The latest news from the UW

Nearly 150 years since dentists started using mercury in fillings, researchers at the University of Washington School of Dentistry are beginning one of the first studies specifically aimed at determining whether such fillings are safe for children.

Medical News from the University of Washington

Immigration is one of the hot button issues of the 1990s and that’s nothing new, according to a University of Washington professor and author of a new book that is one of the first to focus on the experiences of women immigrants.

Heart attack patients admitted to community hospitals show nearly identical survival rates, whether treated with powerful anti-clotting drugs or with balloon angioplasty.

A pilot project headed by the University of Washington is attempting to increase the population of Native American students in higher education by exposing them to a possible career alternative, the legal profession.

University of Washington, Tacoma Dean Vicky L. Carwein today announced the appointment of John Idstrom as Director of Development.

New UW center to focus on health and safety of foresters, fishers and farmers throughout the region

Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at UW

On Friday, Oct. 11, the University of Washington will host an in-service day, “Education for the 21st Century,” which will give Seattle Public School educators an opportunity to explore ways to use instructional technology and service learning in the curriculum to prepare students to be effective citizens and meet the challenges of our changing world.

A new, provocative documentary that deals with race relations on contemporary college campuses will be shown at the University of Washington on Thursday, Oct. 10.

The University of Washington (UW) Academic Medical Center has received a three-year, $2.028 million grant from the National Library of Medicine to develop and evaluate new applications of the National Information Infrastructure in the care of patients.

“Ethics, Values and Politics in Long Term Care: When Care and Everyday Life Collide” is the subject of the 18th annual Elizabeth Sterling Soule Lecture, sponsored by the University of Washington School of Nursing,

Wenatchee Mayor Earl Tilly and University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick join the Wenatchee community in celebrating the premiere of a new educational television channel available on TCI-Wenatchee cable channel 18.

The UW has once again carried off honors in the annual Higher Education Awards Program sponsored by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).

University of Washington bioengineering researchers are using the latest microfabrication techniques to develop and test miniature devices that may revolutionize the way blood is analyzed in critical care situations.

Next year Harborview Medical Center will establish its first family medicine service for the care of patients and a residency program to train new family physicians.

Akira Ishimaru, Boeing Martin Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

The University of Washington Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center has an ongoing need for volunteers with probable early Alzheimer’s disease to participate in research. Volunteers must be otherwise healthy and living at home (or in an assisted living facility), able to come to Seattle for appointments, and accompanied by a responsible caregiver

The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of Washington has played a leadership role in determining causes and developing treatments for this devastating disorder, in many cases with the assistance of people diagnosed with the disease.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of severe memory loss late in life. The National Institute on Aging estimates that 4 million people in the United States suffer from AD.

The United States is risking social breakdown unless it can restore respect for the legal system, says the author of a new book in a lecture to be given at the University of Washington.

Presidents and executive officers of universities and colleges serving the greater Tacoma area will meet in a public forum with state legislative candidates from 7 to 9 p.

Award-winning Alaskan naturalist-writer Richard Nelson will launch a 10-part lecture series exploring the complex relationship between cultural and biological diversity and the threats to both next Monday (Sept. 30) on the University of Washington campus.

Faculty and staff salaries, accountability to the public, enrollment growth, legislative and budget goals, cooperation among UW campuses, and –above all–the preservation of academic excellence–are among the topics to be discussed by University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick when he addresses the University community.

Presidents and executive officers of universities and colleges serving the east King and south Snohomish counties will meet in a public forum with state legislative candidates from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 in the auditorium at Lake Washington Technical College.

An innovative temperature-measuring instrument developed with the assistance of a University of Washington engineering professor has yielded improvements in processing semiconductors that may lead to faster, cheaper computer chips.

Researchers from the University of Washington, writing in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Science, report that they have developed the first reproducible method demonstrating that subliminal messages do affect human cognition.

The seventh annual Fall Fling is expected to draw several thousand new and returning University of Washington students on Friday, Sept. 27.

A radical new technique for processing natural gas that could save the petrochemical industry billions of dollars in energy and maintenance costs has been developed by University of Washington researchers.

A virus associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma has been detected in the saliva of six of seven HIV-infected gay men with a current or previous history of Kaposi’s sarcoma, report University of Washington researchers.

The University of Washington Department of Family Medicine is strongly rooted in the outside community, with nearly 600 volunteer clinical faculty in towns throughout Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho; and 31 faculty members at the UW.

The University of Washington was ranked 10th among all public universities in the United States in the quality of undergraduate education in a recentissue of U.S. News & World Report (Sept. 9)

The University of Washington is participating in the second phase of the national Diabetes Prevention Trial/Type 1, being announced nationally on Sept. 10.

While almost all muscle tissue is either fast-twitch (like the sprinter’s) or slow- twitch (like the endurance runner’s), magnetic resonance studies at University of Washington Medical Center show that the rattlesnake’s tail muscles can sustain rapid firing over a long period of time, with great economy of energy.

At least two thousand freshmen, their parents and guests are expected to attend the 1996 University of Washington Freshman Convocation, to be held at noon Sunday, Sept. 29 in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

The United States could put four astronauts on Mars within 15 years using existing technology and at a fraction of the cost proposed by NASA, under a plan proposed by Adam Bruckner, professor of aeronautics and astronautics in the UW College of Engineering.

Nine public school teachers leave Monday morning to visit the site of one of the Northwest’s most dynamic geological features to study the life forms that may pervade much of the Earth’s crust.

In the first study of lesbian and bisexual women living in small towns and their behavior and knowledge concerning HIV, researchers have found that a significant percentage of them may be at risk for contracting the virus.

Gary Stielow, a transfer student coming to the University of Washington from Green River Community College, has been selected as the 1996 Martin Scholar.

American and Russian archaeologists have found the first fluted point — a common artifact in North America that is associated with early inhabitants of the New World — on the Russian or Old World side of the Bering Strait.