cell Systems Initiative
The University of Washington and Immunex Corp. announced today that they have joined forces in support of the School of Medicine’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI) – a new scientific discovery program dedicated to the comprehensive study of the information systems that operate within all living cells and organisms.
February 8, 2000
New infrared technology could exterminate your computer mouse
Richard Johnston isn’t looking to build a better mousetrap. He wants to get rid of the mouse, period. The former University of Washington researcher and founder of a new start-up company called Dot On has found a way to demouse home computers.
Progress Project hosts brainstorming session with two key architects
Two of the people most responsible for taking computers out of the laboratory and into the hands of millions are coming to Seattle on Tuesday to talk about how technology can make its next leap and bring progress to an even greater number of people.
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