Probably not one in a thousand Puget Sound residents has ever heard of the Nuosu people of remote southwestern China. Stevan Harrell wants to change that.
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Patients filling a prescription usually can rely on their pharmacist to warn of possible negative side effects caused by interactions with other prescriptions and over-the-counter medications that they may be taking. But two top national experts on drug interactions from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Pharmacy believe the health-care provider actually writing the prescription should be the first line of defense against such interactions.
An expert on international human rights law, Joan Fitzpatrick, has been named the holder of a new endowed professorship at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law.
A two-day event to explore labor’s role in furthering global justice, in an interactive setting that includes labor and the coalition partners who helped make history the week of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle.
Ravi Desai may be an Internet entrepreneur, but his first love is poetry. To ensure that poetry continues to thrive at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, he has made a $2 million gift to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Creative Writing Program.
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Two teams of high school students, one sponsored by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Department of Electrical Engineering and the Seattle Robotics Society and the other by Microsoft Corp.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø research, to be published in the Feb. 17 edition of the journal Nature, suggests the health of the ecosystem is rooted in a complex codependency between plants and animals that produce organic matter and simple organisms that break it down.
After a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and lawAfter a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and law
Myron Apilado, vice president for minority affairs at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø since 1990, announced today his intention to step down from that position by the end of the year 2000.
Venture capitalist Neal Dempsey has donated $3 million to kick off an initiative by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Business School to infuse technology into every aspect of training the next generation of managers.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Immunex Corp. announced today that they have joined forces in support of the School of Medicine’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI) – a new scientific discovery program dedicated to the comprehensive study of the information systems that operate within all living cells and organisms.
A $1.6 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will allow expansion of a statewide program designed to involve students in math, science and engineering into the elementary grades, a move the program’s leaders call crucial in encouraging more women and minorities to enter science and engineering careers.
Two of the people most responsible for taking computers out of the laboratory and into the hands of millions are coming to Seattle on Tuesday to talk about how technology can make its next leap and bring progress to an even greater number of people.
Richard Johnston isn’t looking to build a better mousetrap. He wants to get rid of the mouse, period. The former ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researcher and founder of a new start-up company called Dot On has found a way to demouse home computers.
Free lecture “Volcanos, Oceans and Life in Our Solar System: A Fiber-Optic Telescope to Inner Space” by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø oceanographer John Delaney.
As scientists who are fascinated by biology and enjoy communicating its wonders, David and Ilona Barash are concerned that many people don’t know their DNA and RNA from their ABCs.
The World Trade Organization will never gain broad public acceptance until it becomes much more open and democratic, a new ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø opinion survey indicates.
A major study on heroin addiction treatment enters an important phase
Feb. 1, as Harborview Medical Center becomes the first health-care facility in the country to dispense methadone through a pharmacy for patients recovering from heroin addiction.
This is a story about a man who loved poetry, his three sons who graduated from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, and the bonds that tie a community to a university. The story will be retold on Feb. 12 in the introduction to the second annual Afrassiabi Memorial Lecture, which honors Hooshang Afrassiabi, a leader of the local Iranian community who died two years ago.
African Americans have become an increasingly vital force in Washington’s economy, spending more than $2 billion annually and owning more than 6,600 businesses, according to a new ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø report.
As World Trade Organization delegates left Seattle in a cloud of tear gas and disappointment, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scholars began studying and debating the outcome and its implications for the future.
Women who drink heavily are significantly more likely than their male counterparts to suffer from liver disease, depression, psychological distress, and recent physical, emotional or sexual abuse, according to a study by researchers at Harborview Medical Center published in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Trauma.
Four ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) third-year medical students have started their six-month WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) in three rural towns.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø surgeons performed the region’s first two operations of their kind yesterday to help men avoid their greatest fear about prostate cancer surgery: impotence.
Independent audits of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø for the year ended June 30, 1999, presented recently to the Board of Regents, show a remarkable lack of major problems for a large, complex and highly decentralized institution.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) School of Medicine’s pediatric training unit in Spokane will be honored Jan. 24 for more than a quarter century of teaching ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø medical students and pediatric residents about children’s health care.
Meg Greenfield’s lifelong passion for classical languages and literature did not end when the former Washington Post editorial page editor and Pulitzer Prize winner died last May. The journalist has left a bequest valued at about $2.9 million to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s department of classics.
Richard L. McCormick, in a speech to be delivered Jan. 20 to the Association of American Colleges and Universities at its annual meeting at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., outlines the steps that the university is taking to cope with the passage in November 1998 of Initiative 200, which prohibited the use of race or ethnicity as factors in college admissions
The first surgery of its kind in the region, performed at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, has given a once very ill 48-year-old Alaska man, who faced a lung transplant and/or potentially heart failure, a normal life expectancy and the hope of living a normal life.
Jon Jory, producing director at the acclaimed Actors Theatre of Louisville, has been appointed to the faculty of the nationally renowned ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Drama, pending final approval by the Board of Regents on January 21.
A new book by two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientists contends that, contrary to popular thought, we just might be alone and Earth might be unique, if not in the universe at least in this celestial neighborhood.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers trying to understand the roots and continuity of aggressive behavior in children are looking for 100 families in the greater Seattle area to participate in a new study.
The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years will occur Thursday and, barring cloudy skies, Northwest residents should get some spectacular views.
The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium’s recent move into new offices could be profitable for K-12 teachers throughout the Northwest, giving them easy access to a wealth of science teaching materials produced by the nation’s space agency.
Santos and Orlando Villafuerte-Mora, twins born at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center in two different centuries, are scheduled to be transferred Friday by ambulance to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.
Jimmy Carter will address a Seattle audience on Wednesday (Jan. 19) using an unconventional format in which a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor engages the former president in a conversation about global progress.
Jon and Judy Runstad have pledged $1 million to establish the H. Jon and Judith M. Runstad Endowment for Excellence in Real Estate at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Income from the endowment will support a comprehensive new real estate program in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
The Old World fruit fly has exhibited one of fastest evolutionary changes ever recorded.
To paraphrase an old car ad, “This is not your father’s universe.
Seventy-five years after Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the universe extended beyond the Milky Way, three ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø astronomers using the telescope that bears his name have made some surprising discoveries about one object of his research.