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The campus Cheerful Givers group — which helps homeless and low-income children celebrate birthdays by providing them gift bags — is holding a bag-filling workshop today, Nov.
Warren Wooster, who died Oct.
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet returns to the UW World Series Nov.
Student jazz and chamber music, a Chinese zither soloist and a Hindustani vocalist are among musical performances offered by the School of Music in coming days.
UW music students will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of two composers — Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen — with a performance of their works at 7:30 p.
Award-winning children’s author, illustrator and filmmaker Gerald McDermott will speak on Heroes & Tricksters: A Mythic Journey on Nov.
The UW Center for AIDS and STD will hold a research symposium from 9 a.
The University District Museum Without Walls volunteers and staff will host a meeting on Tuesday, Nov.
By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations
This past springtime I was cheerfully anticipating new work digs.
As obesity rates continue to rise in the United States — and related health care costs — UW researchers continue to offer findings that may offer some possible solutions, or explanations.
By Staishy Siem
News & Community Relations
UW Medical Center is scheduled to break ground this winter on the first phase of a two-part construction project designed to give the hospital much needed space for patient care.
The UW Photographers Group fall exhibition will be on display in the UW Medical Center’s Skylight Gallery from November 11 through December.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a contract to the UW to use systems biology approaches to comprehensively analyze and model the virus-host interactions and cellular response networks that are induced or altered during the course of acute respiratory virus infection.
A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease.
The inauguration of the new UW Medicine Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence will take place from 1:30 to 6 p.
Faculty and staff at the UW generally report that they are proud to work here and satisfied with their employment experience.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The School of Music’s first opera production this year proves that even back in 1777, humans were already thinking about going to the moon.
There are challenges in the foster care system and UW Professor Mark Courtney, a leading expert on U.
UW Bothell will celebrate the fall 2008 launch of its Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) Program with guest lecturer Toby Miller from 6 to 8:30 p.
It sounds like a tale straight from CSI: The bully invades a home and does away with the victim, then is ultimately found out with the help of DNA evidence.
Once upon a time, it was enough for University freshmen to get through first-year English composition courses.
The UW’s Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature was created in 1909 in response to community demand.
Marc Seales and friends will present an evening of jazz that draws heavily on Seales’ recent experiences in Paris, as well as his own take on songs of his youth at 7:30 p.
Journalism students from Russia and UW Tacoma got an up-close look at American-style journalism in action as election-night guests of the Tacoma-based News Tribune newspaper Nov.
In the second lecture of the “Lucy Talks” series, Katherine Taylor, a forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, will discuss the basics of her field and the science of reading bones.
Joseph Felsenstein, professor of Genome Sciences and of Biology at the UW, will speak on Evolutionary Trees, Coalescents and Gene Trees: Can Mathematicians Find the Woods? at 3:30 p.
Seattle winters all but guarantee buckets of rain, blustery winds and — unfortunately for stargazers — clouds, clouds, clouds.
The person who committed suicide in Red Square Oct.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The Fourth Annual UW Postdoctoral Association Research Symposium will be held from 2 to 5 p.
“The name Karen Ann Jenkins was recently added to the former masculine ranks of Environmental Health Specialists.
A study surveying patients in more than 1,500 physician practices has found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health care experiences, with minority patients having worse experiences than white patients.
It’s not unusual to see news headlines related to salmonella outbreaks, avian flu concerns or mad cow disease.
One of the seminal statistical thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries, Sir David Cox, will present the Department of Biostatistics’ Norman E.
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Many of those who enjoy Halloween will find a scary and unwanted bonus: a crop of cavities on their next visit to the dentist.
Twenty-one students from the Yakima Valley area sampled the oral health profession on Saturday at the School of Dentistry’s annual Dental Camp.