The latest news from the UW

Dr. Paul B. Robertson, one of the nation’s leading dental educators and dean of the University of Washington School of Dentistry since 1992, has announced that he will step down as dean as soon as a successor is recruited.

Women who have Caesarean or assisted vaginal delivery are at a higher risk of rehospitalization than women who have unassisted vaginal delivery, say University of Washington researchers.

Just days before Taiwan inaugurates its new president and Congress votes on China trade, one of Asia’s leading journalists will come to the University of Washington to discuss the impact of these dramatic events on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations.

“Celebration 2000,” the 30th Annual Educational Opportunity Program scholarship banquet, will be held Wednesday, May 17 at Ballroom 6-E, Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

A new study from University of Washington researchers shows that a DNA polymerase — an enzyme — commonly used for scientific study can tolerate many different mutations and remain functional.

You might call it real virtuality. That’s how some University of Washington freshmen are describing the chance to finally meet Japanese students from Tohoku University with whom they collaborated fall quarter via cyberspace on a series of engineering projects. The teamwork was part of a new class designed to introduce beginning college students to hands-on engineering in the international arena.

More than 240 undergraduates will participate in the third Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will be held noon to 6 p.m. Friday, May 12 in Mary Gates Hall and the HUB.

New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies.

Two UW faculty members, Dr. Stanley Fields and Dr. Sen-itiroh Hakomori, are among 60 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Results were announced Tuesday, May 2.

Jerry Franklin was one of the first ecosystem scientists to visit Mount St.

The chiefs of the world’s major humanitarian relief and development agencies will convene in Seattle Saturday through Monday to coordinate their response to changing economic and political conditions and discuss with Northwest corporate leaders ways to collaborate in the fight against poverty and disease.

The dedication of Mary Gates Hall May 8 will commemorate the creation of a unique facility at the University of Washington focusing on undergraduate learning.

The right kind of job training can reduce the odds of returning to a life of crime, University of Washington researchers have found.

It’s a smaller world after all – that is, if new measurements by University of Washington physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth’s mass came from work that could establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton’s gravitational constant.

University of Washington students and professors are aiding Attorney General Christine Gregoire in her newly announced initiative to protect consumers online.

WHAT: Second annual University of Washington Astronomy Department open house.

Engineering from A to Z: Opportunities for learning abound at more than 100 exhibits at UW College of Engineering Open House

Hastening to meet industry demand for Internet-savvy managers, the University of Washington Business School this fall will launch its first program in e-business, Dean Yash Gupta announced today.

Announcement of a new program to prepare the next generation of managers to lead today’s Internet-driven business world, and a gift to launch the program.

A University of Washington study suggests that pesticides are finding their way into the bodies of pre-school children in agricultural communities at a higher level than previously thought.

Patients with brain tumors, cancers, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and other neurological abnormalities can now be helped at Harborview Medical Center by the Gamma Knife C, a non-invasive alternative to traditional surgical methods.

Since January, volunteers with Black Data Processing Associates, a national non-profit organization, have been meeting with local high school and middle school students, providing them with a forum in which to nurture computer skills.

More than 2,200 first-, second- and third-graders and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.

Social scientist, humanist and human rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi will be honored by his alma mater, the University of Washington, in ceremonies May 9. The event will culminate a series of activities that week focused on Hirabayashi and the Japanese American experience.

Four undergraduates from Sao Paulo, Brazil, took first prize in last weekend’s Global Business Challenge, which has emerged in its second year as the world’s largest such competition.

Implementation of organized systems of trauma care reduce death rates due to motor-vehicle crashes by 9 percent, according to a study by researchers at Harborview Medical Center. The study will be published in the April 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Kristiina A. Vogt, a professor with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and former University of Washington faculty member, has been selected by UW President Richard L. McCormick as the new dean of the College of Forest Resources, effective July 1.

A new study by three business professors offers a hint: To survive Wall Street jitters, they say, an Internet company doesn’t need to make a profit or even sell goods. But it had better attract eyeballs – lots of them

Thousands of schoolchildren, their teachers and parents are expected to gather at the University of Washington campus April 28 and 29 to learn about engineering by participating in hands-on demonstrations during the College of Engineering Open House

In homes with wife abuse, children ages 14 and older are more than three times as likely to be physically abused than are younger children ages 1 through 13, a study examining the risks of child abuse has found.

University of Washington nutritionists and preventive health experts are preparing to tackle a growing national epidemic — obesity in adolescent women of color.

The University of Washington has selected Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the United States, to be the commencement speaker in ceremonies to be held June 10 in Husky Stadium.

President Clinton today named University of Washington faculty members Nathan Mantua, a climate scientist, and Dr. David W. Russell, an assistant professor of medicine, as winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Spouses, friends and parents of prisoners enter the imposing University of Washington Law School building asking where to find Innocence Project Northwest. Growing numbers of these seekers arrive each month as word spreads of the project launched two years ago by attorney Fred Leatherman and UW Law School senior lecturer Jacqueline McMurtrie.

The following is a list of experts at the University of Washington who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain.

Jack Faris, director of community strategies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been selected by University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick to be the next vice president for university relations, effective June 1.

The future of doctoral education will be the subject of a unique conference in Seattle April 13-15.

The University of Washington is among the hosts of the fourth annual National Magnet Nursing Conference through Friday. Nurses from all backgrounds, from all over the world, are in Seattle to attend “Navigating the Future: Charting Your Course To Best Practice” at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center.

An international research team supported by the National Science Foundation will establish a camp at the North Pole this month. The scientists will use the camp to lay the groundwork for a five-year project to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world’s northernmost sea helps regulate global climate.