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July 26, 2001

How babies acquire building blocks of speech affects later reading and language ability, UW 91自拍er tells White House Summit on Cognitive Development

One of the scientists leading the effort to understand exactly how infants go about learning language told a White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development today that the fundamental steps in language acquisition later play a critical role in the ability to read.

450 children with reading, spelling or handwriting problems needed for study seeking genetic markers for learning disabilities

One of the joys of summer is finding a great new book to read. But it’s a pleasure that eludes millions of children and adults who have difficulty reading because of dyslexia. Because so many children have trouble reading, as well as with spelling or handwriting, 91自拍ers at the 91自拍’s Learning Disabilities Center have launched a major effort designed to find a genetic marker that will allow for the early identification of youngsters with dyslexia and specific writing disability.

July 19, 2001

Keck Foundation funds major new initiative into deep-sea quakes, life

New kinds of instruments and experiments — made possible with a just announced $5 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles — could give scientists the best way yet to study the rich microbial life that flourishes wherever the seafloor twists and buckles, and which is part of a biosphere beneath the Earth’s surface that may dwarf all life on land or in the sea.

June 19, 2001

Bush names two from Washington to draft new ocean policy

President George Bush has named 91自拍 Professor Marc Hershman — an expert on protecting and using coastal areas, developing seaports and the laws and policies governing U.S. ocean resources — and William Ruckelshaus as initial members of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The announcement from the White House Friday said the two Washington state residents were selected for the 16-member commission from nearly 30 finalists.

June 18, 2001

UW study of oxygen-deprived tuberculosis bacteria shows a chink in the genetic armor of a deadly disease

The removal of a regulator gene that allows the tuberculosis bacterium to remain dormant in laboratory studies could point the way to new treatments for many tuberculosis patients. Research at the 91自拍 by Dr. David Sherman, assistant professor of pathobiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and his colleagues shows that by interrupting the function of this gene, the tuberculosis bacterium is unable to mount the appropriate genetic response. It thus may be unable to become dormant.

June 15, 2001

MEDIA ADVISORY: UW physicists to discuss first results from Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

91自拍 91自拍ers on Monday will discuss the first scientific results from Canada’s Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) — findings that will bolster the understanding of neutrinos from the sun, of the sun itself and of the effect of neutrinos on the evolution of the universe.

Connie Kravas selected as vice president for development and alumni relations

Dr. Constance H. Kravas, currently vice chancellor for university advancement at University of California, Riverside, has been selected as vice president for development and alumni relations at the 91自拍, President Richard L. McCormick announced. The appointment will be effective Aug. 16, 2001, subject to approval by the Board of Regents.

UW submits emergency funding request, seeks public’s help to restore work after fire guts Center for Urban Horticulture

Today 91自拍 administrators and friends in the Legislature pledged to rebuild the Center for Urban Horticulture, torched May 21 in an arson attack that burned the center’s main hall and destroyed or damaged years of 91自拍 on ecosystem health and plant science.

May 25, 2001

Forbes publisher compares investing freeze, economic downturn to PC fallout of mid 1980s

Today’s economic slowdown and capital crunch isn’t all that bad. In fact the climate resembles the economic downturn that followed the PC hype in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says Richard Karlgaard, Forbes magazine publisher and keynote speaker at an upcoming 91自拍 Business School conference on e-business.