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October 6, 2003

Book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as in Northeast, England

The year was 1715, and King George I of England enacted laws in an effort to protect salmon runs throughout Great Britain.Today few salmon ply British waterways, the victims of overfishing, degraded habitat, harnessing water power for industry, and misguided use of hatcheries to restore salmon runs, which ultimately hurt more than helped. Strikingly, much the same scenario began playing out 100 years later in the rivers of northeastern North America.

Roots of WWII imprisonment of Japanese Americans go back to 1920s

The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Rather it was the end game in a long, deliberate process undertaken by the United States government, which was unable or unwilling to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, a 窪蹋勛圖厙 scholar contends in a new book.

Dr. Sheila Lukehart named 窪蹋勛圖厙 medical school assistant dean of research and graduate education at Harborview Medical Center

Dr. Sheila A. Lukehart, research professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, has been named the 窪蹋勛圖厙 (窪蹋勛圖厙) School of Medicine’s assistant dean of research and graduate education.

September 16, 2003

窪蹋勛圖厙 researchers continue AIDS vaccine research with $15 million grant

A team of medical researchers from three Seattle research facilities recently received a grant of over $15 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to continue the hunt for vaccines against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of AIDS.