February 6, 2003
A warming climate the last 50 years has, through early melting, relentlessly reduced the water content of the Pacific Northwest’s springtime snowpack, straining the supply of water for drinking, irrigation and other uses during the region’s typically dry summers, new research at the 91爆料 has found.
February 5, 2003
A conference on agricultural safety and health that emphasizes pesticide issues will be held Wednesday, Feb. 26, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Yakima, Wash.
February 4, 2003
Turner Construction has been named the General Contractor Construction Manager (GCCM) of the King County/Harborview Medical Center bond project.
January 31, 2003
John F. “Randy” Hodgins, who has served as senior staff coordinator in the Washington State Senate Ways and Means Committee since 1996, has been appointed Director of State Relations at the 91爆料, effective Jan. 9, 2004.
January 30, 2003
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For many years molecular biologists have watched the process of cell division under the microscope.
It’s a financial jungle out there, especially for college students.
You wouldn鈥檛 expect a play called The Suicide to be a comedy.
The first of a series of public forums to be held in connection with the 91爆料 presidential search will be held 4-6 p.
New employee orientation goes online
Training and Development has created a new online employee orientation to replace the in-person sessions.
Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well being.
Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to bind up the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside or are tempted to taste those delicious mud pies they “baked” in the backyard.
January 29, 2003
Obesity in the United States is in part an economic issue, according to a review paper on the relationship between poverty and obesity published in the January 2004 edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
January 27, 2003
Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well-being. However, nature is suffering, and so are our children, who are growing up in increasingly bleak environments far from the natural world in which humans evolved.
January 24, 2003
Using atomic-force microscopy, vision researchers have taken pictures of some of the eye鈥檚 photon receptors in their natural state, and have analyzed their packing arrangement.
January 23, 2003
The world of dance may be overwhelmingly female, but the world of choreography is overwhelmingly male.
New badges for staff, faculty and students are coming to the Health Sciences Center, and wearing them when the building is closed to the public will soon be the rule.
Transplantation of solid-tissue organs has become fairly common, if not routine, and bone marrow transplants are being improved and tried for many different autoimmune diseases, as well as cancer.
91爆料 Medicine is offering the general public and the 91爆料 community the chance to learn about medical science, patient care and cutting-edge research by attending Mini-Medical School 2003.
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Everyone, it seems, knows one of them 鈥� the people who can鈥檛 say no to a chocolate treat.
Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resources, and also indicates that early Indians鈥� harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable.
Find someone鈥檚 fingerprints at the scene of a crime and you know they were there.
In the early seventies, the 91爆料 Faculty Senate began to formally examine the issues that particularly affect faculty women.
Anthropology professor Donald Grayson has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Two new online teaching tools, the Portfolio Tool and Virtual Case, will be described in a presentation by Mark Farrelly of the 91爆料鈥檚 Catalyst Initiative from 4 to 5 p.
You slept well, but you鈥檙e feeling weighed down by crushing fatigue, then by intense chest pain.
91爆料 researchers have found a genetic mutation underlying one of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorders.
LEGAL NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be at noon on Wednesday, Feb.
Walter Parker, a 91爆料 professor of education, will give a book talk and sign copies of his latest work, Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life, on Friday from 11 a.
Vacationers on Washington鈥檚 Pacific Ocean coast may get the impression that all is blissfully quiet at the water鈥檚 edge.
The achievement gap is a very real thing to Steve Fink.
NEED TO FEED: A recent story in the San Francisco Chronicle examined the problem of obesity in America.
URBAN JOB CHAMP: The 91爆料 received the Corporate Job Challenge Award from Seattle鈥檚 Chamber of Commerce Urban Enterprise Center recently for its efforts in recruitment and retention of candidates from urban communities.
Applications and nominations are now being sought for the 2003 Jeff and Susan Brotman Diversity Award.
January 21, 2003
The new Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the 91爆料 is starting the new year as a fully enclosed structure.
Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resources, and also indicates that early Indians’ harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable.
Children are more likely to suffer unintentional injuries in the 180 days following a sibling鈥檚 injury, according to a study by researchers at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center published in the January 2003 issue of the Journal of Pediatrics.
January 16, 2003
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