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We affect the environment by what we build, but what we build, in turn, affects us and our health.

Faculty workshop
Presentation skills: Everyone knows what sitting through a bad lecture is like, but not everyone knows how to create a great presentation.

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Exposure to toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning can result in a mutation that makes some clams much more resistant to the toxin, which can then pose a greater danger to humans, according to a study published April 7 in the journal Nature.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY

An open invitation to Chairs, Directors and Faculty (Seattle Campus only)

You are invited to participate in the Academic Procession at the 乱伦社区鈥檚 130th Commencement Ceremony, Saturday, June 11, in Husky Stadium.

Editor鈥檚 note: The UW provides a wide spectrum of benefits for its employees, and you can see them conveniently displayed on the new CareNet Web site, located at <A href="http://www.

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Genetic information that determines hair color or whether an individual might develop a particular cancer is passed from one generation to the next through DNA.

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President Emmert鈥檚 leadership initiative is up and running and being fine-tuned in the early stages as the team prepares to launch a campuswide information gathering effort.

Genetic information that determines hair color or whether an individual might develop a particular cancer is passed from one generation to the next through DNA.

What: The 2005 Engineering Open House at the 乱伦社区

Who: Thousands of schoolchildren from around the region, their teachers, parents and UW engineering faculty and students

When: Friday, April 22, 9 a.

The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority — but not all — travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched.

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With popular lectures, tours, open houses, music, drama, dance, discussions and a healthy dose of springtime football in the planning, the UW community is preparing to show its stuff at Washington Weekend, a new campuswide celebration that organizers hope will become an annual tradition 鈥� maybe even several new traditions.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

If you ask about Professor Jim Morrow at the UW math department, people tend to use words like 鈥渁mazing,鈥� 鈥渁stounding鈥� and 鈥渨izard.

Two UW faculty members 鈥� David Shields of English and Mark Ellis of geography 鈥� have been chosen to receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards for 2005.

What if you could get new ideas for teaching the same way you go shopping? You browse a bit, checking out what鈥檚 on the rack, then talk to someone about the things that interest you.

The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority 鈥� but not all 鈥� travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched.

The organizers of the UW Image Bank, a new online digital image resource, are conducting a digital image use survey April 11 to 22 and seeking help from UW faculty, staff and students.

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The UW’s African Studies Program, after years of fruitless search for stable funding, has snagged its first federal grant and announced an expansion of classes and outreach activity.

Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a genetic location that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords.

An unusual degree of consensus is emerging from the legislative budget process, with funding of higher education remaining as one of the major differences among the state budgets proposed by the Governor, the Senate, and the House.

The biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.

A team of three 乱伦社区 undergraduates has taken top honors in an intensely competitive international math contest, putting the university in the winner’s bracket for the fourth year in a row.

The wave of news coverage of December’s Indian Ocean tsunami — 35,000 reports, by one count — surpassed coverage of the year’s other Top 10 disasters combined.

Exposure to toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning can result in a mutation that makes some clams much more resistant to the toxin, which can result in a greater danger to humans, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.

If a real Fountain of Youth existed, would its magical waters affect humans and other species in the same way? Recent evidence from investigators working on the genetics of longevity suggests that many of the same genes determine longevity across different species.

Two UW School of Medicine faculty members, genome researcher Dr.

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Editor鈥檚 note: Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences staffer Joel Levin and his wife, University Photographer Mary Levin, recently returned after an 1,800-mile bike trip to raise money for cancer research.