When Rita Deverell was a 26-year-old actress, she met someone she thought of as “a harmless elderly woman.
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Three virtuoso members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center are playing together in a concert presented by the UW World Series.
Editor’s note: Through the 2010 Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight agencies that receive CFD funds and members of the UW community who volunteer for such organizations.
UW Medicine patient Turner Prewitt talks about his “second life” following a heart transplant:
I was given the “gift of life,” a new heart on Aug.
This year is the 25th anniversary of Dawg Dash, one of the UW Alumni Association’s most popular annual events.
The UW’s first ever Sustainability Summit Wednesday, Oct.
Hannah Palin, Film Archives Specialist at the UW Libraries Special Collections, is once again involved in producing Home Movie Day, scheduled for noon to 4:30 p.
UW Libraries will participate in the national Open Access Week with three panel discussions at Odegaard Library.
A Celebration of Life for Otis Pease, a history professor at the UW for nearly 30 years, will be held at 2 p.
Can video games be art? Tools for education? Instruments for change?
Ed Chang and Timothy Welsh tend to think so.
Board of Regents
The Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Some tiny crustaceans living in clear-water alpine ponds high in Washington state’s Olympic Mountains have learned how to cope with the sun’s damaging ultraviolet rays without sunblock — and with very little natural pigmentation to protect them.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in blogs about their interests or professional matters.
Third-year pharmacy student Elise Fields entered the School of Pharmacy in hopes of pursuing a career in public health and global pharmacy.
Pharmacy student Karen Craddick, class of 2012, received a competitive Paul Ambrose scholarship to participate in the annual Ambrose Symposium in Washington, D.
Renowned tissue engineer and drug delivery expert Robert S.
How many barrels of oil per day were spewing into the Gulf of Mexico after the BP disaster? Desperate for an accurate assessment, the federal government pulled together a high-stakes task force that included two UW Engineering faculty members — James Riley and Alberto Aliseda.
Seasonal flu shot clinics for UW faculty and staff.
Listen to all or part of the U.
Combining movement and music from traditional dance forms with contemporary themes and dynamic physical virtuosity, Jant-Bi takes African dance in captivating new directions.
Clinical depression puts pregnant women at increased risk of delivering prematurely and of giving birth to below-normal weight infants, according to a report published Oct.
The return of the Burke Museum’s monthly pub quiz for science buffs, culture gurus and museum lovers.
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Laura Sawin Brown’s experiences caring for earthquake victims convinced others to join her.
The UW Tumor Vaccine Group is hosting an open house for the public Thursday evening, Oct.
UW leaders are hoping the campus community will be saying “make mine a double” this fall, but not at the coffee counter or the local bar.
The UW Photographers Group has a new exhibit called Doubt — and they invite you to take a look and see what the images mean to you.
After a decade of planning and two years of construction, PACCAR Hall debuts as the gleaming hub of the Foster School of Business.
It just got easier to pinpoint biological hot spots in the world’s oceans where some inhabitants are smaller than, well, a pinpoint.
Biotechnology professionals in Seattle have a new option for earning an advanced scientific degree.
Interim President Phyllis Wise will give the Annual Address to the University Community from 3:30 to 4:30 p.
The UW will kick off its 2010 Combined Fund Drive, the state’s workplace giving campaign, with a Charity Fair from 11 a.
With UW Ethernet, a 24-hour fitness center, on-site day care and playgrounds, a 24-acre park-like atmosphere and other amenities, Radford Court is a pretty nice place to live.
Debra McCall was walking up New York City’s 42nd Street one day when she happened upon a film festival at City University of New York.
A new study from the National Charter School Research Project at the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education may quiet some fears that charter schools are particularly susceptible to teacher turnover.
Season tickets are now on sale for the UW School of Drama’s lineup of plays.
In recent decades, documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere — from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges — have been attributed to global warming.
Surgeons at UW Medicine in Seattle and at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine have determined that transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery (TONES) is a safe, effective option for treating a variety of advanced brain diseases and traumatic injuries.