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Spouses, friends and parents of prisoners enter the imposing 91±¬ÁÏ Law School building asking where to find Innocence Project Northwest. Growing numbers of these seekers arrive each month as word spreads of the project launched two years ago by attorney Fred Leatherman and 91±¬ÁÏ Law School senior lecturer Jacqueline McMurtrie.

The following is a list of experts at the 91±¬ÁÏ who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain.

Jack Faris, director of community strategies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been selected by 91±¬ÁÏ President Richard L. McCormick to be the next vice president for university relations, effective June 1.

The future of doctoral education will be the subject of a unique conference in Seattle April 13-15.

The 91±¬ÁÏ is among the hosts of the fourth annual National Magnet Nursing Conference through Friday. Nurses from all backgrounds, from all over the world, are in Seattle to attend “Navigating the Future: Charting Your Course To Best Practice” at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center.

An international research team supported by the National Science Foundation will establish a camp at the North Pole this month. The scientists will use the camp to lay the groundwork for a five-year project to take the pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world’s northernmost sea helps regulate global climate.

A robot designed by Tacoma high school students with help from 91±¬ÁÏ engineering undergraduates and members of the Seattle Robotics Society took a top award in regional competition over the weekend, and now the team is headed to nationals.

Researchers at the 91±¬ÁÏ, under the sponsorship of Monsanto Company, have produced a working draft of the rice plant genome. This will give scientists the potential to dramatically improve the production of rice, a vital food source for half of the world’s population.

The 91±¬ÁÏ is No. 1 among both nursing schools and primary-care medical schools in U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.

For the seventh year in a row, the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

The 91±¬ÁÏ School of Nursing has again been ranked as the best nursing school in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of graduate programs.

The 91±¬ÁÏ will conduct America’s newest and most international contest for business students April 9-15, bringing young competitors from nearly every part of the planet.

Researchers at the 91±¬ÁÏ have discovered a method of treating malaria with magnetic fields that could prove revolutionary in controlling the disease the World Health Organization calls one of the world’s most complex and serious human health concerns.

Fourteen documentary films from around the world will be shown free of charge at the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Henry Art Gallery April 13-16 as the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Seattle. The

The 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ) School of Medicine this week will recognize the internal medicine and surgical teaching sites in Wenatchee, Wash., for more than a quarter-century of teaching 91±¬ÁÏ medical students and surgical residents.

Psychologists trying to determine why marriages flourish or end in divorce have refined a tool that predicts with 87 percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later.

The 91±¬ÁÏ opens its spring quarter welcoming a trio of prominent national voices in public policy: former Sen. George Mitchell, activist Ralph Nader and journalist David Broder. Mitchell visits the 91±¬ÁÏ Law School at 3:30 p.m. Thursday (March 30) in Condon Hall to deliver the Bernie and Pearl Brotman Lecture on Dispute Resolution, focusing on his efforts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland.

A study from the 91±¬ÁÏ published in the March 23 New England Journal of Medicine warns that an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease is likely to continue unless people learn whether they have genital herpes.

Since the discovery of the Seattle Fault in the early 1990s, many people have worried how the region’s most-recognizable sports stadium would fare in a major earthquake. Now scientists hope the planned destruction of the Kingdome will give them a better picture of the fault and its associated risks to downtown Seattle.

With as many as 30 bank robberies occurring in Washington state every month, the psychological effects on tellers can be devastating. To help them cope, the Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress (HCSATS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began the Bank Personnel Group in early 1999, the first program of its kind in the nation.

Isis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ISIP) and the 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ) School of Medicine. have announced today that Isis has joined 91±¬ÁÏ’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI). CSI is a research and educational program whose mission is to understand the dynamic information systems in cells.

A short-term climate cycle that builds in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward through the equatorial Pacific Ocean is a key factor in the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms over the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean Sea, 91±¬ÁÏ researchers have found.

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WHO: Controversial law professor Anita Hill is the keynote speaker.

The 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine has opened a Division of Neurogenetics to study the root causes of hereditary diseases that rob people of their minds and bodies: the diseases that ravage the human brain and nervous system.

An article in today’s New England Journal of Medicine sheds light on a deadly but largely unknown disease studied by 91±¬ÁÏ scientists. A diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV increases the chance that the affected person will meet an early death. The disease alters one of the building blocks of important tissues in the body, so that people are at risk to rupture their arteries, intestines or uterus.

Children are more likely to suffer unintentional injuries within 90 days of a sibling’s injury, according to a study conducted at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center published in the March 2000 issue of Pediatrics.

Four-student teams from 12 Western Washington high schools competing to show their science and mathematics mastery.

Around the theme of “Step into the Future,” the 91±¬ÁÏ Health Sciences Open House 2000 will highlight the latest advances in medical research, patient care and teaching, as well as offer information on exciting careers in health care.

“Ears, Hearing and Beyond” is the subject of a free public conference on hearing loss, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the HUB Auditorium on the 91±¬ÁÏ campus.

Dr. Mary-Claire King, 91±¬ÁÏ professor of medicine and genetics, will give the third and last in this year’s series of free public lectures sponsored by the newly created 91±¬ÁÏ Science Forum. Her lecture, “Genomic Views of Human History,” will be held at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, March 14, in Kane Hall room 130 on the 91±¬ÁÏ campus.

Teams from Sedro-Woolley High School claimed first place – for the second year running – and teams from Garfield High School placed second and third Saturday during the state’s Ocean Sciences Bowl sponsored by the 91±¬ÁÏ’s College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences.

Probably not one in a thousand Puget Sound residents has ever heard of the Nuosu people of remote southwestern China. Stevan Harrell wants to change that.

An expert on international human rights law, Joan Fitzpatrick, has been named the holder of a new endowed professorship at the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Law.

Patients filling a prescription usually can rely on their pharmacist to warn of possible negative side effects caused by interactions with other prescriptions and over-the-counter medications that they may be taking. But two top national experts on drug interactions from the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Pharmacy believe the health-care provider actually writing the prescription should be the first line of defense against such interactions.

A two-day event to explore labor’s role in furthering global justice, in an interactive setting that includes labor and the coalition partners who helped make history the week of the WTO Ministerial in Seattle.

91±¬ÁÏ research, to be published in the Feb. 17 edition of the journal Nature, suggests the health of the ecosystem is rooted in a complex codependency between plants and animals that produce organic matter and simple organisms that break it down.

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Two teams of high school students, one sponsored by the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Department of Electrical Engineering and the Seattle Robotics Society and the other by Microsoft Corp.

Ravi Desai may be an Internet entrepreneur, but his first love is poetry. To ensure that poetry continues to thrive at the 91±¬ÁÏ, he has made a $2 million gift to the 91±¬ÁÏ’s Creative Writing Program.

After a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the 91±¬ÁÏ to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and lawAfter a decade as one of Seattle’s top city leaders, former City Council President Sue Donaldson has joined the 91±¬ÁÏ to run a public-policy forum and teach courses in public affairs and law