Nominations are being sought for a new UW honor, the Husky Green Award.
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On March 8, King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira upheld the UW’s decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation.
Kicking the marijuana habit is a killer, just like quitting cigarettes.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at UW Tacoma.
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the UW.
If you like pie — and really, who doesn’t like pie? — you might want to stop in the 8 at McMahon campus restaurant on Tuesday, March 16.
The UW’s Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers fifth- through 10th grade students a unique combination of vigorous academic work and summer fun in two summer programs.
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.
Computers should not play dice.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
One by one in a ceremony the afternoon of Monday, March 8, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the UW Libraries.
UW’s Model United Nations team is only a couple of weeks away from its most anticipated event of the year—the National Model United Nations Conference.
This is the last issue of University Week for winter quarter.
Concerned about safety? Wondering how the campus police do their job? You might be a good candidate for the UW Police Citizens Academy.
Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales, Tom Collier, Cuong Vu, and Phil Sparks pay homage to the icons of jazz with new arrangements of the classics and break new ground with original, progressive jazz compositions.
The ensemble is about to return to Japan for its third tour of that country, and presents its Japan Tour Preview Concert, featuring the world premiere of Precious Metal: A Concerto for Flute and Winds, by D.
School of Music alumna Regina Yeh and Hillary Herndon, past principal violist of the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, present solo and duo works for viola and piano.
See real dinosaur and dinosaur-era fossils from the Burke’s collection and participate in dinosaur-themed activities throughout the Burke Museum’s 25th annual Dino Day.
Student composers in the School of Music present original works.
The UW Dance Program’s annual showcase of new work by undergraduate students.
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana.
Pharmacists offer significantly more in health-care services than many people realize. Two UW School of Pharmacy faculty members will talk A
Dr. King Holmes will be honored March 9 for his leadership and commitment in promoting AIDS awareness.
Adults who have both diabetes and major depression are more than twice as likely to develop dementia, compared to adults with diabetes only, according to a study published in the recent Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Monday, March 1, was a busy day for the staff at UW Medicine’s <A href="http://www.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Students in the UW Spanish Play Production class will present El Gesticulador (The Impostor) March 13 and 14 at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre.
Nominations are being sought for the annual University Faculty Lecture Award, which honors current or emeriti faculty whose research, scholarship or art has been widely recognized by their peers and whose achievements have had a substantial impact on their profession, on the research or performance of others and perhaps on society as a whole.
Post-doctoral fellows who might be wondering what’s next after the post-doc and how to get there can find out at the annual UW Post-doc Association career panel and networking reception, which will be from 5 to 8 p.
Vivek Kundra, U.
Girls and science, middle-schoolers and robotics, grade-schoolers plumbing the secrets of ancient civilizations — there will be a lot going on in this year’s UW Summer Youth Programs, and registration is already open.
The UW to date has received $191.
“When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
While students farm one-third of an acre on campus, inhabitants of the UW Tower are thinking even smaller.
Editor’s Note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
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.
Jesse Burk-Rafel, a senior honors student in bioengineering, was recently selected as a 2010 11 Luce Scholar.
The UW Libraries is looking for a few good student research projects.