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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will perform in Meany Hall May 16-18.

Arts Roundup: Dance, poetry, art, music — and slapstick ballet

Posted: May 16, 2013

Dance and drama talents lead a busy week in UW arts with the annual MFA Dance Concert, the 50th annual Theodore Roethke Poetry Reading and more. Read more »

The cover of the French pamphlet "Qu’est-ce que le Tiers-État?'

Documents that Changed the World: ‘What is the Third Estate?’ 1789

Posted: May 15, 2013

Joe Janes of the UW Information School reached back two centuries to pre-revolutionary France for the latest installment of his podcast series, "Documents that Changed the World." Read more »

A research ship off the Rothera station on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula

Posted: May 15, 2013

New UW research shows that, in recent decades, fall is the only time of extensive warming over the entire Antarctic Peninsula, and it is mostly from atmospheric circulation patterns originating in the tropics. Read more »

Student researcher discusses her work at 2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium

Symposium features undergraduate research

Posted: May 14, 2013

More than 1,000 undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the 16th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 17 in Mary Gates Hall. Some presentations will also occur in Johnson Hall and Meany Studio Theater. In conjunction with the symposium, another 50 undergraduates from UW and... Read more »

Illustration of the Bull-leaping Fresco from the Great Palace at Knossos, Crete

DNA analysis unearths origins of Minoans, the first major European civilization

Posted: May 14, 2013

The maternal genetic information passed down through many generations of mitochondria is still present in modern-day residents of the Lassithi plateau of Crete. Read more »

Two tissue samples showing differences in collagen build-up.

Engineered biomaterial could improve success of medical implants

Posted: May 14, 2013

University of Washington engineers have created a synthetic substance that fully resists the body's natural attack response to foreign objects. Medical devices such as artificial heart valves, prostheses and breast implants could be coated with this polymer to prevent the body from rejecting an implanted object. Read more »