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.
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Reviewed 9/22
Students, parents and teachers of current ninth and tenth grade students are invited to learn more about the UW Academy early entrance program at the UW at an information session on Monday, Jan.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
Six UW-affiliated researchers are among 531 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Barry Weisband has been named the new director of the Business Development Center (BDC) at UW Bothell.
Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia University, will speak at 7:30 p.
The UW faculty and staff have contributed more than $2 million to the Combined Fund Drive, the highest UW total in the 25 years of the statewide workplace donation campaign.
TOPS IN DOGGEREL: Professor of Anthropology Steve Harrell got an award that was out of his field recently.
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the UW starts the new decade with Introducing, a show featuring the work of the first-year MFA students from the UW Art Program.
The World Series at Meany is offering a package of three performances from its World Dance Series at the bargain price of $75, which is 40 percent off the regular price.
HUMAN FUTURES: Peter Ward, UW professor of Earth and space sciences, crushed some cliches with lively responses in an article about the future of human evolution on the Web site LiveScience.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Jan.
Joy, laughter and inspiration will fill the air as the angelic (and mighty) voices of the Women’s Chorus melt your holiday cares away with an eclectic program of traditional and very untraditional songs of the season.
Doctors Without Borders gave a documentary film crew uncensored access to its field operations in war-torn Congo and post-conflict Liberia.
Celebrate the holiday season with the Columbia Choirs, under the direction of founder Steve Stevens.
Maestro Peter Eros conducts the University Symphony in a performance of a Mozart piano concerto with soloist Craig Sheppard and a symphony by Tchaikovsky.
UW voice students present opera scenes directed by faculty artist Thomas Harper.
The Wind Ensemble, Campus Band and Concert Bands transport listeners on a musical journey.
Jonathan Eddy has been appointed incoming director of the Asian Law Center by Dean Kellye Testy effective Jan.
Remember the scene from Annie Hall where Woody Allen is arguing with a man in line at a movie theater about Marshall McLuhan’s books, when suddenly McLuhan himself steps out from behind a post to play the expert in the argument?
Well, you can have an expert with you as you read a book on science if you join the Biology Book Club starting Jan.
Now is the time to complete any Skillsoft e-Learning class you may have planned or started — the program will end on Dec.
Class title: Russian 120 — Science Fiction in Russia.
Motorists driving along Montlake Boulevard will see a field of yellow in the spring, thanks to a donation of 10,000 daffodils by Charlotte Behnke in memory of her husband John, who died Oct.
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.
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LUDWIG: If you, like Schroeder from the Peanuts comic strip, are eagerly awaiting Beethoven’s birthday on Dec.
In October a survey of current, recent and prospective UW journal editors was announced through the Board of Deans and Chancellors.
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This is the last issue of University Week for fall quarter.
The UW Symphony will present a concert at 7:30 p.
Students, parents and teachers of middle-school aged children are invited to learn more about the Transition School/Early Entrance Program at the UW at an information session on Monday, Jan.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting for December has been canceled.
Student jazz ensembles led by Cuong Vu perform big band arrangements, repertory selections and new originals.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Students of Tom Harper, Joyce Guyer, Jane Eaglen, Giselle Wyer and Tess Altiveros present art songs and arias from France, Germany, Italy, and beyond in the Voice Division Recital.
An informal chat with Women Studies adjunct faculty and allies Rachel Chapman, Deana Dartt-Newton and Bonnie Duran.
The daughter of famed mbira master Dumisani Maraire, who was a visiting artist at the UW in 1969-70, Chiwoniso Maraire also embraced the mbira (which she describes as something “like a large xylophone”) and has become an accomplished musician, singer and songwriter in her own right.