http://www.uwnews.org/ uwnews.org is the source for news and information about the University of Washington, Seattle. RSSMaster 1.0 (http://www.softtool.info/rssmaster) en-US 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56284 3/10/2010 12:12:48 PM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56206 3/10/2010 10:00:00 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56276 3/9/2010 9:58:36 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56251 3/8/2010 9:41:14 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56228 3/5/2010 11:27:12 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56180 3/4/2010 8:29:44 AM Dr. Hunter Handsfield has been honored for long and distinguished contributions to preventing many types of sexually transmitted diseases http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56166 3/3/2010 3:40:41 PM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56109 3/3/2010 10:33:35 AM Vivek Kundra is a member of the Obama administration. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56098 3/2/2010 3:13:34 PM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56073 3/1/2010 2:46:14 PM http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56054 2/27/2010 9:22:35 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=56021 2/25/2010 3:29:54 PM Project originators teach the journalism they practice: independent, multimedia, funded by a number of sources. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=55907 2/22/2010 3:43:52 PM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=55878 2/22/2010 11:04:33 AM 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. http://uwnews.washington.edu/ni/article.asp?articleID=55858 2/19/2010 11:24:14 AM