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September 24, 1996

President McCormick to address University community Oct. 2

Faculty and staff salaries, accountability to the public, enrollment growth, legislative and budget goals, cooperation among ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campuses, and –above all–the preservation of academic excellence–are among the topics to be discussed by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø President Richard L. McCormick when he addresses the University community.

September 19, 1996

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineer helping Washington company develop instrument enabling semiconductor manufacturers to make faster, cheaper computer chips

An innovative temperature-measuring instrument developed with the assistance of a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø engineering professor has yielded improvements in processing semiconductors that may lead to faster, cheaper computer chips.

September 17, 1996

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø psychologists develop first reproducible method showing subliminal messages can influence behavior, thought processes

Researchers from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, writing in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Science, report that they have developed the first reproducible method demonstrating that subliminal messages do affect human cognition.

September 12, 1996

Recently discovered virus associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma is frequently present in saliva and may be transmitted by this route, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø study shows

A virus associated with Kaposi’s sarcoma has been detected in the saliva of six of seven HIV-infected gay men with a current or previous history of Kaposi’s sarcoma, report ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers.

September 4, 1996

MR technique for analyzing rattlesnake tail muscles can also be used to study muscle tone and function in the elderly

While almost all muscle tissue is either fast-twitch (like the sprinter’s) or slow- twitch (like the endurance runner’s), magnetic resonance studies at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center show that the rattlesnake’s tail muscles can sustain rapid firing over a long period of time, with great economy of energy.

August 6, 1996

First study of small-town lesbian and bisexual women indicates significant percentage may be at risk for contracting HIV

In the first study of lesbian and bisexual women living in small towns and their behavior and knowledge concerning HIV, researchers have found that a significant percentage of them may be at risk for contracting the virus.

July 30, 1996

Naturally occurring microorganisms gobbling toxic wastes at bottom of Eagle Harbor

Ferry passengers traveling to and from Bainbridge Island no longer see the remnants of the last creosote plant on the south shore of Eagle Harbor. On shore, oily wastes foul the ground water and the soil below it, in some spots going deeper than 70 feet. Those marine sediments have polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in concentrations a hundred times greater than clean areas of Puget Sound.

July 22, 1996

Salesin takes ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø undergraduates to the forefront of computer graphics

David Salesin, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. Salesin is the only professor at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and possibly in the nation to have received a Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator awards and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Salesin’s most recent achievement is having eight full-length research papers accepted for publication at the 1996 SIGGRAPH conference.

June 14, 1996

Rural high school girls get science, math, engineering experience at special ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø camp, now through June 29

Thirty-three high school girls from seven rural school districts in the state are on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus for a two-week camp designed to encourage them to pursue their interests in science, mathematics and engineering.