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Two Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty members — David Baker and Barbara Reskin — have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Here’s a little-known fact: When a big research university and a small community college become friends and start working together, the results can benefit both institutions, not just the smaller one.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Law Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic has received a $97,250 grant from the Internal Revenue Service.

From comet dust to a classic rock musical, open houses in sciences, arts and medicine, guided tours and student reunions — the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s three campuses will bloom with events for all ages during Washington Weekend, today through Saturday.

Humans, like all life, both alter their environment and are altered by it.

Rusty Barceló leaves her friends and colleagues at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ with these words of advice: Never fear change.

What was the longest-running television show with an African-American cast? Why was the popular early situation comedy Amos ‘n’ Andy cancelled after just two years? What made a 1968 Petula Clark television special a memorable event in the televised history of race relations?

These are a few of the historical nuggets to be found in the Historical Dictionary of African-American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, recently published by Scarecrow Press.

Provost Phyllis Wise tackled a wide range of subjects last week when she held a town hall meeting open to the whole University community.

It is a marvel of nature that a creature such as a caterpillar changes into something quite different, a butterfly.

Room and board at Harvard costs $9,578.

Open houses, demonstrations, tours and art walks, lectures, performancs, sporting events and more await visitors to campus for the second annual Washington Weekend, Thursday, April 27, through Saturday, April 29.

Nominations sought

Nominations are open for the Scribner Courage in Health Care Award, named after the pioneering Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty member Dr.

Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year.

The American Lung Association will hold its “Asthma Walk 2006” on Sunday, April 30 at Husky Stadium.

Hille Memorial Lecture

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There are two kinds of celebrity patients: those who are well-known before they become sick and those who become celebrities because of their illness or how it is treated.

On April 18, Dr.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ will receive nearly $400,000 to educate health-care providers about the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing influence on how drugs are prescribed.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY

Funding available

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Specialized Center of Research in Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ SCOR; supported by NICHD and ORWH) announces the availability of funds for one year pilot research grants ($10,000 per award) on the pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy.

Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town meeting from 4 to 5 p.

More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 31st Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.

English soprano Jane Eaglen will conduct a master class with four School of Music voice students at 3:30 p.

Online e-mailing and working wifi connections can be very convenient, but is the electrononic point-and-click world all it’s cracked up to be?

The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Information School and the The Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security are teaming up to sponsor a discussion about technology and privacy titled Privacy: Reconciling Reality from 6 to 9 p.

Well known author (Loving What Is) Byron Katie will be coming to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ on Thursday, May 11 for two events — one for students in the Psychology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Departments and one for the general public.

Syria is the focus of a forum and a concert next week on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus.

“Remembering Japanese American Redress: A Symposium on History, Incarceration, and Justice” will be presented from 9 a.

WHERE ARE WE? The photo at right (top) was taken somewhere on campus.