The Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting will feature guest speaker Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, speaking on ‘Science and the Arts.
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Winners of the October 27 concerto competition perform with the University Symphony.
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Facilities Services
Not long ago, a Facilities Services shop that handles flooring diverted its first dumpster-full of old carpet from a dead end in the landfill to a new life as recycled carpet.
Students of Michael Partington will present music with guitar to celebrate Spain and Latin America, in ¡Guitarra! at 7:30 p.
The UW Graduate School will offer “Nuts and Bolts: How to Successfully Navigate the Graduate School,” the first in a series of interactive workshops for international graduate students from 12:30 to 2 p.
Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report by UW researchers in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series will continue with author Laynie Browne at 6:30 p.
Registration is now open for summer youth programs sponsored by UW Educational Outreach.
Library Lecture Series: “Chronic Pain Is a Disease in its Own Right” will be the topic when Dr.
School of Music alumna and pianist Wendy Yamashita will return to the UW for a visiting artist recital at 5 p.
EXPERIMENTAL EXCELLENCE: Geoffrey Boynton, associate professor of psychology whose research interest is in the neural correlates of human visual perception, is the recipient of the Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
Miles Logsdon, a UW oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb.
Annual Faculty Lecture.
How to snowshoe.
The Seattle-based Lake Union Civic Orchestra is joined by baritone soloist Clayton Brainerd.
Opening events for the Burke Museum’s new exhibit, Coffee: The World in Your Cup.
Part of the 10th annual Career Discovery Week, the full name of the event is “Job Seeking 2009: The Cold Hard Truth & What You Can Do About It.
Martin Grotschel of the Technical University of Berlin presents “Combinatorial Optimization in Action,” part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium series, given by high-level researchers and are open to all.
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Antisemitism: An Eternal Hatred? is the title of a lecture by Steven Beller slated for noon Tuesday, Jan.
The UW Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Jenny Lewis solo.
Join the campus community to watch Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States.
The first in a five-part series titled “The Vatican in the 20th Century: The Popes Confront a Turbulent World” presented by James Ramon Felak, associate professor of history.
The Martin Luther King Day of Service begins with a kickoff celebration for students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends.
They push the boundaries of the most demainding string quartet repertoire with what the Chicago Sun-Times called “powerhouse playing.
An hour and a half of singing, dancing, speeches and community service awards, all to honor Dr.
Patients with dementia and diabetes appear to display a different pattern of injuries in their brains than patients with dementia but without diabetes, according to an article posted online Jan.
Even though nurses routinely disclose nursing errors to their patients, a new study published in the January issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety shows that nurses often are not included when physicians tell patients about more serious mistakes.
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Do you know of an outstanding female UW student, staff or faculty member who deserves recognition? Consider nominating her for Celebrating UW Women.
Christy Gullion, who has nearly two decades of experience working for a variety of federal, state and local agencies, has been appointed the UW’s director of federal relations, Interim Vice President for External Affairs Randy Hodgins announced.
The JACK Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.
Scott Pingel, principal double bassist for the San Francisco Symphony, will conduct a master class with students of Barry Lieberman, followed by a brief recital with pianist Rie Ando of works by Schubert, Bach, and more, at 1:30 p.
Donna Shin, flute faculty artist at the School of Music, and pianist Alexandra Nguyen of the University of Colorado at Boulder, will perform music from around the world — highlighting the European virtuoso, sounds from the Orient, and dance inspirations from Latin America — in a faculty recital at 7:30 p.