Keith Elkon, UW professor of medicine and head of the division of rheumatology, recently received a 2009 Kirkland Scholar Award from the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research.
Year: 2009
Sleep quality and aging is the focus of the Spring Healthy Aging Lecture, sponsored by the UW School of Nursing’s de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging.
When Arno Motulsky was first recruited to the UW in 1953 as a hematology instructor, his research in genetic blood diseases attracted him to the emerging broader field of medical genetics.
Rodney Ho, associate dean for research and new initiatives and the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics at the UW School of Pharmacy, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Paul R.
Controversial journalist Alison Weir is executive director of “If Americans Knew,” a think tank focusing on Israel and Palestine and specializing in media analyses.
UW music students perform on piano in this installment of the Brechemin Piano Series.
The first day of a three-day conference April 9-11 sponsored by the World Peace Buddhist Club called “Transforming the Human Spirit, From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace.
From the outside, Clark Hall, the longtime home of the UW’s Army, Navy and Air Force Reserves Officer Training Corps (ROTC), looks about the same.
Journalist Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, opens the new lecture series “Coffee: From the Grounds Up” offering a sweeping overview of coffee’s impact on the world since its discovery on Ethiopian mountainsides.
Joyce Guyer soprano and UW assistant professor of music, will perform a faculty recital accompanied by Craig Sheppard.
Modern moms and dads snap thousands of photos, recording every drooling smile and flailing attempt to crawl.
Janine Anderson, longtime arboretum guide and landscape designer, leads a tour of the UW Botanic Gardens’ ever-evolving collection of conifers, ranging from the familiar to the obscure.
The UW Career Center presents two timely workshops to help you brush up on resumes, cover letters and job search skills.
The Washington Park Arboretum is turning 75 and a year of activities is being planned starting Tuesday, April 7, with a lecture and slide show by Dan Hinkley about his trip to China and Vietnam to collect plants for the arboretum’s newest garden, the Pacific Connections Garden.
The UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series continues in April with authors Danny Snelson and Paul Collins.
“You’ve come a long way, baby.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Faculty artist Joyce Guyer, accompanied by faculty pianist Craig Sheppard, will present works by Felix Mendelssohn (whose 200th birthday is being celebrated), Gustave Ferrari, Alan Smith, and Timothy Hoekman in Songs of Love and Loss, a concert scheduled for 7:30 p.
James Carville, a leading political consultant and author who helped guide Bill Clinton to presidential victory in 1992, will speak about American politics at UW Tacoma on Monday, April 20.
Researchers trying to uncover the mechanisms that cause attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder have found an abnormality in the brains of adolescent boys suffering from the conditions, but not where they expected to find it.
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CORRECTION: When this release was originally posted, conversion from square kilmeters of ice to square miles had been done incorrectly.
Keeping the UW campus and community safe and informed of dangers has never been more important — so the UW’s Violence Prevention and Response Program is offering more information sessions across campus in spring quarter.
Say goodbye to Italian-Americans and German-Americans and say hello to Vietnamese-Americans, Salvadoran-Americans and a bunch of other hyphenated Americans.
With moves borrowed from African, Portuguese, modern, ballet and ballroom dance traditions and even martial arts, it’s no wonder the Seattle Times called Grupo Corpo “sensual, subversive, sunny, and surprising” the last time they stopped by the UW.
This story is, literally, stone age meets digital age: UW researchers are combining the ancient art of ceramics and the new technology of 3-D printing.
Biren (Ratnesh) Nagda, associate professor in the School of Social Work and director of the Intergroup Dialogue, Education and Action Center, will deliver the 2009 Samuel E.
The Canadian Studies Center is gathering material for a Web page dedicated to its founder, W.
Has the down economy got you thinking of improving the value of your home? The 10th annual UW Home Improvement Fair will host vendors and exhibitors who can help with this and much more.
A discovery by a UW student task force about the treatment of workers being laid off from a Guatemalan apparel factory in February 2008 has finally led to legally due severance payments for most of those workers.
K-12 school teachers know a lot about teaching.
A little piece of University District history will be on display at UW Tower beginning April 4, thanks in part to the efforts of University students, faculty and staff.
Today’s slumping economy and housing market may reduce, temporarily, the insistent economic forces on Washington’s private forestland owners to give up the cycle of harvesting and replanting trees in favor of converting the land to other uses, such as lots for houses.
STAR ADVISERS: Two members of the UW community have won the National Academic Advising Association’s Pacific Northwest Region 8 Academic Advising Awards.
Abbie Conant, preeminent trombone virtuoso and specialist in contemporary music, along with her husband and musical partner, composer William Osborne, create new possibilities for the beloved tubus tractilus with their presentation of Cybeline for trombone performance artist, video and quadraphonic surround sound; and Music for the End of Time, a work for trombone, video and surround-sound.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
Something strange is going on in the amygdala — an almond-shaped structure deep in the human brain — among people with autism.
American Indian Studies (AIS) in the College of Arts & Sciences has been elevated to departmental status.
Paul Rucker has been named executive director of the UW Alumni Association and associate vice president of alumni relations, effective June 1.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.