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The UW Speech and Hearing Clinic presents “Ear-responsible?” from 1 to 2 p.
Three archivists from Radio Afghanistan are spending three weeks at the UW in a National Endowment for the Arts-funded summer residency workshop on archiving.
Junior’s back and Ichiro’s hitting — it’s a great time to head to Safeco Field for some major league baseball.
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.
Want to have your say about University Week stories and photos? Beginning with this issue, you’ll be able to.
By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
As Seattle coffee drinkers sip their brew, they may not realize that Nicaraguan coffee harvesters risk injury to bring the precious beans in for processing.
By William Heisel
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Nirmala Ravishankar wanted to track every dollar spent to improve people’s health in developing countries — from the person who wrote the check to the person who ultimately spent it.
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By Steve Butler
News & Community Relations
Doing more with less seems to be the mantra of the day, and few in health care do that as well as the Hall Health Primary Care Center on the UW campus.
Steve Butler & Susan Gregg-Hanson
News & Community Relations
In October 2006, Zackery Lystedt, 13, suffered a traumatic brain injury after making a tackle at the very end of the first half of a middle-school football game.
The UW Department of Genome Sciences will present its summer public lecture series, Wednesday Evenings at the Genome, in July.
Charles Johnson, who holds the S.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, July 16, at 9 a.
The public is invited to attend tours of the UW Libraries exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus, led by Carla Rickerson, exhibit curator and head of Special Collections Public Services.
Hall Health Primary Care Center at the UW has launched a Web site to facilitate communication with the UW community about its building renovation project, providing updates and news about the progress of the renovation as they become available.
Enjoy live music with your art this summer when the Henry Art Gallery and the UW School of Music present “Summer Sounds at the Henry.
The Museum of History and Industry holds a two-day weekend symposium on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition.
Opening reception for the School of Art’s Design ’09, a juried show of work by graduating BFA and MFA students in the Division of Design.
An evening of stylings by the Vocal Jazz I and Vocal Jazz II ensembles, under the direction of Dave Cross.
Graduate instrumental conducting students Meena Hwang and Julia Tai lead the University Symphony in an all-Schubert concert.
The Women of Color Collective’s first conference, “Dialoguing Difference” is an intellectual exchange among faculty members and students from throughout the community.
The University Singers, the Women’s Choir and the UW Men’s Glee Club share the spotlight with a variety of music from classical to pop and everything in between.
Columbia University political scientist Andrew Gelman speaks on Coalitions, Voting Power, and Political Instability as part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium.
By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
Jude Van Buren, an alumna of the UW’s Department of Environmental Health, returned to her alma mater this month as director of Environmental Health & Safety, a department that supports and monitors workplace safety and health practices at the university.
By Teri Thomas
Seattle Children’s
Citalopram (Celexa), a medication commonly prescribed to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), was no more effective than a placebo at reducing repetitive behaviors, according to a multi-site clinical trial guided by lead author Dr.
The UW will confer honorary degrees on two individuals at <A href="http://uwnews.
Transportation Services advises motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians to avoid Husky Stadium on Saturday, June 13, due to the graduation ceremony beginning at 1:30 p.
Educators, counselors, lawmakers, advocacy groups and parents will meet at the UW Friday and Saturday for the UW Conference on Early Learning, to be held at UW Tower.
SCIENCE STAR: Joseph Felsenstein, professor of genome sciences and biology, has received the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, June 11, at 9 a.
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The third and final week of our photo contest is over and we have another winner! Drum roll please: The prize goes to David Hogan, who works in billing at Creative Communications, for his photo, The Grand Stairway.
Qing Shen, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, has been named chairman and professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, pending approval by UW President Mark Emmert and the Board of Regents.
The University Symphony presents a tribute to Franz Schubert Friday, June 5, in Meany Theater.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
The UW Vocal Jazz 1 and UW Diva Vocal Jazz ensembles perform standards by Horace Silver, Stephen Sondheim, Keith Jarrett, Bobby Sharp, Madeline Peyroux, and others in a concert at 7:30 p.
This is the last edition of University Week for the 2008-2009 school year.