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MyGradProgram eliminates paper, improves lives

An ambitious project in the Graduate School, making extensive use of the Web and e-mail, is eliminating more than 38,000 pieces of paper each year.

Hangin’ in the Quad

The annual turning of the Quad cherry trees has peaked, drawing large numbers of visitors and students to admire the spectacular beauty.

Undergrad dean candidates to speak

Finalists for the position of Dean of Undergraduate Education and Vice Provost at the UW will speak in special forums beginning today.

Macular degeneration: An age-related cause of lost sight

Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, is a change in the central part of the retina, the thin film coating the back of the eye.

News Briefs

An artist’s interpretation of the hands of two UW heart surgeons and the operating field in which they are working appear as part of a public art project unveiled Feb.

WHO leader to speak Tuesday

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Mystery Photo

Only three people were able to identify the Mystery Photo from last week, which was of Clark Hall.

Summer chum return to Big Beef Creek in numbers not seen since ’70s

For the first time in decades hundreds of summer chum returned to Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station last fall. This follows five years of work to re-establish the run, an effort involving the UW, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the citizens of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group.

March 6, 2002

New center to build on and develop genetic and protein technology to fight deadly microbial pathogens

The University of Washington School of Medicine has established the Keck Center for Functional, Structural, and Chemical Genomics of Microbial Pathogens. The Keck Center will use state-of-the-art technology to mount an assault on some of the most dangerous and deadly infections on earth.

March 4, 2002

Symptoms of burnout common among medical residents; UW taking steps to help

In the largest study so far of burnout in medical residents, the syndrome of emotional detachment and exhaustion and a sense of low personal accomplishment struck about 76 percent of the internal medicine residents who responded to a February, 2001, University of Washington survey.

February 28, 2002

mystery photo

Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.

Barnard named Spence nursing professor

In recognition of her outstanding leadership, scholarship and passion for the well being of infants and young children, Dr.

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MEET A DINOSAUR: The Burke Museum will host its annual Dinosaur Day from 10 a.

Art in Context

Photography students in a course called “Installation, Context and collaboration,” taught by Associate Professor Ellen Garvens, have created an exhibit especially for the hospital environment.

UW responds to budget crisis

The UW is chipping in to keep a bad state budget situation from getting worse.

Hille Neurosciences Lecture: Researcher at Brandeis uses ‘dynamic clamp’ to study neural network development

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Researchers Find Region of Gene for Inherited Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington School of Medicine, in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, have mapped the location of a gene associated with inherited pancreatic cancer.

PERS 2 or PERS 3: Which will it be?

Unlike “paper or plastic,” the choice of PERS 2 or PERS 3 could have long-term, profound implications.

Countess speaks at UW

Countess Sonja Bernadotte of the Swedish royal family, above, was at the UW Monday to describe a program that brings Nobel laureates and college-age students from around the world to Lindau Island in Germany for informal meetings each year.

Glaucoma: A potentially serious eye disease has no obvious early symptoms

You feel perfectly fine – no headaches, no eye-strain, no clumsiness.

An India state of mind: Memories of Chandigarh motivated prof’s new book

Vikram Prakash knew what he was doing when he finally sat down to write the story of Chandigarh.

Reputation outweighs regulation in preventing future Enron-style scandals

The financial value of a law-abiding reputation — not tighter government regulations — is the best way to prevent future scandals like those enveloping energy giant Enron and its auditor Arthur Andersen, a University of Washington researcher says.

Autographs with a purpose: UW staffer meets President, helps charities

For a number of years now, Michael Reagan, the UW’s director of trademarks and licensing, has been hanging out with celebrities.

Unearthing classroom success

By teaching middle school teachers about the earth sciences, Liz Nesbitt hopes she’s sowing the seeds of the discipline’s next generation.

Engineering group honors UW’s Ratner

Buddy Ratner, director of the UW Engineered Biomaterials research center (UWEB), has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

In Brief

McDermott to speak
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More precise solar neutrino production figure determined by UW scientists

Scientists working at huge underground laboratories in Japan and Canada have made major strides in understanding neutrinos during the last three years. Now a team working with a particle accelerator at the University of Washington has added another significant finding, determining with the greatest precision yet just how many energetic neutrinos are generated in the sun’s nuclear furnace.

New biology of Earth’s rocks

In years past, scientific speculation about how life began on Earth envisioned primordial soups and slimy goo as the incubators in which the first tiny microorganisms developed, billions of years ago.