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More than 40 high school students with disabilities from Washington and Oregon will gather at the UW campus in Seattle for the summer study sessions of the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Program. DO-IT is an award-winning program intended to show the students how to develop the skills needed to enter a college and succeed in a university setting.

The ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø is launching the nation’s first doctoral degree program in nanotechnology, an undertaking designed to prepare students as leaders in a world in which engineering the very small will soon become big business.

Where art and technology meet, you’ll find David Salesin. The ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering and senior researcher at Microsoft Corp. has been expanding what’s possible at that juncture for more than a decade, bringing techniques from the fine arts to the computer screen.

ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø researchers trying to come up with more effective treatments for depression, America’s most common mental health problem, are looking for 200 Puget Sound residents to volunteer for a new study

Sharon Nelson, chairwoman of the state Utilities and Transportation Commission from 1985 to 1997, has been named the first director of the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø Law School’s Center for Law, Commerce and Technology.

There’s new evidence that parents can prevent or delay their children from using alcohol and marijuana if they set clear rules and expectations – even if the relationships between parents and children seem strained during the teen years.

A state-of-the-art ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø research aircraft will be a key element in the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) campaign, taking low-altitude readings that will be correlated to data from a high-flying NASA aircraft and from a satellite that is part of NASA’s Earth Observing System.

Climbers who conquer the world’s highest peak are about one-third as likely to die during descent if they use supplemental oxygen during the journey than if they rely only on the limited oxygen in thin mountain air, a ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø researcher has found.

In one of the largest and most comprehensive studies to date of the care received by elderly patients suffering an acute myocardial infarction, ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø researchers have revealed gender-based differences in early, in-hospital management.

The ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø has named Professor Ed Lazowska to the first Bill & Melinda Gates Endowed Chair in Computer Science.

Intriguing archaeological sites that may go back 15,000 years and a mountain lake pierced by a volcanic cone that has been isolated for at least 30,000 years are among the primary targets for an international team of researchers heading for the North Pacific in the sixth year of the International Kuril Island Project.

Don’t even try to think of a joke, a jibe or a bad pun.

The first major political-attitude survey of people with disabilities ? 54 million Americans who could be viewed as the nation’s largest minority group ? reveals distinctive opinions and potential clout largely untapped by parties and candidates.

Robert Mugerauer, Sid Richardson Centennial Professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Architecture, has been selected to be the next dean of the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø College of Architecture and Urban Planning, effective Sept. 1.

At the turn of the 20th century it was common for museums in the Western world to have broad collections including mummies.

Dr. Alan M. Weiner, currently a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of genetics at Yale University School of Medicine, has been named chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø (UW) School of Medicine.

One of the most generous scholarship gifts ever received by the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø will help women in Washington wishing to pursue careers in science and technology.

Students in the ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø’s civil and environmental engineering department hope to paddle their way to national acclaim later this month in a canoe made of concrete.

ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø researchers in collaboration with the Seattle-based biotechnology company, Corixa Corp., have determined that the HER-2/neu protein, which is over-produced, or “expressed,” by some breast and ovarian cancer cells, can stimulate an immune response in cancer patients.

Two ÂÒÂ×ÉçÇø economists have discovered that American men work longer hours after having children – and the effect is significantly greater when they have sons than when they have daughters.

The Sciences and Tribes Educational Partnership (STEP) – based in the UW’s College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences and the College of Forest Resources – will hold its first summer institute June 7-30.

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