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April 17, 2000
Stock study finds that for Internet firms, popularity pays
A new study by three business professors offers a hint: To survive Wall Street jitters, they say, an Internet company doesn’t need to make a profit or even sell goods. But it had better attract eyeballs – lots of them
Kristiina Vogt to return to UW as dean of College of Forest Resources
Kristiina A. Vogt, a professor with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and former University of Washington faculty member, has been selected by UW President Richard L. McCormick as the new dean of the College of Forest Resources, effective July 1.
Organized systems of trauma care improve survival rates for car-crash victims
Implementation of organized systems of trauma care reduce death rates due to motor-vehicle crashes by 9 percent, according to a study by researchers at Harborview Medical Center. The study will be published in the April 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
April 14, 2000
Schoolchildren, teachers and parents to get hands-on engineering experience at UW College of Engineering Open House
Thousands of schoolchildren, their teachers and parents are expected to gather at the University of Washington campus April 28 and 29 to learn about engineering by participating in hands-on demonstrations during the College of Engineering Open House
April 13, 2000
Older children, boys more likely to be physically abused in families with history of wife abuse, study indicates
In homes with wife abuse, children ages 14 and older are more than three times as likely to be physically abused than are younger children ages 1 through 13, a study examining the risks of child abuse has found.
April 12, 2000
Poet laureate of United States to be UW commencement speaker
The University of Washington has selected Robert Pinsky, the 39th poet laureate of the United States, to be the commencement speaker in ceremonies to be held June 10 in Husky Stadium.
UW co-hosts conference about healthy weight in adolescent women of color
University of Washington nutritionists and preventive health experts are preparing to tackle a growing national epidemic — obesity in adolescent women of color.
April 11, 2000
UW researchers still monitoring plants, forest stands and seismic activity 20 years after eruption
The following is a list of experts at the University of Washington who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain.
UW’s Innocence Project Northwest spurs national effort to free the wrongly imprisoned
Spouses, friends and parents of prisoners enter the imposing University of Washington Law School building asking where to find Innocence Project Northwest. Growing numbers of these seekers arrive each month as word spreads of the project launched two years ago by attorney Fred Leatherman and UW Law School senior lecturer Jacqueline McMurtrie.
Clinton names Seattle researchers as Presidential Early Career Award winners
President Clinton today named University of Washington faculty members Nathan Mantua, a climate scientist, and Dr. David W. Russell, an assistant professor of medicine, as winners of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
April 10, 2000
Jack Faris selected as UW vice president for university relations
Jack Faris, director of community strategies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been selected by University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick to be the next vice president for university relations, effective June 1.
April 7, 2000
Future of doctoral education is subject of conference
The future of doctoral education will be the subject of a unique conference in Seattle April 13-15.
April 6, 2000
University of Washington hosts nurses for international conference
The University of Washington is among the hosts of the fourth annual National Magnet Nursing Conference through Friday. Nurses from all backgrounds, from all over the world, are in Seattle to attend “Navigating the Future: Charting Your Course To Best Practice” at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center.
April 5, 2000
UW/Bellarmine Preparatory School robot shines in regional robo-rumble, team members head to Florida for national contest
A robot designed by Tacoma high school students with help from University of Washington engineering undergraduates and members of the Seattle Robotics Society took a top award in regional competition over the weekend, and now the team is headed to nationals.
Automated North Pole Station to take pulse of Arctic Ocean
An international research team supported by the National Science Foundation will establish a camp at the North Pole this month. The scientists will use the camp to lay the groundwork for a five-year project to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world’s northernmost sea helps regulate global climate.
April 4, 2000
University of Washington researchers map rice genome
Researchers at the University of Washington, under the sponsorship of Monsanto Company, have produced a working draft of the rice plant genome. This will give scientists the potential to dramatically improve the production of rice, a vital food source for half of the world’s population.
April 3, 2000
UW tops nursing school and primary-care medical school rankings
The University of Washington is No. 1 among both nursing schools and primary-care medical schools in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.
March 31, 2000
Students from 13 countries to converge April 9-15 for Global Business Challenge
The University of Washington will conduct America’s newest and most international contest for business students April 9-15, bringing young competitors from nearly every part of the planet.
University of Washington School of Nursing again No. 1 in U.S. News’ rankings of America’s Best Graduate Schools
The University of Washington School of Nursing has again been ranked as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of graduate programs.
For seventh straight year U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Washington as top primary-care medical school
For the seventh year in a row, the University of Washington School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.
March 30, 2000
Magnetic fields may hold key to malaria treatment, UW researchers find
Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a method of treating malaria with magnetic fields that could prove revolutionary in controlling the disease the World Health Organization calls one of the world’s most complex and serious human health concerns.
March 29, 2000
UW School of Medicine will honor Wenatchee clinical teaching sites in medicine and surgery
The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine this week will recognize the internal medicine and surgical teaching sites in Wenatchee, Wash., for more than a quarter-century of teaching UW medical students and surgical residents.
Documentaries from around world to be featured at Mead film festival
Fourteen documentary films from around the world will be shown free of charge at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Gallery April 13-16 as the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Seattle. The
March 27, 2000
UW researchers can predict newlywed divorce, marital stability with 87 percent accuracy
Psychologists trying to determine why marriages flourish or end in divorce have refined a tool that predicts with 87 percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later.
March 24, 2000
UW hosts Sen. George Mitchell on peace, activist Ralph Nader on dissent, and David Broder and Tim Eyman on ballot initiatives
The University of Washington opens its spring quarter welcoming a trio of prominent national voices in public policy: former Sen. George Mitchell, activist Ralph Nader and journalist David Broder. Mitchell visits the UW Law School at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 30) in Condon Hall to deliver the Bernie and Pearl Brotman Lecture on Dispute Resolution, focusing on his efforts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland.
March 23, 2000
People unknowingly spread epidemic of sexually transmitted disease
A study from the University of Washington published in the March 23 New England Journal of Medicine warns that an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease is likely to continue unless people learn whether they have genital herpes.
March 22, 2000
Kingdome implosion could give greater understanding of Seattle Fault
Since the discovery of the Seattle Fault in the early 1990s, many people have worried how the region’s most-recognizable sports stadium would fare in a major earthquake. Now scientists hope the planned destruction of the Kingdome will give them a better picture of the fault and its associated risks to downtown Seattle.
March 21, 2000
Harborview program teams with FBI to help victims of bank robberies
With as many as 30 bank robberies occurring in Washington state every month, the psychological effects on tellers can be devastating. To help them cope, the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began the Bank Personnel Group in early 1999, the first program of its kind in the nation.
March 20, 2000
Isis and the University of Washington’s ‘Cell Systems Initiative’ to collaborate on pioneering functional genomic initiative
Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ISIP) and the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine. have announced today that Isis has joined UW’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI). CSI is a research and educational program whose mission is to understand the dynamic information systems in cells.
March 16, 2000
Winds in Pacific climate cycle can foretell Gulf of Mexico hurricanes
A short-term climate cycle that builds in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward through the equatorial Pacific Ocean is a key factor in the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms over the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean Sea, University of Washington researchers have found.
March 15, 2000
UW sponsors public forum on pediatric epilepsy
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March 14, 2000
Anita Hill to speak at UW School of Social Work building dedication
WHO: Controversial law professor Anita Hill is the keynote speaker.
March 13, 2000
New UW medical division will seek causes, treatments of brain diseases
The University of Washington School of Medicine has opened a Division of Neurogenetics to study the root causes of hereditary diseases that rob people of their minds and bodies: the diseases that ravage the human brain and nervous system.
March 9, 2000
UW article in New England Journal highlights rare but deadly disease
An article in today’s New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on a deadly but largely unknown disease studied by University of Washington scientists. A diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV increases the chance that the affected person will meet an early death. The disease alters one of the building blocks of important tissues in the body, so that people are at risk to rupture their arteries, intestines or uterus.
March 6, 2000
Children more vulnerable to trauma after injury to a sibling
Children are more likely to suffer unintentional injuries within 90 days of a sibling’s injury, according to a study conducted at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center published in the March 2000 issue of Pediatrics.
March 3, 2000
UW Health Sciences Open House 2000 set for April 7 and 8
Around the theme of “Step into the Future,” the UW Health Sciences Open House 2000 will highlight the latest advances in medical research, patient care and teaching, as well as offer information on exciting careers in health care.
High school science fans go head to head at UW in Techno Bowl 2000
Four-student teams from 12 Western Washington high schools competing to show their science and mathematics mastery.
March 2, 2000
“Genomic Views of Human History” is topic of March 14 lecture
Dr. Mary-Claire King, University of Washington professor of medicine and genetics, will give the third and last in this year’s series of free public lectures sponsored by the newly created University of Washington Science Forum. Her lecture, “Genomic Views of Human History,” will be held at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, March 14, in Kane Hall room 130 on the UW campus.
UW hosts free all-day public seminar on hearing loss
“Ears, Hearing and Beyond” is the subject of a free public conference on hearing loss, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the HUB Auditorium on the University of Washington campus.
March 1, 2000
High school students test “ocean IQ” at contest sponsored by the UW
Teams from Sedro-Woolley High School claimed first place – for the second year running – and teams from Garfield High School placed second and third Saturday during the state’s Ocean Sciences Bowl sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences.
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