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Forests giving way to commercial development and housing is creating more impervious surfaces — such as streets, roofs and parking lots — and generating more storm runoff that is eroding streams and carrying a chemical brew into Puget Sound.
Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town hall meeting at 3:30 p.
The UW professor of piano in concert, playing Schubert’s last three sonatas.
Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University of Chicago, explores the relationship between the U.
Public Hearing on Proposed U-PASS and parking rate changes for FY 2011.
Now in its third year.
A Cinco de Mayo Celebration.
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences present this event discussing current advances in mental health.
Husky Baseball at Safeco Field sees its fourth year.
Written, directed and illustrated by Shannon Hart-Reed, this film depicts the deportation and exile of almost two million innocent women and children to the harsh, frigid Soviet Siberian Gulag during WWII.
Written, directed and illustrated by Shannon Hart-Reed, this film depicts the deportation and exile of almost two million innocent women and children to the harsh, frigid Soviet Siberian Gulag during WWII.
This accomplished, Juilliard-trained pianist was first seen at Meany Hall performing with the Ritz Chamber Players in 2008.
Patricia Kuhl, a researcher recognized internationally for her work on early language and brain development and studies on how children learn, and Lynn Riddiford, who studies the hormones that regulate insect molting and metamorphosis, have been named members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
A national study shows that ranibizumab injections plus laser therapy results in dramatic improvement in vision.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Why do workers get paid what they do? Over the past few decades, U.
For the first time in 71 years, the Huskies will be playing a non-weekend contest in Husky Stadium to accommodate a nationwide telecast on ESPN.
A group of more than 40 Japanese delegates, including a survivor of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, will be featured in a forum on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons at 12:30 p.
Seventeen-time Grammy award-winning guitarist Pat Metheny will make a special appearance at the UW School of Music on Friday, April 30, when he leads a clinic with UW jazz students.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Buddy Ratner, UW professor in the departments of bioengineering and chemical Engineering, has been selected to give the 2010 University Faculty Lecture.
On April 27 President Mark Emmert wrote to the campus community and dropped a bombshell:
“It is with very mixed emotions that I am writing to let you know that today I have accepted the presidency of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The social work discipline has been around for a century.
UW faculty pianist Craig Sheppard will perform Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas in his annual faculty recital, at 7:30 p.
Jim Reinnoldt, a lecturer in business administration at UW Bothell, will discuss how to be successful in job or graduate school interviews.
The School of Music’s Wind Ensemble and symphonic, concert and campus bands team for an evening of music.
A faculty member at the University of Oregon, Dossin will present a lecture-recital on the life and music of Heitor Villa-Lobos.
One of Spain’s national treasures, this dance troupe dazzled Seattle audiences when they appeared at Meany Hall in February of 2008.
Carlos Saura made this film in 1990 and said, “This is the film I always wanted to make.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
You may not have noticed them, but the campus is home to a small group of great blue herons who have built nests in trees south of Drumheller Fountain for the past three years.
The books are Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor and Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy and Economic Inequality in Twenty-one Countries.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Two UW graduate students in the School of Art raised $2,000 for charity last November with their Hello Poster Show at the Parnassus Cafe, an exhibit of posters each bearing that friendly greeting.
Spring has brought good news to the UW’s Disability Studies Program: It has a new administrative home in the College of Arts & Sciences and received a major donation, too.
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media will present an evening of new electronic and computer music, featuring Swedish guitar virtuoso Stefan Ostersjo, at 7:30 p.