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May 8, 2000

From virtual to real: Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ and Japanese students to meet face-to-face after cyberspace collaboration

You might call it real virtuality. That’s how some Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ freshmen are describing the chance to finally meet Japanese students from Tohoku University with whom they collaborated fall quarter via cyberspace on a series of engineering projects. The teamwork was part of a new class designed to introduce beginning college students to hands-on engineering in the international arena.

April 29, 2000

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ physicists find more precise gravity number — and weigh the Earth

It’s a smaller world after all – that is, if new measurements by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth’s mass came from work that could establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton’s gravitational constant.

Making life compute: Volunteers spend weekends helping minority students learn computing skills at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ

Since January, volunteers with Black Data Processing Associates, a national non-profit organization, have been meeting with local high school and middle school students, providing them with a forum in which to nurture computer skills.

April 14, 2000

Schoolchildren, teachers and parents to get hands-on engineering experience at Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ College of Engineering Open House

Thousands of schoolchildren, their teachers and parents are expected to gather at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ campus April 28 and 29 to learn about engineering by participating in hands-on demonstrations during the College of Engineering Open House

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Innocence Project Northwest spurs national effort to free the wrongly imprisoned

Spouses, friends and parents of prisoners enter the imposing Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Law School building asking where to find Innocence Project Northwest. Growing numbers of these seekers arrive each month as word spreads of the project launched two years ago by attorney Fred Leatherman and Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Law School senior lecturer Jacqueline McMurtrie.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ researchers still monitoring plants, forest stands and seismic activity 20 years after eruption

The following is a list of experts at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain.