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A high school student struggles to decide whether to undergo genetic testing for a gene that causes blindness. This dilemma, presented in a play called The Cutting Edge, will be viewed by local high school students and teachers at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, at the Shoreline Center.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ condemns this senseless act of arson that has destroyed decades of scientific inquiry aimed at improving the overall health of urban ecosystems. This misguided act has set back research concerning endangered plants in Washington, rehabilitation of degraded wetlands and even assistance for home gardeners. It is a vicious blow to some very gifted and dedicated faculty and students at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´. We abhor the violence and destructiveness of this act, and the potential risk to human safety. We hope the perpetrators are found and brought to justice.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Health Sciences Library has been awarded a new five-year contract by the National Library of Medicine to serve as the Regional Medical Library for the Pacific Northwest Region, as part of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.

Creators of a company that will link computer networks to solve complex problems took the $35,000 top prize at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´’s fourth annual business plan competition.

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ students, middle school teachers and their students at five area schools are involved in the Partnership for Research in Inquiry-based Math, Science and Engineering Education, or PRIME, a program to develop hands-on projects to learn math and science.

The pupils of Tukwila Elementary School hail from 21 nations, and soon they will get to romp and dance atop every continent in the world.

A new technology for transmitting audio that taps into the subtleties of human sound recognition could make listening to your favorite song on the Internet as clear and uninterrupted as tuning in on a radio — even if your computer is a 90-pound weakling in the bandwidth department.

The woman who goes on trial next week for murdering her husband will claim that he was an abuser and she killed him in self-defense. ven if she loses the case, however, she won’t go to prison. The defendant, like the prosecutor, jurors and defense attorney, will be a Seattle-area high school student taking part in a mock trial through the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´’s Street Law Program.

Sunshine and May rains are bringing forth the earthy fragrance of field and flower to give everyone a touch of spring fever.

When psychologist John Gottman first began videotaping couples interacting in an apartment laboratory, he was disappointed with the seemingly trivial nature of their conversations.

The names of Prozac, Zoloft and other drugs prescribed to relieve depression have become so commonplace that computer spell-check programs recognize them. These ubiquitous drugs have helped thousands of people deal with America’s most common mental health problem.

Wendy Prosser has met the future of education, and it is both international and interdisciplinary. Specifically, it is the UW’s new graduate certificate program in International Development Policy & Management, which is designed to prepare leaders for humanitarian projects in an increasingly interdependent world.

The function of proteins – the workhorses of our bodies – depends on how those proteins are physically folded. Researchers around the world are examining the countless complex structures of proteins and their functions to learn more about therapies for the human body. Protein folding has been compared in complexity to the folding of delicate origami.

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) today, May 1, announced the election of its new members. Among those newly elected to NAS are Dr. Mark T. Groudine, director of the Basic Science Division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (UW) professor of radiation oncology, and Dr. Philip P. Green, professor of molecular biotechnology and adjunct professor of computer sciences. The election was held during the 138th annual meeting of the NAS. Membership in the NAS is considered to be among the highest honors accorded to an American scientist or engineer.

The Friends of the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Libraries are sponsoring an event, “Passion and Prose: The Art of Book Collecting,” from 2 to 4:30 p.m. June 2 at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library, Room 220.

In a new book called “The Myth of Monogamy,” a husband-wife scientific team contends that monogamy among animals, and humans in particular, may be the exception rather than the rule.

Scientists trying to replicate conditions that existed in the first microsecond after the Big Bang have discovered that gold ions ramming each other at nearly the speed of light produce a surprisingly powerful but unexpectedly brief explosion.

An exhausted, yet exhilarated, Brian Curless recently returned from Florence, Italy, where he spent two months working as many as 20 hours a day on the first phase of an ambitious effort to create virtual replicas of Michelangelo’s sculptures.

This year’s ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business Plan Competition, continuing through May 14, is no longer dominated by Internet company ideas as in years past.

Most of what you think you know about cells may be wrong.

Scientists know that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have risen sharply in recent years, but a study released today in Paris reports a surprising and dramatic increase in the most important greenhouse gas — water vapor — during the last half-century.

American students abroad, as the stereotype goes, soak up atmosphere and dig into local cuisine.

Jeri Wait, president of global markets and co-founder of the telecommunications company edge2net, has been appointed to the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School’s International Business Advisory Council.

The United States seriously lags behind England and Germany when it comes to computer-driven climate research, and a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ scientist says it is time to take dramatic steps toward leadership in the field.

More than 3,000 schoolchildren, their teachers and parents, and ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ engineering faculty, will attend the open house.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School MBA Challenge for Charity team is gearing up to defend its title against the west coast’s top business graduate schools. And after raising $90,000 for Washington Special Olympics and the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County charity, they are the UW off to a successful start for the philanthropic competition.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have formed the Joint Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to study an area of science that holds the promise to dramatically change the way we live in the new century.

Scientists at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ have been analyzing data since the Feb. 28 Nisqually earthquake that shook both structures and nerves in the Puget Sound region, and have some conclusions to present this week at a national conference. They also have a mystery or two.

Unlike normally developing and mentally retarded children, autistic 3- and 4-year-olds do not react to a picture of their mother but do react when they see a picture of a familiar toy, a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ psychologist has found.

Online auctions have soared to immense popularity, enticing more than 35 million armchair bidders, but four out of 10 of those buyers report having had problems with a transaction.

Dr. Albert J. Berger, professor of physiology and biophysics, has been named associate dean of research and graduate education at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (UW) School of Medicine.

William H. Gray, III, president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), will speak at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Commencement exercises June 9 at Husky Stadium.

Solomon Trujillo, a leader in launching wireless sensor networks, will speak tomorrow at the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Business School Dean’s Lecture.

Graduates of ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ Medical Center’s Prematurity Prevention Program participating in March of Dimes WalkAmerica on Saturday, April 28 will meet at the finish line in Husky Stadium to start a celebration at 10 a.m. They’ll join more program participants for a gathering in the UWMC Plaza Café starting at 11 a.m. The reunion brings together mothers who worked on preventing the early births of their babies and clinical staff members to celebrate the children’s health and compare notes.

Third annual ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ astronomy department open house

Joseph Duncan, who has held top management positions at Oracle Corp. and Borland International, has joined the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ School of Medicine’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI) as chief of operations and information technology.

Michelle Habell-Pallan, a ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ assistant professor of American ethnic studies, has been awarded a career enhancement fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Puget Sound area children in the fifth and sixth grades who love to read are being sought as volunteers by ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ researchers trying to help other children with learning disabilities improve their reading and language skills.

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ is No. 1 among primary-care medical schools and nursing schools in the U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate programs and professional schools.

For the eighth consecutive year, the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ (UW) School of Medicine has ranked as the nation’s top primary-care medical school in U.S. News & World Report’s annual survey of graduate and professional schools.