A public memorial will be held June 4 in Kane Hall to honor Marc Lindenberg, dean of the Daniel J.
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Steve Hill
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Cathy Taylor experienced an epiphany on a Seattle soccer field.
The UW Board of Regents unanimously approved a budget last Friday that will include no salary increases and higher tuition.
The Burke Museum has received a major photographic collection, donated by photographer Adelaide De Menil, which documents the culture of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
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HS News & Community Relations
A Nursing Recognition Endowed Fund to honor and support the work of nurses at both UW Medical Center and Harborview Medical Center was established about a year and a half ago with a gift from an anonymous donor.
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TUTU ON TV: If you didn’t get to see Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he was on campus this month, there will be many opportunities to see videos of his two appearances.
The second annual PRIME Showcase, highlights hands-on projects the partnerships have developed during the year to learn math, science and engineering principles.
Work on core curriculum is done, the first class of graduate students has been accepted and one of the world’s top experts on global climate change, Harvard University professor James McCarthy, will present a free, public lecture here May 30 as the University of Washington launches its Program on Climate Change.
A ceremony in honor of Memorial Day will be held at the University of Washington at 4 p.m. Friday, May 24 in Red Square.
Marc Lindenberg, dean of the UW’s Daniel J.
Psychology 419, or behavior studies of zoo and aquarium animals, primarily draws psychology and zoology majors.The course was started in 1975 by Lockard, a psychology professor, as an alternative to an animal behavior laboratory class that used rats, and it was designed for students who wished to do research on exotic species.
The speed and efficiency of computer network and database servers could increase as much as 400 percent because of an idea developed by two University of Washington computer scientists that is reaching mainstream computing.
Sixteen finalists will compete for investment capital May 21 in the UW’s annual entrepreneurial business plan competition.
Daily journal entries and the ability to ask questions online allow anyone interested to go along on the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson as it maps the seafloor off the Washington coast.
A 1.6-mile long cable and 3,500 pounds of instruments were retrieved from a mooring that was anchored to the seafloor at the North Pole for a full year — eight times longer than the only previous mooring.
TIME TO ACT: A UW animal behaviorist recently told Newsday that it’s time to intervene on behalf of the young killer whale that’s been swimming alone in central Puget Sound.
A year ago on May 17, Washington’s Forest Practices Board adopted new permanent rules implementing what’s called the Forest and Fish law passed by the Legislature.
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Hearing Research Day on May 20 will bring experts together at UW next week
Driver air bags offer relatively little benefit in road vehicle crashes compared with seat belts, according to a study published in the May 11 issue of the British Medical Journal.
New recommendations from American Diabetes Association stretch options
Pets can help children learn about life, love and death.
As you sit in the audience waiting for a dance concert to begin, the last thing you might think the dancers would be worried about is their computer.
Steve Hill
University Week
He’s logged more than 60,000 miles while commuting to and from the UW campus during the last 30 years.
Through the years, some of Barbara Kirkevold’s and Joan Lockard’s students have had some pretty unusual “classmates” — a baby elephant, a pair of rambunctious juvenile grizzly bears, two troops of western lowland gorillas, orangutans, a northern fur seal, a family of laughing thrushes, and many more.
If you’ve ever had the urge to write a play, you can get your feet wet beginning Wednesday, May 22, when Once Upon a Weekend kicks off.
As celebrations go, it wasn’t exactly posh.
Where are we? Here’s another in our series of more difficult photos for you to guess.
TIME TO ACT: A UW animal behaviorist recently told Newsday that it’s time to intervene on behalf of the young killer whale that’s been swimming alone in central Puget Sound.
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at 1 p.
A ROYAL HONOR: Professor Emeritus George Hiroaki Kakiuchi will receive the prestigious Emperor’s Award, the Order of the Rising Sun, in ceremonies at the official residence of the Consul General of Japan, on May 24.
Pamela Wyngate
HS News & Community Relations
The good news is, people live longer.
The first Russell Ross Endowed Lecture, presented by the Department of Pathology, will be given next Friday.
Claire Dietz
HS News & Community Relations
Age-related macular degeneration is a serious, progressive eye disease perhaps best known as the leading cause of legal blindness in people over 55.
When residents of one Amazon jungle village get ready to harvest yucca root, they stop by a grass hut to log onto the Internet and check out market prices 250 miles away in Lima.
Driver air bags offer relatively little benefit in road vehicle crashes compared with seat belts, according to a study published in the May 11 issue of the British Medical Journal. The study was conducted by researchers at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC).
the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources is bringing together representatives of four organizations that have been trying to help rural landowners understand and meet requirements of the new Forest and Fish Law.
Log on starting Wednesday to join researchers and five public-school teachers on an oceanographic expedition aboard the University of Washington’s research vessel the Thomas G. Thompson as it works off our coast.