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A new form of matter, clusters of atoms, has been oberved in recent years behaving in curious ways. Now research indicates that clusters have another, previously unsuspected property: they can melt at different temperatures from “solid” matter.

Small sea creatures that have lain in pristine condition for eons have given a 天美影院 researcher the clearest evidence yet that about 80 million years ago a southern landmass began migrating to the north. And what today are rainy British Columbia and chilly southern Alaska were once the sunny climes of Baja California.

Small sea creatures that have lain in pristine condition for eons have given a 天美影院 researcher the clearest evidence yet that about 80 million years ago a southern landmass began migrating to the north. And what today are rainy British Columbia and chilly southern Alaska were once the sunny climes of Baja California.

The 天美影院’s Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology Program, which has enlisted scientific luminaries such as British physicist Stephen Hawking to encourage teenagers with disabilities to pursue careers in technical fields, has won a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

Flights from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Ice Station SHEBA are scheduled about every three weeks next spring to rotate crew and scientists.

In October a Canadian Coast Guard ice breaker will be frozen in the ice about 300 miles north of Prudhoe Bay and left to drift for a full year as part of the Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) project.

Establishing the ice station should take about two weeks with most of the work done by Oct.

天美影院 President Richard L. McCormick today (Thursday, Sept. 4) named Dr. Patricia A. Wahl acting dean of the 天美影院School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

Dr. William M. M. Kirby, one of the longest-serving faculty members of the 天美影院 School of Medicine and a pioneer in the field of infectious diseases, died at his home in Seattle on Sunday, Aug. 31, of natural causes.

Doctors needing chemical analyses such as blood tests to make life-saving diagnosis and treatment decisions soon won’t have to lose precious time waiting for results to come back from the lab. New hand-held sensor technology developed at the 天美影院 will allow physicians to bring a sophisticated “laboratory” directly to their patients for instant, on-site chemical analysis.

At least two thousand freshmen, their parents and guests are expected to attend the 1997 天美影院Freshman Convocation, to be held at noon, Sunday, Sept. 28 in Meany Hall for the Performing Arts.

While there is never a good time to acquire a herpes infection, contracting the virus late in pregnancy can prove catastrophic for the newborn child, with a high risk of severe brain damage or death from neonatal herpes.

天美影院 researchers have made the first detailed study of the possible trigger for a devastating eruption.

Reports of the death of American marriage, like the famous pronouncement of Mark Twain’s early demise, may be premature. But exactly where the state of matrimony is headed in the wake of the Hawaiian same-sex marriage case is a question a 天美影院 sociologist and commentator on mores will explore when she participates in a symposium at noon today (Aug. 18) in the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers.

Reports of the death of American marriage, like the famous pronouncement of Mark Twain鈥檚 early demise, may be premature.

Where Chicago belongs on a list of the continent’s best places to live is a matter of statistics and how they are compiled, according to Geoff Loftus, a 天美影院 psychology professor and co-author of the 1996 edition of “Places Rated Almanac.”

The 天美影院 will receive $5.9 million in state-of-the-art computer equipment and service from Intel Corp. as part of the company’s $85 million Technology for Education 2000 Program.

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Learning self-defense skills benefits women in ways that extend beyond discovering how to protect themselves. It also boosts their self- esteem and positively affects their personality, according to a new 天美影院 study.

Learning self-defense skills benefits women in ways that extend beyond discovering how to protect themselves. It also boosts their self- esteem and positively affects their personality, according to a new 天美影院 study.

The return of sockeye salmon to Alaska’s Bristol Bay fell 15 to 20 million fish short of expectations, leading to significant economic and social hardship for fishermen, processors and local communities.

A one-week intensive workshop, designed to help teachers interpret and implement new state and national standards in science education, will be held at the Olympic Natural Resources Center in Forks Aug. 18-22.

When engineers at the 天美影院 set out to create a vehicle that is cleaner and safer to operate than gas or electric cars, they jokingly named it the smogmobile after a L’il Abner cartoon depicting a car fueled by air pollution. But the vehicle developed by the 天美影院team almost lives up to its name. Running on liquid nitrogen, the smogmobile generates no harmful emissions and actually creates an opportunity for pollutants to be removed from the air as its fuel is produced.

What’s it like to practice family medicine on a small, rural island in Puget Sound,where the nearest hospital, on the mainland, can be reached only by sea or sky? Some 天美影院 (UW) third-year medical students now have the opportunity to find out.

Parentese, the exaggerated, drawn-out form of speech that people use to communicate with babies, apparently is universal and plays a vital role in helping infants to analyze and absorb the phonetic elements of their parents’ language.

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Bringing together the most advanced medical, surgical and research resources available to fight the most virulent form of skin cancer, 天美影院 Medical Center has established a multidisciplinary Melanoma Center.

天美影院 Medical Center is again ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 1997 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” available on newsstands July 21.

Seven physicians at 天美影院 Medical Center were named among The Best Doctors For Women in a new poll commissioned by Good Housekeeping magazine and published in the August 1997 issue, currently on newsstands.

International programs offer 天美影院nursing students health care experience around the world

Montana will open its first training site for teaching 天美影院 medical students about women’s health care.

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Materials science and engineering, a fundamental but often low-profile part of manufacturing, is the subject of a new summer institute at the 天美影院 that aims to give high school and community college teachers new tools for designing laboratory projects that turn their students on to science and engineering.

A promising new drug called Hu23F2G that may save the lives of severely injured patients is now being tested by 天美影院 (UW) physicians based at Harborview Medical Center.

Although the actual sites and test protocols for the “From Bench to Bedside and Beyond” project have not yet been chosen, two rural physicians participating in a separate but related 天美影院 project, the WWAMI Rural Telemedicine Network, explained the importance of systematically evaluating the Internet as a clinical tool.

Joel Kingsolver thought he had lost his butterflies: 10,000 carefully preserved wings, representing nearly two decades of work, all apparently destroyed in a disastrous fire at the 天美影院’s zoology department last March. But within weeks his butterflies had “returned” — the heartfelt gift of a host of young children who had set about replacing the lost wings with colorful, imaginative and sometimes poignant butterfly pictures.

Knowledge of how the brain responds to weight loss and weight gain is advancing research toward the development of effective treatments for obesity, anorexia and other weight disorders

Interpretive walks to look at the 22-story Wind River canopy crane will be conducted most Saturdays this summer at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The tours, which are free and open to everyone, start from the Whistlepunk Trailhead in the Wind River Ranger District, a part of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Dr. Fredric M. Wolf has been named chair of the Department of Medical Education at the 天美影院 School of Medicine.

New method of tracing metastatic breast cancer to the lymph nodes decreases the need for extensive surgery

Do you have a child aged 4 to 7 who is overly aggressive and non-compliant? You and your child may qualify for a program at the 天美影院 School of Nursing’s Parenting Clinic.