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The Growing Threat of Suicide Terrorism is the title of a lecture by Robert Pape scheduled for 7:30 p.
Nominations for vice chair of the Faculty Senate are being sought.
UW Libraries and the Friends of the Libraries are teaming up to sponsor a student speaker series relating to this year’s common book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder.
The UW School of Music will offer concerts by two pianists of contrasting style next week.
Faculty violist Melia Watras will perform new, cutting-edge music by five composers, including three from the UW, in a concert titled Prestidigitation, at 7:30 p.
Ann Lally, head of the UW Libraries Digital Initiatives, was looking at statistics for the annual report last spring when she noticed something interesting: The libraries’ digital collections were getting quite a bit of traffic from Wikipedia.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
In his book Growing Up Brown: Memoirs of a Filipino American, Peter Jamero, former UW assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine and social work, recounts his early life in a farm labor camp in Livingston, Calif.
On Wednesday, Oct.
PHILADELPHIA — If you think the world is on the verge of running out of oil or other mineral resources, you’ve been taken in by the foremost of seven myths about resource geology, according to a University of Washington economic geologist.
If you think Pacific Northwest winters are gray and rainy now, just wait.
ATLANTA — A novel look at the brains of adults with autism has provided new evidence that various brain regions of people with the developmental disorder may not communicate with each other as efficiently as they do in other people.
Alcohol/drug abuse grants available
The Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute invites applications from UW faculty for its Small Grants Research Awards.
The UW and Washington State University have announced the launch of a joint center to assist in addressing hard-to-resolve social, economic and environmental issues in Washington.
Even in the high-technology world of the UW Computing & Communications organization, when it comes to emergencies, people will always come first.
Are you a customer of Purchasing and Stores? Most everyone on campus is.
Launched by singing, drumming and words of thanks, T’xwelátse is finally on his way home after a century-long visit at the Burke Museum.
FOOD AND MUSIC: Ethnomusicologists are in the business of studying music, not food.
Professor Lawrence Schiffman of New York University will deliver three public lectures on “The Religion of the Dead Sea Scrolls: Creation, Revelation and Redemption” as part of the Stroum lecture series.
Work has begun on the University’s biennial transportation survey that measures the commuting patterns of people on campus and monitors the effectiveness of the U-PASS program.
An event next week at UW Bothell will kick off a new media collection that puts the emphasis on diversity.
BARGAINING AHEAD? The Employee Forum, a staff group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has passed a resolution calling for the repeal of a North Carolina law banning collective bargaining, according to an article in the campus newspaper, The University Gazette.
The UW has joined with other major Seattle employers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are a result of their business operations.
We’ve seen the horrific photos from the “war on terror.
Since school has started there have been 10 car prowls reported on campus.
“Balancing property rights and growth management: a discussion of the implications of I-933” is the title of a forum to be held from noon to 2 p.
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Editor’s note: For the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight some of the UW faculty and staff who volunteer at agencies supported by the fund.
As a 17-year-old senior at Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, David Knechtges found himself annoyed.
Trio con Brio Copenhagen will open the 2006-07 International Chamber Music Series at 8 p.
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What do 3,300 people interested in academic medicine have in common? The 117th Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting.
How far would you go to learn about your ancestors?
- Would you take a nine-month genealogy class?
- Would you learn a new language?
- Would you take trips to a far off country?
- Would you take classes in the history of that country?
Dena Petersen has done all those things, and she’s still at it, 10 years after her interest was kindled.
A Bedouin goat-herd claimed, at least, to be chasing a wayward goat when he happened upon the cave containing some of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947.
David Auth, former UW professor of electrical engineering, has been awarded the 2006 Inventor of the Year Award by the UW School of Medicine.
The UW Medical Genetics Clinic has received a $15,000 donation from Mamafest, an all-volunteer, youth-oriented organization in Seattle.