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Four decades after President Kennedy tapped student idealism by proposing a Peace Corps, the University of Washington is announcing a new master’s degree program that combines volunteer service overseas with management training on campus.

About 800 people from the University of Washington and the community are expected to attend the Sixth Annual “Bridging the Gap” Diversity Breakfast, whose theme is “Forging Ahead: Diversity in the 21st Century.” The event will be held from 8 to 11 a.m. Oct. 21 in the HUB Ballroom.

Psychologists trying to understand the factors that put athletes and performers at risk for injuries have found that professional ballet dancers get hurt just as often and suffer just as serious injuries as athletes in contact sports.

A University of Washington survey has found that studies about human sexual activity leave out an important factor: the sexual activity of prostitutes.

Dr. Maynard Olson, director of the University of Washington Genome Center, professor of genetics and medicine and adjunct professor of computer science, is one of three scientists who will receive the annual City of Medicine Award on Oct. 5.

The University of Washington has received the first national award for excellence in campus-wide programs in information technologies that support teaching and learning.

Investigators at the University of Washington UW School of Medicine, will receive $5.3 million over five years to investigate the molecular biology of the stem cells that produce blood.

Amid public concern over a recent local crime wave, Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske will appear Monday at the University of Washington Law School to discuss proposals for reducing gun violence

WHO: Between 150 and 200 6-to-12-year-olds from around Puget Sound.

Will the Internet dissolve the nation-state? Three major research universities located in hubs of high-tech innovation are uniting to explore this question and others concerning the impact of the Internet on economic and political systems.

For older people with mild depression, antidepressant medication improves symptoms better and faster than counseling or placebos, concluded the authors of an article published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The University of Washington has received a grant, expected to total more than $12 million over the next five years, to provide low-income students in the Seattle schools with the skills, motivation and preparation to pursue higher education.

Robert H. Muilenburg, a nationally recognized leader in health-care administration who had been at the helm of University of Washington Medical Center since 1978, died Wednesday (Sept. 20) at his Seattle home. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer several months ago.

A thorough study suggests there is little or no connection between periodontal disease and risk of coronary heart disease, according to researchers at the University of Washington School of Dentistry.

Sudden cardiac arrest remains the No. 1 killer of adults in the United States. Coronary artery disease will kill 250,000 or more people this year. One way to reduce the numbers of these deaths dramatically is to make automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, widely available for home use, said Dr. Mickey Eisenberg.

When it comes to love and sex, one size definitely doesn’t fit all.

Can the extract of the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree prevent or delay memory loss and personality changes associated with aging? Scientists at the University of Washington will analyze data being collected nationwide in a $15 million National Institutes of Health study of ginkgo.

A small earthquake off the coast of Washington that caused hydrothermal vent systems miles away to pump out substantially warmer water at 10 times the rate and in an unexpected pulsing pattern has seafloor geologists questioning long-held assumptions about how fluid circulates within oceanic crust.

If David Allstot and his University of Washington colleagues have their way, a few years from now you may find yourself talking to the Internet through your wristwatch.

A Magic Book looks like a traditional book – it has text and colorful pictures. But look at it through a lightweight viewer and moving, three-dimensional images jump off the page.

“Rats” the subliminal political commercial will never rival “Cats” for longevity, but it may prove to be one long bad memory for the national Republican Party, according to a University of Washington researcher who was among the first to show that subliminal visual messages can influence human thought processes and decision-making.

Dr. Douglas S. Paauw, associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Washington, has been appointed as the first holder of the Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient-Centered Clinical Education.

Gifts to the University of Washington in 1999-2000 surged by more than 30% to a record total of $134,038,997. The previous year’s total was $102,925,052.

As many of the world’s leading female athletes descend on the Olympic Games in Sydney, the University of Washington School of Medicine is establishing what may be the nation’s first endowed chair dedicated solely to the study of women’s sports medicine and lifetime fitness.

Researchers studying the state of American marriages now can predict not only which couples will divorce but also when they will divorce.

All kidding aside, Web sites that make fun of the presidential contenders do an effective job of educating ? as well as amusing ? a growing segment of the electorate, according to a new University of Washington study.

The greatest mass extinction in Earth history eliminated 85 percent to 90 percent of all marine and land vertebrate species 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period and the beginning of the Triassic. New evidence from researchers at the University of Washington and the South African Museum shows the extinction was accompanied by a massive loss of vegetation, causing major changes in river systems.

A statewide program designed to involve elementary through high school students in math, science and engineering has won a presidential award for mentoring, White House officials announced today.

Key environmental health concerns for Washington will be aired at a town meeting Sept. 29 and 30 in Seattle.

The Institute for K-12 Leadership at the University of Washington announced today that it has received $5,760,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create small model secondary schools in eight urban school districts across the nation.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is opening a state-of-the-art laboratory to explore the cutting edge of medicine’s future: gene and cell therapy.

Professor David Notkin, an internationally recognized expert in software engineering, will become the new chairman of the University of Washington’s nationally ranked Department of Computer Science & Engineering tomorrow when current chairman Ed Lazowska steps down after leading the department for eight years.

Scientists have completed mapping the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the largest bacterium sequenced so far, which may lead to potential new treatments for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), patients with severe burns and others who develop this type of infection.

The family environment that children grow up in can have long-lasting effects on whether they smoke, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers who used data collected over a 35-year time span.

Up to 85,000 unnecessary heart attacks and cases of heart failure may occur worldwide every year among the estimated 28 million users of longer-acting calcium channel blockers (CCBs), a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, according to the results of a study reported Monday at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam.

Teachers Beverly Mowrer of Sedro-Woolley High School, Cynthia Maldonado of Kelso’s Cornerstone Christian Community School, Robert Mize of Steilacoom Historical School and Misty Nikula-Ohlsen of Bellingham’s Whatcom Day Academy will sail Sept. 1 to 19 with scientists who are seeking information about the rugged, volcanically active areas on the seafloor 200 miles off the Washington coast.

Transcontinental business travelers could be singing in the shower rather than enduring the weary griminess that marks the end of globe-hopping flights if Dan Brunton has his way.

Computer professionals at the University of Washington will get hands-on training in Internet security on Thursday when a couple of teen-age cyber aficionados attempt to hack digital safeguards set up by the university.

Despite contemporary Russia’s serious troubles, its founding father, Boris Yeltsin, will be portrayed in an unexpectedly sympathetic light when public television profiles the former Russian president in a 90-minute nationwide special on Aug. 28.