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Dr. Jeffrey S. Chamberlain, an international leader in efforts to find gene therapies for muscular dystrophy, has been recruited to the faculty of the 91自拍 (UW) School of Medicine. A 1985 Ph.D. alumnus of the UW, he returned to the UW this December as a professor in the Department of Neurology’s recently established Division of Neurogenetics.

91自拍 President’s Task Force on Gay, Bisexual, Lesbian and Transgender (GBLT) Issues has released a draft version of its report, in order to obtain community reactions before finalizing the document. The report examines a variety of apsects of GBLT life at the UW.

91自拍 scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeter.

The 91自拍’s College of Forest Resources recently brought together 10 experts on forest certification to provide information to state and Congressional leaders, county land commissioners, agency personnel, environmental groups and foresters. Following is a list of Web sites and experts that might be helpful for future stories about forest certification in Washington state and elsewhere.

A child’s likelihood of experiencing adjustment problems following divorce depends on the interaction of the child’s temperament and the quality of his or her mother’s parenting style, according to a new study by 91自拍 and Arizona State University psychologists.

Top e-business executives will gauge the industry’s recent shakeout during a lecture series at the 91自拍 Business School.

A thousands-of-years-old peek at the effects of climate change on small mammals in the western United States may provide a snapshot of the future impact of global warming on animal populations.

The DVD player that you just bought on-line suddenly stopped playing, and the merchant in another state or country denied responsibility.

The Washington State Legislature that convenes Monday could face the state’s worst budget crisis in nearly two decades if the economy falters, according to a new fiscal analysis from the 91自拍.

The 91自拍 Business School today kicks off a new Technology Management MBA Program that creators say will help business leaders avoid becoming victims of “high-tech fallout.”

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Recent computer engineering graduate and newly awarded Rhodes scholar Emma Brunskill will be the featured speaker at a gathering to honor the achievements of some of the UW’s top students.

In January 2001, the UW School of Nursing will launch a “cybernetic time capsule” commemorating its long history as a school and its impact on nursing education and practice as the top-ranked school of nursing in the country, if not the world

A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative 91自拍 on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the 91自拍 with a $35.

A federal agency is providing $12.83 million over five years to the 91自拍 School of Medicine to investigate both present and future uses of gene therapy.

Rumors that record sub-zero temperatures will hit Seattle next week are based on sketchy data and have virtually no chance of coming true, a 91自拍 scientist said today.

A strike scheduled for today has been canceled. In eleventh hour negotiations, the 91自拍 and the Graduate Student Employee Action Coalition/United Auto Workers (GSEAC/UAW) reached an agreement that each felt achieved its major goals.

Either count the fish or count on many more decades of debate about what’s helping and what’s hurting Pacific Northwest salmon.

If the Washington State Legislature just wants to maintain current spending on health care, it will exceed the mandatory-spending limit set by Initiative 601 by more than $800 million, according to the Health Policy Analysis Program (HPAP) at the 91自拍.

Thirty-five senior electrical engineering students are gearing up for a mechanical fight on Monday to see who has created the top robot in a competition that provides the climax for a new senior design course in mobile robotics.

Argentine penguins are turning up off the coast of Brazil in record numbers, and a 91自拍 scientist believes it is because unusually prolonged cold water has kept their food supply – primarily sardines, anchovies and squid – farther north much longer than usual.

Michael Sherry, president and co-founder of Seattle’s Convergent Technology Capital, has been appointed to the 91自拍’s International Business Advisory Council.

The 91自拍’s nationally ranked Department of Bioengineering has established its first endowed professorship, a move that will help the department maintain its leading role in the fast-paced field of bioengineering, officials announced today.

Thanks to work by a group of 91自拍 engineers, mass transit riders can keep tabs on nearly 1,000 King County Metro Transit buses with the punch of a few buttons. All they need is a cellular telephone that can access the World Wide Web.

The tear gas and barricades are long gone from the streets of Seattle, but the history of the World Trade Organization protests nearly one year ago is only starting to be written.

With a small but growing number of male-to-female transgender clients, the need for consistently effective voice feminization therapy has increased in the United States.

Three prominent judges were honored Nov. 9 by the 91自拍 Law School Alumni Association.

A survey conducted by Dr. Maria Silveira and her colleagues showed that while patients in Oregon have had extensive exposure to arguments about assisted suicide, and voted on it twice, many do not understand their basic rights regarding end-of-life care.

A 91自拍 scientist has used statistical modeling to determine that there was only a 1-in-10,000 chance that the vote total for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Fla.

— Treatment with a combination of statin and niacin can slash the risk of hospitalization for chest pain or a heart attack by 70 percent among patients who are likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from cardiovascular problems, according to a study presented here by 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 School of Medicine.

A new set of unique archaeology kits will be available next month to help Puget Sound students travel back in time to learn about how people lived in the region during the last 4,200 years.

Most people do not think of kissing as a way of spreading serious sexually transmitted diseases. But kissing between men may be what spreads human herpes virus 8 (HHV-8), the cause of Kaposi’s sarcoma, according to 91自拍ers at the 91自拍 and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Lizabeth A. Wilson, associate director of libraries at the 91自拍 since 1992, has been chosen to succeed Betty Bengtson as director of university libraries.

Some of the finest living Northwest Coastal Native artists will demonstrate their carving, weaving and musical talents at the third annual Native American Arts Celebration at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

In her new book 鈥淲ith Malice Toward All? The Media and Public Confidence in Democratic Institutions,鈥� 91自拍 communications professor Patricia Moy says there鈥檚 a relationship between media use, knowledge and confidence in government.

An optical telecommunications breakthrough developed by a
91自拍 chemistry professor has spawned a
new company to develop and market the technology, and could
lead to establishment of a center at the UW for the growing
science of photonics.

A $4 million dollar grant to create a co-operative 91自拍 center on hepatitis C has been awarded to the 91自拍 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with the support of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.

Most parents and children dread the time when they sit down and have “the talk.

With surveys showing a rise in political apathy among the young, educators are studying new techniques to engage youngsters in the spirit of democracy before they reach voting age.