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March 12, 2010    Technology    Education 
Media Advisory: UW students present phone apps for people with disabilities
On Monday from 10:30 to 12:30, undergraduate students will present accessibility tools they built for mobile phones running the Android platform.
March 11, 2010    Science    Law and Policy 
Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
A team of conservationists, led by a UW conservation biologist, writing in Science says relaxing a moratorium on ivory sales could lead to increased slaughter of elephants throughout Africa.
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March 11, 2010    Arts and Humanities    Law and Policy    Politics and Government 
UW research team finds one in 16 Seattle drivers yakkin' on the phone
Cell phone use peaked on Thursdays, Fridays and during afternoon rush hour, when the ratio was one in 13.
March 10, 2010    Science    Technology 
Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they become widespread in the industry.
March 10, 2010    Science    Environment 
The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
In a surprise with implications for air quality, researchers find that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to be restricted to sea spray, occurs at similar rates in air nearly 900 miles from any ocean.
March 9, 2010    Social Science 
Male batterers consistently overestimate rates of violence toward partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated by two or three times how common such behavior is and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days.
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Program successfully teaches domestic violence victims safe use of technology  |  March 3, 2009
Screening for domestic violence woefully weak in welfare offices  |  Feb. 4, 2008
Study finds connection between teenage violence and domestic violence  |  June 25, 2007
Violence in the home leads to higher rates of childhood bullying  |  Sept. 12, 2006
Emotion coaching can help children overcome impacts of family violence  |  Oct. 14, 2004
It's emotional abuse, not vicious beatings, that often spurs women to leave battering husbands  |  Feb. 26, 1998
March 8, 2010    Campus 
Judge upholds freeze of UW faculty salaries
King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira today upheld the University of Washington's decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation.
March 5, 2010    Health and Medicine 
Major depression more than doubles risk of dementia among adults with diabetes
Adults who have both diabetes and depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia -- a progressive decline of memory, reasoning, and other thinking skills -- than are people with diabetes alone.
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Severe complications of diabetes higher in depressed patients  |  Jan. 27, 2010
Bipolar disorders linked to risk of early death from natural causes   |  Feb. 2, 2009
Study links depression to higher death rate from all causes among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes  |  Sept. 30, 2008
Team care for older adults with diabetes and depression improves health and saves money  |  Feb. 2, 2006
Type 2 diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix  |  Oct. 26, 2005
March 4, 2010    Health and Medicine 
Researchers discover gene that affects susceptibility to tuberculosis and clues to how it works
The gene appears to orchestrate pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses. When these are in correct balance, the body can fight the TB pathogen without harming itself. An imbalance causes problems.
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Mechanism discovered by which body’s cells encourage tuberculosis infection  |  Dec. 10, 2009
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March 3, 2010    Health and Medicine 
Dr. Hunter Handsfield wins award for STD prevention
Dr. Hunter Handsfield has been honored for long and distinguished contributions to preventing many types of sexually transmitted diseases
March 3, 2010    Health and Medicine 
Trying to kick the marijuana habit? UW study wants you
Kicking the marijuana habit is a killer. That's why 70 Puget Sound smokers are needed to participate in a clinical research trial to test state-of-the-art counseling treatments.
March 2, 2010    Campus    Law and Policy 
Media advisory: U.S. chief information officer to speak at UW
Vivek Kundra is a member of the Obama administration.
March 1, 2010    Campus 
Federal stimulus funds for UW create 2,000 jobs directly and indirectly
The University of Washington has to date received $191.2 million from various federal agencies for research under the year-old American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This stimulus money, coming in the form of 420 individually awarded grants, is expected to result in the creation of 2,000 jobs, directly and indirectly.
Feb. 25, 2010
Media Advisory: UW hosts student entrepreneurs in global competition to address issues of poverty and global health
The 6th annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, March 2 to 4, has student teams from around the globe pitching business solutions to issues of poverty in the developing world. Prize money totaling $18,000 is on the line.
Feb. 22, 2010    Arts and Humanities 
Common Language Project practicing new, hybrid journalism
Project originators teach the journalism they practice: independent, multimedia, funded by a number of sources.
Feb. 22, 2010    Technology    Environment    Science 
Earthquake engineers release report on damage in Haiti
Earthquake engineers release report on damage in Haiti
A team of experts led by a UW civil engineer traveled to Haiti to evaluate the impact of the magnitude-7 earthquake. The report to the U.S. Geological Survey and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute finds no surface evidence of the fault, but widespread damage related to poor building practices.
Feb. 19, 2010    Environment    Social Science 
Local social dynamics key to success of tropical marine conservation areas
As biologists and ecologists propose ever-larger conservation areas in the tropics, ones that encompass multiple countries, social scientists say it's local people banding together with their community leaders who ultimately determine the success or failure of such efforts in many parts of the world.
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