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Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.

A research center based at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Dentistry will try to understand the causes, and some of the answers, for needless suffering among diverse groups in the Northwest and Alaska.

Eight current and former ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø physicians and a School of Medicine alumna are featured in the new book, This Side of Doctoring: Reflections from Women in Medicine.

Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak

School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexicans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico.

Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are testing to see if a mainstay of human health — the body’s immune system — can better battle one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases than conventional therapies.

TIMELY TOPIC: Within hours of the announcement that Evergreen Forest Trust would purchase 100,000 acres of Weyerhaeuser forestlands in the Cascade foothills, one of the key participants was at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Forest Resources as a panelist discussing the very topic of land trusts.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

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

University Week Staff Report

The Washington Higher Education Coordinating (HEC) Board last week voted unanimously in support of a resolution that recommends giving tuition-setting authority to public colleges and universities and encourages a restructuring or expansion of the state’s tax system.

Lecture considers modernity, religion

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Professor Frank Conlon will give the annual “Religion and Contemporary Life” lecture at 7:30 p.

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Department chair: Sabine Wilke

Department location: Denny Hall

Number of faculty: Ten regular faculty members (three with joint appointments), as well as one emeritus who teaches and a Distinguished Visiting Professor from Germany every spring.

While preparing for the festivities surrounding the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Henry Art Gallery, Richard Andrews can’t help but be moved by the generosity of the facility’s namesake.

As the United States began sending its Al Qaeda captives to Cuba last month, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø sent a delegation of 41 women.

Neutrinos are among the tiniest particles in the universe.

Next week the School of Drama is inviting people to see eight plays for the price of one.

Thirty-four years after his death, the legacy of Dr.

The City of Seattle has released a draft final report of the University Area Transportation Study and is asking for comments by Feb.

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is making it easier for students, instructors and staff to produce their own Web pages — without having to know specialized computer languages or to use complicated software.

With a constancy that would impress the swallows at San Juan Capistrano, the Skokomish River seems to flood each year at the first sign of Western Washington’s rainy season.

After a suffering a severe burn, some patients develop hypertrophic scars—a distinct and excessive growth of tissue with increased numbers of blood vessels and multiple nerves.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center-Roosevelt has opened three significant new areas on the second floor this month — the Cosmetic Surgery Center, Refractive Surgery Center and Ambulatory Surgery Center.

Exhibitors are signing up to reserve space for the 2002 Health Sciences Open House, the honorary chair has been named and a theme has been chosen.

You’re worn out all the time, you get tired very easily, that new weight-loss plan just isn’t working and you suspect you fell asleep as you were driving home after work last week.

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Mark Ondrake, a fiscal specialist in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine’s Department of Environmental Health, will be sharing his collection of materials with examples of art from earlier times used for advertising, magazine covers and book covers.

A senior fellow in the Department of Oral Biology at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Dentistry has received two different and prestigious honors. Dr. Ozlem Yilmaz has been named a Magnuson Scholar by the university, and awarded a clinical scientist (KO8) grant by the National Institutes of Health.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

ADAI research grants available

The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from University faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.

Mystery Photo Winners:

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It may look like an archaeological dig, but it’s actually the construction site for the addition to the IMA.

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Just because the governor proposed local tuition-setting authority doesn’t mean it will be a reality when the Legislature closes shop after what is scheduled to be a 60-day session.

Only a year ago, you couldn’t get away from the word “genetics.

In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others.

At work, Linda Di Biase spends most of her time sleuthing the best publications for the University to purchase; on her own time she’s doing sleuthing of a different sort.

The Art Nouveau Bindings of the Works of Louis Couperus is the title of a talk to be given by H.

The Faculty Senate will meet at 2:30 p.

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The Department of Surgery’s eighth annual Helen and John Schilling Lecture next week will feature Dr.