ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Sessions
Monday, November 7, 4:30–5:50 p.Provost Phyllis Wise will hold her first Town Meeting with the University community from 3:30 to 5 p.
The University of Washington Retirement Association (UWRA) offers its next Long-term Care Insurance Workshop from 5 to 7 p.
Marilla Svinicki, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, will be the speaker at the Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning, scheduled for 2 p.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The Committee to Improve the UW Undergraduate Experience will be holding three open meetings for faculty and staff in October.
UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.
Last week’s paper issue of University Week contained an insert with a summary of the results of the survey of faculty and staff conducted last spring by the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative.
Sound Transit has issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and is seeking comment at two public hearings in November.
The medical/dental open enrollment period for UW employees is from Oct.
You can learn about who lived at Discovery Park thousands of years ago at the Burke Museum’s Urban Archaeology Day from 10 a.
The University of Washington’s K-12 Resource Guide is a searchable database providing information about the many educational resources available to K-12 students and educators.
Events ranging from a poetry reading to lectures by distinguished visitors from Peru are part of “Even Cowboys Get the Blues: A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Luis Hernandez,” planned for next week on campus.
Seattle Information
The UW’s Seattle enrollment for autumn quarter 2005 is 39,251, including 2,019 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.
The 2005 Engineering Lecture Series, “Engineering the Unexpected,” focuses on how UW engineers are taking the lead in designing ways to respond when disaster strikes.
The sixth annual Costco Scholarship Breakfast, which supports the Costco Scholarship Fund, raised more than $2.
With clever engineering and being in the right spot, under the right satellite, UW oceanographers working with Computing & Communications and the ResearchChannel became the first team in the world to broadcast high-definition video from the seafloor to selected sites around the world Sept.
The fossil cast of one of the largest birds that ever lived was installed at the Burke Museum this week.
CYBER SLEUTH: Dave Dittrich, researcher and senior security engineer at the Information School, has been named one of the world’s top seven security professionals by Information Security magazine, which put him on the cover of its October edition.
Have you noticed the colorful signs planted strategically around campus these days that say: “Dismount zone”? They’re also signs of a new awareness of bicycle safety at the UW.
As an astronomy major, Ethan Owens saw student and faculty computers within the department being used to study galaxy formation and orbital mechanics.
The UW Faculty Senate is taking nominations from those interested in becoming vice chair for the next school year, 2006-2007.
Aspiring set designers in the UW School of Drama are going to be studying with a teacher who knows his way around Broadway — and pretty much everywhere else good theater is made.
It’s not every day that a UW assistant professor leaves Mary Gates Hall to head a foreign delegation at a major overseas conference of the United Nations.
All over the world, researchers are trying to find the answer to making spinal cords whole again after they have been injured.
About 30 exhibits and hands-on demonstrations were set up in the Health Sciences Lobby and adjacent courtyard as part of the Dawg Daze orientation program for new entering freshmen and transfer students in late September.
UW physicians featured on KING-TV Friday
UW Medicine physicians and researchers, including Dr.
The third Russell Ross Endowed Lecture will be given by Dr.
Recurrent miscarriage (RM) can have devastating emotional effects on a woman and her partner.
It’s a lot like an art class on upper campus.
A new office is opening on campus alongside the By George Café in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library: The Husky Card Account & ID Center will be a convenience for students and some staff.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Jane Brown, professor of Germanics, has received a Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.
Collier & Dean, the duo featuring UW Music Professor Tom Collier and his friend Dan Dean, will perform their 40th Anniversary Concert at 7:30 p.
Academic opportunities
Proposals wanted for CSSS Seed Grants The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants.
The UW Information School will hold three public events in coming days related to its search for a new dean.