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The Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet, the resident woodwind quintet of the United States Air Force Band, will give a free recital of chamber music at 7:30 p.
The last full week of September brought the UW the largest number of economic stimulus awards in a single week: 40 of them, adding up to almost $14 million.
About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far.
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the UW at a formal academic convocation at 3:30 p.
Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, will deliver a free public lecture on The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation at 6:30 p.
SCIENCE INTO ART: UW oceanographer Neil Banas will have the rare experience of having his scientific data turned into art this weekend.
A partnership between the UW and the Italian sports car company Automobili Lamborghini has been formalized, and the presidents of both organizations attended the naming ceremony of the UW’s Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory this week.
Cesar Chavez and California’s San Joaquin Valley are what come to most people’s minds when farmworkers’ struggles for decent wages and working conditions are mentioned.
When Lauren Jorelle was a UW student, she went to Indonesia as part of a field study program sponsored by the Washington National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychology.
The UW has received a $283,400 grant from the U.
Many cities across North America have community gardens, but only Seattle and a few others include them in urban planning — and it’s helped them thrive.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The Henry Art Gallery’s new Digital Interactive Galleries will give the public an unprecedented level of detail and context about some of the museum’s key subcollections.
Martin Jaffee’s “Jewish radar” is failing him, and he believes it’s a sign of the times, at least on America’s West Coast.
Sara Krajewski, associate curator, is the first to give voice in the Henry Art Gallery’s new show, Vortexhibition Polyphonica, but other curatorial voices — including your own, if you like — will follow, prompting the exhibit to transform.
After a four-year process, the UW Libraries has completed a project to identify and preserve the most important Washington state agriculture, forestry and fishery literature published between 1820 and 1945.
POLLUTION PONZI: David Barash, UW professor of psychology, frequently contributes to The Chronicle Review, the magazine of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.
Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve,” is how Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at UW Bothell.
President Mark Emmert will deliver his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
The UW is creating a display at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park that illustrates how projected changes in sea level due to climate change could affect Seattle’s waterfront, as well as other more vulnerable waterfront cities elsewhere in the world.
The UW Department of Communication is partnering with Town Hall in Seattle to present a four-part lecture series on journalism, digital media and civic engagement.
UWTV, the UW’s television station and production facility, is reshaping itself to occupy a more central role in portraying what happens at the UW to the rest of the world.
The UW Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day from 2 to 5 p.
Dana Robinson Slote is not your average triathlete.
One of the newest faces on campus is also the face of a new era in legal education.
The UW Combined Fund Drive, the UW’s workplace giving campaign, will kick off its 25th anniversary with a Charity Fair from 11 a.
Learn about refinancing, home equity loans, reverse mortgages, how to avoid predatory lenders and more.
A performance, and a discussion of Fandango Sin Fronteras, a movement of musicians and organizers in Veracruz and California building a transnational community dedicated to social justice.
The Place of the Falling Waters, a powerful documentary about the Salish and Kootenia tribal histories and the building of the Kerr hydropower dam on Montana’s Flathead Lake, will be shown at 6:30 p.
Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise will talk about his incredible experiences and present this year’s Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award.
Be the first to view the new Henry exhibition Vortexhibition Polyphonica, an unusual and dynamic approach to exhibiting objects from the Henry’s permanent collection.
Two departmental chairs at the School of Dentistry have announced that they will be stepping down from their posts.
Judith Yarrow
Health Promotion Research Center
For the past 10 years, Dr.
What’s it like to live and work in Antarctica, the world’s coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent on Earth? A new traveling exhibit coming to the Burke Museum called Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey explores the question through the dramatic, large-format photography of Joan Myers, who spent more than a year on the frigid continent.
By Chris Tachibana
Special to UW Health Sciences
Even before classes started, the first suspected cases of H1N1 influenza hit campus.
By Mary Guiden, News and Community Relations
& Catherine O’Donnell, News and Information
The money continues to roll in.
Does caffeine reduce the risk of skin cancer? Research suggests that consuming caffeine in coffee and other beverages may lower the risk of skin cancer.