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October 15, 2009

Inventor of the Year Awards honor work on cystic fibrosis drug

Drs.

UW Dental Alumni Association director gives son special gift

By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry

Randy Newquist took a little extra time off this summer, but he wasn’t slacking.

October 14, 2009

Tiny but adaptable wasp brains show ability to alter their architecture

For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.

AYPE Exhibit Tours.

The last of three public tours of the Libraries Special Collections exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus.

October 13, 2009

Sylvia Toran.

This solo piano recitalist’s career has taken her to Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.

October 12, 2009

Major improvements made in engineering heart repair patches from stem cells.

University of Washington researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.

October 9, 2009

UW breaks ground on nation’s largest molecular engineering building

University of Washington leaders today officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building.

Columbia University’s Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart will discuss historical trauma for indigenous peoples and the historical trauma response, and will present an intervention aimed at facilitating healing.

Reading the Constitution.

You may be surprised at the familiarity or newness of this amazing document as 100 readers bring it to life for the fourth annual reading.

October 8, 2009

UW Combined Fund Drive to hold Charity Fair Oct. 14

The UW Combined Fund Drive, the UW’s workplace giving campaign, will kick off its 25th anniversary with a Charity Fair from 11 a.

UW oceanographer is a lead scientist in largest airborne survey of polar ice

Flights over Antarctica, with University of Washington’s Seelye Martin as chief scientist, start Oct. 15 as part of Operation Ice Bridge.

Household robots do not protect users’ security and privacy, researchers say

Robots equipped with wireless and sensing capabilities are available for use in the home. But safety and privacy risks remain.

Legal education is at a crossroads, and UW law school can be a leader, new dean says

One of the newest faces on campus is also the face of a new era in legal education.

Dentistry staffer swims, bikes and runs her way through first Ironman event

Dana Robinson Slote is not your average triathlete.

Home Movie Day comes to Allen Auditorium Oct. 17

The UW Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day from 2 to 5 p.

Management changes at UWTV aimed to widen channel’s role

UWTV, the UW’s television station and production facility, is reshaping itself to occupy a more central role in portraying what happens at the UW to the rest of the world.

Communication professors featured in Town Hall lecture series

The UW Department of Communication is partnering with Town Hall in Seattle to present a four-part lecture series on journalism, digital media and civic engagement.

Sculpture park to host UW display on sea level and climate change

The UW is creating a display at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park that illustrates how projected changes in sea level due to climate change could affect Seattle’s waterfront, as well as other more vulnerable waterfront cities elsewhere in the world.

Emmert to address UW community Oct. 13

President Mark Emmert will deliver his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.

Study: Portfolio school districts are still works in progress

Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve,” is how Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at UW Bothell.

Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.

Newsmakers

POLLUTION PONZI: David Barash, UW professor of psychology, frequently contributes to The Chronicle Review, the magazine of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

A growing history: Preserving a century of Washington state agriculture literature

After a four-year process, the UW Libraries has completed a project to identify and preserve the most important Washington state agriculture, forestry and fishery literature published between 1820 and 1945.

Call-and-response theme behind the Henry’s new, yearlong exhibit ‘Vortexhibition Polyphonica’

Sara Krajewski, associate curator, is the first to give voice in the Henry Art Gallery’s new show, Vortexhibition Polyphonica, but other curatorial voices — including your own, if you like — will follow, prompting the exhibit to transform.

‘Jewish radar’ ineffective these days, UW prof says in new book

Martin Jaffee’s “Jewish radar” is failing him, and he believes it’s a sign of the times, at least on America’s West Coast.

Online and in depth: The Henry offers new Digital Interactive Galleries

The Henry Art Gallery’s new Digital Interactive Galleries will give the public an unprecedented level of detail and context about some of the museum’s key subcollections.

Mystery Photo

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Landscape architecture professors write book on community gardens

Many cities across North America have community gardens, but only Seattle and a few others include them in urban planning — and it’s helped them thrive.

Department of Energy grant will assist UW move to hybrid, electric vehicles

The UW has received a $283,400 grant from the U.

The Center for Global Field Study: Training environmental stewards worldwide

When Lauren Jorelle was a UW student, she went to Indonesia as part of a field study program sponsored by the Washington National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychology.

No longer lost in the weeds: History of farmworkers comes to life on Web

Cesar Chavez and California’s San Joaquin Valley are what come to most people’s minds when farmworkers’ struggles for decent wages and working conditions are mentioned.

UW’s newly named ‘Lamborghini Lab’ brings composite parts to sports car arena

A partnership between the UW and the Italian sports car company Automobili Lamborghini has been formalized, and the presidents of both organizations attended the naming ceremony of the UW’s Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory this week.