Can dinosaurs be brought back to life? Is there a velociraptor lurking in the cells of every chicken? Does extinction have to be forever? Jack Horner, one of the most influential paleontologists of our time, will tackle these questions and more at the 2010 Burke Lecture at 7 p.
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When Rob McKenna arrived at the UW in 1980, he joined the University Honors Program.
The UW has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
OCEAN OFFICIAL: The American Geophysical Union, an international 5,800-member organization concerned with Earth and space sciences, has elected Jim Murray, UW professor of oceanography, as president-elect of its ocean sciences section.
For scientists, the research always comes first.
UW Libraries’ East Asia Library and the National Central Library of Taiwan will begin a project this summer to digitize Chinese rare books held at the East Asia Library and Special Collections at UW Libraries.
A team of paleontologists that includes Christian Sidor from the UW has discovered a dinosaur-like animal — one that shared many characteristics with dinosaurs but fell just outside of the dinosaur family tree — living 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at UW Tacoma.
Jazz will be in the spotlight at three events coming from the School of Music — the Studio Jazz Ensemble on March 8 and Jazz Innovations I and II concerts on March 10 and 11.
School of Music alumna Regina Yeh will team with Hillary Herndon to present solo and duo works for viola and piano in a guest artist recital at 7:30 p.
Student composers will present original works and the UW Symphonic Band will play in events coming from the School of Music.
Writer’s block can strike anyone.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, will discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a particular focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
From wildfires to wild flowers — Pacific Northwest forests appear to be changing.
Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice UW Gospel Choir in songs of praise and revelation, hymns, call-and-response numbers, and other expressions of the gospel tradition.
Rob Williams, 2009-10 Canada-US Fulbright visiting research chair, will discuss his research on two transboundary issues in marine conservation: evaluating the effects of ocean noise on whales, and estimating the amount of salmon required to support resident killer whale populations.
Shipwrecks survive as archaeological examples of their time and provide insights into their home cultures.
In this faculty recital, Michael Partington is joined by a diverse cast of colleagues in a program of gems from the chamber repertoire for guitar, with music ranging from Boccherini to Takemitsu.
Hanson Hosein’s documentary film, Rising From Ruins, recounts the emotional experiences of the men and women who returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
A professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Coop will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
A screening of WABAN-AKI: People from Where the Sun Rises, by Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers.
The UW Percussion Ensemble performs a variety of contemporary music composed for metallophones, membranophones, and idiophones.
Part of the School of Drama’s series of readings called “Looking Up at Down: Plays from the Great Depression,” actors perform a staged reading S.
The extraordinary animated film based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novels about coming of age in Iran.
Dr. Anthony Atala led the Wake Forest team that developed the first lab-grown organ, a bladder. Atala will speak at the UW March 25
Childhood leukemia rates have more than doubled over the past 15 years in the southern Iraq province of Basrah, according to the study, “Trends in Childhood Leukaemia in Basrah, Iraq (1993-2007),” published online Feb.
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.
English Professor Shawn Wong and UW alumna Tanya Egan Gibson will discuss fiction, publishing and the differences between academic and creative writing.
Poet, critic, teacher and “sometime curator” Berkson will read from a new publication, Portrait and Dream.
It’s become a kind of mantra that in lean times, UW offices must do more with less — and this time of year, nowhere is that more true than at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The deadline for nominating an outstanding woman for the annual “Celebrating UW Women” has been extended to Friday, March 5.
Max Hunter, a former drug dealer, will explain how he came to accept violence as a legitimate tactic for achieving his ends and how he made a transition to nonviolent action in a lecture at 6 p.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: UW alumnus Wolf Bauer, legendary mountaineer, kayaker, environmental educator and conservationist, will be honored by the Washington state Legislature for his many achievements and for his 98th birthday on Friday, Feb.
Despite big changes over recent decades, workplace gender inequalities endure in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world.
As the world’s top athletes complete their competition in Vancouver, BC, a global competition of another kind is getting under way in Seattle — the sixth annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC).
The UW School of Music will offer a program of guitar music on Feb.
A five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan.