University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. UW is the largest university in the northwestern United States and one of the oldest public universities on the west coast. The university has three campuses, with its flagship campus in Seattle's University District and much smaller branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Its operating budget for fiscal year 2005 was $3.1 billion. The university is also considered a Public Ivy.
Source: Arkansas Online
LOS ANGELES Scientists dissecting the remains of the disastrous 1980 explosion of Mount St. Helens in Washington state say that crystal formations trapped in volcanic rocks hold important clues about when a magma-loaded mountain is a ...
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Bill Virgin is editor and publisher of Washington Manufacturing Alert and Pacific Northwest Rail News. He can be reached at bill.virgin@yahoo.com. Americans didn’t invent the automobile. The U.S. is no longer the world’s largest market for auto sales ...
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He might find another doubles partner at Olympia High School. Or he might play singles, possibly to give Federal Way’s newly crowned Class 4A champion, Mitch Stewart, a run for his money. Whatever Stormans does, he’ll be hard-pressed ...
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Zachary Met, 3, of Seattle, left, goes for a taste of his brother Collin's popsicle at the beach at Golden Gardens Saturday May 26, 2012. Collin, 4, and Zachary are 14 months apart, and were catching some shade under the umbrella while t ...
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Washington, May 27 (PTI) Scientists claim to have finally cracked a 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower -- "it''s in their genes". A team at the University of Washington says that determining the pro ...
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Most students pursuing a doctorate want to become college professors, but their programs typically train them only to do research — not how to teach. It’s one of those peculiarities of the academic world. High school teachers need a teac ...
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One athletic elevator was on the ground floor. The other was near the top. When would they meet on the same level? "No question it was when he was 15 and I was 45," Pete Tierney said. In 1983, Tierney ran his first Bolder Bo ...
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BROUGHTON ARCHIPELAGO, B.C. — She's perched in her boat near a fish farm, talking about diseases, the kind that might escape and kill wild salmon. Then she spies a worker peeling toward her in a boat. Alex ...
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EVERETT -- Nick and Alex Johnson are identical twins. Alex colors his hair, so it's a bit more strawberry than Nick's dishwater blonde. When they were little, Alex dressed in red and Nick in blue. Nick is the lo ...
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