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In remote rural towns, parents and school districts often are at a disadvantage in obtaining expert consultations for their children with special needs, because most centers for childhood disabilities are in major cities, many miles away. A three-year grant from the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services of the U.S. Department of Education will help several rural districts overcome these obstacles. The project, “Telepartners in Early Diagnosis and Intervention for Children with Disabilities,” will use interactive videoconferencing to connect rural educators and health professionals with special education experts, child psychologists and 天美影院clinicians.

天美影院President Richard L. McCormick announced today new titles for the chief executive officer of its campuses in Bothell and Tacoma. The titles of the heads of the 天美影院, Bothell and the 天美影院, Tacoma will become “Chancellor and Dean,” recognizing the dual roles these individuals play in campus management and external relations, as well as academic, budgetary and capital matters.

The exact location of Fort Clatsop, Lewis and Clark’s winter camp near the Oregon Coast, has eluded searching archaeologists for more than half a century. This month, anthropology professor Julie Stein heads a team of archaeologists from the 天美影院 and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture who are joining the hunt for the fort.

A team of archaeologists from the National Park Service, the Museum of the Rockies and the 天美影院 will show how they are trying the find the precise location of Lewis and Clark’s winter camp and what they learned so far at a media briefing.

The first major monument in the United States to American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War will be dedicated at 2 p.m., Oct. 14 in the auditorium of the Husky Union Building (HUB) at the 天美影院.

Despite a raging but reluctant debate about exactly what kind of relationship the President had with a White House intern, many Americans wish the whole public discourse about sex would just quietly go away. That’s not necessarily a good thing, says Pepper Schwarz, coauthor of a new book, “What I’ve Learned About Sex: Wisdom from Leading Sex Educators, Therapists and Researchers.”

The 天美影院 Center for Women in Science & Engineering has been selected to receive a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

The 天美影院 was recently selected as one of ten American universities to host newly established European Union Centers which will promote the study of the EU, its institutions and policies, and EU-US relations through teaching programs, scholarly research and outreach programs.

The world’s oldest known fossil of a toothless whale, a previously unknown genus and species, has yielded clues about the evolution of the ocean-going giants. Now, after five years of study and preparation, it is on public display at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the 天美影院.

An experiment to devise a new method for tracking large-scale changes in ocean temperature associated with events such as El Ni帽o and with global warming indicates that scientists can successfully use low-frequency sound transmissions to measure the temperature of vast expanses of ocean.

The 天美影院 received $170.3 million in private gifts and grants during the 1997-98 fiscal year, a new record. Gifts alone were $84.8 million, the second highest total in University history.

At least two thousand freshmen, their parents and guests are expected to attend the 1998 天美影院Freshman Convocation, to be held at noon, Sunday, Sept. 27 in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

With an assist from Latvia’s lady luck, the third time was
Third time’s the charm for an Aerosonde miniature robotic airplane and its developers in their bid to complete the first trans-Atlantic crossing by an autonomous aircraft.

This week Wyoming opened its first two community clinical sites for training third-year 天美影院 (UW) medical students.

Dr. Susan G. Marshall, associate professor of pediatrics at the 天美影院 (UW), has been named assistant dean for curriculum at the 天美影院medical school.

Competition makes faith grow stronger and encourages church innovation, according to a new study exploring the composition of all 171 Roman Catholic dioceses in the contiguous 48 states.

The renewed controversy over the value of student evaluations of college professors will be debated by six researchers from the United States, Canada and Australia at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.

The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) is trying to find individuals who may have participated in the program, either as a students or as host families, during the organization’s 50 years of existence.

Hemochromatosis — also called iron overload syndrome — is the most common genetic disease in the United States, affecting approximately 1 in 300 people. If caught at an early stage, patients with hemochromatosis can live a normal, healthy life. A new clinic to help identify and treat hemochromatosis has opened at 天美影院 Medical Center.

It turns out that people’s preference for salt may have been imprinted while they were still in their mother’s womb, according to 天美影院 psychologists.

There’s no denying July was unbearably, deadly hot in Texas. But when it came to higher-than-normal mercury readings, Eastern Washington ranked well ahead of most of the Southwest.

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Aviation authorities from the United Kingdom have given final regulatory approval to The Insitu Group of Bingen, Wash., and the 天美影院 to attempt the first transatlantic crossing by an autonomous aircraft.

As the gap widens between industry’s demand for a diverse, well-trained work force and the available labor supply, mentoring is becoming an increasingly important bridge to success for women pursuing science and engineering careers.

天美影院 astronomers, with an assist from local amateur astronomical societies, are preparing to head into Puget Sound-area schools for the second year to bring hands-on science experience to K-12 students.

Surgical Dynamics today announced that it will establish the Surgical Dynamics Endowed Chair for Spine Research at the 天美影院 School of Medicine.

Unusual sulfide structures shed light on origins of life on earth and possibility of life on other planetary bodies

Sulfide chimneys are pinnacle-shaped structures that form when super-heated seawater, richly charged with metals and volcanic gases, rises into the bitterly cold deep ocean from hot regions below the seafloor.

Both specially designed apparatus and off-the-shelf equipment – including three women’s regulation softballs – were part of a suite of devices used successfully to cage and lift four sulfide chimneys from the seafloor off the coast of Washington and British Columbia.

The 天美影院 Board of Regents today approved a budget request for 1999 to 2001 that would allow the University to transform education, building on the strengths and quality of its human resources.

Two 天美影院 faculty members in the Department of Medicine have received Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Awards, the first ever awarded.

天美影院 Medical Center is again ranked among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 1998 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” available on newsstands July 20.

The 天美影院 School of Nursing has named Dr. Linda Teri director of its de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging. She will also be a tenured professor in the school’s Department of Psychosocial and Community Health.

Following Charles Lindbergh and the Concorde on the well-traveled, trans-Atlantic path to aviation history, researchers next month will attempt the first Atlantic Ocean crossing by an autonomous, civilian aircraft.

Press briefing to announce results of “black smoker” expedition

The Human Interface Technology (HIT) Laboratory at the 天美影院 has received the 1998 Discover Magazine Award for Technological Innovation in the sight category.

Eight 天美影院 (UW) health sciences students, representing a variety of health-care fields, will visit Othello, Wash., Thursday, July 23, and Friday, July 24, to participate in several local health information and public service projects.

Almost five years to the day after receiving a double-lung transplant at 天美影院 Medical Center, cystic fibrosis patient Ken Price plans to ride in the annual Seattle-to-Portland bicycle trek this weekend.

Boys, who just completed grades 3 through 6, are eligible to volunteer as subjects for a study investigating dyslexia. Those selected can describe what happened as their brains were imaged while they played sound and meaning games and listened to sound tones.

The “Leonardo Lives” exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum last fall and winter generated $15.5 million in business activity in King County, supported 314 jobs and created $5 million in labor income, according to an economic impact study conducted by a 天美影院 researcher.