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JW Harrington performs with the Bellevue Opera, Dafney Dabach wins an award for her dissertation, the UWPD raise a lot of cold cash in their 2011 Polar Plunge, and doctoral candidate Jason Siegel wins a Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.

Labor unrest, cancer of the esophagus and the spread of disease as a result of climate change are three of the things UW faculty commented on in the national news media recently.

Teach for America, Egypts revolution and the defeat of the Dream Act are three of the things UW faculty were asked to comment on in national media.

Gastric bypass surgery, mindfulness based therapy and this winters weird weather are just three of the things UW professors commented on in the national media.

Fecal transplants, city signs, May-December romances, scat-detecting dogs and New Years resolutions are some of the things UW professors commented on in the national press recently.

An award for excellence in arts presentation for Matthew Krashan; a math prize for Gunther Uhlmann; Rajesh Rao to speak at the 2011 TED Conference; Richard Anderson develops a Microsoft tool for distance learning; economist Dick Startz to speak at the UW Bookstore; and UW alum Peter Rhee sits in the First Lady’s box for the State of the Union speech.

‘The New York Times’ profiles Jake Locker. Also, comments on colds, Kindles (or not), obesity, teaching impact and accidents in sports, and more. Your colleagues in the national news.

The Henry Art Gallery helps the ‘History Detectives’ solve a mystery; an art installation gets new life advertising the Burke Museum, an exhibit of art by Kazimierz Poznanski; four from Facilities Services celebrate 25 years of service each; and the College of Education notes three alums at the helm of Washington state two-year schools.

UW Police officers come to the rescue to make a faculty members interview possible during the snow, Music Professor Patricia Campbell chairs the Smithsonian Folkways, the undergraduate landscape architecture program is honored, and Computer Science & Engineering Professor Ed Lazowska is named to a U.S. Department of Energy committee.