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A team of robot dogs programmed by ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ computer science students to kick, pass and head-bump their way to victory on a small-scale soccer field is undergoing final preparations for an international competition in Seattle that begins at the end of the week.

Some Seattle-area middle school and high school students and their science teachers soon will be assisting ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ scientists in a major effort aimed at solving one of the most vexing puzzles in physics.

A new cross-campus center at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School will provide research faculty and students with the opportunity to study the real-world problems involved in turning leading-edge technology into viable companies.

One of the scientists leading the effort to understand exactly how infants go about learning language told a White House Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development today that the fundamental steps in language acquisition later play a critical role in the ability to read.

Descendants of Takuji Yamashita yesterday donated $65,000 to endow a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ School of Law scholarship in international law and human rights, a century after the start of Yamashita’s own quest for justice.

Today, Monday, July 23, Jason Emhoff underwent his second surgery to skin graft the majority of his burns and evaluate his hands to see if further skin grafts are needed.

A summer camp of a different stripe will begin later this month at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´. More than 40 college-bound high school students with disabilities from Washington and other states will gather at the UW campus in Seattle for the summer study sessions of the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Program.

One of the joys of summer is finding a great new book to read. But it’s a pleasure that eludes millions of children and adults who have difficulty reading because of dyslexia. Because so many children have trouble reading, as well as with spelling or handwriting, researchers at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´’s Learning Disabilities Center have launched a major effort designed to find a genetic marker that will allow for the early identification of youngsters with dyslexia and specific writing disability.

New kinds of instruments and experiments — made possible with a just announced $5 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles — could give scientists the best way yet to study the rich microbial life that flourishes wherever the seafloor twists and buckles, and which is part of a biosphere beneath the Earth’s surface that may dwarf all life on land or in the sea.

Dr. Robert F. Rushmer, a pioneer in applying engineering advances to the creation of new instruments for medical research and patient care, died in Redmond, Wash., Friday, July 13, after a long illness. He was 86.

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Medical Center moved up a notch in its ranking among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2001 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” which was updated in its July 23 issue, available July 16.

The remarkable hydrothermal vent structures serendipitously discovered last December in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, including a massive 18-story vent taller than any seen before, are formed in a very different way than ocean-floor vents studied since the 1970s, according to findings published July 12 in the journal Nature.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s controversial “Reg FD,” or fair-disclosure regulation, may be closing the gap in fair trading between large and small investors, a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School researcher reports.

The number of teaching assistants who struck at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ June 1 through 15 was about 235. There were approximately 1,322 TAs Spring Quarter.

The Arctic Oscillation has been linked to wide-ranging climate effects in the Northern Hemisphere, but new evidence shows that in recent decades it has been the key in preventing freezing temperatures from extending as far south as they had previously.

Women who’ve had a Caesarean and who later attempt to deliver by labor are more likely to suffer a uterine rupture than women who go on to have a repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ study published in the July 5 New England Journal of Medicine.

Dr. Paul E. Strandjord, who founded the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (UW) School of Medicine, died Friday, June 29, 2001, at age 70. The cause of death was a stroke.

A giant “corpse flower,” native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is inching closer to blooming in the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ botany greenhouse. The event is expected to occur within the next several days.

The following statement is for attribution to Dr. David Eschenbach, professor and acting chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ School of Medicine:

Condom use helps to prevent the spread of genital herpes, particularly from a man with HSV-2 to a susceptible woman, according to a study in the upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Condom use might help slow the epidemic of genital herpes, which now infects about one in five Americans.

President George Bush has named ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Professor Marc Hershman — an expert on protecting and using coastal areas, developing seaports and the laws and policies governing U.S. ocean resources — and William Ruckelshaus as initial members of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The announcement from the White House Friday said the two Washington state residents were selected for the 16-member commission from nearly 30 finalists.

The removal of a regulator gene that allows the tuberculosis bacterium to remain dormant in laboratory studies could point the way to new treatments for many tuberculosis patients. Research at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ by Dr. David Sherman, assistant professor of pathobiology in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, and his colleagues shows that by interrupting the function of this gene, the tuberculosis bacterium is unable to mount the appropriate genetic response. It thus may be unable to become dormant.

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researchers on Monday will discuss the first scientific results from Canada’s Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) — findings that will bolster the understanding of neutrinos from the sun, of the sun itself and of the effect of neutrinos on the evolution of the universe.

As the Earth’s average temperature has risen in the last half-century with the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, many scientists have come to see clouds as the biggest puzzle in interpreting the planet’s changing climate picture because they reflect so much of the sun’s heat into space.

Well-documented gender differences in people’s ability to navigate and orient themselves in the real world are vastly exaggerated in computer-simulated virtual environments, according to studies conducted by ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researchers.

About one-third of the people who were exposed to a fake print advertisement that described a visit to Disneyland and how they met and shook hands with Bugs Bunny later said they remembered or knew the event happened to them.

At a time when many small businesses are beginning to feel the sting of the slowing economy, more than 60 ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ business students have helped several Seattle inner-city and Yakima Valley small businesses expand, develop and increase profits.

Dr. Constance H. Kravas, currently vice chancellor for university advancement at University of California, Riverside, has been selected as vice president for development and alumni relations at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´, President Richard L. McCormick announced. The appointment will be effective Aug. 16, 2001, subject to approval by the Board of Regents.

Like a collage of photographs showing a human being from infancy to old age, a striking new picture unveiled today by a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ astronomer shows various stages in the life cycle of stars, all occurring at one time.

For years, scientists have known that Eurasian weather turns on the whim of a climate phenomenon called the North Atlantic oscillation. But two ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researchers contend that the condition is just a part of a hemisphere-wide cycle they call the Arctic oscillation, which also has far-reaching impact in North America.

Poplar research conducted at Center for Urban Horticulture since late ’80s

Popular wisdom reminds people not to bite the hand that feeds them. But now a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researcher has found a species of social wasp that bites its fellow workers, prompting them to leave the nest and forage for the colony.

Today ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ administrators and friends in the Legislature pledged to rebuild the Center for Urban Horticulture, torched May 21 in an arson attack that burned the center’s main hall and destroyed or damaged years of research on ecosystem health and plant science.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´’s Husky Marching Band will perform in China this month in what is believed to be that ancient civilization’s first exposure to an American collegiate tradition.

Some women who have sex with other women may be risking their health because they may not have Pap smears as often as other women, according to a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Researchers have made an important scientific advance by describing the regulatory mechanisms for two members of a new family of ion channels found in non-excitable cells.

Chemicals trapped in ancient glacial or polar ice can move substantial distances within the ice, according to new evidence from ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researchers. That means past analyses of historic climate changes, gleaned from ice core samples, might not be entirely accurate.

The UW Population Center for Research in Reproduction has received a $5.3 million, five-year grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(NICHD) to continue its program of basic research and clinical studies in male reproductive processes.

The world apparently sounds very different to infants than it does to adults. Sometimes it’s filled with a cacophony of sounds that makes it difficult for babies to distinguish a single sound from all the surrounding noise, says a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ scientist.

Today’s economic slowdown and capital crunch isn’t all that bad. In fact the climate resembles the economic downturn that followed the PC hype in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says Richard Karlgaard, Forbes magazine publisher and keynote speaker at an upcoming ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School conference on e-business.