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October 15, 2009
Year: 2009
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Randy Newquist took a little extra time off this summer, but he wasn’t slacking.
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.
The last of three public tours of the Libraries Special Collections exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus.
UW President Mark A.
This solo piano recitalist’s career has taken her to Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
University of Washington researchers have succeeded in engineering human tissue patches free of some problems that have stymied stem-cell repair for damaged hearts.
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.
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.
The UW Combined Fund Drive, the UW’s workplace giving campaign, will kick off its 25th anniversary with a Charity Fair from 11 a.
Flights over Antarctica, with University of Washington’s Seelye Martin as chief scientist, start Oct. 15 as part of Operation Ice Bridge.
Robots equipped with wireless and sensing capabilities are available for use in the home. But safety and privacy risks remain.
One of the newest faces on campus is also the face of a new era in legal education.
Dana Robinson Slote is not your average triathlete.
The UW Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day from 2 to 5 p.
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.
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.
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.
President Mark Emmert will deliver his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
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.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.
POLLUTION PONZI: David Barash, UW professor of psychology, frequently contributes to The Chronicle Review, the magazine of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
The UW has received a $283,400 grant from the U.
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.
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.
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.
SCIENCE INTO ART: UW oceanographer Neil Banas will have the rare experience of having his scientific data turned into art this weekend.
Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, will deliver a free public lecture on The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation at 6:30 p.
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the UW at a formal academic convocation at 3:30 p.
About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far.
The last full week of September brought the UW the largest number of economic stimulus awards in a single week: 40 of them, adding up to almost $14 million.
The Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet, the resident woodwind quintet of the United States Air Force Band, will give a free recital of chamber music at 7:30 p.