This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 10000 by Joel Schwarz(joels@u.washington.edu). http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&authorID=648&numToShow=10000 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:42:02 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Research by nearly 80 students and faculty showing how the Great Depression radically transformed Washington can be viewed on a new Web page http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55294 Arts and Humanities Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55294 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:15:38 GMT In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Social Science Technology Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54341 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:07:09 GMT A UW freshman has discovered the first Indian artifact found on the university campus in 90 years. The tan and red projectile point may be as old as 6,700 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54152 Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54152 Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:10:15 GMT A novel early intervention program tested at the UW for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53914 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53914 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:39:26 GMT A young athlete's ideas about success can be shaped a coach who fosters a mastery motivational climate rather than an atmosphere where winning is the primary focus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53678 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53678 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:27 GMT University of Washington and Seattle Children's Hospital researchers are looking for 110 6-month-old infants in the Puget Sound area to participate in a new study investigating brain development in autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53662 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:59:50 GMT Women with a history of depression who used psychiatric medicine during pregnancy have triple the odds of delivering a premature baby. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53216 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53216 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:14:24 GMT Two new studies illustrate just how hard it is to make sure people take their HIV medication. One study looked at the effects of drinking alcohol on adherence and showed the risk for non-adherence was double among drinkers compared to abstainers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52991 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52991 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:17:06 GMT It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52899 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52899 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:42:18 GMT For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52700 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52700 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:26:10 GMT About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far. Now a large international team, including six present and former University of Washington researchers, has identified several genetic links to autism, chief among them a variant of semaphorin 5A, a gene whose protein product controls nerve connections in the brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52493 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:01:08 GMT Washington has it own history of the people who have toiled in the state's fields and orchards for nearly a century and a half and those who tried to change existing conditions. That story has gone largely untold. That's no longer the case because a group of University of Washington students and faculty have developed a new multimedia Web page that tells this story. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52436 Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52436 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:18:57 GMT There is new evidence that depression, obesity and alcohol abuse or dependency are interrelated conditions among young adult women but not men. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52110 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52110 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:54:33 GMT Picture this. A bunch of adolescent rats walk into a bar and start consuming Jell-O shots. Lots of them. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52076 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52076 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:01:19 GMT Second, fourth and sixth grade children with and without handwriting disabilities were able to write more and faster when using a pen than a keyboard to compose essays, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51999 Education Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51999 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:20:53 GMT Rates of binge drinking were 37 percent lower among eighth-grade students in communities in seven states that used a prevention system designed to reduce drug use and delinquent behavior compared to teenagers in communities that did not use the system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51818 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51818 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:00:57 GMT Researchers have found new evidence showing that parents play a key role in whether or not their adolescent children who experiment with tobacco progress to become daily smokers before they graduate from high school. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51799 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51799 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:59:47 GMT It's getting more expensive for families to just get by in Washington. A single parent with one preschooler and one school-age child living in Seattle needs an annual income of $50,268 just to meet the family's most basic requirements, according to the Self-Sufficiency Standard for Washington 2009 report released today. A similar family living in Spokane County would need $38,562. The standard for Seattle jumped 35 percent since 2001 and the increase for Spokane in the same period rose by 28 percent. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51717 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51717 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:15:00 GMT A press conference detailing the 2009 self-sufficiency standards for all of Washington's 39 counties will be held Wednesday, Aug. 26, in Seattle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51686 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51686 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:26:13 GMT Although Asian-Americans as a group have lower rates of thinking about and attempting suicide than the national average, U.S.-born Asian-American women seem to be particularly at risk for suicidal behavior. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51514 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51514 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:25:38 GMT Like clockwork, brain regions in many songbird species expand and shrink seasonally in response to hormones. Now, for the first time, neurobiologists have interrupted this natural "annual remodeling" of the brain and have shown that there is a direct link between the death of old neurons and their http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51429 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51429 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:25:04 GMT New research indicates that screening children for symptoms of depression, the most common mental health disorder in the United States, can begin a lot earlier than previously thought, as early as the second grade. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50985 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50985 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:33:00 GMT Education is on the cusp of a transformation because of recent scientific findings in neuroscience, psychology, and machine learning that are converging to create foundations for a new science of learning http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50883 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50883 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:01:14 GMT Wendy Stone, a researcher and clinician who has focused on the early identification and early intervention for children with autism, has been named the new director of the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50919 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:27:21 GMT Mothers of children with autism had higher levels of parenting-related stress and psychological distress than moms of children with developmental delay. Children's problem behavior was associated with increases in both parenting-related stress and distress in both groups, but this relationship was stronger in mothers of children with autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50759 Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50759 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:09:03 GMT Fear is a powerful emotion and neuroscientists have for the first time located the neurons responsible for fear conditioning in the mammalian brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50723 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50723 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:14 GMT Scientists trying to understand how the brains of animals evolve have found that evolutionary changes in brain structure reflect the types of social interactions and environmental stimuli different species face. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50618 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50618 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:01:05 GMT Archaeologists have used stone tools to answer many questions about human ancestors in both the distant and near past and now they are analyzing the origin of obsidian flakes to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50505 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50505 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:08 GMT A new study validates the most surprising and controversial finding about the Implicit Association test that about 70 percent of those people who took a version of the test that measures racial attitudes have an unconscious preference for whites compared to blacks. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50463 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50463 Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:33 GMT UW neuroscientists were delighted at the reactions of former President George W. Bush and Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki when an Iraqi reporter flung his shoes toward the two men during a Baghdad news conference. The reactions mirrored findings they found in studies about the human vision system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50388 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50388 Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:50:55 GMT Researchers trying to uncover why premature birth is a growing problem in the United States and one that disproportionately affects black women have found that pre-pregnancy depressive mood appears to be a risk factor in preterm birth among both blacks and whites. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50363 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50363 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:58:51 GMT Families throughout Washington and parts of Oregon and Idaho have two opportunities to help University of Washington researchers unlock some of the secrets of autism, a spectrum of developmental disorders that now affects about one out of every 150 children born in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50295 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50295 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:16:30 GMT In these times of trillion-dollar budgets and deficits, $6.3 billion may not seem like much money, but that's what the United States potentially could save on each group of adolescents who enter foster care every year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50155 Law and Policy Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50155 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:45:41 GMT Lower rates of smoking among black teens may be the result of black parents setting concrete guidelines about substance use and establishing clearly defined consequences for not following those guidelines. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49748 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49748 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:16:01 GMT A new program designed to improve public understanding and news reporting of mental health and mental illness is being launched today by the University of Washington's School of Social Work and the Washington State Mental Health Transformation Project. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49399 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49399 Mon, 04 May 2009 17:53:02 GMT Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group. But now researchers have found evidence that supports a stereotype held by many in the United States - that Mexicans are more outgoing, talkative, sociable and extroverted. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49344 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49344 Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:25:11 GMT A national research team including six present and former UW researchers has connected more of the intricate pieces of the autism puzzle, with two studies that identify genes with important contributions to the disorder. Both studies detected genes implicated in the development of brain circuitry in early childhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49157 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:02:00 GMT If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, "Everyone reads or watches weather forecasts, but many people don't understand them." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48740 Science Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48740 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:37:06 GMT Modern technology increasingly is encroaching into human connections with the natural world and University of Washington psychologists believe this intrusion may emerge as one of the central psychological problems of our times. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Social Science Technology Environment Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48400 Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:53:54 GMT Say goodbye to Italian-Americans and German-Americans and say hello to Vietnamese-Americans, Salvadoran-Americans and a bunch of other hyphenated Americans. The way people identify themselves in the United States is changing, and the way the federal census classifies them by race or ethnicity isn't painting a clear portrait of America, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48218 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48218 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:00:07 GMT Barack Obama's election could turn out to have negative consequences in addressing racial injustices in the United States, according to new research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48160 Social Science Politics and Government Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48160 Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:34 GMT UW researchers have discovered an increased pattern of brain activity in the amygdalas of adults with autism that may be linked to the social deficits that typically are associated with the disorder. Previous research at the UW and elsewhere has shown that abnormal growth patterns in the amygdala are commonly found among young children diagnosed with autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48118 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:56 GMT Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48078 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48078 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:21:18 GMT A new Washington state program designed to help victims of domestic violence increase their knowledge of how to use technology safely and help minimize the risks that technology can pose when one is in an abusive relationship has been evaluated as highly successful. It can be easily adopted for use in other states or nationally. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47731 Social Science Bothell and Tacoma Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47731 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:19:30 GMT The Declaration of Independence may proclaim that all men are created equal, but American whites tend to distribute their prejudice unequally toward certain members of minority groups. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47557 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47557 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:15:27 GMT Washington state's system for imposing fines and fees, or legal financial obligations, on people convicted of felonies is riddled with inequalities and is hindering individuals from rejoining society. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47513 Law and Policy Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47513 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:57:21 GMT Past behavior is generally considered to be a good predictor of future behavior, but that may not be the case in the development of depression, particularly among adolescent girls. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47329 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47329 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:43:39 GMT Growing up with a heroin-addicted parent exposes children to a variety of detrimental experiences before the age of 18 and new research indicates that girls are four times more resilient than boys in overcoming such adverse events. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47191 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47191 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:52:43 GMT The 90th anniversary of the 1919 Seattle General Strike will be commemorated Feb. 7 and will kick off a year-long Washington's Labor Heritage Year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46877 Politics and Government Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46877 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:41:39 GMT Psychologists have learned that 10-month-old infants use their prior exposure and understanding of familiar actions by a person to unravel novel actions. However, this ability is limited by the location in which the new action is performed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46609 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46609 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:53:52 GMT Like a picture, an image can be worth a thousand words, and University of Washington autism researchers would like to capture images of the growing brains of more than a hundred infants in Washington and six other western states as part of a study examining changes in children's brains and behavior that may signal the onset of autistic symptoms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46081 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:41:39 GMT Two-thirds of women who donated eggs to fertility clinics reported satisfaction with the process, but 16 percent complained of subsequent physical symptoms and 20 percent reported lasting psychological effects, according to the first study to examine the long-term effects of donation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45971 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45971 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:06:56 GMT More than a century after Ivan Pavlov's dog was conditioned to salivate when it heard the sound of a tone prior to receiving food, scientists have found neurons that are critical to how people and animals learn from experience. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45765 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45765 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:00:48 GMT Fifteen years after they completed an intervention program designed to help their social development in elementary school, young adults reported better mental health, sexual health and higher educational and economic achievement than a control group of young adults who didn't receive the intervention. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45547 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45547 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:00:47 GMT Neuroscientists from the University of Washington have found that a single exposure to uncontrollable stress impairs decision making in rats for several days, making them unable to reliably seek out the larger of two rewards. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45318 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45318 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:59:59 GMT UW scholars have shined new light on one of the darkest chapters of Washington history - the days when the Ku Klux Klan was a temporary force in the state. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45135 Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45135 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:47:26 GMT In the first large study to explore possible unconscious bias among physicians, researchers have found that doctors mirror the attitudes of the majority in society and implicitly favor whites over blacks. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44759 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44759 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:30:00 GMT Researchers trying to identify factors that put men at risk for committing sexual coercion have found that being victims of both childhood physical and sexual abuse made them 4 1/2 times more likely to engage in sexually coercive behavior than men who were not abused. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44592 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44592 Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:00:51 GMT Current polls of the presidential election may be underestimating Barack Obama's support by 3 to 4 percent nationally and possibly larger margins in the Southeast and some strongly Republican states. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44314 Politics and Government Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44314 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:37:37 GMT There's a lot of truth in the old proverb "experience is the best teacher," and apparently it even applies to 10-month-old infants. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43955 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43955 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:45:45 GMT New research shows 12- and 18-month-old babies not only are observing what is going on around them but also are using their own visual self-experience to judge what other people can and cannot see. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43597 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43597 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:19 GMT The first study to include a significant number of aggressive girls with conduct problems indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43558 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43558 Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:32:02 GMT Black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina's victims were black. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43499 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43499 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:13:29 GMT Abstinence can mean different things to adolescents than to adults. That's one reason why abstinence-only programs do not have strong effects in preventing teenage sexual activity, according to new University of Washington research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43133 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43133 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:56:19 GMT The mammoth increase in the United States' prison population since the 1970s is having profound demographic consequences that disproportionately affect black males. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43061 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43061 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:15:51 GMT Strange things are happening in the lowland tropical forests of Panama and Costa Rica. A tiny parasitic fly is affecting the social behavior of a nocturnal bee, helping to determine which individuals become queens and which become workers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43023 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43023 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:54:33 GMT Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade -- being expelled, suspended or dropping out -- were significantly more likely to have suffered a serious bout of depression at the age of 21 than girls who did not have these problems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42914 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42914 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:27:12 GMT Asian-American immigrants who came to the United States before they were 25 years old have poorer mental health than their compatriots who came to this country when they were 25 or older. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42816 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42816 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:32:24 GMT Neurons in brains of one songbird species equipped with a built-in suicide program that kicks in at the end of the breeding season have been kept alive for seven days in live birds. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42744 Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42744 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:00:22 GMT Seventh-grade students in U.S. communities that have set up scientifically validated programs to reduce juvenile deliquency were 27 percent less likely to engage in such behavior than children in towns that have not adopted such programs. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42553 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42553 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:46:10 GMT New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are "wired" differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic of autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42459 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42459 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:46:18 GMT Technology can send a man to the moon, help unlock the secrets of DNA and let people around the world easily communicate through the Internet. But it's no substitute for nature when it comes to reducing low-level stress. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42419 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42419 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:29:31 GMT Teens attending college six months after completing high school are significantly less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior than those who do not go to college. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42372 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42372 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:52:06 GMT Researchers have developed a model that suggests shuffling emerged millions of years ago as a precursor to walking on two feet as a way of saving metabolic energy by a common ancestor of today primates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42166 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42166 Thu, 29 May 2008 18:35:32 GMT Despite public health campaigns, a surprising number of women continue to use substances such as tobacco, marijuana and alcohol during pregnancy and their usage rebounds to pre-pregnancy levels within two years of having a baby. Dads, meanwhile, don't get the messages at all. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40537 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40537 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:39:19 GMT Spring training for parents isn't a bad idea because as cries of "play ball" ring out this spring, they surely will be followed by stressed out young athletes wanting to quit sports. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40526 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40526 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:30:15 GMT Unlike several other areas of the country, painkilling medicine is widely available throughout Washington state to people suffering from chronic or acute pain and who have received prescriptions, according to a new survey of the state's pharmacies. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40488 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40488 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:24:13 GMT Scientists hoping to understand how young children develop self-control are looking for 300 Seattle-area families to participate in a new $1.2 million study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40464 Social Science Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40464 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:11:33 GMT A study of a tropical wasp suggests that brainpower required to be dominant drives brain capacity, supporting the idea that bigger brains are better. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40363 Science Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40363 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:09:42 GMT A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, may be lethal for adolescent girls, leaving them vulnerable to engage in self-harming behaviors such as cutting themselves. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40206 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40206 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:18:23 GMT A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it isn't necessarily the fastest or easiest path to follow, especially when a hill is involved. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39870 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39870 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:00:00 GMT Sifting through overnight results, University of Washington researchers have found that race still plays a role in American politics and it showed up Tuesday in surprising ways in the tallies from four states holding Democratic primary elections. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39590 Politics and Government Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39590 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:36:45 GMT Even though federal welfare-reform legislation calls for case workers to screen for domestic violence and most states have agreed to implement this requirement, just 9 percent of women applying for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families were screened for domestic violence. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39526 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39526 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:42:41 GMT Children with autism have normal-size heads at birth but develop accelerated head growth between six and nine months of age, a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental disorder, according to new research from the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39399 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39399 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:21:36 GMT Autism researchers at the University of Washington will take the initial step in attempting to prevent the developmental disorder when they launch an $11.3 million study this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38711 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38711 Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:47:05 GMT A new national study of voters who say they might vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses shows a striking disconnect between their explicit and implicit preferences, according to University of Washington researchers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38613 Politics and Government Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38613 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:54:03 GMT While Puget Sound voters were rejecting an $18 billion roads and transit package earlier this month, a smaller group of citizens was putting together a different $11.8 package in an experimental project in online participatory democracy. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38203 Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38203 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:16:34 GMT New research indicates that young athletes find playing for coaches who stress personal improvement, having fun and giving maximum effort is far more important and has a bigger impact on them than a team's won-loss record. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37617 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37617 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:57:06 GMT Linguists generally lump everyone living west of the Missouri River as speaking a similar-sounding type of English, however, there are hints that this may not be true and UW researchers are beginning a two-year study examine the way people talk in the Pacific Northwest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37507 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37507 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:04:20 GMT The annual statewide hunt for Washington's most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37470 Education Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37470 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:31:22 GMT A cave in South Africa dating to 164,000 years ago has yielded the oldest evidence of modern human behavior -- harvesting food from the sea, making complex small stone tools and using red pigments symbolically. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37362 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37362 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:33:18 GMT The film and television series "M*A*S*H*" featured the song "Suicide is Painless," but new research refutes that idea and indicates that being victimized because of sexual orientation is a chief risk factor for suicidal behavior among gay, lesbian and bisexual college students. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36724 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36724 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:10:16 GMT A remarkable change takes place in the brains of tiny songbirds every year, and some day the mechanism controlling that change may help researchers develop treatments for age-related degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson's and dementia. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36605 Health and Medicine Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36605 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 22:01:00 GMT Using new software developed to investigate how the brains of dyslexic children are organized, University of Washington researchers have found that key areas for language and working memory involved in reading are connected differently in dyslexics than in children who are good readers and spellers. However, a three-week instructional program can normalize those connections. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36405 Education Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36405 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 18:03:03 GMT UW President Mark A. Emmert has announced an administrative reorganization of UW Police. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36235 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36235 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:17:55 GMT University of Washington President Mark A. Emmert responded to Walt Disney Company President and CEO Robert Iger's complaints about a study and a news release describing its findings of research concerning baby DVDs and videos and their possible effects on infants with the following statement. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36148 Campus Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36148 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:45:23 GMT Despite marketing claims, parents who want to give their infants a boost in learning language probably should limit the amount of time they expose their children to DVDs and videos such as "Baby Einstein" and "Brainy Baby." Rather than helping babies, the over-use of such productions actually may slow down infants eight to 16 months of age when it comes to acquiring vocabulary. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35898 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35898 Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:10:01 GMT Neuroscientists are attempting to understand if structural changes in the brain are related to sensory experience or the performance of learned behavior, and now University of Washington researchers have found evidence that one species of songbird apparently has something in common with a few baseball sluggers. Both rely on steroids, birds to increase the size of song production areas of their brain and some players, apparently, to knock a fastball out of the park. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35452 Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35452 Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:01:48 GMT The scars created by domestic violence persist long after the bruises have healed, leaving some adolescent mothers psychologically distressed and increasing their chances of being unemployed, according to a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35107 Social Science Business Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35107 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:32:07 GMT Children whose mothers were exposed to second-hand smoke while they were pregnant have more symptoms of serious psychological problems compared to the offspring of women who had no prenatal exposure to smoke, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34697 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34697 Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:44:14 GMT UW researchers tracing the development of violent behavior have found a link between teenage violence and domestic violence http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34626 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34626 Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:26:03 GMT Researchers trying to understand why high school-age boys are involved in serious delinquency more often than girls have found that males are exposed to higher levels of risk factors and lower amounts of protective factors. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34146 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34146 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:13:36 GMT The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may describe a surface view of personality, but a new study indicates that Chinese, Japanese and Americans have high implicit self-esteem and this trait may be culturally universal. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34059 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34059 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:20:21 GMT Long before the National Security Agency began eavesdropping on the phone calls of Americans, young song sparrows were listening to and learning the tunes sung by their neighbors. The discovery that the sparrows acquire a many of their songs by eavesdropping also may have implications on how human infants learn language http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33845 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33845 Tue, 29 May 2007 20:10:35 GMT A large number of parents are ignoring warnings from the American Academy of Pediatrics and are allowing their very young children to watch television,DVDs or videos so that by 3 months of age 40 percent of infants are regular viewers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32790 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) and Jennifer Seymour ((206) 987-5207) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32790 Mon, 07 May 2007 19:24:45 GMT Young children with autism have a difficult time recognizing ordinary words such as ball, dog and cat and more of their brains are occupied with this kind of task compared to typically developing youngsters, according to UW research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32511 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32511 Fri, 04 May 2007 16:32:00 GMT Three researchers who are among those searching for the causes of autism and seeking treatments for the developmental disorder will discuss new findings at a press conference at the opening of the sixth International Meeting for Autism Research in Seattle http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32588 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32588 Tue, 01 May 2007 18:22:45 GMT More than 900 scientists, parents and activists from around the world who are focused on understanding the causes of autism and finding treatments for the developmental disorder will gather in Seattle May 3-5 to share the latest research findings at the sixth International Meeting for Autism Research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32420 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32420 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:26:26 GMT The UW's new Indigenous Wellness Research Institute will be launched at an evening celebration April 12 in Kane Hall on the Seattle campus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31696 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31696 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:50:09 GMT UW researchers have found that 18-month-old toddlers engage in what they call "emotional eavesdropping" by listening and watching emotional reactions directed by one adult to another and then using this emotional information to shape their own behavior. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31525 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31525 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:46:11 GMT A UW biology graduate student has found the first example of an animal making sophisticated decisions about the danger posed by a predator from the information in the alarm calls of another species. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31386 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31386 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:32 GMT More than 150 scholars, community leaders and activists will participate in the 2007 Pacific Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies next Thursday and Friday (March 22 and 23) on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31332 Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31332 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:24:13 GMT Boys and girls who played basketball for coaches trained to emphasize personal improvement, giving maximum effort, having fun and supporting their teammates reported lower levels of sport anxiety compared with athletes playing for untrained coaches. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31220 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31220 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:59:00 GMT An international team of researchers from 19 countries has identified one gene and a previously unidentified region of another chromosome as the location of another gene that may contribute to a child's chances of having autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30694 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30694 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 19:35:45 GMT All bumblebees aren't always as busy as, well, a bee. It all depends on what their job is. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29731 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29731 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:00:55 GMT Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don't fit the stereotype of unhappy 'nerds.' University of Washington research paints a totally different and positive picture of these gifted students. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31113 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31113 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:37:31 GMT Electrical engineers will demonstrate a prototype robot they developed to inspect underground high-voltage power cables. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29018 Technology Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29018 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT The notion that immigrants cluster together in neighborhoods with their countrymen after coming to the United States and move away after achieving economic success is far from universal. New research indicates that who immigrants marry or partner with has a strong influence on where they live. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28640 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28640 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT Immigrants from Asia have lower rates of psychiatric disorders than American-born Asians and other native-born Americans, according to the first national epidemiological survey of Asian Americans in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28484 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28484 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Brain and behavior relationships may have changed in a profound way as larger, more complex insect societies evolved from smaller, simpler ones, according to a new study lead by a UW researcher http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28219 Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28219 Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT UW researchers who are trying to unlock the secrets of what causes some children to have delayed development are looking for 25 children who are delayed in some aspect of their development and 25 typically developing children 18 to 30 months of age from the Puget Sound area to participate in a study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28134 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28134 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Puget Sound men and women who have an opiate addiction and women who are suicidal are need as volunteers for studies refining a therapeutic treatment who those who have trouble regulating their emotions http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27623 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27623 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT It's that time of year again when the UW's Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars looks for Washington's smartest young students. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27577 Community Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27577 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT UW researchers have found patterns of abnormal connectivity between brain regions in people with autism. This indicates the neurons in the brains of people with the development disorder may not communicate with each other as well as they do in other people. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27363 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27363 Sat, 14 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT Fifty depressed teenage girls and adolescent girls from the Puget Sound area who engage in self-harming or suicidal behavior are being sought for a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26938 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26938 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT Children who were exposed to violence in the home engaged in higher levels of physical bullying than youngsters who were not witnesses to such behavior, according to a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26586 Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26586 Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:00:00 GMT Tracy Harachi is spearheading an effort to bring the field and practice of social work to Cambodian where there currently is no program at the college level to train students to become social workers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26488 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26488 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT Psychologists looking at the largely unknown world of how children perceive the future have found that the youngsters' choices are warped when they are caught up in a primal desire such as thirst. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26194 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26194 Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT A new study exploring smoking, heavy drinking and marijuana use across three generations indicates that the children of a parent who uses any of substances are more likely to smoke, binge drink or use marijuana in adolescence and adulthood. Drug transmission across generations was for a general tendency to use these substances rather than to use any one specificially, with the exception of tobacco. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26149 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26149 Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT Different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls, as well as the early onset form of the developmental disorder and the regression, or late onset, type of autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25949 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25949 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT The Woodland Park Zoo and the UW have renewed their agreement for scientific and educational cooperation to promote research, education and conservation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25861 Science Community Wendy Hochnadel ((206) 684-4838 or (206) 349-3533) and Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25861 Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT Using new technology that measures the magnetic field generated by the activation of neurons in the brain, UW researchers tracked what appears to be a link between the listening and speaking areas of the brain in newborn, 6-month-old and one-year-old infants, before infants can speak. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25475 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25475 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT Women with a serious mental disorder called borderline personality disorder who received a specialized form of cognitive behavioral therapy were half as likely to attempt suicide as women who were treated by expert therapists in dealing with difficult patients. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25275 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25275 Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT It's pretty difficult to overlook the proverbial 800-pound gorilla, or even a person dressed in a gorilla suit. But people who were given a simple visual task while mildly intoxicated were twice as likely to have missed seeing the person in the gorilla suit than were people who were not under the influence of alcohol. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25299 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25299 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT Taking a page from the treatment book on alcohol abuse, researchers from the University of Washington have successfully tested a brief, low-cost intervention to deal with depression, the No. 1 mental health problem in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25095 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25095 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT Non-fatal, self-inflicted injuries by adolescent and young adult females are major public health problems and researchers have found physiological evidence that this behavior may lead to a more serious psychological condition called borderline personality disorder. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25024 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25024 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT HIV infection is significantly more common among non-Hispanic blacks than it is among any other young adult racial or ethnic group in the United States, according to the first study drawn from the nation's general youth population. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24834 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24834 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT Scientists investigating the genetic makeup of rhesus macaque monkeys, a key species used in biomedical research, have found the rhesus in Nepal may provide a suitable alternative to alleviate a critical shortage of laboratory animals used in developing vaccines against such diseases as HIV/AIDS. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24692 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24692 Wed, 31 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT The short, intriguing history of the Black Panthers in Seattle will come to life again when the Black Panther History and Memory Project Web site is unveiled Saturday at a public event at the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24336 Community Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24336 Tue, 16 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT More than 500 of the brightest student minds in the state will share the findings of their research that range from the frontiers of science to Seattle's coffee culture at the ninth annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Friday http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24309 Science Health and Medicine Social Science Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24309 Mon, 15 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT Multiracial adolescents in middle school are signficantly more likely to engage in such problem behaviors as violence and substance use than single-race young people. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24065 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24065 Mon, 01 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT When it comes to talking about suicide, Americans avoid the topic much the same way they skirted discussions about sex 20 years ago. But the president of the American Association of Suicidology says the time is long overdue for people to start talking about the problem and to launch suicide awareness and prevention programs in the nation's schools. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24042 Health and Medicine Education Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24042 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT Nearly 700 fifth through eighth graders from around the state have been honored for outstanding verbal and/or mathematical abilities by the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23506 Community Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23506 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT If you think you've got a bad boss, one who loves to chew people out, or if you work with backstabbing co-workers, be thankful you are not a wasp. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23342 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23342 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT You always can't believe your eyes. Neuroscientists have found that the first area in the cortex of the human brain that receives information from the eyes processes the perceived size, rather than the actual size, of an object. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23005 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23005 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT Edwina Uehara, who has spent her entire teaching career at the University of Washington's School of Social Work, is the school's new dean. The appointment, announced by Provost Phyllis Wise, is effective April 1, subject to approval by the Board of Regents at their March meeting. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22619 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22619 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT Before and after brain images of individual children with dyslexia show that the human brain can change and normalize in response to spelling instruction. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22402 Education Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22402 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT The ideal Valentine's Day present for people seeking their sweethearts might be a package of self-knowledge. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22180 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22180 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT One hundred families with two or more autistic children in Washington and five other western states are needed for an on-going University of Washington study that is searching for the genetic causes of autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21581 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21581 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT The tiny rabbit-like pika, an animal species considered to be one of the best canaries in a coal mine for detecting global warming in the western United States, appears to be veering toward the brink of extinction in the Great Basin. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21490 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21490 Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT Watching a swarm of army ants attack a giant worm has led a University of Washington scientist to offer a new theory on the origin of cooperative hunting behavior in the insects. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21288 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21288 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT The Ford Foundation has selected the University of Washington as one of 27 higher education institutions to receive $100,000 grants for projects that promote academic freedom and constructive dialogue on campus http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=15856 Campus Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=15856 Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT Doctors treating overweight or obese patients often prescribe exercise as part of a program to take off pounds. But a new study indicates that some people's ability to exercise may be hampered by gasrointestinal problems that frequently affect those who are overweight. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=14002 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=14002 Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT A team of University of Washington and Spanish neuroscientists has discovered neurons in the mammalian brainstem that focus exclusively on new, novel sounds, helping humans and other animals ignore ongoing, predictable sounds. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13864 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13864 Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT A new study indicates that schools adopting programs that target antisocial behavior are also likely to improve their students' academic performance. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13735 Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13735 Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT Two parallel, but largely separate, migrations of more than 20 million black and white Americans in the 20th century transformed politics, culture and religion in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13617 Social Science Law and Policy Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13617 Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT Infants begin pulling off an amazing feat sometime in the final three months of their first year of life. They learn an important social interaction by following the gaze of an adult, a step that scientists believe gives babies a leg up on understanding language. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13382 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13382 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT A pilot project in participatory democracy will begin later this month in King County, pairing local officials with young adults who were once in foster care and are now existing on minimum-wage incomes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13224 Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13224 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:00:00 GMT Immigrants are more dispersed and far more entwined with American-born people when they are measured by the households in which they live rather than counted individually on the traditional basis of census tract. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12899 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12899 Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT The search is on again for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across the state in the annual Washington Search for Young Scholars. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12804 Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12804 Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT Puget Sound men and women with an opiate addiction and women who are suicidal are needed as volunteers for two studies designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for borderline personality disorder http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12695 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12695 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT Twelve-year-olds whose parents smoked were more than two times as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between ages 13 and 21 than were children whose parents didn't use tobacco. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12370 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12370 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT UW professors can add perspective for stories on the scientific basis of evolution theory and the religious, educational and legal controversies in the news. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12348 Education Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12348 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:46:00 GMT Five hundred Puget Sound adults who think they are dependent on marijuana are needed by UW researchers to participate in an anonymous telephone survey during October. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12341 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12341 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that's why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations will spend the next week learning way to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11943 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT Researchers investigating how self-control develops in young children have found that abstract symbols can lead youngsters toward a more optimal decision than when they have to make choice with tangible objects such as candy. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11949 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11949 Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT Researchers stuying home videotopaes of hcildren's first and second birthday parties have confirmed what some parents have claimed for years -- that some youngsters who are seemingly normal at age one regress and exhibit autistic behaviors by the end of their second year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11483 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11483 Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT Training adults to have more effective parenting skills is the most potent tool available and should remain the standard of care in treating preadolescent children with serious behavior problems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11206 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11206 Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:00:00 GMT The alarm call of the black-capped chickadee carries a surprising amount of information about a predator's size and the threat it poses. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10732 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10732 Thu, 23 Jun 2005 08:00:00 GMT A leading scientist trying to understand and treat autism suspects that a failure to engage in such normal social activities as looking at a parent's face or listening to speech sounds early in life may help explain the profound impairments in social and language development shown by most children with the disorder. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10053 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10053 Thu, 05 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT More than 1,100 fifth through eighth graders from across Washington will be honored Saturday on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington for their oustanding verbal and/or mathematical talents. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10006 Community Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10006 Tue, 03 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT Researchers trying to tease out the genetic basis of dyslexia have discovered a location on chromosome 2 that may contain one or more genes that contribute to the reading disorder and make it difficult for people to rapidly pronounce pseudowords. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9331 Health and Medicine Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9331 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT Even though the American government and people have not always embraced immigrants, the image of the United States as a land of opportunity and refuge has become the focal point of the nation's identity at home and around the world. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9328 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9328 Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT It's time for researchers who study songbirds as models for understanding the human brain and how humans acquire language to begin singing a different tune and study a wider variety of species, say a pair of leading scientists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9153 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9153 Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT A little sexual banter in the workplace isn't necessarily a bad thing. According to a new UW study, sexualized encounters in some work situations actually can contribute to building camaraderie on the job. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8452 Social Science Business Bothell and Tacoma Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8452 Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT The common perception that most American teenagers go to school, engage in extracurricular activities such as sports and hang out with their friends is missing one crucial and time-consuming element -- work. More than half of high school seniors surveyed by UW sociologists said they were working in the spring of their final year of school. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8439 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8439 Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT A murder in Alaska and images of Julia Roberts and President Bush all play roles in a new UW study that explores the limits of the human visual system and eyewitness testimony in the courtroom. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8228 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8228 Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT Six leading medical institutions, including the Autism Center at the University of Washington, have joined forces with physicians and parents to form the nonprofit Autism Treatment Network. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8069 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8069 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT As the death toll from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami climbed above 200,000, a University of Washington psychologist who just returned from Indonesia warned of a new danger among the survivors -- a mental health crisis. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7714 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7714 Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT While there are several tested treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder, very little is known about their comparable effectiveness. That's why University of Washington researchers are looking for 180 Puget Sound men and women suffering from the disorder to participate in a new study that will compare the effectiveness of medication and psychotherapy treatments. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7375 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7375 Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT The human brain's remarkable flexibility to understand a variety of signals as language extends to an unusual whistle language used by shepherds on one of the Canary Island off the coast of Africa. And the way the brain processes these whistles is similar to the way it goes about deciphering English, Spanish or other spoken languages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7171 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7171 Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT An elementary school intervention program that taught children impulse control and gave their teachers and parents better management skills has long-lasting effects extending into early adulthood, showing that the children are more productive and well-adjusted members of society at age 21. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7258 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7258 Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT The Pacific Northwest has seen its share of major environmental battles. Now a new historical study of the fur trade indicates that early Europeans and Americans in the region struggled with similar issues nearly two centuries ago as they sought exploit and preserve the area's natural resources http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6929 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6929 Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT Imagination is alive and thriving in the minds of America's school-age children. It is so prevalent that 65 percent of children report that, by the age of 7, they have had an imaginary companion at some point in their lives, according to a new study by University of Washington and University of Oregon psychologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6814 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6814 Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT With increasing global warming Rudolph and the rest of Santa Claus' reindeer will disappear form large portions of their current range and be under severe environmental stress by the end of the century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6732 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6732 Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT By today's standards pretending to be sick to get out of a day's work, sneaking away to meet friends in the wood at night or learning to read and write may seem to be pretty tame infractions. But for slaves in the American south such activities were dangerous, daring and far more common than previously believed http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6569 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6569 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT Often in the United States mothers temporarily or pernamently relinquish custody of one or more of their children. While this phenomenon occurs in all racial and ethnic groups, a new University of Washington study is looking at this issue from the perspective of black women and is seeking Puget Sound black women 18 or older who have given up custody of a child for at least six months as participants. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6411 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6411 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT When women engage in a technique called emotion coaching, even in families where there is domestic violence, their children are less aggressive, depressed and withdrawn, researchers have found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5825 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5825 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:00:00 GMT Once again the University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students throughout the state as part of its Washington Search for Young Scholars program. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5807 Social Science Education Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5807 Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:00:00 GMT An interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers has been awarded $12.4 million by the National Science Foundation to establish a center to investigate how humans learn and to create environments that will help prepare people of all ages for future learning. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5687 Education Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5687 Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Americans had a strong need for spiritual support and a positive outlook in coping with the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, according to a new study by UW and University of Michigan researchers http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5611 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5611 Thu, 23 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT More than 60 Puget Sound residents with borderline personality disorder, a serious but treatable psychiatric condition, are needed as volunteers for two studies at the University of Washington designed to refine a therapeutic treatment for the disorder. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5531 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5531 Thu, 16 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Using previously unavailable census data, geographers have found that residents of one of America's largest metropolitan areas are far less racially and ethnically segregated at work than they are in their home neighborhoods. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5524 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5524 Tue, 14 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Over the last two decades, thousands of American women have donated eggs to help themselves or other women bear children. But little is known about what motivated them to become egg donors and what, if any, physical and psychological effects resulted from their experience. To answers these and other question, UW researchers have begun a national study and are looking for volunteers to participate in an on-line survey. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5358 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5358 Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT Taking to the streets to demonstrate and protest is more effective than working inside the system to influence the passage of pro-environmental legislation in the United States, according to a new study analyzing the impact of the environmental movement. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5271 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5271 Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT Like skillful diplomats from developing nations seeking funds for their countries, entrepreneurial American Indian tribal leaders exploited ambiguities and contradicitions in federal policy to gain new authority and access to the federal decision-making process. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5270 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5270 Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT A small fish with a remarkable hearing system that enables females to zero in on the love hums broacast by males during the breeding season is providing scientists with clues that someday might provide a treatment for people with high-frequency hearing loss. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5046 Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5046 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:00:00 GMT A new UW study has found that people who began binge drinking at age 13 and continued throughout adolescence were nearly four times as likely to be overweight or obese and almost 3 1/2 times as likely to have high blood pressure when they were 24 years old than were people who never or rarely drank heavily during adolescence. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4972 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4972 Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:00:00 GMT New findings indicate that the endangered callimicos are not a missing link between small and large New World monkeys. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4718 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4718 Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT Adults often struggle trying to learn a second language, but the process may not be as tedious and slow as commonly believed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4685 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4685 Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington psychologists seeking to understand the causes of childhood and adolescent depression and conduct disorder are looking for 60 Seattle-area 8-to 12-year-olds and one of their parents to participate in a study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4403 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4403 Tue, 25 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT Being jailed in federal or state prisons has become so common today that more young black men in the United States have done time than have served in the military or earned a college degree, according to a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4393 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4393 Thu, 20 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT A pair of scientists has proposed a new model for behavioral development among social insects, suggesting that a higher male susceptibility to diease has helped shape the evolution of the insects' behavior. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4395 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4395 Thu, 20 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT Preadolescents who reported high levels of conduct problems were nearly four times as likely to have experienced an episode of depression in early adulthood than were children who reported low rates of conduct problems, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4311 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4311 Tue, 11 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT Urban American Indian women endure extremely high rates of physical and sexual trauma and, as a result, may engage in risky behaviors that place them at high risk for becoming infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, according to a new study fousing on American Indians in the New York City area. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4290 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4290 Mon, 10 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT Despite federal government policies encouraging home ownership among minority and low-income families, more than half of them left their houses and returned to renting within five years, according to a new study by a University of Washington researcher. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4009 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4009 Mon, 12 Apr 2004 08:00:00 GMT A pair of researchers believes that American families with children would be stunned if they knew what kind of social policies and support 10 Western European nations and Canada offer their working families. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3956 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3956 Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are looking for 20 budding elementary school "scientists" who enjoy science to participate in a study exploring how computers can help children with scientific problem solving and report writing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3630 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3630 Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT Scientists have known for some time that some social insects undergo dramatic behavioral changes as they mature, and now a research team has found that the brains of a wasp species correspondingly enlarge as the creatures engage in more complex tasks. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3608 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3608 Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT Aggressive 15 year olds who attended religious services, felt attached to their schools or were exposed to good family management were much less likely to have engaged in violent behavior by the time they turned 18, according to a new multi-ethnic study of urban youth by University of Washington researchers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3552 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3552 Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT There are no general laws of human relationships as there are for physics, but a leading marital researcher and group of applied mathematicians have teamed up to create a mathematical model that predicts which couples will divorce with astonishing accuracy. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1429 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1429 Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT Even though there is evidence that dyslexia has a genetic basis, researchers will report new findings today (Feb. 12) that show children afflicted with the learning disability are not doomed to a life of reading difficulties. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1430 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1430 Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT Scientists trying to understand and treat autism have discovered that the brains of people with autism function differently than those of normal people when they view pictures of unfamiliar people. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1431 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1431 Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT Scattered across the United States are about 60 penal institutions that are called super-maximum security prisons, control units or some other similar name. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1412 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1412 Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers who have developed the most effective treatment for a serious psychiatric condition called borderline personality disorder are looking for more than 200 Puget Sound residents as volunteers for a series of new studies designed to refine the therapy http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1453 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1453 Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington is looking for the best and brightest fifth through eighth grade students in Washington state. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2210 Social Science Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2210 Mon, 10 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT Ninety percent of the businesses in the central Puget Sound region that responded to an online and telephone survey suffered damage or other adverse impacts from the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, according to a report prepared by University of Washington researchers for the departments of emergency management in Pierce and King counties. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2207 Science Business Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2207 Mon, 03 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2198 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2198 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT Researchers trying to understand how the mind comprehends music and the role that cultural familiarity plays in the process have found that exposure to music of another culture produces no differences in brain activity than when people are exposed to music from their own culture. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2195 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2195 Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Rather it was the end game in a long, deliberate process undertaken by the United States government, which was unable or unwilling to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens, a University of Washington scholar contends in a new book. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2186 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2186 Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT A 50,000-year record of mammals consumed by early humans in southwestern France indicates there was no major difference in the prey hunted by Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, according to a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2180 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2180 Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT Archaeologists at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture had no idea what they would learn when they sent Nellie, the museum's Egyptian mummy, to the University of Washington Medical Center to undergo a CT scan three years ago as the first step in a conservation process. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2177 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2177 Mon, 15 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT Thirty-six participants from 13 Pacific Northwest Indian tribes will gather at the University of Washington next week for a workshop designed to open the linguistic riches of the UW campus and assist in tribal efforts to revitalize indigenous languages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2167 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2167 Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT A brief non-judgmental interview and feedback session designed to enhance people's motivation to change their behavior added to a self-help program appears to be effective in treating some people with two common types of eating disorders --bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2164 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2164 Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:00:00 GMT Contrary to popular belief, using the Internet may not improve a person's chances of finding a job. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2157 Social Science Business Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2157 Wed, 13 Aug 2003 08:00:00 GMT Social interaction apparently plays a far more important role in how infants learn language than previously believed, according to three related studies conducted by researchers at the University of Washington's Center for Mind, Brain & Learning (CMBL). http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2149 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2149 Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:00:00 GMT Given only a fraction of a second to respond to images of men popping out from behind a garbage Dumpster, people were more likely to shoot blacks than whites, even when the men were holding a harmless object such as a flashlight rather than a gun. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2148 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2148 Tue, 08 Jul 2003 08:00:00 GMT The number of Alaskans who speak Aleut has fallen to around 100 from 620 just two decades ago. That's a far cry from the estimated 20,000 people who once spoke Aleut in the Aleutians and Pribilofs, which jut out hundreds of miles into the North Pacific Ocean off the Alaska Peninsula. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2141 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2141 Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:00:00 GMT Autism research at the University of Washington has received a major boost from an $8.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The grant, which runs for five years, nearly doubles the research funding of the UW's Autism Center, directed by psychology professor Geraldine Dawson. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2129 Health and Medicine Campus Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2129 Thu, 29 May 2003 08:00:00 GMT Four- and 5-year-old children who are extremely active, oppositional, fidgety, squirmy, temperamental or have difficulty maintaining their attention are being sought by University of Washington researchers to participate in a pilot study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2121 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2121 Tue, 13 May 2003 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2120 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2120 Wed, 07 May 2003 08:00:00 GMT Psychologists at the University of Washington trying to understand the underlying causes of childhood and adolescent depression and conduct disorder are looking for 240 Seattle-area 8- to 12-year-olds and one of their parents to participate in a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2112 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2112 Mon, 21 Apr 2003 08:00:00 GMT A woman's heavy episodic drinking during pregnancy triples the odds that her child will develop alcohol-related problems at age 21, according to a new study that has been tracking young adults since before their birth. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2108 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2108 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:00:00 GMT Children whose mothers are the most depressed, anxious, and report high levels of psychosomatic symptoms are twice as likely to be taken to a doctor when they complain of a stomach ache or abdominal pain than are children whose mothers report the least amount of such mental stress. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2091 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2091 Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:00:00 GMT Researchers at the University of Washington have found a species of crow that distinctly alters its behavior when attempting to steal food from another crow, depending on whether or not the other bird is a relative. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2086 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2086 Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:00:00 GMT Archaeologists have uncovered another piece of evidence that seems to exonerate some of the earliest humans in North America of charges of exterminating 35 genera of Pleistocene epoch mammals. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2056 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2056 Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl reported today that 9-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2051 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2051 Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT Children need rich interactions with nature for their physical and psychological well-being. However, nature is suffering, and so are our children, who are growing up in increasingly bleak environments far from the natural world in which humans evolved. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2045 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2045 Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT Archaeological evidence from prehistoric hunters in Washington and Alaska adds new fuel to the ongoing debate over the belief that humans have a propensity to over-exploit their natural resources, and also indicates that early Indians' harvest of northern fur seals was sustainable. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2044 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2044 Tue, 21 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT Social support may play a small but potentially important role in helping HIV-positive people adhere to the complicated schedules for taking their drug "cocktails" to control the virus that causes AIDS. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2033 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2033 Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2544 Social Science Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2544 Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT For decades researchers have pondered a mysterious gender disparity in religious commitment. It turns out they may have been asking the wrong question, according to a University of Washington religious scholar. Instead of asking why women are more religious than men, they should have been asking why men are less religious than women, said Rodney Stark, a UW professor of sociology and comparative religion. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2539 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2539 Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT Researchers exploring the impacts of transportation disruptions caused by earthquakes and other natural disasters on businesses in King, Pierce, Snohomish and Kitsap counties are looking for 800 Puget Sound-area companies to participate in an on-line questionnaire by mid December. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2528 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2528 Tue, 03 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT Neuroscientists trying to tease out the mechanisms underlying the basis of human sympathy have found that such feelings trigger brain activity not only in areas associated with emotion but also in areas associated with performing an action http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2526 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2526 Mon, 02 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington's new Academy for Young Scholars, like the Marine Corps, is looking for a few good recruits. The academy is seeking outstanding young scholars -- high school sophomores -- in the Puget Sound area for its fall 2003 class. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2523 Social Science Community Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2523 Tue, 26 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT Even though it wasn't the "big one," last year's Nisqually earthquake caused damage to nearly 300,000 residences or almost one out of every four households in the Puget Sound area, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2517 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2517 Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT Secretin, touted as a possible cure for autism just three years ago, is not a magic bullet that relieves the symptoms of the developmental disorder, report researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2514 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2514 Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers exploring how preschool-age children develop self-control and possible links to the way youngsters use pretend play are looking for 150 Puget Sound 3- and 4-year-olds to participate in a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2512 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2512 Thu, 07 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT There will be a report on the court decision in the ongoing Kennewick Man case at 11:45 a.m. Friday. That will be followed at 1:30 p.m. Friday by the first of a number of sessions to discuss proposed rules covering the disposition of culturally unidentifiable human remains. This topic also will be the focus of public comments and presentations starting at 4 p.m. Saturday and 11:15 a.m. Sunday. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2511 Campus Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2511 Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT Adults often believe infants are off in their own world, but a new study indicates they are more tuned into the wider world and what the people around them are doing than previously thought. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2510 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2510 Mon, 04 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT Researchers have launched a hunt in Washington and 15 other states for 250 families with two or more autistic children to participate in a $10.2 million University of Washington study to uncover the genetic and neurobiological causes of autism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2497 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2497 Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT Fifty students from Muir elementary under the direction of Peter Lape, the Burke's curator of archaeology, and UW archaeology students are participating in an urban dig that runs through Saturday in the Rainier Valley. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2489 Community Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2489 Mon, 07 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT People with low self-esteem are less motivated than people with high self-esteem to improve a negative mood, even when they are offered an activity that will change their frame of mind, a team of American and Canadian psychologists has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2463 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2463 Mon, 05 Aug 2002 08:00:00 GMT It can be a numbing and confusing experience for parents who receive a diagnosis that their child has autism and then must sort through the wide variety of treatment approaches available. Helping parents deal with this experience is why two leading researchers, Sally Ozonoff and Geraldine Dawson, have written "A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism," which has just been published. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2430 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2430 Tue, 16 Jul 2002 08:00:00 GMT Make no mistake about it, University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz's new book is the print version of a "chick flick." The book, "The Lifetime Love and Sex Quiz Book," is targeted at women, and for a good reason. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2424 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2424 Tue, 02 Jul 2002 08:00:00 GMT Six-month-old hearing infants exposed to American Sign Language (ASL) for the first time prefer it to pantomime, lending new evidence that humans show a broad preference for languages over "non-languages," according to a University of Washington researcher who will present her findings here Friday at the annual convention of the American Psychological Society. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2407 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2407 Tue, 04 Jun 2002 08:00:00 GMT Laboratory rats that have been repeatedly depleted of salt become sensitized to amphetamine, exhibiting an exaggerated hyperactive response to the drug and an unusual pattern of neuronal growth in a part of their brains, neuroscientists have found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2404 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2404 Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are looking for 40 Puget Sound area boys and girls who are good spellers and who are finishing up the fourth, fifth or sixth grades to participate in a study that is designed to help other children who are having difficulty learning to spell. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2406 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2406 Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:00:00 GMT Homeless youths who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender have a perilous existence on the street. Compared to heterosexual homeless youth, they experience more physical and sexual violence, use more drugs and abuse them more frequently, have more sexual partners and have higher rates of mental illness, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2400 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2400 Thu, 30 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT Psychology 419, or behavior studies of zoo and aquarium animals, primarily draws psychology and zoology majors.The course was started in 1975 by Lockard, a psychology professor, as an alternative to an animal behavior laboratory class that used rats, and it was designed for students who wished to do research on exotic species. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2393 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2393 Thu, 16 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT An elementary school intervention program that promotes social competency, academic success and bonding to school also has the long-term effect of cutting pregnancy and birth rates among young women before age 21, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2386 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2386 Mon, 13 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT Pets can help children learn about life, love and death. University of Washington researchers are studying whether today's robot pets can do those things, too, or whether they fall short when it comes to stimulating a preschooler's moral and intellectual growth. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2387 Social Science Science Technology Steven Goldsmith (206-543-2580) and Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2387 Mon, 13 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT The number of 15- to 17-year-old boys having sex in the past decade dropped 8.5 percent, and teens were generally acting more responsibly when it came to sex with rates of pregnancy, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases all falling http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2377 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2377 Thu, 02 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT Using a unique set of data collected over 30 years and six generations of captive-bred monkeys, researchers have found the first evidence that low birth weight is linked to a type of DNA only passed along by females. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7666 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7666 Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:00:00 GMT Ask children what musical instruments they would like to play and boys invariably will pick something like the trumpet, drums or saxophone while girls tend to favor the violin, clarinet or flute. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7656 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7656 Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:00:00 GMT The number of commercial air travelers who now find flying to be at least somewhat stressful has risen dramatically to 81 percent of passengers, according to the first survey measuring the attitudes of people before and after the events of Sept. 11. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2365 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2365 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers interested in building and maintaining healthier family relationships are looking for 200 Puget Sound families with a child 8 years of age to participate in a five-year study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2320 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2320 Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT School dropout rates among immigrant teenagers are most severe among Mexicans, particularly those who migrated to the United States after starting school in Mexico. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2308 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2308 Mon, 04 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a network of brain regions that are involved in human imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to distinguish the self from others. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3444 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3444 Tue, 22 Jan 2002 08:00:00 GMT Neuroscientists examining the brain activity of people who learned to speak American Sign Language (ASL) at different times in their lives have found the first evidence that there is a critical period for acquiring a non-verbal language, just as there is for spoken languages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2298 Social Science Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2298 Wed, 02 Jan 2002 08:00:00 GMT The Learning Disabilities Center at the University of Washington is looking for 250 Seattle and Puget Sound children in the fourth through ninth grades to participate in a family genetics study of spelling disabilities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2759 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2759 Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT Crows and ravens are depicted as being clever and tricky animals in countless American Indian stories and legends. Those characterizations apparently are right on the mark, according to a pair of University of Washington researchers who have found a species of crow that is constantly looking for opportunities to steal food from other members of its flock. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2745 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2745 Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain activity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal, according to new research at the University of Washington's Autism Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2741 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2741 Tue, 04 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT Aside from the Internal Revenue Service, perhaps no government agencies are the object of more scorn than state child protective services organizations (CPS). To help these agencies in Washington, Oregon and Alaska improve their services, the Children's Bureau of the federal Department of Health and Human Service has awarded the University of Washington a $2.2 million grant over five years to establish a CPS Quality Improvement Center, called Frontline Connections. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2739 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2739 Mon, 03 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT American attitudes about Arab Muslims may have changed or been colored as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. How much they changed is difficult to assess, but individuals have the opportunity to measure their own level of unconscious prejudice toward Arab Muslims by taking a test on the Internet developed by University of Washington and Yale University psychologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2732 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2732 Tue, 27 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT Even such mythical detectives as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would have difficulty trying to find the culprit that killed the mammoths, mastodons and other megafauna that once roamed North America. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2654 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2654 Wed, 24 Oct 2001 08:00:00 GMT Because youth sports are saddled with so many myths, University of Washington sports psychologists Ronald Smith and Frank Smoll have spent a large part of their careers dispelling these misconceptions and trying to make youth sports more of a child-oriented, fun activity for everyone involved - players, coaches and parents. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2647 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2647 Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:00:00 GMT Now that the first weeks of the new school year are over, parents of some first-graders may notice that their children are having problems writing the alphabet. University of Washington researchers want to help, and they are looking for two dozen Puget Sound youngsters who are having difficulty mastering writing to participate in a study that includes an intervention component to help them. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2637 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2637 Mon, 24 Sep 2001 08:00:00 GMT As the federal government inches toward listing Puget Sound's orca whales for protection under the Endangered Species Act, University of Washington researchers have launched a multiyear effort to determine the cause of the marine mammals' plummeting population. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2618 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2618 Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2611 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2611 Tue, 07 Aug 2001 08:00:00 GMT A brief non-confrontational intervention program administered to high-risk college-age drinkers when they entered college had long-lasting effects that persisted over four years in reducing the number of alcohol-related problems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2461 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2461 Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2456 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2456 Thu, 26 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington'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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2452 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2452 Fri, 20 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington researchers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2410 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2410 Wed, 13 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2408 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2408 Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT Popular wisdom reminds people not to bite the hand that feeds them. But now a University of Washington researcher has found a species of social wasp that bites its fellow workers, prompting them to leave the nest and forage for the colony. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3183 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3183 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington scientist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2381 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2381 Tue, 29 May 2001 08:00:00 GMT When psychologist John Gottman first began videotaping couples interacting in an apartment laboratory, he was disappointed with the seemingly trivial nature of their conversations. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2356 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2356 Mon, 07 May 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2354 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2354 Thu, 03 May 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2344 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2344 Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington psychologist has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2333 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2333 Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT Michelle Habell-Pallan, a University of Washington assistant professor of American ethnic studies, has been awarded a career enhancement fellowship by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2321 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2321 Tue, 03 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT Puget Sound area children in the fifth and sixth grades who love to read are being sought as volunteers by University of Washington researchers trying to help other children with learning disabilities improve their reading and language skills. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2318 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2318 Mon, 02 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT Sarah Bernhardt strides across the pages of Susan Glenn's book like a colossus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2292 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2292 Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are on a scientific genealogical hunt and are looking for 500 first- through ninth-grade boys and girls in the Puget Sound area who are having problems reading or with spelling and handwriting. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2287 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2287 Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT This is the third of a series of releases about Comet Hale-Bopp, which is now at its brightest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3205 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3205 Sat, 24 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT Long before dot-com millionaires and wealthy Californians rediscovered the San Juan Islands as an ideal place to build fancy summer homes, the Coast Salish people inhabited the area for more than 11,000 years. But little visible evidence remains of their long occupation of the land. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2270 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2270 Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT Division of household chores long has been a source of friction for married couples, but less is known about how large a problem it is for gay, lesbian and unmarried heterosexual couples. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2237 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2237 Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:00:00 GMT The number of black, Hispanic and American Indian freshman students enrolling at all universities and colleges in Washington dropped in 1999 following the passage of Initiative 200, which eliminated many affirmative action programs in the state. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2222 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2222 Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT A child's likelihood of experiencing adjustment problems following divorce depends on the interaction of the child's temperament and the quality of his or her mother's parenting style, according to a new study by University of Washington and Arizona State University psychologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2218 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2218 Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT A thousands-of-years-old peek at the effects of climate change on small mammals in the western United States may provide a snapshot of the future impact of global warming on animal populations. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2216 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2216 Wed, 10 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative research on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the University of Washington with a $35.5 million pledge from the Seattle-based Talaris Research Institute. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1932 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1932 Thu, 14 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT With a small but growing number of male-to-female transgender clients, the need for consistently effective voice feminization therapy has increased in the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1942 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1942 Tue, 14 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT A new set of unique archaeology kits will be available next month to help Puget Sound students travel back in time to learn about how people lived in the region during the last 4,200 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1937 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1937 Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT Some of the finest living Northwest Coastal Native artists will demonstrate their carving, weaving and musical talents at the third annual Native American Arts Celebration at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3312 Campus Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3312 Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT Most parents and children dread the time when they sit down and have "the talk." You know, the one about the birds and the bees. But uneasiness does not have to be part of the conversation, according to University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz, co-author of the new book "Ten Talks Parents Must Have with Their Children About Sex and Character." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1967 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1967 Fri, 27 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT The arrival of a couple's first baby is a time of great joy that is frequently followed by a sharp decline in the wife's marital satisfaction. Social scientists have known this for some time, and that this dissatisfaction can propel couples toward divorce. University of Washington marital researchers studying first-time parents have uncovered a "prescription" for maintaining and even improving marital satisfaction. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1965 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1965 Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT Members of the news media are invited to preview the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture's new exhibit, "Entwined with Life: Native American Basketry," next Monday and Tuesday afternoons, Oct. 23 and 24, at the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1960 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1960 Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT Couple the re-release of "The Exorcist" and the up-coming Halloween broadcast of "Possessed," a TV documentary about a purported exorcism in a mental hospital, and you've got a prescription for a sudden jump in the number reported demonic possessions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1957 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1957 Tue, 17 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT Psychologists trying to understand the factors that put athletes and performers at risk for injuries have found that professional ballet dancers get hurt just as often and suffer just as serious injuries as athletes in contact sports. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1952 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1952 Wed, 11 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1991 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1991 Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:00:00 GMT When it comes to love and sex, one size definitely doesn't fit all. That's the theme University of Washington sociologist Pepper Schwartz explores in her new book "Everything You Learned about Love and Sex Is Wrong." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1984 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1984 Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:00:00 GMT "Rats" the subliminal political commercial will never rival "Cats" for longevity, but it may prove to be one long bad memory for the national Republican Party, according to a University of Washington researcher who was among the first to show that subliminal visual messages can influence human thought processes and decision-making. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1980 Social Science Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1980 Tue, 12 Sep 2000 08:00:00 GMT Researchers studying the state of American marriages now can predict not only which couples will divorce but also when they will divorce. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1976 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1976 Mon, 11 Sep 2000 08:00:00 GMT The family environment that children grow up in can have long-lasting effects on whether they smoke, according to a new study by University of Washington researchers who used data collected over a 35-year time span. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2029 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2029 Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2017 Campus Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2017 Thu, 27 Jul 2000 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington 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 http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2015 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2015 Wed, 19 Jul 2000 08:00:00 GMT 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. The finding comes from a new paper by University of Washington researchers examining patterns of adolescents' first use of alcohol and marijuana, published in the American Journal of Public Health. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2012 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2012 Tue, 18 Jul 2000 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3514 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3514 Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:00:00 GMT James Whorton knows all the jokes. They become routine when you write a book about the history of constipation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27689 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27689 Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2002 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2002 Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington's Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) has received an unprecedented gift of $5 million to endow a new center for the treatment of autism, to encourage early intervention, and to expand training of professionals. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1996 Health and Medicine Laurie McHale () and Walter Neary (206-685-1323) and Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1996 Tue, 06 Jun 2000 08:00:00 GMT A novel treatment for dyslexia not only helps children to significantly improve their reading skills but also shows that the brain changes as dyslexics learn, according to a study by an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington scientists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1923 Not Classified Health and Medicine Walter Neary (206-685-1323) and Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1923 Wed, 24 May 2000 08:00:00 GMT When it comes to gender switching, the Internet appears to be a far tamer frontier and much more conventional than many critics have claimed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1921 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1921 Mon, 22 May 2000 08:00:00 GMT A pipe burst in a freezer system at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the University of Washington campus early this morning causing minor water damage http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1919 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1919 Thu, 18 May 2000 08:00:00 GMT Researchers trying to unravel the causes of alcoholism have discovered that mice voluntarily drink significantly more alcohol when a gene that encodes a key brain protein is missing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1915 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1915 Mon, 15 May 2000 08:00:00 GMT In homes with wife abuse, children ages 14 and older are more than three times as likely to be physically abused than are younger children ages 1 through 13, a study examining the risks of child abuse has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1880 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1880 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:00:00 GMT Fourteen documentary films from around the world will be shown free of charge at the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery April 13-16 as the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival returns to Seattle. The http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1865 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1865 Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT Psychologists trying to determine why marriages flourish or end in divorce have refined a tool that predicts with 87 percent accuracy which newlywed couples will remain married and which will divorce four to six years later. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1863 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1863 Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1856 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1856 Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT Probably not one in a thousand Puget Sound residents has ever heard of the Nuosu people of remote southwestern China. Stevan Harrell wants to change that. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1847 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1847 Tue, 29 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1837 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1837 Thu, 03 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT Meg Greenfield's lifelong passion for classical languages and literature did not end when the former Washington Post editorial page editor and Pulitzer Prize winner died last May. The journalist has left a bequest valued at about $2.9 million to the University of Washington's department of classics. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1823 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1823 Wed, 19 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers trying to understand the roots and continuity of aggressive behavior in children are looking for 100 families in the greater Seattle area to participate in a new study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1821 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1821 Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT The Old World fruit fly has exhibited one of fastest evolutionary changes ever recorded. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3292 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3292 Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT To help children and their parents deal with such situations, the newly created LEARN Clinic was established at the UW to provide comprehensive learning and behavioral assessments for children who are experiencing difficulties in school or whose parents are considering changing their school placement. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1809 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1809 Tue, 04 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are looking for between 200 and 300 Seattle-area residents to volunteer as subjects for a new study testing the effectiveness of state-of-the-art treatments for depression. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1773 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1773 Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:00:00 GMT Individuals with certain personality styles - those who are aggressive and those who have low dependency on other people - are at higher risk for recurrent bouts of major depression, according to a new University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1765 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1765 Fri, 12 Nov 1999 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are looking for 50 expectant couples in the Seattle metropolitan area to test a workshop designed to promote healthy marital and family relationships. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1732 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1732 Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:00:00 GMT Dyslexic children use nearly five times the brain area as normal children while performing a simple language task, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1720 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1720 Mon, 04 Oct 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1719 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1719 Fri, 01 Oct 1999 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers who have been putting marriages under the equivalent of a microscope say it is possible to predict which newlywed couples will divorce from the way partners interact in just the first three minutes of a discussion about an area of continuing disagreement. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1711 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1711 Mon, 27 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1707 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1707 Tue, 21 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT BOSTON - For children with learning disabilities success at reading and mathematics isn't always as easy as learning their ABCs or that two plus two equals four. That's because some youngsters have difficulty automatically retrieving such basic building blocks as letters, words, numbers and mathematical facts. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1671 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1671 Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:00:00 GMT The highest-achieving children who were exposed to the Head Start program before entering elementary school are thriving academically and socially at the end of the third grade, but data from a new national study creates worries that their future success may be tempered by their luke-warm attitude toward school. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1669 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1669 Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:00:00 GMT For millions of business travelers, flying is no picnic. It is a stressful ordeal that has become an integral part of their working lives, even as airlines report record passenger loads and stories of passengers blowing their fuses on flights proliferate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1668 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1668 Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:00:00 GMT Men are almost as likely as women to report unwanted sexual contact and coercion, according to a new study of college students conducted by researchers from the University of Washington's Addictive Behaviors Research Center. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1658 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1658 Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington will use a $2.3 million grant from the William H. Gates Foundation to develop a five-year program to train experts in women's health to improve the lives of women and children around the world. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1636 Law and Policy Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1636 Wed, 16 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT Fathers are critical in children's development of emotional control, according to University of Washington psychologist John Gottman, author of "Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1627 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1627 Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT A memorial service for Neil Jacobson, University of Washington psychology professor, will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday in the Ballroom at the Edmond Meany Hotel, 4507 Brooklyn Ave. NE in the University District. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1628 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1628 Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT A new study by University of Washington researchers, to be presented later this week at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting in Denver, indicates that men and women view sexual abuse cases differently and could be poles apart in rendering an actual verdict. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1626 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1626 Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT Unconscious prejudice towards blacks and the elderly can be significantly decreased by exposing people to images of admired members of those groups, according to a new series of experiments conducted by University of Washington psychologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1624 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1624 Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT Just being exposed to a story about a fictitious childhood experience can alter people's memories to the point that half of them believe the incident probably occurred even though they previously said it didn't, University of Washington researchers will report later this week at the American Psychological Society's annual meeting in Denver. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1625 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1625 Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT Secretin, a hormone that some parents claim possesses almost magical properties as a treatment for autism, will be scientifically tested in large-scale trials starting later this month in Seattle and Denver. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1600 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1600 Mon, 10 May 1999 08:00:00 GMT Researchers at the University of Washington are testing programs to improve the shaky state of many marriages and are looking for 300 Puget Sound couples who, if they are not exactly undergoing the worst of times, are experiencing problems in their relationships. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1591 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1591 Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:00:00 GMT Alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems were significantly slashed among a group of high-risk college-age drinkers using a brief, non-confrontational intervention treatment. The study, conducted by a team of UW researchers headed by psychology professor Alan Marlatt, was published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology and was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1580 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1580 Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:00:00 GMT Parents should be part of the fun, not the No. 1 problem in youth sports, say University of Washington sport psychologists Frank Smoll and Ronald Smith. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1564 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1564 Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT After more than two decades of taking American marriage into the laboratory and placing it under the scrutiny of everything but a microscope, one of the country's leading marital experts believes there is still reason for optimism and concrete steps that couples can take to avoid becoming just another statistic in divorce court. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1554 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1554 Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1553 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1553 Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT David Hodge, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington since July 1998, has been chosen by UW President Richard L. McCormick to be the dean of the college. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1546 Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1546 Tue, 02 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1538 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1538 Tue, 23 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1537 Health and Medicine Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1537 Thu, 18 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1536 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1536 Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT Astudy by University of Washington social demographers indicates all forms of violent death -- homicide, accidental death and suicide -- are linked to joblessness and its detrimental effects on the formation and stability of families. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1534 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1534 Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1525 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1525 Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT If you are like many Americans, somewhere in the next week you'll draw up a list of New Year's resolutions. You'll pledge to start on a diet, vow to exercise three times a week, promise to stop smoking or maybe try to cut back on your alcohol consumption. Then you'll spend hours wondering how you can keep your resolutions and why you made them in the first place. But those resolutions aren't necessarily doomed to fail. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2553 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2553 Wed, 23 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT One hundred legislators and other public officials from eight states across the country are closing out 1998 by learning first-hand more about one of the nation's most vexing problems, the welfare system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2546 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2546 Tue, 01 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT Science is still a long way from understanding why some people are more prone to alcoholism and alcohol abuse than others, but University of Washington researchers have discovered that concentrations of a neurotransmitter in the brains of mice are directly related to alcohol consumption and resistance to the sedative effects of alcohol. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2561 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2561 Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:00:00 GMT A unique opportunity to map and test the human brain has yielded new insights into two areas involved in producing and processing of language. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2557 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2557 Sun, 08 Nov 1998 08:00:00 GMT Registration is now open for a conference - Solving the Puzzle '98 - designed to find solutions to the problems posed by so many homeless and street youth in Seattle's University District. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2583 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2583 Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT The 9,300-year-old skeletal remains known as Kennewick Man will be transferred to the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture on the University of Washington campus in Seattle on Thursday, Oct. 29, from Battelle's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2577 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2577 Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT A team of American and British researchers studying 2-year-old twins has found that genetics, not the environment, plays the major role in the delayed acquisition of language among children who are having the most difficulty learning to speak. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2575 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2575 Thu, 22 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT People have taken more than 33,000 tests that measure unconscious components of prejudice and stereotyping in the first week since twin Web sites were opened to the public by psychologists from the University of Washington and Yale University. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2568 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2568 Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT The pervasiveness of prejudice, affecting 90 to 95 percent of people, was demonstrated today in a Seattle press conference at the University of Washington by psychologists who developed a new tool that measures the unconscious roots of prejudice. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2607 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2607 Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT A powerful new psychological tool that shows a shocking number of people -- as many as 90 to 95 percent -- display the unconscious roots of prejudice will be demonstrated at a 10 a.m. press conference Tuesday Oct. 2 at the University of Washington by its developer, UW psychology professor Anthony Greenwald. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2604 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2604 Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT American society needs to take a critical look at treatment programs for men who batter their wives or girlfriends and stringently test them to make sure that they actually work to end domestic violence, says one of the foremost researchers of abusive relationships. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2595 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2595 Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT A team of archaeologists from the National Park Service, the Museum of the Rockies and the University of Washington will show how they are trying the find the precise location of Lewis and Clark's winter camp and what they learned so far at a media briefing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2590 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2590 Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT The exact location of Fort Clatsop, Lewis and Clark's winter camp near the Oregon Coast, has eluded searching archaeologists for more than half a century. This month, anthropology professor Julie Stein heads a team of archaeologists from the University of Washington and its Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture who are joining the hunt for the fort. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2591 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2591 Thu, 10 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT Despite a raging but reluctant debate about exactly what kind of relationship the President had with a White House intern, many Americans wish the whole public discourse about sex would just quietly go away. That's not necessarily a good thing, says Pepper Schwarz, coauthor of a new book, "What I've Learned About Sex: Wisdom from Leading Sex Educators, Therapists and Researchers." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2588 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2588 Tue, 08 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT Competition makes faith grow stronger and encourages church innovation, according to a new study exploring the composition of all 171 Roman Catholic dioceses in the contiguous 48 states. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2675 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2675 Mon, 17 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT The renewed controversy over the value of student evaluations of college professors will be debated by six researchers from the United States, Canada and Australia at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3233 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3233 Sun, 16 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT It turns out that people's preference for salt may have been imprinted while they were still in their mother's womb, according to University of Washington psychologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2672 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2672 Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT The "Leonardo Lives" exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum last fall and winter generated $15.5 million in business activity in King County, supported 314 jobs and created $5 million in labor income, according to an economic impact study conducted by a University of Washington researcher. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2685 Arts and Humanities Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2685 Tue, 07 Jul 1998 08:00:00 GMT Boys, who just completed grades 3 through 6, are eligible to volunteer as subjects for a study investigating dyslexia. Those selected can describe what happened as their brains were imaged while they played sound and meaning games and listened to sound tones. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2686 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2686 Tue, 07 Jul 1998 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers on a scientific genealogical hunt are looking for 100 families in the Puget Sound area that have a history of dyslexia. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2684 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2684 Wed, 01 Jul 1998 08:00:00 GMT Researchers probing people's memories of sexual abuse report two ordinary mechanisms may be responsible for temporarily forgetting and later remembering genuine instances of childhood sexual abuse. Their findings suggest that it is possible to explain such forgetting without repression. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2720 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2720 Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT Neither isolation, a chance encounter with a giant Kodiak brown bear or dismal weather marked by long periods of non-stop rain or drizzle is expected to dampen the enthusiasm of 15 budding archaeologists who will spend their summer digging into North America's past. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2713 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2713 Mon, 15 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT New research indicates that young women who are compelled to exercise at excessive levels are at risk for developing eating disorders and general psychological unhappiness. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2706 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2706 Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT Researchers have succeeded in introducing a gene that produces a human photopigment into laboratory mice, creating transgenic rodents that have the widest known spectral range of vision of any mammal. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2724 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2724 Mon, 11 May 1998 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington psychologists have determined that certain people seem to possess a common trait that enables them to survive, or even flourish, in pressure-cooker situations. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2746 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2746 Tue, 07 Apr 1998 08:00:00 GMT She wasn't faster than a speeding bullet, but new research seems to indicate that Lucy and other early known human ancestors walked with greater ease and efficiency than previously believed, despite their short legs. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2781 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2781 Mon, 30 Mar 1998 08:00:00 GMT A faint image of mysterious ancient Egyptian nomads living in the Sahara Desert has emerged from thousands of stone artifacts painstakingly collected and reassembled by a University of Washington archaeologist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2776 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2776 Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:00:00 GMT Despite the pain and bruises inflicted by punching, kicking and worse mayhem, it is the scarring left by an emotionally abusive husband that is more likely to trigger a battered wife's decision to leave her spouse. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2796 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2796 Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:00:00 GMT There's new evidence that when it comes to mathematics, the sexes apparently do not begin school on an equal footing. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2783 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2783 Mon, 02 Feb 1998 08:00:00 GMT Compiled by two University of Washington sociologists, "The Love Test" is designed to help individuals and couples explore the dynamics of their relationships by using scientifically validated self-quizzes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2806 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2806 Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:00:00 GMT In the next week or so, about 100 million Americans will venture down a well-traveled path paved with bold and sometimes hastily conceived New Year's resolutions. All are not necessarily broken promises. According to a new University of Washington survey, 63 percent of the people questioned were still keeping their number one 1997 New Year's resolution after two months. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3002 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3002 Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:00:00 GMT Just as millions of American college students are about to rate the teaching abilities of their professors this month, a pair of University of Washington researchers say such evaluations are flawed and often misused. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2997 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2997 Thu, 04 Dec 1997 08:00:00 GMT Individual neurons, or brain cells, do not just relay information from one point to another, according to a group of researchers from across the United States who discussed new insights into the process of hearing at a symposium held last month at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting in New Orleans. Instead, they said, each neuron could be compared to a tiny computer that compiles information from many sources and makes a decision based on that information http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2987 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2987 Fri, 21 Nov 1997 08:00:00 GMT It isn't pretty on the streets of Seattle, or any big city, if you are a homeless adolescent. But recent research shows life on the street may be an improvement over what many children face at home. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2985 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2985 Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:00:00 GMT Seattle adults seeking a drug-free treatment as an alternative for dealing with depression are needed for a University of Washington study testing two new psychological treatments to deal with the disorder. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2971 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2971 Fri, 31 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT Some women who become glucose intolerant late in pregnancy may develop gestational diabetes and give birth to larger than normal babies with a tendency to become obese. Now a new study of genetically normal rats indicates that the effect of overfeeding extends for at least three generations and may explain health trends beginning to be seen in human populations in the American Southwest, Japan, Australia and some Pacific islands. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2968 Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2968 Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT A new study indicating that portions of bird brains enlarge in response to social, as well as other environmental, factors adds to the mounting evidence showing that the brains of higher animals change over time. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2969 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2969 Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT Maria Root, a psychologist and associate professor of American Ethnic Studies, is looking for 60 pairs of adult siblings in Washington state and the Portland, Ore., area to participate in a study that will explore how people of mixed ancestry develop their racial identity and how they viewed themselves when they were growing up. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2967 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2967 Fri, 17 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT Youth sports should be a rewarding, positive experience for children. But all too often these activities aren't and become a childhood nightmare filled with emotional abuse and negativity. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3215 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3215 Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT The Washington Council for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and a University of Washington sport psychologist are teaming up to hold a series of 10 workshops across Washington to train at least a thousand coaches and make participation in youth athletics a more positive experience for youngsters, parents and coaches. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3484 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3484 Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:00:00 GMT The earliest existing mound complex built by humans in the new world has been identified in Louisiana by a team of archaeologists and researchers from around the United States including Jim Feathers, a University of Washington research assistant professor of archaeology. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3483 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3483 Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:00:00 GMT The earliest existing mound complex built by humans in the new world has been identified in Louisiana by a team of archaeologists and researchers from around the United States including Jim Feathers, a University of Washington research assistant professor of archaeology. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3214 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3214 Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:00:00 GMT Reports of the death of American marriage, like the famous pronouncement of Mark Twain's early demise, may be premature. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3211 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3211 Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3480 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3480 Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington psychology professor and co-author of the 1996 edition of "Places Rated Almanac." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2930 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2930 Mon, 18 Aug 1997 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3479 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3479 Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:00:00 GMT 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 University of Washington study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3210 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3210 Tue, 12 Aug 1997 08:00:00 GMT 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. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2918 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2918 Thu, 31 Jul 1997 08:00:00 GMT In a major effort to discover the genetic causes of autism and develop intervention programs to assist children with the severe developmental disorder, an interdisciplinary team of University of Washington researchers has begun a nationwide effort to recruit at least 200 families with two or more autistic children for a new $5.6 million study. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2906 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2906 Tue, 10 Jun 1997 08:00:00 GMT Father's Day just may be the loneliest day of the year for that much-maligned group of males -- divorced dads http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2905 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2905 Mon, 02 Jun 1997 08:00:00 GMT When it comes to talking to their teenagers about sex, health and condoms, mum's the word for most American parents. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2887 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2887 Fri, 16 May 1997 08:00:00 GMT A scientist's curiosity about exactly what her infant children could see nearly three decades ago opened up a lifetime's work that has provided a new view of how human vision develops. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2881 Health and Medicine Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2881 Wed, 07 May 1997 08:00:00 GMT It all depends who you ask, how they map woods and analyze data, says geographer http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2852 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2852 Tue, 08 Apr 1997 08:00:00 GMT This is the third of a series of releases about Comet Hale-Bopp, which is now at its brightest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3474 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3474 Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:00:00 GMT The power of human imagination may be stronger than previously suspected, blurring the line between memory and imagination, a University of Washington psychologist reported today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2822 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2822 Fri, 14 Feb 1997 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2814 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2814 Mon, 27 Jan 1997 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers are looking for a few good New Year's resolutions. In fact, they want to know about the resolutions made by several thousand Puget Sound residents. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2808 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2808 Thu, 02 Jan 1997 08:00:00 GMT Certain wasps may be far from the simplistic automatons -- blindly doing the same tasks day after day throughout their lives -- that most people picture when they think of insects. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3068 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3068 Tue, 17 Dec 1996 08:00:00 GMT Geoff Loftus, a University of Washington psychology professor, is the person behind a revised rating system that ranks Orange County as the best place to live, according to the 1996 edition of the "Places Rated Almanac: Your Guide to Finding the Best Places to Live in North America," which is being released tomorrow (Wednesday). http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3066 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3066 Wed, 11 Dec 1996 08:00:00 GMT A group of University of Washington students and staff is coming to the aid of a former UW student living under the constant threat of death in the war-torn African nation of Rwanda. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3067 Social Science Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3067 Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:00:00 GMT While punk, disco and acid rock have given way to new country, rap and grunge over the last two decades, neuroscientists have been making beautiful science studying the melodies produced by some of nature's sweetest voices -- songbirds. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3056 Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3056 Wed, 20 Nov 1996 08:00:00 GMT A new approach to marital therapy that focuses on acceptance and tolerance appears to be significantly more effective than today's standard treatment where partners often strive to change each other. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3057 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3057 Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:00:00 GMT A small number of teenagers, the 15 percent who join gangs, account for 58 percent of juvenile crime, according to a University of Washington research team that will report its findings on the first study of Seattle youth gangs at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3058 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3058 Fri, 15 Nov 1996 08:00:00 GMT Twenty-six officials Washington state public officials and an equal number of recent immigrants and refugees will begin a month- long journey this week to learn more about each other's world and to promote greater understanding of the issues facing low-income newcomers to the United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3055 Community Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3055 Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:37:41 GMT Immigration is one of the hot button issues of the 1990s and that's nothing new, according to a University of Washington professor and author of a new book that is one of the first to focus on the experiences of women immigrants. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3040 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3040 Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:00:00 GMT Award-winning Alaskan naturalist-writer Richard Nelson will launch a 10-part lecture series exploring the complex relationship between cultural and biological diversity and the threats to both next Monday (Sept. 30) on the University of Washington campus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3034 Social Science Campus Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3034 Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:00:00 GMT Researchers from the University of Washington, writing in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, report that they have developed the first reproducible method demonstrating that subliminal messages do affect human cognition. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3031 Social Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3031 Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:00:00 GMT In the first study of lesbian and bisexual women living in small towns and their behavior and knowledge concerning HIV, researchers have found that a significant percentage of them may be at risk for contracting the virus. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3013 Social Science Health and Medicine Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3013 Tue, 06 Aug 1996 08:00:00 GMT American and Russian archaeologists have found the first fluted point -- a common artifact in North America that is associated with early inhabitants of the New World -- on the Russian or Old World side of the Bering Strait. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3007 Social Science Science Joel Schwarz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3007 Thu, 01 Aug 1996 08:00:00 GMT