The UW Women’s Center has already been through one move this year, as Cunningham Hall was relocated from its old home across from Architecture Hall to its new one near Parrington Hall.
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Reviewed 9/22
TWEETING POLS: Twitter is becoming popular among the nation’s governors, according to a winter story in USA Today that quoted Kathy Gill, UW senior lecturer in communication.
The Provost’s Advisory Search Committee for Dean of the School of Public Health, chaired by Dean Marla Salmon, has recommended five finalists for the position.
Samuel Lieu, professor of ancient history at McQuairie University in Australia, and Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge University, will be speaking next week on campus.
University Week will run a story about Earth Day activities at the UW’s three campuses on Thursday, April 15.
An panel of experts presents findings from the field and discusses similarities and differences between the Haitain and Chilean earthquakes and what we can expect from future earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.
The author of The Man Who Ate His Boots shares the enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
Marsha Saxton of the UC Berkeley Disability Studies Program will speak about the complex issues of genetic screening from the vantage point of disability rights, and show and discuss her film about physicians’ interactions with adults with physical disabilities.
UW voice students present opera scenes directed by faculty artist Thomas Harper.
School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis will present a lecture-recital on Beethoven’s piano sonata cycles at 3 p.
UW Music Professor Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony in Mass for our Time, a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times.
MASTER MEDIATORS: UW School of Law students Charlotte Williams and Joel Emans won the regional American Bar Association Mediation Competition held at the University of Oregon School of Law last weekend.
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.
Can extinction be good? You can explore the answer to this question and more with Burke Museum paleontology curators in a series of Tuesday talks inspired by the Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway exhibit.
On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.
Nominations are being sought for a new UW honor, the Husky Green Award.
On March 8, King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira upheld the UW’s decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at UW Tacoma.
If you like pie — and really, who doesn’t like pie? — you might want to stop in the 8 at McMahon campus restaurant on Tuesday, March 16.
The UW’s Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers fifth- through 10th grade students a unique combination of vigorous academic work and summer fun in two summer programs.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
One by one in a ceremony the afternoon of Monday, March 8, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the UW Libraries.
This is the last issue of University Week for winter quarter.
Concerned about safety? Wondering how the campus police do their job? You might be a good candidate for the UW Police Citizens Academy.
Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales, Tom Collier, Cuong Vu, and Phil Sparks pay homage to the icons of jazz with new arrangements of the classics and break new ground with original, progressive jazz compositions.
The ensemble is about to return to Japan for its third tour of that country, and presents its Japan Tour Preview Concert, featuring the world premiere of Precious Metal: A Concerto for Flute and Winds, by D.
School of Music alumna Regina Yeh and Hillary Herndon, past principal violist of the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, present solo and duo works for viola and piano.
See real dinosaur and dinosaur-era fossils from the Burke’s collection and participate in dinosaur-themed activities throughout the Burke Museum’s 25th annual Dino Day.
Student composers in the School of Music present original works.
The UW Dance Program’s annual showcase of new work by undergraduate students.
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Students in the UW Spanish Play Production class will present El Gesticulador (The Impostor) March 13 and 14 at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre.
Nominations are being sought for the annual University Faculty Lecture Award, which honors current or emeriti faculty whose research, scholarship or art has been widely recognized by their peers and whose achievements have had a substantial impact on their profession, on the research or performance of others and perhaps on society as a whole.
Post-doctoral fellows who might be wondering what’s next after the post-doc and how to get there can find out at the annual UW Post-doc Association career panel and networking reception, which will be from 5 to 8 p.
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Girls and science, middle-schoolers and robotics, grade-schoolers plumbing the secrets of ancient civilizations — there will be a lot going on in this year’s UW Summer Youth Programs, and registration is already open.
The UW to date has received $191.
Editor’s Note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.