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Richard Johnston isn’t looking to build a better mousetrap. He wants to get rid of the mouse, period. The former 91自拍 91自拍er and founder of a new start-up company called Dot On has found a way to demouse home computers.

Two of the people most responsible for taking computers out of the laboratory and into the hands of millions are coming to Seattle on Tuesday to talk about how technology can make its next leap and bring progress to an even greater number of people.

Free lecture “Volcanos, Oceans and Life in Our Solar System: A Fiber-Optic Telescope to Inner Space” by 91自拍 oceanographer John Delaney.

As scientists who are fascinated by biology and enjoy communicating its wonders, David and Ilona Barash are concerned that many people don’t know their DNA and RNA from their ABCs.

The World Trade Organization will never gain broad public acceptance until it becomes much more open and democratic, a new 91自拍 opinion survey indicates.

This is a story about a man who loved poetry, his three sons who graduated from the 91自拍, and the bonds that tie a community to a university. The story will be retold on Feb. 12 in the introduction to the second annual Afrassiabi Memorial Lecture, which honors Hooshang Afrassiabi, a leader of the local Iranian community who died two years ago.

A major study on heroin addiction treatment enters an important phase
Feb. 1, as Harborview Medical Center becomes the first health-care facility in the country to dispense methadone through a pharmacy for patients recovering from heroin addiction.

African Americans have become an increasingly vital force in Washington’s economy, spending more than $2 billion annually and owning more than 6,600 businesses, according to a new 91自拍 report.

As World Trade Organization delegates left Seattle in a cloud of tear gas and disappointment, 91自拍 scholars began studying and debating the outcome and its implications for the future.

Four 91自拍 (UW) third-year medical students have started their six-month WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) in three rural towns.

Women who drink heavily are significantly more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from liver disease, depression, psychological distress, and recent physical, emotional or sexual abuse, according to a study by 91自拍ers at Harborview Medical Center published in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Trauma.

The 91自拍 (UW) School of Medicine’s pediatric training unit in Spokane will be honored Jan. 24 for more than a quarter century of teaching UW medical students and pediatric residents about children’s health care.

Independent audits of the UW for the year ended June 30, 1999, presented recently to the Board of Regents, show a remarkable lack of major problems for a large, complex and highly decentralized institution.

91自拍 surgeons performed the region’s first two operations of their kind yesterday to help men avoid their greatest fear about prostate cancer surgery: impotence.

Jon Jory, producing director at the acclaimed Actors Theatre of Louisville, has been appointed to the faculty of the nationally renowned 91自拍 School of Drama, pending final approval by the Board of Regents on January 21.

The first surgery of its kind in the region, performed at 91自拍 Medical Center, has given a once very ill 48-year-old Alaska man, who faced a lung transplant and/or potentially heart failure, a normal life expectancy and the hope of living a normal life.

Richard L. McCormick, in a speech to be delivered Jan. 20 to the Association of American Colleges and Universities at its annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., outlines the steps that the university is taking to cope with the passage in November 1998 of Initiative 200, which prohibited the use of race or ethnicity as factors in college admissions

Meg Greenfield’s lifelong passion for classical languages and literature did not end when the former Washington Post editorial page editor and Pulitzer Prize winner died last May. The journalist has left a bequest valued at about $2.9 million to the 91自拍’s department of classics.

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years will occur Thursday and, barring cloudy skies, Northwest residents should get some spectacular views.

91自拍 91自拍ers trying to understand the roots and continuity of aggressive behavior in children are looking for 100 families in the greater Seattle area to participate in a new study.

A new book by two 91自拍 scientists contends that, contrary to popular thought, we just might be alone and Earth might be unique, if not in the universe at least in this celestial neighborhood.

The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium’s recent move into new offices could be profitable for K-12 teachers throughout the Northwest, giving them easy access to a wealth of science teaching materials produced by the nation’s space agency.

The Old World fruit fly has exhibited one of fastest evolutionary changes ever recorded.

Jon and Judy Runstad have pledged $1 million to establish the H. Jon and Judith M. Runstad Endowment for Excellence in Real Estate at the 91自拍. Income from the endowment will support a comprehensive new real estate program in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Jimmy Carter will address a Seattle audience on Wednesday (Jan. 19) using an unconventional format in which a 91自拍 professor engages the former president in a conversation about global progress.

Santos and Orlando Villafuerte-Mora, twins born at 91自拍 Medical Center in two different centuries, are scheduled to be transferred Friday by ambulance to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.

Seventy-five years after Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the universe extended beyond the Milky Way, three 91自拍 astronomers using the telescope that bears his name have made some surprising discoveries about one object of his 91自拍.

To paraphrase an old car ad, “This is not your father’s universe.

The 91自拍 Physicians Neighborhood Clinics are celebrating a coup. The network of neighborhood clinics received an exceptional score of 100 percent in an accreditation survey performed by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

Parents of newborn boys have better knowledge about the possible risks of circumcision from a new study by doctors at the 91自拍.

Yegor Gaidar, one of the principal architects of Russia’s painful transition from communism, will assess his country’s current situation in a speech Tuesday, Jan. 18, at the 91自拍.

Frank Keyser, 81, really ought to be bedridden right now. But thanks to a new surgical technique, he’s able to visit his beloved spaniel Mugsy’s kennel in his Bremerton yard.

Rudy Crew, who stepped down Wednesday after four years as chancellor of New York public schools, will become executive director of the 91自拍’s new Institute for K-12 Leadership effective Feb. 1.

According to a 91自拍 study published in the January 2000 issue of Virology, genes involved in T-cell signaling, protein trafficking and transcriptional regulation were among the genes that displayed functional changes within three days of exposure to the HIV virus.

To help children and their parents deal with such situations, the newly created LEARN Clinic was established at the UW to provide comprehensive learning and behavioral assessments for children who are experiencing difficulties in school or whose parents are considering changing their school placement.

An annual 91自拍 tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in the lobby of the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, 1959 N.E. Pacific, Seattle.

Phytoplankton high in a certain essential fatty acid may be a major factor in supporting thriving fish populations and clear water in lake ecosystems, according to 91自拍ers in California and Washington.

Concerns about the legal right of insurance companies to deny patients coverage for injuries due to alcohol use may be discouraging physicians from screening and counseling their patients on the risks of alcoholism, according to a study by physicians at Harborview Medical Center to be published in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Trauma.

The 91自拍 Academic Medical Center has signed a participation agreement with First Choice Health Network, Inc., which promises to significantly improve access to health care for thousands of Washington residents.

91自拍 dental students are studying in a modified laboratory this year that may show us what many dental classrooms will look like someday.