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The economic slowdown that began in 2000 has had very little effect on startup companies with close ties to research at the 91爆料, according to a recent study.

Flushing your pet tropical fish to set it free is a bad idea.

A pair of researchers believes that American families with children would be stunned if they knew what kind of social policies and support 10 Western European nations and Canada offer their working families.

New eligibility verification policies for the Washington State Medicaid program have resulted in 20,615 people 鈥� primarily children 鈥� losing coverage from April through December 2003.

More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 91爆料 Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 23, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 24.

Students from universities around the globe will converge in Seattle April 12-17 to compete in the 91爆料 Business School’s sixth annual Global Business Challenge.

Two 91爆料 physicists, responding to a new National Science Foundation plan, are preparing a proposal to place a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory beneath the Cascade Mountains in Eastern Washington.

For the 11th consecutive year, the 91爆料 School of Medicine has been ranked as the nation鈥檚 top primary-care medical school in U.S.News & World Report鈥檚 annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

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With a title like 50 Years Behind Bars, you might expect a presentation by a very elderly convict.

When Janet Kavandi was pursuing her doctoral degree at the 91爆料, she harbored the same career dream she had when she was growing up in rural Missouri.

Flushing your pet tropical fish to set it free is a bad idea.

Unless you鈥檝e been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you probably know that the 91爆料 has found a new president.

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist David Horsey will deliver the commencement address at the 91爆料, Tacoma鈥檚 14th annual graduation ceremony on Friday, June 11.

Playwright August Wilson, who has received two Pulitzer prizes and numerous other awards for his plays, will be the featured speaker at the 91爆料鈥檚 129th annual Commencement ceremonies June 12 at Husky Stadium.

Recipients of University-wide awards are being honored with a new 鈥淗all of Fame鈥� type display in the first floor foyer of Gerberding Hall.

Applications are due April 5 for the third annual Summer Institute in the Arts and Humanities, 鈥淭rauma, Time and Memory.

A three-member team of 91爆料 students 鈥� all local residents and all products of public education 鈥� have taken top honors in an international mathematics competition, beating teams from such math powerhouses as MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley.

Higher education is not the hindrance to marriage and motherhood it once was, new research shows.

The recently concluded legislative session saw some progress on issues of importance to the 91爆料, and a lot of discussion about the future of higher education in the state.

Negotiations are set to begin in early April for the first-ever collectively-bargained contract for University TAs, RAs, readers, tutors and graders.

A three-member team of 91爆料 students — all local residents and all products of public education — have taken top honors in an international mathematics competition, beating teams from such math powerhouses as MIT, Yale and the University of California, Berkeley.

91爆料 (91爆料) researchers have shown for the first time that air pollution has adverse effects on people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The research results are published in the April 1 edition of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Higher education is not the hindrance to marriage and motherhood it once was, new research shows.

Students from the 91爆料 School of Dentistry rank No. 1 in the nation among the 50 dental schools that participated in the December 2003 National Board Dental Examinations Part II.

Researchers at the 91爆料 School of Medicine have found that bone marrow stem cells do not convert into heart muscle cells in mice. These results contradict a study conducted elsewhere that had prompted human clinical trials for such stem cell therapy in the treatment of heart attack.

The 91爆料 Board of Regents today authorized Board president Jerry Grinstein to offer the presidency of the 91爆料 to Mark Emmert, chancellor of Louisiana State University, subject to successful negotiation of an agreement.

91爆料 researchers are looking for 20 budding elementary school “scientists” who enjoy science to participate in a study exploring how computers can help children with scientific problem solving and report writing.

Scientists have known for some time that some social insects undergo dramatic behavioral changes as they mature, and now a research team has found that the brains of a wasp species correspondingly enlarge as the creatures engage in more complex tasks.

A hand-held device that can precisely pinpoint a person’s location could mean freedom for many seniors whose navigational abilities are failing. 91爆料 graduate student Don Patterson will be on Capitol Hill in Washinton, D.C., Tuesday to demonstrate such a device, dubbed “Opportunity Knocks.”

To inaugurate the new Fragile X Research Center at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD), two internationally known experts on fragile X syndrome will visit the 91爆料 next week to give lectures and hold a series of meetings with fragile X researchers and clinicians.

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To inaugurate the new Fragile X Research Center at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD), two internationally known experts on fragile X syndrome will visit the 91爆料 next week to give lectures and hold a series of meetings with fragile X researchers and clinicians.

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Editor鈥檚 Note: This is one of a series of columns by the chairs of Faculty Senate councils and committees.