The latest news from the UW

Can Washington, Oregon and Idaho handle average temperatures more than 5 degrees warmer, 5 percent more annual precipitation, one-third less winter snowpack and a mountain snow line as much as 1,500 feet higher?

Climate models show such changes are possible in the three-state Columbia River Basin by the middle of the next century as a result of human causes, primarily the spewing of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a broad panel of scientists and policy analysts said today.

A special premiere showing of the film, “Snow Falling on Cedars,” adapted from the best-selling novel by local author David Guterson, will be held at 8 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Cinerama Theatre, 2100 Fourth Ave. for one showing only.

Thomas Foley, U.S. ambassador to Japan and former Speaker of the House, will address the University of Washington School of Law on Tuesday, Nov. 16, on “The U.S., Japan, and the WTO New Round.”

19 scientists from the UW and other regional institutions have compiled a report on how climate change in the Northwest will affect water resources, salmon, forests and coastlines.

Workplace violence is a real threat. The University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine is holding a daylong seminar on Nov. 16 on “Preventing Workplace Violence.”

Long recognizing that good doctor/patient communication is essential to good practice, the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine has made it one of the cornerstone skills of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course series for first- and second-year medical students.

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The University of Washington is hosting two Campus Master Plan public meetings on Nov. 16, to gather ideas on its preliminary planning concepts concerning open space, circulation and development of the Seattle campus from 2002 to 2012.

Mary C. Potter, MIT professor of brain and cognitive science and chairwoman of the committee that issued a nationally recognized report detailing systematic discrimination against women faculty members in MIT’s School of Science, will speak at the UW about the report and its aftermath.

A new implantable hearing aid system will undergo clinical trials at the University of Washington’s Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, one of five sites selected to study its effectiveness

University of Washington freshmen are building tiny electro-mechanical valves, constructing a solar-powered fiber-optic laser, developing next-generation materials for ceramic fuel cells and sorting through other technical challenges this term in a new hands-on engineering course – all with the help of some overseas friends.

The University of Washington today announced a $12 million Campaign for the Arts and reported gifts of $2.5 million to begin that campaign.

The University of Washington has received an additional $10 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to enhance the Mary Gates Endowment for Students.

A University of Washington program that has proven highly effective in intervening with expectant and new mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs is expanding into Spokane, Grant and Yakima counties.

For more than three decades, the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine has given its medical students hands-on opportunities throughout the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to learn how their medical training can be directly applied to addressing societal needs.

The health of past and present workers and local residents will be among the topics that will be discussed Nov. 2 and 3 in Richland, Wash., during the annual “Health of the Hanford Site” conference sponsored by the University of Washington.

The University of Washington is planning to create a Technology Enterprise Institute, with the goal of aiding the creation of high-technology businesses while advancing the academic disciplines that relate to enterprise creation.

University of Washington researchers are looking for 50 expectant couples in the Seattle metropolitan area to test a workshop designed to promote healthy marital and family relationships.

Dr. Paul R. Wade, professor of zoology and physiology and of human medicine at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the UW School of Medicine’s 15th Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer.

Dr. Paul R. Wade, professor of zoology and physiology and of human medicine at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, has been named the UW School of Medicine’s 15th Science in Medicine WWAMI lecturer.

“Access in the Millenium: Medical Applications of New Technologies” is the theme of a forum to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, Oct. 25, in the Seattle Center’s Conference Center Room H.

The University of Washington’s main campus 1999 Autumn Quarter enrollment is 35,559, including 930 students in the Evening Degree Program.

Researchers at the University of Washington have begun the first extensive study of lesbian and bisexual women and sexually transmitted diseases.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, director of the state’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) since 1997, has been appointed director of government relations at the University of Washington.

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.

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.

Two University of Washington zoology professors are proposing a novel hypothesis for how metamorphosis evolved.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s an hour before a major presentation and your computer isn’t cooperating.

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

Just like the people she’s worked with and written about, historian Alexandra Harmon has reinvented herself.