The Burke Museum is getting into ichthyology.
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This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
The President’s Piano Series, presented by the UW World Series, will be launched with a performance by Yevgeny Sudbin at 8 p.
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Justin Percival is looking for ways to help victims of Duchenne muscular dystrophy increase muscle strength.
The diversity of the UW student body will be on display at the The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) CulturalFest, 3:30-7:30 p.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) have teamed up to host the UW’s first EntrepreneurWeek, a selection of entrepreneurial events, speakers, and networking opportunities for students, faculty and staff.
Marco Antonio (Maco) Garavito, formerly active in the Guatemalan resistance and current director of the Guatemalan Mental Health League, will give a talk titled The Dream of Peace in Guatemala at 7 p.
The Professional Staff Organization’s fall member meeting, originally scheduled for today, Thursday, Nov.
University Stores will sell its remaining inventory at a sale for UW departments, non-profits, and agency accounts on Thursday, Nov.
A free public screening of a new documentary about solar power titled The Power of the Sun will be held at 7 p.
Barry Lieberman will perform with Seattle Symphony friends, Maestro Peter Eros will conduct the University Symphony playing a UW composer’s piece, and Tom Collier will jazz it up with visiting saxophonist Gary Herbig, all in concerts coming soon from the UW School of Music.
Hogness Symposium: Faye Wattleton Oct.
Five UW faculty members have been named fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
UW faculty violist Melia Watras will perform at 7:30 p.
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SIMPLY BRILLIANT: Popular Science magazine chose Yoky Matsuoka, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, for a spot on this year’s “Brilliant 10” list.
Name: Susan Lowney
UW Job: Buyer II, in the Purchasing Department.
The Burke Museum helps Seattle’s urban students get out of the classroom and into nature with its Magnuson Outdoor Learning Laboratory, and now the program has been honored by the Environmental Education Association of Washington with the association’s 2007 Community Catalyst Award.
The UW has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
English clarinetist Gareth Davis will perform at 7:30 p.
The UW School of Drama presents the Seattle premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Our Lady of 121st Street, which previews on Oct.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
Mary Levin The UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by UW staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, or 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 3. Pre-registration is required; click here for more information or call 206-685-8033.
The UW Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
Free seminar on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Oct.
By Clare Hagerty & Elizabeth Lowry
News & Community Relations
The UW Institute of Translational Health Sciences is among 12 additional academic medical organizations nationwide to receive funding through the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs).
The UW, in partnership with the Seattle Times and the Seattle Art Museum, invites all treasure hunters and thrill seekers to join an adventurous 10-day foray in fun for the second annual Emerald City Search, beginning Oct.