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Legislature adjourned after budget work completed

Last week, the Washington State Legislature passed the 2017-19 supplemental operating and capital budgets to Governor Inslee, marking the end of the 60-day legislative session. Read more about the completed budgets from the .

State Relations will be joining with the Office of Planning & Budgeting to host a post-session update on Tuesday, March 27 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm in Gerberding 142.

College of the Environment geology field camp

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At the College of the Environment’s geology field camp, students hit the dirt for experiences you can’t find in a textbook. Over six weeks, students mapped, surveyed and explored an area informally known as the Rat’s Nest, near Montana’s Block Mountain, as part of the Department of Earth and Space Science’s geology field camp. Learn more .

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ launches new program focused on pediatric oral health training

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Health Sciences team led by the School of Dentistry is launching an interprofessional training program to improve access to dental care for children ranging in age from the first year of life through 5 years. Early Childhood Oral Health Training, or EchoTrain, will provide pediatric dental training directly to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ dental students, Shoreline Community College dental hygiene students, and students and trainees of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ School of Medicine. Collaborative learning is also planned with faculty, students and trainees from not only Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medicine but the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s Schools of Ìý²¹²Ô»åÌý. Read more from the .

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s large research vessel, R/V Thomas G. Thompson, gets back to work

After an extensive transformation from stem to stern on five decks of the ship, the  is ready to get back to work exploring the world’s oceans. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµâ€™s School of Oceanography, part of the College of the Environment, operates the 274-foot ship, which arrived on campus in 1991. In summer 2016, with funding from the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ, the vessel headed to a Seattle shipyard for an 18-month midlife refit that will extend its life for another quarter century. Read more from