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November 6, 2003
Flexing the schedule: Survey shows interest in alternative work hours
New survey shows high staff interest
in alternative forms of work hours
Three from UW earn AAAS honor
Meldrum, Jenekhe, Knopp celebrated for distinguished careers
November 5, 2003
UW architecture program gives youth a voice on Seattle waterfront
Seattle’s post-Viaduct waterfront should provide an outdoor educational environment for studying history, culture and ecology — as well as a skateboard park. So say high school students at Queen Anne’s Center School who were asked to inject the voice of youth into the future of the downtown waterfront.
November 3, 2003
Role in Type 1 diabetes provides clue for researchers who discovered ‘obesity gene.’
The discovery of a gene believed to be connected to morbid obesity has international origins and began as an exploration into the causes of Type I diabetes.
Nisqually quake damaged 90 percent of Puget Sound businesses surveyed
Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by University of Washington researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties.
October 31, 2003
Japanese shipwreck adds to evidence of great Cascadia earthquake in 1700
Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue.
Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered mass extinctions, spurred bird breathing system
A University of Washington paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which eradicated 90 percent of all species on Earth.
October 30, 2003
CFD: Retired UW employee teaches English for area literacy council
Editor’s Note: Throughout the Combined Fund Drive campaign, which runs through Nov.
Scientists meeting in Seattle to consider all aspects of Arctic change
It was something polar veteran Jamie Morison hadn’t seen in that part of the Arctic Ocean before.
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