A unique collection of information about the Northwest Coast Indians is now available on the Web as a result of a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Libraries-led project, under a grant from the Library of Congress and Ameritech.
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When it comes to gender switching, the Internet appears to be a far tamer frontier and much more conventional than many critics have claimed.
Bioengineering researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will lead a multi-million-dollar effort to grow functional human heart tissue, an undertaking that could lead to tissue-engineered replacement hearts and set in place the technology to grow other major organs in the laboratory.
Reconnecting Youth, a substance abuse prevention program from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing, was one of two Washington programs that won an Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award for 1999, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA’s) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) announced this week.
A new kind of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø MBA will offer rising technology professionals the knowledge and skills to become corporate leaders, Business School Dean Yash Gupta announced today.
A pipe burst in a freezer system at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus early this morning causing minor water damage
Bob and Jean Reid of Bellingham have made a $5 million donation to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing—the largest gift in the school’s history.
Undergraduates from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Forest Resources will be explaining the range of careers possible in forestry today and competing in logger sports using chain saws, crosscut saws and axes during “Garb Day.”
Researchers trying to unravel the causes of alcoholism have discovered that mice voluntarily drink significantly more alcohol when a gene that encodes a key brain protein is missing.
Some future teachers have spent their final quarter at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø on center stage, with a paintbrush and pallet in hand, while considering music theory.
Five Seattle researchers — three from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and two from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — have been selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators.
Patricia Wasley, who currently is dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College in New York, has been selected to be dean of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø College of Education, effective Sept. 1, 2000.
Dr. Paul B. Robertson, one of the nation’s leading dental educators and dean of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Dentistry since 1992, has announced that he will step down as dean as soon as a successor is recruited.
Published in the Tuesday, May 9, 2000 edition of the Seattle Times.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) third-year family practice residents took on a year-long community project to learn whether gun safety was a health issue for their patients
A new study from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers shows that a DNA polymerase — an enzyme — commonly used for scientific study can tolerate many different mutations and remain functional.
“Celebration 2000,” the 30th Annual Educational Opportunity Program scholarship banquet, will be held Wednesday, May 17 at Ballroom 6-E, Washington State Convention and Trade Center.
Just days before Taiwan inaugurates its new president and Congress votes on China trade, one of Asia’s leading journalists will come to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to discuss the impact of these dramatic events on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations.
Women who have Caesarean or assisted vaginal delivery are at a higher risk of rehospitalization than women who have unassisted vaginal delivery, say ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers.
More than 240 undergraduates will participate in the third Undergraduate Research Symposium, which will be held noon to 6 p.m. Friday, May 12 in Mary Gates Hall and the HUB.
You might call it real virtuality. That’s how some ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø freshmen are describing the chance to finally meet Japanese students from Tohoku University with whom they collaborated fall quarter via cyberspace on a series of engineering projects. The teamwork was part of a new class designed to introduce beginning college students to hands-on engineering in the international arena.
New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies.
The chiefs of the world’s major humanitarian relief and development agencies will convene in Seattle Saturday through Monday to coordinate their response to changing economic and political conditions and discuss with Northwest corporate leaders ways to collaborate in the fight against poverty and disease.
Jerry Franklin was one of the first ecosystem scientists to visit Mount St.
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members, Dr. Stanley Fields and Dr. Sen-itiroh Hakomori, are among 60 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Results were announced Tuesday, May 2.
The right kind of job training can reduce the odds of returning to a life of crime, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have found.
The dedication of Mary Gates Hall May 8 will commemorate the creation of a unique facility at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø focusing on undergraduate learning.
It’s a smaller world after all – that is, if new measurements by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth’s mass came from work that could establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton’s gravitational constant.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø students and professors are aiding Attorney General Christine Gregoire in her newly announced initiative to protect consumers online.
Hastening to meet industry demand for Internet-savvy managers, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Business School this fall will launch its first program in e-business, Dean Yash Gupta announced today.
Engineering from A to Z: Opportunities for learning abound at more than 100 exhibits at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø College of Engineering Open House
WHAT: Second annual ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Astronomy Department open house.
Announcement of a new program to prepare the next generation of managers to lead today’s Internet-driven business world, and a gift to launch the program.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø study suggests that pesticides are finding their way into the bodies of pre-school children in agricultural communities at a higher level than previously thought.
Steve Malone began studying Mount St. Helens in 1973. He didn’t know that just seven years later he would be tracking swarms of earthquakes signaling that the mountain was about to blow its top.
Since January, volunteers with Black Data Processing Associates, a national non-profit organization, have been meeting with local high school and middle school students, providing them with a forum in which to nurture computer skills.
Patients with brain tumors, cancers, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and other neurological abnormalities can now be helped at Harborview Medical Center by the Gamma Knife C, a non-invasive alternative to traditional surgical methods.
More than 2,200 first-, second- and third-graders and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.
Four undergraduates from Sao Paulo, Brazil, took first prize in last weekend’s Global Business Challenge, which has emerged in its second year as the world’s largest such competition.
Social scientist, humanist and human rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi will be honored by his alma mater, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, in ceremonies May 9. The event will culminate a series of activities that week focused on Hirabayashi and the Japanese American experience.