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UW Medicine administers its first COVID-19 vaccines
“Momentous” was the word of the day, said UW Medicine’s infection control director Dr. John Lynch on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as he welcomed the first group of frontline healthcare workers about to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.
UW announces Maggie Walker Deanship in the College of the Environment
The University of Washington today announced a major gift that elevates the importance of climate change and secures the legacy of Seattle philanthropist Maggie Walker by creating a namesake deanship for the College of the Environment.
What’s killing coho salmon?
Every fall more than half of the coho salmon that return to Puget Sound’s urban streams die before they can spawn. In some streams, all of them die, but scientists didn’t know why. A team led by researchers at the University of Washington Tacoma, UW and Washington State University Puyallup have been studying the issue.
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