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Adolescents attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college, according to the first study to directly compare the two groups.
The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø astronomer who revolutionized research on interplanetary dust entering Earth’s atmosphere.
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods — land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages — in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago.
Rowing shells feel tippy, as if any movement might capsize them, until rowers get used to them.
The Department of Global Health is building an infrastructure and a foundation for a complementary and interdisciplinary enterprise that will reach far.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of Global Health is stretching the boundaries of academia and redefining what “interdisciplinary collaboration” means.
Cunningham Hall will be moving.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Mark A.
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Does your department or unit have business pending with the Human Subjects Division or the Office of Sponsored Programs?
If so, remember that both offices are moving to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Tower over the next two weekends, which will cause a brief interruption of their service.
EMMY EXCELLENCE: ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøTV Production, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s television production facility, has earned an Emmy nomination from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its outstanding production Inside Access: Daniel’s Story.
Gerald (Jerry) Baldasty, chair and professor of communication, has been named interim vice provost and dean of The Graduate School effective Aug.
Nominations for the 2008 Diversity Award for Community Building are now being accepted.
Kurt Xyst is one adviser who knows firsthand about the challenges students face.
In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers.
The discovery in the last decade of new suites of microorganisms capable of using various forms of nitrogen — discoveries that have involved a number of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers — is one reason to rethink what we know about the nitrogen cycle.
As Campaign ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø: Creating Futures enters the home stretch, it is time to reflect on some gifts to the Faculty-Staff-Retiree Campaign for Students that are making a difference.
What a year! It went by in a flash, with some goals accomplished and others not.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting Thursday, June 12, at 1 p.
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will expand its certificate program at the United Arab Emirates Academy in Abu Dhabi.
A traveling exhibit of paper art from the People’s Republic of China titled Cutting Ribbons for the Olympics: Exhibition of Chinese Folk Sport Paper Cuts will be on display in Room 102 of Suzzallo Library today through Aug.
This school year, University Week, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turned 25 years old.
As part of its response to climate change and the need to rebuild our stumbling economy, Washington state has set a goal of creating 25,000 “green” jobs.
The School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology will present the 21st Annual Edwin G.
Two faculty members in the Department of Medicine were recently appointed to endowed professorships.
By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 62,400 new cases of melanoma — a malignant form of skin cancer — will occur in the United States in 2008.
Former Surgeon General of the United States C.
Biofuels based on ethanol, vegetable oil and other renewable sources are increasingly popular with government and environmentalists as a way to reduce fossil fuel dependence and limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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When Herbert Blau received an honorary degree recently, the occasion was particularly poignant.
Jen Drumm, The coordinator of Dawg Daze, the annual event welcoming new students to campus, is looking for faculty and staff who are interested in participating.
Last August, Taso Lagos was terrified he, his program assistant and his 13 undergraduates would be caught in wildfires raging across central and southern Greece.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Botanic Gardens will present a program on greening your home at 7 p.
Nancy Penrose is back at the University after visiting the country she once lived in but didn’t remember.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program will present its 2008 Senior Exhibiton, titled Synthesis, June 11 to 14 at the School of Art’s Sandpoint Gallery in Seattle’s Magnuson Park.