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The 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ) School of Medicine pediatric training units in Great Falls, Mont.

Managers and scientists leading the team preparing the Stardust spacecraft to gather samples of icy comet dust and return them to Earth will conduct a media briefing on the mission and its science goals on Wednesday, Jan.

Three 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ) third-year medical students have started their six-month WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience (WRITE) in rural towns.

Yongmin Kim has been named professor and chair of the 91±¬ÁÏ’s nationally ranked bioengineering department.

SEATTLE — Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC), the 91±¬ÁÏ (91±¬ÁÏ), and Targeted Genetics Corp.

If you are like many Americans, somewhere in the next week you’ll draw up a list of New Year’s resolutions. You’ll pledge to start on a diet, vow to exercise three times a week, promise to stop smoking or maybe try to cut back on your alcohol consumption. Then you’ll spend hours wondering how you can keep your resolutions and why you made them in the first place. But those resolutions aren’t necessarily doomed to fail.

Recognizing the vital importance of training physicians who are dedicated to patient-centered care, the Rathmann Family Foundation will contribute $1.5 million to fund an endowed chair in patient-centered clinical education at the 91±¬ÁÏ.

Two 91±¬ÁÏ astronomy professors and two 91±¬ÁÏ graduate students were among dozens of scientists on two teams who this year showed that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, a discovery lauded by the journal “Science” in its Dec. 18 edition as the most important science advance of the year.

Paleontologists from the South African Museum and the 91±¬ÁÏ have discovered what appears to be the first complete fossil of a gorgonopsid, a ferocious predator with both reptilian and mammalian characteristics that became extinct 250 million years ago.

Atmospheric pollution from eastern Asia is beginning to have measurable, though still small, effects on air quality in western North America, a researcher from the 91±¬ÁÏ, Bothell, said today.

Forest resources experts at the 91±¬ÁÏ suspect that Asian air pollution has contributed to dramatic increases of nitrate, sulfate and acidity in precipitation during four of the last six years at their research site on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.

Statement from 91±¬ÁÏ President Richard L. McCormick regarding Initiative 200

Dr. William J. Bremner has been named chair of the Department of Medicine at the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine.

Recent satellite measurements by 91±¬ÁÏ seismologists indicate the “locked zone” between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates is wider in the Seattle area than previously believed. That means the Puget Sound lowlands are likely to experience significantly greater motion during a subduction-zone earthquake than scientists earlier thought.

One hundred legislators and other public officials from eight states across the country are closing out 1998 by learning first-hand more about one of the nation’s most vexing problems, the welfare system.

Responding to a pressing need for more health care providers on the Olympic Peninsula, the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Nursing is launching a pilot project to offer nurses on the peninsula easier access to courses that prepare them to become adult acute care nurse practitioners.

Science is still a long way from understanding why some people are more prone to alcoholism and alcohol abuse than others, but 91±¬ÁÏ researchers have discovered that concentrations of a neurotransmitter in the brains of mice are directly related to alcohol consumption and resistance to the sedative effects of alcohol.

91±¬ÁÏ Professor Bruce Finlayson has been elected vice president of the 58,000-member American Institute of Chemical Engineers and will take over as president next year.

WHAT: The Leonid meteor shower and the Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission.

The annual Leonid meteor shower will appear Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18. This year the event will include a meteor “storm,” as the Earth plows through a small and very dense clump of particles trailing from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.

A unique opportunity to map and test the human brain has yielded new insights into two areas involved in producing and processing of language.

More parking stalls should be available for patients and their visitors in the Triangle Parking Garage. The daily rate without a validation sticker will be raised from $6 to $18, to deter others from parking there.

Armed with a ‘new’ tool, a 40-year-old Convair 580 turboprop plane stuffed with research equipment, 91±¬ÁÏ atmospheric scientists are ready to fly higher and farther to gain a greater understanding of climate and weather patterns, regionally and globally.

A 91±¬ÁÏ professor researching ways to build computers with the intelligence and adaptability of living creatures has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

The 91±¬ÁÏ’s main campus 1998 Autumn Quarter enrollment is 35,108, including 1,013 students in the Evening Degree Program instituted in autumn 1990.

91±¬ÁÏ President Richard L. McCormick will be leading a delegation of 91±¬ÁÏ faculty and administrators to visit China, with stops in Beijing and Hong Kong in China and Taipei in Taiwan, November 1-9.

Registration is now open for a conference – Solving the Puzzle ’98 – designed to find solutions to the problems posed by so many homeless and street youth in Seattle’s University District.

The 91±¬ÁÏ has been selected as one of six new National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health.

Adopting a child can bring special joys as well as special challenges. Unique medical, social and developmental issues arise in both domestic and international adoptions. To help parents prepare and care for the special needs of adopted children, 91±¬ÁÏ Medical Center has established the Center for Adoption Medicine at the Pediatric Care Center.

A three-lecture series that explores life around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor off the Washington-British Columbia coast and the possibility of life on Jupiter’s moons will be held on three consecutive Thursdays in November.

The 91±¬ÁÏ’s College of Forest Resources and Jay Gruenfeld Associates will co-sponsor a conference Dec. 7 and 8 focusing on international markets and trade for forest products with an emphasis on Pacific Rim countries.

The 9,300-year-old skeletal remains known as Kennewick Man will be transferred to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the 91±¬ÁÏ campus in Seattle on Thursday, Oct. 29, from Battelle’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash.

The 91±¬ÁÏ has received notification from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research that it will receive $3.5 million for a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research and Training Center, renewable every five years.

A team of American and British researchers studying 2-year-old twins has found that genetics, not the environment, plays the major role in the delayed acquisition of language among children who are having the most difficulty learning to speak.

Dr. Steven G. Gabbe, professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine and an international authority on high-risk pregnancy, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine.

David Salesin’s resume keeps getting longer as he makes room for his ever-expanding list of honors and awards. The latest addition comes from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, which has named Salesin the 1998-99 Washington Professor of the Year.

Emergency preparedness, ecological contamination, worker health and groundwater quality in and around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are among topics to be addressed during a two-day conference Nov. 3 and 4 in Richland, Wash.

Educational institutions must work more closely with government and industry if they are to succeed in the increasingly competitive global environment. That is the motivation behind the Pacific Northwest Regional Roundtable for Enhancing Engineering and Technology Education, which will hold its first meeting from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, at the 91±¬ÁÏ Husky Union Building.

Grateful for the excellent care he received in 1994 at Harborview Medical Center after a serious foot injury, a California man has donated $500,000 to the 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine to create an endowed professorship in the Department of Orthopaedics.

The 91±¬ÁÏ School of Medicine has established the Ray and Grace Hill Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, funded through contributions of $1.5 million from Grace E. Hill and her late husband, Ray Hill, who graduated from the 91±¬ÁÏ in economics in 1924.