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News from Legislature: Few gains but few losses, Hodgins says

The best news coming from the current legislative session, set to end March 13, may be no news at all, according to Director of State Relations Randy Hodgins.

This is not a drill: The earth actually is moving beneath western Washington

While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.

’24’: A night of music from wind ensemble, bands on March 11

The UW Wind Ensemble and symphonic, concert and campus bands will perform works by H.

Brechemin Scholarship Concert March 7

Student recipients of the UW School of Music’s prestigous Brechemin Scholarship will perform in concert at 7 p.

Scenes from operas classic and new in School of Music’s Opera workshop March 13

The UW School of Music’s Opera Workshop will present scenes from several operas at 7:30 p.

UWPD Citizens Academy coming Wednesdays, April 2 to June 4

With concerns about campus safety ever-present in the news, UW Police Crime Prevention Officer Warren Bresko says the department’s Citizens Academy makes particularly good sense.

Gospel and jazz singing featured in School of Music concerts March 8, 10

Gospel and jazz singing will be presented by the School of Music in two upcoming concerts.

Art show, ‘open stage’ planned by Filipino American group

Makipag, a student organization designed to support and inspire artistic expression among Filipino Americans, will host an art show and an “open stage” event at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre on Sunday, March 9.

Got a complaint? Help is available in several places

If you are a UW employee with a workplace issue, you have several options for finding help.

Celebration of life planned for UWB’s Jane Decker

The UW Bothell invites the community to honor one of its founding faculty members, Jane Decker, at a celebration of life event at 10 a.

Paul Jenny chosen as UW’s vice provost for planning and budgeting

Paul E.

Shah wins Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship

Sonali K.

UW president selected as member of Council on Foreign Relations

UW President Mark A.

Mother-daughter conflict, low serotonin level may be deadly combination

A combination of negative mother-daughter relationships and low blood levels of serotonin, an important brain chemical for mood stability, may be lethal for adolescent girls, leaving them vulnerable to engage in self-harming behaviors such as cutting themselves.

Students polish language skills by performing plays in Spanish

Students in Donald Gilbert-Santamaria’s Spanish 449 Class are learning by playing this quarter.

Class Notes: Learning by teaching, writing and service

Class titles: What We Know and How We Know it; Teaching What We Know and Serving Others with What We Know — a three-term sequence in Undergraduate Honors, taught by Frances McCue, writer in residence in the Undergraduate Honors Program and part-time lecturer in the College of Education.

Then and Now: The events surrounding Gerbfest, June 1995

William P.

Mystery Photos

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

Building community campuswide with faculty/staff groups

The “C” in LCVI stands for community.

Leila Haddad & the Ghawazee Musicians of Luxor Perform at Meany Hall

Leila Haddad & the Ghawazee Musicians of Luxor perform in Meany Hall at 8 p.

Architect was inspired by television’s talking horse

Jim Nicholls thinks that maybe he became an architect because of Mister Ed.

UW, Pacific Science Center expand Polar Science Weekend activities

Smash ice, turn your tongue into a salinometer to experience how saltiness differs in the world’s oceans, explore an igloo and field camp, predict polar climate, dive into the world of oceanographic moorings and get your hands on real scientific instruments during the third annual Polar Science Weekend today through Sunday at Pacific Science Center.

Naturalist to speak March 7 at Suzzallo

UW Libraries and the UW Alumni Association present Lyanda Lynn Haupt at 7 p.

U District ‘Museum Without Walls’ Seeks Community Input

Do you consider yourself a community activist? Have you ever participated in a political or social protest? Do you have a story to tell about activism in the University District? These are questions being asked by the University Arts and Heritage Committee as it begins a project called University District Museum Without Walls.

Opera star, 100-voice combined choirs, symphony combine for ‘A Sea Symphony’ March 14

World-renowned opera performer Jane Eaglen will make her UW School of Music performance debut, along with Northwest tenor Gregory Carroll, when Peter Eros conducts the 100-voice combined choirs and University Symphony in A Sea Symphony, Vaughan Williams’ evocative tour de force for choir, soloists and orchestra.

UW Chorale sings with Seattle Symphony, Marvin Hamlisch

The UW Chorale will make its Seattle Symphony debut in March in an American musical theater extravaganza conducted by Seattle Symphony’s newly appointed Principal Pops Conductor, Marvin Hamlisch.

February 28, 2008

‘Galloping Gourmet’ promotes healthy eating

Graham Kerr is best known as The Galloping Gourmet, his on-air personality for a television program broadcast in the United States and 37 other countries from 1969 to 1971 on the Public Broadcasting Service.

Bacteria in women may slow HIV transmission

Beneficial bacteria found in healthy women help to reduce the amount of vaginal HIV among HIV-infected women and make it more difficult for the virus to spread, boosting the possibility that good bacteria might someday be tapped in the fight against HIV.

Wataha takes the helm of Restorative Dentistry

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UWMC’s room service scores high marks

Launched in late October, UWMC’s room service program is already receiving high marks from patients.

Health Sciences in brief

New HMC building honors Norm Maleng

The Metropolitan King County Council voted this month to name the new building at Harborview Medical Center in honor of former King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng.

World War II era Japanese American students get honorary degrees

The UW Board of Regents on Feb.

Bells will be ringing in Gerberding tower this spring

Construction is beginning this week to make way for a set of eight bells to be installed in the tower of Gerberding Hall.

Etc: Campus News & Notes

ASIA ELITE: Law Professor Anita Ramasastry has been named a member of the 2008 Class of Asia 21 Fellows, one of 23 new fellows identified by the Asia Society.

Toward restructuring the Faculty Senate

“The Faculty Senate accomplishes little and its leaders are inept” is the sort of muttering one hears among University faculty and others.