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By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy

Between 1994 and 2005, the number of prescription drugs purchased in the United States increased 71 percent (from 2.

By Bobbi Nodell
News & Community Relations

Les Roberts, who has been quoted widely in the media about the underreporting of Iraqi death statistics, will speak on “U.

Women have been at the forefront of healing practices since the beginning of time, but it has only been in the past 150 years that they have been included in the formal study and practice of medicine.

A second season of Luce Lectures will focus on the U.

Community leaders and members of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø family who have made outstanding achievements in promoting diversity at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and in the community will be honored when the Multicultural Alumni Partnership (MAP) and ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Alumni Association holds the 14th annual Bridging the Gap Breakfast on Saturday, Oct.

As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room.

When John Francis was an undergraduate biology major at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, he spent several summers studying northern fur seals in Alaska, and the experience hooked him on research.

POLL FIBBING: Anthony Greenwald, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor of psychology who developed an online test to detect implicit biases called Project Implicit, was mentioned in a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about voters lying in polls and surveys.

Researchers have discovered a submicroscopic aberration in a particular region of human chromosome 1q21.

A report on the log-truck industry just delivered to the state Legislature indicates that the number of traffic accidents involving log trucks declined 11 percent while collisions for all commercial trucks increased by 15 percent in Washington between 2004 and 2006.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Hundreds of spring-blooming bulb selections and companion plants will be available at the Arboretum Foundation’s Fall Bulb and Plant Sale from 10 a.

Three finalists for the position of chief of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Police Department will be visiting campus this month.

There’s a lot of truth in the old proverb “experience is the best teacher,” and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants.

The Capital Projects Office recently held its second highly successful networking event for companies seeking a share of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s capital projects, which typically amount to at least $300 million annually.

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø received a grade of A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainability Endowments Institute.

Seminal fluid contains protein factors that, when transferred from a male to a female at mating, affect reproductive success.

That patience and persistence pay off is dramatically illustrated by the scholarly work of Mona Atia, whose recent dissertation on trends in Islamic charitable giving was hailed by one reviewer as “the best dissertation I have read anywhere.

POWER PICNIC: Staff of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Health Promotion Research Center (HPRC) enjoyed a picnic Sept.

“Truth, it has been said, is the first casualty of war.