Biology Professor Sam Wasser will present a lecture titled Using DNA Forensics to Combat the Burgeoning Illegal Ivory Trade from 6:30 to 8 p.
Year: 2009
Earth Day is becoming Earth Week at the UW this year, with a host of events and activities at the UW Tacoma and on the Seattle campus.
Public Meeting to Discuss the Transitioning of the College of Forest Resources into the College of the Environment
As part of the process for reviewing the reorganization, elimination, or consolidation of academic programs (RCEP, Ch.
A lecture by Chloe Ragazzoli, University of Sorbonne, Paris, presented by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.
The UW Institute for Translational Health Sciences is hosting a symposium on drug and device development early next month.
Patient- and family-centered care is more than a buzz word at UW Medical Center.
What are the role of international nonprofits in Sudan, the ethics of short-term experiences abroad and the benefit of public interventions in global health? These were some of the hard questions being asked to leaders in global health at the Transcending Global Health Barriers: Education & Action conference held at the UW April 3-5.
On a blustery morning in early April, Dr.
A biochemical pathway that helps keep cells alive when oxygen is low also plays a role in longevity and resistance against some diseases of old age, according to a report to be published April 16 in the journal Science.
The University of Washington and Oregon Health & Science University, together with a number of partner institutions across the northwest, have received federal funding to form a regional research center aimed at combating emerging or reemerging infectious diseases that pose a serious threat to human health.
The annual UW Seattle Spring Career Fair, the largest general career fair on campus, brings more than 100 employers to campus who are looking to hire for internship and full-time entry-level opportunities.
Private companies, universities and government agencies are joining forces to bring scientific research into the era of “cloud computing,” the name for massive clusters of computers connected through the Internet.
If Mark Twain were alive today he might rephrase his frequently cited observation about everyone talking about the weather but not doing anything about it to say, “Everyone reads or watches weather forecasts, but many people don’t understand them.
This coffee grower, social activist, founder of Sweet Unity Farms and co-founder of the Mshikamano Farmers Group in Tanzania, will share his commitment to challenging the contradiction of rural poverty within the multi-billion dollar coffee industry by developing a direct trade model wherein economic growth and human development move forward together.
The opening reception for Ceramics + Photography, the capstone exhibition for graduating BFA students.
Alice O’Connor, professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and teaches and writes on poverty, wealth, social and urban policy and inequality.
First Nations at the UW presents its 38th annual Pow Wow, Friday through Sunday, April 10, 11 and 12.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Recently, someone asked Beverly Naidus why she gave up the glamour of the New York art world to teach socially engaged art to college students — on a university campus that doesn’t even have an art degree.
In 1982 Dee Boersma began making friends with the Magellanic penguins who hang out at Punta Tombo on Argentina’s southern Atlantic Coast, and data from that first research season was compiled in her UW lab the following spring.
Temperature inversions sometimes cause mountain tops to be 10 to 20 degrees C warmer than nearby valleys, making such inversions one of many important variables affecting mountain snow in the Pacific Northwest.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
PENGUINS PROVE IT: Penguins are showing us that climate change has already occurred, UW Biology Professor Dee Boersma told The New York Times in a recent interview.
In order to continue the U-PASS program in the face of unprecedented transit cost increases, Commuter Services is proposing parking and U-PASS rate changes.
What do you get when you combine engineers, entrepreneurs and environmental experts? A host of innovative, clean-tech solutions to real-world environmental problems and the business plans to back them up.
For every student you see manning the front desk at Odegaard or shelving books at Suzzallo, there are dozens more working behind the scenes to ensure UW Libraries run smoothly.
ATHENA ACHIEVER: Susan Eggers, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has won the Athena Lecturer Award, given to women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.
The Arboretum Foundation’s annual Early Bloomers Plant Sale returns from 10 a.
A combination of raw talent and skilled coaching has landed UW mathematics undergraduates an unprecedented finish in the 2008 Putnam competition, whose results were recently announced.
Who are the next generation of great artists? What traditions and inspirations are they drawing upon to create the next great work? One answer can be found at The Jacob Lawrence Gallery as it presents the UW School of Art spring BFA shows.
Boris Berman, professor of piano at Yale University, will perform works by Chopin and Debussy in a concert at 7:30 p.
What do a rat wearing underpants, some marine biologists and a defecating penguin have in common? (Please see Fig.
The planet Mars has a moon named Deimos, so it seems only appropriate that the ocean observatory MARS in Monterey Bay have its own DEIMOS.
A new classroom in the Health Sciences Center is linking dental students and instructors on UW’s Seattle campus to students in Spokane, thanks to some technology designed and installed by staff at UWTV.
Susan Gulkis Assadi, principal violist with the Seattle Symphony, will lead a master class with students of faculty violist Melia Watras at 1:30 p.
A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated.
Two presentations sponsored by student advisory boards of so-called “learning links” are happening in the next month.
Each year, the UW Department of Genome Sciences holds its Annual Symposium, involving a series of talks by world-renowned researchers on contemporary topics in genetics, genomics computation, and related tools and technologies.
Due to the UWMC expansion project, there will be changes to the existing shuttles serving South Campus.