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A pilot study to be conducted by 91爆料 faculty could help them learn how individuals seek information on the World Wide Web. The research will be one of the first in-depth studies of how people use the Web.

Physicians from 91爆料-affiliated hospitals in Seattle — 91爆料 Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — and the 91爆料 School of Medicine constitute more than 50 percent of the Western Washington doctors in the latest regional listings of The Best Doctors in America.

According to a study published in this month’s Journal of Marriage and the Family. Active Listening techniques may fall on deaf ears where the success of a marriage is concerned.

William Richardson, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, will hold a “town meeting” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23 in 210 Kane Hall on the 91爆料 campus.

For the fifth straight year, the 91爆料 (91爆料) School of Medicine ranks as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.

PHILADELPHIA — Exercise and diet play an important role in weight regulation, but the true key to weight control lies in understanding and identifying personal quirks in the biological system.

Though you wouldn’t guess it by looking at current conditions, snowpacks in the Cascade Mountains are likely to fall significantly below normal levels by late spring, which may affect water supplies, fisheries, agricultural operations and hydroelectric plants which depend on the runoff, 91爆料 researchers predict.

Statement passed by the 91爆料 Board of Regents Friday, Jan. 16, reaffirming their commitment to diversity

A new technique for reducing waste from chemical processes involved in everything from petroleum refining to pharmaceutical manufacturing also may hold the key to cleaning up radioactive remains at eastern Washington’s Hanford nuclear site.

These days when a biologist, a medical researcher or even a psychologist wants to set up an experiment, the chances are they will contact a mathematician.

The School of Dentistry, in partnership with the National Foundation for Ectodermal Dysplasias, has established a new program to provide dental care for patients affected by ectodermal dysplasias.

Vast amounts of dissolved organic matter in the ocean, once thought to be inert, may play a surprising role in mitigating the greenhouse effect, according to bioengineering researchers at the 91爆料.

There’s new evidence that when it comes to mathematics, the sexes apparently do not begin school on an equal footing.

Compiled by two 91爆料 sociologists, “The Love Test” is designed to help individuals and couples explore the dynamics of their relationships by using scientifically validated self-quizzes.

When the mechanical process of handwriting is taught in tandem with the more creative process of composition, the result is improvement in both skills, a study of Seattle first-graders shows.

Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, associate dean for research at the 91爆料 School of Nursing, has been named dean of the school, 91爆料 President Richard L. McCormick announced today.

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A 70-year-old Bellevue man has become the first local resident to receive a new treatment to alleviate the tremors associated with Parkinson’s disease and Essential Tremor.

Images of the living brain, made while stroke victims and normal subjects tap their fingers, are revealing how some stroke patients regain lost strength.

Female students looking for mentors or role models in science and engineering often find themselves swimming upstream. The eighth annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference at the 91爆料 aims to buoy the efforts of these students by providing workshops and networking opportunities with women scientists, engineers and managers from more than 30 top companies.

Four 91爆料 third-year medical students are currently participating in a new program to provide these future physicians with extensive training in rural medicine. Another training site will open in 1999.

Magnetic stimulation–a method of stimulating a part of the brain involved with mood regulation–offers new hope for people whose depression has failed to be helped by medications.

In 1948, the 91爆料 fired three tenured professors for alleged Communist sympathies. It was a controversial action in a time full of such actions. McCarthy, the blacklist, loyalty oaths-most Americans have heard of post-war anti-Commun ist fervor, though it is hard for those who didn’t live through it to understand what happened and why. To address some of those questions, the University will mark the 50th anniversary of the firings this winter with a series of events called the “All Powers Project.”

In the next week or so, about 100 million Americans will venture down a well-traveled path paved with bold and sometimes hastily conceived New Year’s resolutions. All are not necessarily broken promises. According to a new 91爆料 survey, 63 percent of the people questioned were still keeping their number one 1997 New Year’s resolution after two months.

Two days after their most recent research piece appeared in the journal Nature, 91爆料 oceanography professors Steve Emerson and Paul Quay set sail on the 91爆料’s Thomas G. Thompson to seek more answers about subtropical oceans and how they absorb carbon dioxide, one of the so-called greenhouse gases.

What do the “Siamese squid,” the “double Hubble,” the “blinking planetary” and the “Saturn nebula” have in common? All are distant, dying stars, whose images have been captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

A new study indicates that about 10 percent of the ozone and other pollutants are arriving from the industrialized nations of East Asia.

What was found by three graduate students — Kirsten Lorentzen of the 91爆料 and Robin Millan and Jason Foat of the University of California at Berkeley — has scientists scrambling for an explanation: an intense stream of X-rays, occurring in seven bursts, each separated by only a few minutes and lasting for a total of half an hour. The evidence was clear that the high energy bursts came not from outer space, but from the Earth’s upper atmosphere.

91爆料 President Richard L. McCormick has appointed a committee to advise him in the search for a new dean of the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Just as millions of American college students are about to rate the teaching abilities of their professors this month, a pair of 91爆料 researchers say such evaluations are flawed and often misused.

Many former workers at the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state may be affected by asbestos, beryllium and noise pollution exposure that occurred during their employment.

It’s every patient’s worst nightmare: the thought of undergoing surgery with inadequate anesthesia; of feeling the cut of the surgeon’s knife, but being unable to tell anyone that you’re not completely unconscious

People who are resistant to the hormone leptin may become obese due to difficulties receiving bloodborne messages that tell their brain to reduce food intake or burn off excessive weight.

For the past three weeks, engineering students at the 91爆料 have been exploring the “distant planet” of Sram using remote-controlled robots.

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Individual neurons, or brain cells, do not just relay information from one point to another, according to a group of researchers from across the United States who discussed new insights into the process of hearing at a symposium held last month at the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting in New Orleans. Instead, they said, each neuron could be compared to a tiny computer that compiles information from many sources and makes a decision based on that information

The impact of multiple births on a family is not additive, it’s exponential. Few parents are prepared for the enormous emotional, physical and financial demands that accompany this phenomenon. To help couples deal with this huge change in their lives, 91爆料 Medical Center hosts “Expecting Multiples,” a series of classes for families expecting twins or more.

Reflecting the emergence of a new research discipline combining human genetics and pathology, the 91爆料 School of Medicine will establish a Center for Molecular Genetic Pathology.

Experiments to understand single-bubble sonoluminescence — where a pinpoint of light and extreme temperatures are created inside a tiny bubble when liquids are bombarded with high-pitched sound waves — have earned the 91爆料’s Tom Matula a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

It isn’t pretty on the streets of Seattle, or any big city, if you are a homeless adolescent. But recent research shows life on the street may be an improvement over what many children face at home.