The latest news from the UW

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Either count the fish or count on many more decades of debate about what’s helping and what’s hurting Pacific Northwest salmon.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Three prominent judges were honored Nov. 9 by the University of Washington Law School Alumni Association.

A survey conducted by Dr. Maria Silveira and her colleagues showed that while patients in Oregon have had extensive exposure to arguments about assisted suicide, and voted on it twice, many do not understand their basic rights regarding end-of-life care.

A University of Washington scientist has used statistical modeling to determine that there was only a 1-in-10,000 chance that the vote total for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Fla.

— Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of hospitalization for chest pain or a heart attack by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from cardiovascular problems, according to a study presented here by researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

A new set of unique archaeology kits will be available next month to help Puget Sound students travel back in time to learn about how people lived in the region during the last 4,200 years.

Most people do not think of kissing as a way of spreading serious sexually transmitted diseases. But kissing between men may be what spreads human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, according to researchers at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Lizabeth A. Wilson, associate director of libraries at the University of Washington since 1992, has been chosen to succeed Betty Bengtson as director of university libraries.

Some of the finest living Northwest Coastal Native artists will demonstrate their carving, weaving and musical talents at the third annual Native American Arts Celebration at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

In her new book “With Malice Toward All? The Media and Public Confidence in Democratic Institutions,” University of Washington communications professor Patricia Moy says there’s a relationship between media use, knowledge and confidence in government.

An optical telecommunications breakthrough developed by a
University of Washington chemistry professor has spawned a
new company to develop and market the technology, and could
lead to establishment of a center at the UW for the growing
science of photonics.

A $4 million dollar grant to create a co-operative research center on hepatitis C has been awarded to the University of Washington by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with the support of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Most parents and children dread the time when they sit down and have “the talk.

With surveys showing a rise in political apathy among the young, educators are studying new techniques to engage youngsters in the spirit of democracy before they reach voting age.

The arrival of a couple’s first baby is a time of great joy that is frequently followed by a sharp decline in the wife’s marital satisfaction. Social scientists have known this for some time, and that this dissatisfaction can propel couples toward divorce. University of Washington marital researchers studying first-time parents have uncovered a “prescription” for maintaining and even improving marital satisfaction.

Two University of Washington professors – one developing new methods to combine disparate digital information and another studying ways to heal damaged hearts – were named by President Clinton today as winners of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Scientists have known for years that birds’ ears do something human ears cannot: when hair cells in the avian ear are destroyed, the bird goes deaf only temporarily. Now, research at the University of Washington is showing why.

Researchers at the University of Washington and The Insitu Group this week announced plans to attempt the first unmanned flight across the Pacific Ocean

A run of salmon facing new environmental conditions diverged into two populations in as few as 13 generations – a time span of only about 60 years – according to research conducted at the University of Washington with sockeye salmon in Lake Washington and the Cedar River near Seattle.

Paul Boardman, who has represented Washington state and the nation’s forest-products industry in Japan since the early 1990s, has been named director of the Center for International Trade in Forest Products at the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.

Members of the news media are invited to preview the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture’s new exhibit, “Entwined with Life: Native American Basketry,” next Monday and Tuesday afternoons, Oct. 23 and 24, at the University of Washington.

Dr. William A. Catterall, professor and chair of the University of Washington (UW) medical school’s Department of Pharmacology and Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UW School of Medicine, are among the 60 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Engineers at the University of Washington and The Insitu Group, who collaborated in 1998 to make the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an unmanned aircraft.

Couple the re-release of “The Exorcist” and the up-coming Halloween broadcast of “Possessed,” a TV documentary about a purported exorcism in a mental hospital, and you’ve got a prescription for a sudden jump in the number reported demonic possessions.

A $10 million grant will allow researchers at the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to conduct an unprecedented study of genetic variation and how it may affect the function of human genes — and, ultimately, our susceptibility or resistance to disease.

Seattle Campus Information regarding University of Washington enrollment for Autumn 2000.