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January 19, 2000

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø president outlines strategies for coping with loss of affirmative action

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

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with a classical passion leaves $2.9 million to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø classics department

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.

January 11, 2000

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s network of neighborhood clinics earns a perfect score from national accrediting organization

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Physicians Neighborhood Clinics are celebrating a coup. The network of neighborhood clinics received an exceptional score of 100 percent in an accreditation survey performed by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

January 4, 2000

LEARN Clinic offers comprehensive evaluations of children having problems in school

To help children and their parents deal with such situations, the newly created LEARN Clinic was established at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to provide comprehensive learning and behavioral assessments for children who are experiencing difficulties in school or whose parents are considering changing their school placement.

January 3, 2000

Do insurance policies discourage doctors from counseling patients on alcoholism?

Concerns about the legal right of insurance companies to deny patients coverage for injuries due to alcohol use may be discouraging physicians from screening and counseling their patients on the risks of alcoholism, according to a study by physicians at Harborview Medical Center to be published in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Trauma.

December 16, 1999

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø medical students training at distant sites gather at Virtual Clinic to work together on case studies

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) third-year medical students training at distant family medicine sites across a five-state region regularly report to the Red, Blue or Yellow Clinic. These are not actual patient-care settings, but divisions of a Web-based Virtual Clinic, a new learning tool for medical students.

December 15, 1999

The ultimate gift of life: Healthy baby born to woman kept on life support for seven weeks at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center; organs donated to four recipients

A pregnant woman maintained on mechanical life support for seven weeks after being declared brain-dead has given birth to a baby boy at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center in Seattle.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø law professor wins international prize for essay on the nature of time

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø law professor Louis Wolcher has received a $15,800 prize in a unique global essay competition involving 2,481 writers from 123 countries. Wolcher’s philosophical treatise on Eastern and Western concepts of time, entitled “Time’s Language,” took second place overall in the first-ever International Essay Prize Contest.