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The 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine and the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Public Health and Community Medicine will establish a jointly-operated Department of Global Health, pending approval at the January meeting of the 91±¬ÁÏ Board of Regents.

Scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston were excited and awed Tuesday by what they saw when the sample-return canister from the Stardust spacecraft was opened.

DUGWAY, Utah — Nearly seven years after setting off in pursuit of comet Wild 2, the Stardust return capsule streaked across the night sky of the Western United States early today, making a soft parachute landing in the Utah desert southwest of Salt Lake City.

91±¬ÁÏ faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds and other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet, winter weather.

91±¬ÁÏ Medical Center is the first hospital in the country to install a new-generation PET/CT imaging system designed to help physicians detect, diagnose and monitor treatment of cancer and other diseases, including heart disease and neurological disease, more accurately and earlier in the disease process.

The following 91±¬ÁÏ policies, orders, and rules were recently created or revised:

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The Missing Story of Ourselves is on display at Odegaard Undergraduate Library through Jan.

The American West was a place of greater racial diversity and complexity than depicted in most mainstream histories, with Latino influences mixing with African American, and Asian American and other cultures.

More than 550 volunteers – faculty, staff and students — will participate in some 45 projects on Jan.

Helping the public better understand the relationship between human health and the oceans, such as the environmental factors at work when shellfish develop toxic compounds that cause people to become ill or die if they eat the contaminated shellfish, is the initial focus of the new 91±¬ÁÏ-based Center for Ocean Science and Education Excellence.

Hannah Wiley was trained as a dancer and later became a teacher and choreographer, but now she finds herself creating DVDs, thanks to a grant from the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Royalty Research Fund.

Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a regime to take off pounds.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Partnership for Youth is looking for about 50 volunteers to participate in the annual count of those living on the streets in the University District.

91±¬ÁÏ School of Music faculty violist Melia Watras will host violists of all ages at Viola Day, Saturday, Jan.

Polyester aside, the disco dancers of the ’70s may have been on to something.

The College of Forest Resources kicks off its Distinguished Alumni Seminar Series today with presentations by Court Stanley, senior vice president and chief forester at Port Blakely Tree Farms; and Sue Joerger, executive director of Puget Soundkeepers alliance.

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The tiny rabbitlike American pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best “canaries in a coal mine” for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin.

A derivative of the sweet wormwood plant used since ancient times to fight malaria and shown to precisely target and kill cancer cells may someday aid in stopping breast cancer before it gets a toehold.

Meany Hall for the Performing Arts will be a busy place over the next week as it is visited by an acrobatic troupe, a string quartet and a dance company.

The 91±¬ÁÏ is in the top 10 among schools identified as good values in education by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.

Scientific insights come at the darnedest times.

The Ford Foundation has selected the 91±¬ÁÏ as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and constructive dialogue on campus.

Corporations like Enron that overemphasize outcomes such as profits might make their leaders blind to ethics and limit their abilities to recognize ethical or moral issues when they surface, according to a 91±¬ÁÏ study.

Consider, say, a quarterback and coach reviewing a play from last week’s football game.

When a personal finance magazine named the 100 public universities that provide a stellar education at a relatively low cost, the 91±¬ÁÏ made the top 10.

Corporations like Enron that overemphasize outcomes such as profits might make their leaders blind to ethics and limit their abilities to recognize ethical or moral issues when they surface, according to a 91±¬ÁÏ study.

The experiences of Insitu Corp.

It’s all there, even down to the details — the red brick and white trim, the evergreen trees, even the classic portico.

Who says Red Square has to be red?

Black flagstones might beautify that sea of brick.

Members of the University community:

I am pleased to announce the arrival of the new Voluntary Investment Program (VIP) online enrollment/change enhancement to Employee Self-Service (ESS).

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“Frequencies” is the name for a fence of 2-inch diameter branches that doesn’t simply mark one’s property line, it undulates along it.

91±¬ÁÏ Medicine’s Mini-Medical School will offer six sessions this year, Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.

Celebrations of the legacy of Dr.

It sounds like water — a “gloink” sound — said Elena Fox of the 91±¬ÁÏ’s U-Pass office.

91±¬ÁÏ researchers have found a genetic pathway linking nutrient response and the aging process, they report in the Nov.

As a Washington state trooper patrolling the streets of Olympia, 39-year-old Matt Stone was trained to expect the unexpected.

Occupants of Johnson Hall were busy moving in to their renovated quarters this week.