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October 12, 1999
Study examines STDs among women-to-women sex partners
Researchers at the University of Washington have begun the first extensive study of lesbian and bisexual women and sexually transmitted diseases.
October 8, 1999
Voluntary community service organization for UW medical students receives national Daily Point of Light Award
A voluntary public service organization for University of Washington (UW) medical students, the Community Health Advancement Program (CHAP), was named a Daily Point of Light Award Winner for Monday, Oct. 4.
Pre-WTO forum helps women, minority entrepreneurs go global
Donald King has designed schools before, but you wouldn’t expect a medium-sized Seattle architectural firm like his to go all the way to Ghana to do one.
October 7, 1999
Huge Antarctic ice sheet could be in its death throes
An immense expanse of Antarctic ice that has been receding steadily for 10,000 years poses the most immediate threat of a large sea level rise because of its potential instability, a new study indicates.
October 5, 1999
Ford Motor Co. gift boosts UW student research, diversity recruitment
More students in the University of Washington’s high-demand computer science and electrical engineering programs will soon have the opportunity to conduct hands-on research into embedded system design and how it applies to the transportation industry, thanks to a five-year, $3.85 million grant from Ford Motor Co.
UW Computer Science & Engineering awarded $3 million from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The University of Washington will receive $3 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish two endowed chairs in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Dick Thompson to become UW director of government relations
Dick Thompson, director of the state’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) since 1997, has been appointed director of government relations at the University of Washington.
October 4, 1999
Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area
Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area as normal children while performing a simple language task, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers.
October 1, 1999
Peering into the amazing mind behind those baby blue eyes
The next time you glance at a baby in a crib, appreciate the fact that you are looking at more than just another cute face.
September 30, 1999
Researchers say hormones are key to evolution of insect metamorphosis
Two University of Washington zoology professors are proposing a novel hypothesis for how metamorphosis evolved.
September 28, 1999
Hudson named to endowed chair in pulmonary disease research
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Director-General of World Trade Organization to participate in campus dialogue
Mike Moore, director-general of the World Trade Organization, will participate in a discussion of WTO-related issues from 4:30 to 6:30 p.
September 27, 1999
Bridging the gap: new program encourages underrepresented minorities pursuing science careers
It may not achieve quite the same global impact on minority science education as a recent $1 billion gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
First three minutes of discussion about on-going area of marital conflict are predictive of divorce for newlyweds
University of Washington researchers who have been putting marriages under the equivalent of a microscope say it is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of continuing disagreement.
September 22, 1999
Scholars, Internet visionaries, government strategists gather at UW
A group of international scholars and leaders in the public and private sectors, including Vinton Cerf, one of the four men credited with founding the Internet, will gather at the University of Washington for a conference to discuss how the Internet is transforming politics and economics on a global scale.
September 21, 1999
First-of-its-kind information fluency course prepares students to roll with punches in rapidly changing world of information technology
It’s an hour before a major presentation and your computer isn’t cooperating.
International symposium studies bacteria-heart disease connection
One hundred scientists from around the world are meeting this week (Sept. 22 to 25) in Seattle in the largest conference yet to focus on the possible connections between bacteria and heart disease
Award-winning history of Puget Sound Indians grew from historian’s experience representing tribes in court
Just like the people she’s worked with and written about, historian Alexandra Harmon has reinvented herself.
September 20, 1999
Pristine Alaskan waterways and streams teeming with sockeye
Half a dozen University of Washington undergraduates recently completed a six-week course in Alaska that took place in cabins reachable only by boat or floatplane and in streams filled with thousands of bright-red sockeye salmon fighting to spawn.
State-of-the-art $79 million research building dedicated at Harborview
The University of Washington Academic Medical Center Research and Training Building at Harborview Medical Center will be dedicated in a ceremony beginning at 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 23, in the building lobby.
UW faculty among speakers at American Neurological Association meeting in Seattle Oct. 10-13
Several University of Washington faculty members will be among the speakers when Seattle hosts the 124th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association Oct. 10-13. The meeting will take place at the Seattle Westin.
September 16, 1999
Study tests vitamins in recovery from trauma
Can vitamin supplements help critically ill patients recover from their injuries? A collaborative study by Harborview surgeons and dietitians is evaluating the efficacy of anti-oxidant vitamin supplementation in intensive care unit (ICU) patients at Harborview.
New study for ARDS treatment begins at Harborview
A multi-center study to help prevent acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and pneumonia among trauma patients began Sept. 1 to test the efficacy of a naturally occurring protein
Drug offers new hope for victims of cardiac arrest
A clinical trial performed by University of Washington researchers, reported in the Sept. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that an intravenous anti-arrhythmia medication, amiodarone, can save the lives of many patients who do not respond to defibrillation.
Breaking the worst possible news in the best possible manner
Hearing that a loved one has died after trauma could be the most emotionally devastating news one might ever hear. How this news is delivered has an immense impact on how people will later reflect on those initial moments of loss.
‘Dry’ SHIPS to continue investigation of seismic hazards in Puget Sound region
Geophysicists from four institutions, including the University of Washington, are launching a second round of the Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) project that started last year.
‘Soapy’ droplets make brighter clouds
The organic properties of some particles, such as those from the burning of agricultural waste, have been found to increase the number of cloud droplets in polluted air, allowing more sunlight to be reflected into space than would occur normally.The phenomenon affects climate locally, and probably regionally, say researchers from the Consilio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Washington in Seattle.
September 13, 1999
Popular Saturday Seminars give football fans exercise for their brains
Saturdays on the University of Washington campus mean more than football. Fans of the Huskies’ gridiron exploits enroll by the thousands in Saturday seminars, popular lectures by distinguished faculty held before five home games.
MEDIA ADVISORY: Scientists set to unveil
* WHAT: News conference to discuss the “dry” phase of the Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) project
* WHO: Scientists from the University of Washington, the U.
September 3, 1999
Teens with AIDS helped by new program
New clinical research on teenagers with AIDS not only examines how quickly their immune systems recover with combination therapy, but also gives many of them the opportunity to obtain the latest treatment.
Understanding serotonin receptors can speed treatment for depression
Manipulating gene expression levels in rats’ brains can help to understand the causes of clinical depression, according to psychiatric research at Harborview Medical Center.
September 2, 1999
Harvard Medical School authors of Living to 100 to speak at UW School of Nursing lecture and reception
To celebrate the formal opening of the de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging, the University of Washington School of Nursing will host a lecture and book-signing by the authors of Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age.
August 27, 1999
Quality of death among AIDS patients depends on better communication
Dying patients all have different wishes about end-of-life care ? some fear they will lose control of their lives and that the dying process will be prolonged through technological measures, while others worry that they may lack access to such treatments.
Refugee outreach program to help stem tuberculosis
Harborview, in partnership with the Seattle-King County Tuberculosis Clinic, designed an outreach program to enhance the acceptance of TB preventive therapy among Seattle area’s refugees.
August 26, 1999
Study links sobriety to money management among mentally ill patients
More freedom to manage their money independently can be an incentive for mentally ill substance abusers to abstain from drugs and alcohol, according to new research at Harborview Medical Center.
August 24, 1999
Wrangell, Alaska, will be the newest family medicine clerkship training site for the University of Washington medical school
Wrangell, Alaska, has been chosen to become the newest family medicine clerkship site for the University of Washington School of Medicine.
UW Medical Center reaches a milestone: performs 500th liver transplant
Alex Beaudreault of Fairbanks is the recipient of the 500th liver transplant performed at University of Washington Medical Center.
Children’s inability to automatically retrieve building blocks of language, math leads to learning disabilities in reading, writing, arithmetic
BOSTON – For children with learning disabilities success at reading and mathematics isn’t always as easy as learning their ABCs or that two plus two equals four. That’s because some youngsters have difficulty automatically retrieving such basic building blocks as letters, words, numbers and mathematical facts.
August 23, 1999
Exhibition tennis match and pro-am tournament will benefit UW Medical Center’s Breast Care Program
Tennis pros Michael Chang and Jan-Michael Gambill will play an exhibition match at the University of Washington’s Nordstrom Tennis Center, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17.
August 22, 1999
High-achieving children off to a good Head Start academically and socially, but study shows some are not ‘turned on’ by school
The highest-achieving children who were exposed to the Head Start program before entering elementary school are thriving academically and socially at the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study creates worries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitude toward school.
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