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Around 1% of ballots in most elections are rejected in most Washington state elections. A study released Monday by the University of Washington found evidence that Hispanic and Asian voters had higher rates of ballot rejection than white voters.
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A recently published University of Washington study found prescription opioid companies competing with Purdue, the maker of OxyContin, increased marketing efforts after a 2007 Kentucky lawsuit.
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University of Washington has announced it's hiring Tulane athletic director Troy Dannen to fill its vacant AD position. He will replace Jen Cohen, who left Washington for Southern California in August.
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The National Science Foundation is awarding $15 million dollars over five years for a new Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. It will focus on the potentially disastrous subduction zone off the West Coast.
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Jennifer Cohen has been hired as Southern California’s athletic director after seven years in the same post at the University of Washington. Cohen had been at UW for 24 years.
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University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.
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Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.
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Who wins and who loses with the University of Washington leaving the Pac-12 Conference for the Big Ten?
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Oregon and Washington are moving from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten in August 2024 The Big Ten earlier in the day cleared the way for the Pacific Northwest rivals to join the league.
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The Pac-12 Conference issued a statement aimed at stability after Colorado became the third school in a year to announce plans to leave. The nine schools remaining for the 2024-25 season were largely silent Friday.