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January 29, 2009
UW staffer and her puppets head to Bangladesh to teach kids about tooth care
Mrs.
Coming up
Library Lecture Series: “Chronic Pain Is a Disease in its Own Right” will be the topic when Dr.
Seattle’s striking history comes into focus with year-long celebration
Ninety years ago Seattle shut down.
Talking about teaching, twice-monthly at the UW Club
Teaching is on the menu at the UW Club twice a month.
Trapsters — dragsters built using mousetraps — race at School of Art
Students in Magnus Feil’s industrial design classes built mousetrap-powered cars, called them trapsters, and raced them last Wednesday — and the world beat a path to their door.
UW alumna Wendy Yamashita returns to perform Jan. 31
School of Music alumna and pianist Wendy Yamashita will return to the UW for a visiting artist recital at 5 p.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
EXPERIMENTAL EXCELLENCE: Geoffrey Boynton, associate professor of psychology whose research interest is in the neural correlates of human visual perception, is the recipient of the Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
Media Center offers Puget Sounds, Netflix for instructors and more
Art rock.
Where do children learn science? Everywhere, new research shows
While talking about his recent research, Philip Bell of the College of Education tells a story about a girl who loved to play with the mortar and pestle her grandmother used for cooking when the two visited every Saturday, and how that interest evolved.
Series examines how new technology transforms way we see planet
Miles Logsdon, a UW oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb.
January 28, 2009
Annual Faculty Lecture.
Annual Faculty Lecture.
January 26, 2009
How to snowshoe.
How to snowshoe.
January 24, 2009
Wagner and Mahler.
The Seattle-based Lake Union Civic Orchestra is joined by baritone soloist Clayton Brainerd.
The World in Your Cup.
Opening events for the Burke Museum’s new exhibit, Coffee: The World in Your Cup.
January 23, 2009
Job seeking in 2009.
Part of the 10th annual Career Discovery Week, the full name of the event is “Job Seeking 2009: The Cold Hard Truth & What You Can Do About It.
January 22, 2009
Study questions our understanding of early TB infection
Tuberculosis bacteria can commandeer the body’s defenses in the early stages of infection and redirect them for their own offensive strategies, according to results reported Jan.
Witnesses to genocide: Program presents interviews with Rwandan tribunal
Chief Prosecutor Hassan Jallow has confronted individuals responsible for masterminding hundreds of thousands of deaths in Rwanda.
MathAcrossCampus.
Martin Grotschel of the Technical University of Berlin presents “Combinatorial Optimization in Action,” part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium series, given by high-level researchers and are open to all.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Visiting scholar to lecture on antisemitism
Antisemitism: An Eternal Hatred? is the title of a lecture by Steven Beller slated for noon Tuesday, Jan.
Charles Hirschman to address immigration in Faculty Lecture
Forget the Mayflower, the Daughters of the American Revolution and even the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
UW continues to lead U.S. universities in contributing Peace Corps volunteers
UW graduate students Shella Biallas and Chami Arachchi found multiple reasons to join the Peace Corps.
Concerto Competition winners solo with the UW Symphony Jan. 29
The UW Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.
School of Public Health name shortened
On Jan.
UWPD places officer in HUB for lunchtime outreach
Do you have questions about crime prevention or campus safety? Maybe about bike registration or how to secure your electronic equipment?
An officer of the UW Police is now on hand to help for two hours at lunchtime every day — from 11:15 a.
Surgery checklist proves worth in worldwide study
A year-long World Health Organization pilot program in eight hospitals around the world–including UW Medical Center — has proven conclusively that inpatient deaths can be significantly reduced, along with the rate of major complications after surgery, by following a simple checklist.
President Obama’s Dreams from My Father named Common Book for 2009
It seems fitting that in this week of change and inaugural excitement, the UW’s next Common Book should be new President Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Mini-Medical School begins Feb. 3
UW Medicine’s Mini-Medical School, a six-session evening program offered each year at the UW, will begin on Feb.
Career Discovery Week has information for current staff members, too
Career Discovery Week has been a yearly event at the UW for a decade, but this year for the first time a “staff track” will be offered, filled with sessions that might appeal to the already-employed.
New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Tree death rate in Pacific Northwest doubled in 17 years
Trees are dying twice as fast as they did three decades ago in older forests of the western United States and scientists suspect warming temperatures are a contributing factor.
Coming up
Dr.
‘Astronaut-food approach’ to medical testing: Dehydrated, wallet-sized malaria tests promise better diagnoses in developing world
Researchers at the UW have developed a prototype malaria test printed on a disposable Mylar card that could easily slip into your wallet and still work when you took it out, even months later.
Enthusiastic audiences attend Martin Luther King Jr. tributes
Programs at Harborview Medical Center on Jan.
Caffeine fix: The Burke kicks off Coffee Jan. 24 and 25
What’s the story behind your cup of coffee? As the top coffee consumers in the country, most Seattleites can spot a coffee vendor from a mile away.
Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people’s behavior
The old real estate maxim “location, location, location” also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people.
January 21, 2009
Jenny Lewis solo.
Jenny Lewis solo.
January 20, 2009
President Barack Obama.
Join the campus community to watch Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States.
Vatican lecture series.
The first in a five-part series titled “The Vatican in the 20th Century: The Popes Confront a Turbulent World” presented by James Ramon Felak, associate professor of history.
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