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It is virtually impossible for a river or stream to first stop its flow and then reverse course. But an ice stream in Antarctica has done precisely that during the last 2½ centuries, and scientists are trying to figure out exactly why.

An engineering professor at the 91±¬ÁÏ has received a $10 million federal grant for a national center to explore how engineering students think and learn — knowledge that experts consider essential to teach today’s undergraduates the skills they need to solve tomorrow’s problems.

Dr. Belding H. Scribner, professor emeritus of medicine in the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine, will be honored with the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research on Friday, Sept. 27, in recognition of his pioneering work in kidney dialysis, which has saved millions of lives.

Gary Bloom, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Veritas Software Corp. — a leading provider of data protection software — will speak Wednesday at the 91±¬ÁÏ.

Orawin Velz, senior economist with Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C., will give the keynote address and John Mitchell, western regional economist with U.S. Bancorp out of Portland, is the luncheon speaker Thursday, the first day of an international forest-products markets conference sponsored by the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Center for International Trade in Forest Products.

An institute based in the 91±¬ÁÏ’s School of Public Health and Community Medicine is looking for people who want to develop both personally and professionally as leaders in the field of community health.

The 91±¬ÁÏ and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are joining forces with three international foundations to host the Global Summit Consensus Conference, the first international conference on breast care and cancer treatment in countries with limited financial and health care resources.

Computer scientists from around the world will gather at the 91±¬ÁÏ in Seattle next month to discuss, debate and disseminate information about the latest in designer wear. Or maybe that should be “ware.”

By training, Mary Lidstrom is a biologist. By choice, she operates as an engineer. The advantages of combining both fields are just too great to pass up, she saysIt’s a message that Lidstrom has been endeavoring to pass along to 91±¬ÁÏ students for the past two years via a federally funded program to teach biology to engineering undergraduates. This week, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that her efforts will get a major boost.

Researchers have proven that gene therapy can reverse the pathological features of muscular dystrophy in an animal model. Before, gene therapy had only been able to prevent further muscle-wasting in mice.

As Moroccans prepare for a historic election in two weeks, they will not just choose a new parliament for their nation — they will be steering the Arab world toward greater democracy and women’s rights.

In the wake of last year’s terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and the subsequent anthrax contamination of the postal system that killed five people, emergency planning at 91±¬ÁÏ Medical Center moved into high gear

After exposure to traumatic events, such as last year’s Sept. 11 tragedy, it is common and normal to have unsettling feelings, thoughts and behaviors. As media feature post-Sept. 11 articles and programs, your sense of safety and security may leave you feeling vulnerable and insecure in your environment

The public can hear from the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Dentistry’s new dean and learn more about the latest research at the school on Wednesday, Sept. 25, during Research Day 2002.

Many founders are replaced after launching a successful company, say Warren Boeker, a professor of management and organization at the 91±¬ÁÏ Business School, and graduate student Rushi Karichalil. Ironically, the founders who do remain in control usually launch only moderate performing ventures.

As Congress marks the sixth anniversary of welfare reform this week, and workers look forward to a Labor Day break, a startling number of Washington families are working but still living in poverty.

Pam Sowers
HS News & Community Relations

You’ve tried over-the-counter painkillers, maybe glucosamine or chondroitin, modified exercise and even injections to calm the pain in your arthritic knees.

A half-day educational program on the medical device market and investing in medical device start-up companies is set for Thursday morning, Oct.

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People who have been living with diabetes 25, 50, 60 or more years will be honored at the first 91±¬ÁÏ Purple and Gold Diabetes Recognition Awards ceremony at 9 a.

The Department of Surgery’s 53rd annual Strauss Lecture will be given this year by Dr.

Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations

Connecting a monitor to the keyboard input on a computer’s CPU will result in neither the monitor nor keyboard functioning properly.

“Things Your Mother Never Taught You: How to Commercialize Technology in the University Setting” is the title for a new monthly series of presentations organized by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations and the 91±¬ÁÏ Office of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer.

University Week is responding to the difficult budget situation on campus by shifting the publication schedule.

The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two 91±¬ÁÏ researchers.

Steve Hill
University Week

Janice DeCosmo tried to keep a lid on it during a June meeting of the Council on Undergraduate Research.

Log on for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.

Steve Hill
University Week

Journalists covering the Sept.

Somewhere in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers may well be sharing a cave with vessels containing Buddhist texts that were created 2,000 years ago.

A birch bark manuscript from a Buddhist monastery, believed to have been written in the first or second century A.D., was recently acquired by the 91±¬ÁÏ Libraries and will become a key component of the Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project.

Log on starting Aug. 21 for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as 91±¬ÁÏ’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to a region of the Arctic where Atlantic and Pacific ocean waters interact in ways that could help explain the warming of the Arctic Ocean and thinning of the ice pack.

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Journalists covering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath were unwittingly complicit to government and military communication strategies to rally public support, according to findings by 91±¬ÁÏ researchers.

With world attention focused on corporate lawbreaking and economic turmoil, Japan is trying to solve its problems by adding tens of thousands of new lawyers.
The vast legal reform now under way in Japan will be debated by some of its top designers and critics Aug. 23 and 24 at the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Law, sponsor of an international conference on “Law in Japan: A Turning Point.”

The field of microfluidics, a discipline that deals with movement and control of fluids at the microscopic level, is poised for a boom similar to the microelectronics revolution that transformed computing, according to two 91±¬ÁÏ researchers.

Air bags were initially designed to protect an unbelted adult male in a 30 mph crash. But do air bags protect a child passenger? And are air bags really effective in protecting unrestrained adults?

The third annual Northwest Microarray Conference will be held Aug. 14 to 16 at Benaroya Hall in downtown Seattle. The conference showcases research in gene identification and protocols, protein studies, bioinformatics, and array applications specific to cancer research.

WAY TO GO, PROFS: Psychology professors Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll will be honored in October at the annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology in Tucson, Ariz.

Endowment honors
first head of hematology

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an all-too frequent occurrence in the United States, with an estimated 1.