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March 20, 2012

Web tool, phone app pinpoint tsunami dangers, quick getaway routes

A new online portal and smartphone app lets Washington and Oregon residents enter the addresses of their homes, schools, workplaces or kids’ day care centers to check if they’re in harm’s way should a tsunami hit. The tool, being publicized on the heels of the one-year anniversary of the Tohoku tsunami, was developed by researchers at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

March 19, 2012

Pediatricians' pain-medication judgments affected by unconscious racial bias, says Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ study

Pediatricians who showed an unconscious preference for European Americans tended to prescribe better pain-management for white patients than they did for African-American patients, new Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ research shows.

D.C. cherry trees: Blooms won’t wait in warming world, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ research finds

Cherry trees in full bloom in our nation’s capital could be as much as four weeks earlier by 2080 depending on how much warming occurs. So says an analysis conducted at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ that relied on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s own cherry trees as one test of a computer model used in the project.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTVs flagship television series, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ|360, to air on KOMO 4

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV and KOMO 4 today announced a new broadcast partnership to share stories about the people, places and discoveries from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ through the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV television series, “Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ|360.â€� Beginning on Saturday, March 24 at 4:30 p.m., KOMO 4 will air “Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ|360â€� right before their evening news broadcast.

News Digest: Nanomedicine’s potential, business-diversity honor, autism events, school-closure politics, ‘green’ nominations due

Lecture on nanomedicine, treating cancer || Honor: business-diversity efforts recognized || Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ plans Autism Awareness Month events for public || Papers uncover political, human sides of school closure || Husky Green Award nominations due March 26

March 9, 2012

Lost and Found Films: ‘Inaugural’ from 1958

Return with us to 1958 for the latest installment of Lost and Found Films, where readers help identify and describe old film clips from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries audio visual collections.This weeks film clip is titled “Inaugural,â€� and probably shows part of the inaugural dinner for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Charles Odegaard, which was indeed in November of 1958.

Arts Roundup: Actors go solo, a play in Spanish, vintage portraits — and Ladysmith Black Mambazo

South African a cappella group Ladysmith Black Mambazo is featured in this crowded week of Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ arts, but they’re in excellent company. The School of Music presents Bachs “Magnificat,â€� the Henry opens an exhibit on portrait photography and actors with the School of Dramas Professional Actor Training Program show their talents in solos performances. All that, plus a play in Spanish and art students decorating mailboxes.

March 6, 2012

One year later: Japan quake, tsunami a cautionary tale for Pacific Northwest

On the one-year anniversary of Japan’s great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ scientists said the devastating event has some important lessons for the Pacific Northwest – most notably, that a similar event will happen here, and this region is much less prepared than Japan.