Reminder: Nominations for the annual University Faculty Lecturer Award are due no later than Wednesday, April 14.
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Next week on your lunch hour learn how to go green — and save green — on projects in and around your home.
UWTV and UW Athletics will televise eight of the defending NCAA champion Husky softball team’s games this season, all against competition from the nation’s top softball league — the Pacific-10 Conference.
The circle of conservative and libertarian academic historians in the United States is so small that they all know each other.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The Botany Greenhouse is aiming to show the campus how it can get even greener, not with plants inside, but on top, with a living “green” roof on a shed alongside the greenhouse proper.
The University will honor 21 individuals and one team of six this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program.
LIFE CHANGER: Jennifer Cohen, assistant director of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies program, was honored with the Hannah G.
Last month stadiums reverberated as students on the UW’s basketball team made it to the Sweet Sixteen round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament.
It’s an intercollegiate challenge that’s a little bit different.
Creating a dictionary for a fading language can help breathe new life and relevance into that tongue.
While navigating the warren of corridors in the Health Sciences T-Wing, be on the lookout for the Conference Room Gallery, in room T-269.
What if all software was open source? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program.
The opening and reception for I Say Hello, You Say Goodbye/You Say Hello, I Say Goodbye, a group photography show with work by Anita Bingaman, Joan Bowers, Maria Festing, Deborah Conger Hughes, Nathan Makan, Ian Painter, Stan Raucher, and Jerry Wade, will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.
You don’t need to be a computer or energy expert to see that going from 60 servers down to eight is bound to result in a huge energy savings.
The UW Women’s Center has already been through one move this year, as Cunningham Hall was relocated from its old home across from Architecture Hall to its new one near Parrington Hall.
TWEETING POLS: Twitter is becoming popular among the nation’s governors, according to a winter story in USA Today that quoted Kathy Gill, UW senior lecturer in communication.
The Provost’s Advisory Search Committee for Dean of the School of Public Health, chaired by Dean Marla Salmon, has recommended five finalists for the position.
Samuel Lieu, professor of ancient history at McQuairie University in Australia, and Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge University, will be speaking next week on campus.
Austin Ross, professor emeritus of health services in the UW School of Public Health, was inducted March 21 into Modern Healthcare’s Healthcare Hall of Fame.
University Week will run a story about Earth Day activities at the UW’s three campuses on Thursday, April 15.
An panel of experts presents findings from the field and discusses similarities and differences between the Haitain and Chilean earthquakes and what we can expect from future earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.
The author of The Man Who Ate His Boots shares the enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
Marsha Saxton of the UC Berkeley Disability Studies Program will speak about the complex issues of genetic screening from the vantage point of disability rights, and show and discuss her film about physicians’ interactions with adults with physical disabilities.
UW voice students present opera scenes directed by faculty artist Thomas Harper.
UW researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis.
The public is invited to a UW panel discussion April 6 on the how genome sciences advances might affect the cost and quality of health care
The first time Charles Ishimwe left Rwanda was when he entered the Sixth Annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) sponsored by the UW Foster School of Business.
Faculty members in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature not only teach 10 different languages, many also create textbooks for language instruction — and for multiple learning levels, at that.
School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis will present a lecture-recital on Beethoven’s piano sonata cycles at 3 p.
UW Music Professor Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony in Mass for our Time, a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times.
There will be an earthquake in Seattle on Thursday, March 25.
Next Thursday, 168 graduating UW medical students will learn where they will train as residents on what has come to be called “Match Day.
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
MASTER MEDIATORS: UW School of Law students Charlotte Williams and Joel Emans won the regional American Bar Association Mediation Competition held at the University of Oregon School of Law last weekend.
One minute the three women are tobogganing along in their bathing suits and the next they’re sprawled in the snow, grinning and unharmed after perhaps the most amiable (and fake) tobogganing accident of 1925.
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
Can extinction be good? You can explore the answer to this question and more with Burke Museum paleontology curators in a series of Tuesday talks inspired by the Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway exhibit.
On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.