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April 25, 2013
Arts Roundup: Student music and art, a staged Western — and wind ensemble (with tuba)
Art students show their work, music students play jazz with famous guests, the Burke invites all for a celebration of Salish Coast art, and more.
Also, the School of Music’s Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band unite for an evening of music featuring a tuba concerto, of course.
Astronomer studies far-off worlds through ‘characterization by proxy’
A UW astronomer is using Earth’s interstellar neighbors to learn the nature of certain stars too far away to be directly measured or observed, and the planets they may host.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • Department of Astronomy • planetary science • Sarah Ballard
Keeping beverages cool in summer: It’s not just the heat, it’s the humidity
Drops forming on the outside of your drink don’t just make the can slippery. Experiments show that in hot, humid weather, condensation heats a drink more than the surrounding air.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Dale Durran • Dargan Frierson • Department of Atmospheric Sciences
UW students pitch business plans in competition
April 24, 2013
Air pollution may harden arteries
Carlos Gil tells family story in memoir, ‘We Became Mexican American’
A conversation with Carlos Gil, UW professor emeritus of history and author of the memoir “We Became Mexican American.”
Tag(s): books • Carlos Gil • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Q&AApril 23, 2013
A greener concrete? UW-led coalition seeks to reduce concrete’s carbon footprint
Concrete is used to build streets, bridges, buildings, dams and driveways — and it lasts a very long time — but what if concrete could be made with a 50 percent smaller carbon footprint?
Tag(s): architecture • Carbon Leadership Forum • Department of Architecture • Kate Simonen
Workers Memorial Day event takes place April 24 at HUB Lyceum
The 65 workers who died from job-related injuries or illnesses in Washington state this past year will be remembered at a UW event promoting safer workplaces.
Tag(s): Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences • Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies • School of Public Health • workplace safety
Robots, solar-powered cars at Engineering Discovery Days, April 26-27
Engineering Discovery Days is April 26-27 at the UW campus and will feature exhibits and demonstrations from engineering departments and student groups.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Engineering Discovery DaysApril 22, 2013
Professor of computer science and engineering remembered through UW scholarship fund
David Notkin, University of Washington professor of computer science and engineering, died April 22. He was 58.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • David Notkin • Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
New book explores fragile status of world’s penguins
Wayne C. Roth, president and general manager of KUOW, to retire after 30 years
Wayne C. Roth, president and general manager of KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, has announced that he will retire this September.
News Digest: Husky Green Awards, oceanbound on Earth Day, join Trash-in Wednesday, spring-clean your inbox
Husky Green Awards announced at kick-off || Expedition oceanbound on Earth Day || Annual ‘UW Trash-In’ event Wednesday || Tips to spring-clean your inbox
‘Rare Earth’ redux: Moon is key to our existence
April 19, 2013
Roboticists discover the secret of insect flight
A UW biologist is among scientists who have found that the abdominal movements of some insects play a large role in flight control.
April 18, 2013
HuskyFest, Earth Day activities fill Red Square Friday
Join in Friday during HuskyFest and kick-off activities for Earth Day.
Arts Roundup: Drama, art — and a student-run jazz festival
The School of Drama continues its Western, music Professor Robin McCabe and sister Rachelle McCabe perform works for piano, and jazzman Bill Frisell visits for the fifth-annual IMPfest.
Astronomers discover five-planet system with most Earth-like exoplanet yet
A University of Washington astronomer has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system by the Kepler Space Telescope.
Tag(s): astronomy & astrophysics • Department of AstronomyApril 17, 2013
A key to mass extinctions could boost food, biofuel production
A substance implicated in several mass extinctions could greatly enhance plant growth, with implications for global food supplies biofuels, new UW research shows.
Tag(s): clean or renewable energy • College of Arts & Sciences • College of the Environment • Department of Biology • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • food productionApril 15, 2013
Preparing to install the world’s largest underwater observatory
Engineers at the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory are under pressure to build and test parts for installation this summer in the world’s largest deep-ocean observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts.
Tag(s): Applied Physics Laboratory • College of the Environment • Deborah Kelley • Gary Harkins • Geoff Cram • John Delaney • Ocean Observatories Initiative • School of Oceanography
Jon Huntsman selected as UW Commencement speaker
Jon Huntsman, who has spent more than two decades in public service, will be the featured speaker at the UW’s 2013 Commencement exercises
High glucose levels could impair ferroelectricity in body’s connective tissues
Researchers found that a protein in organs that repeatedly stretch and retract can lose their functionality when exposed to sugar.
Tag(s): College of Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Jiangyu LiApril 14, 2013
Recent Antarctic climate, glacier changes at the ‘upper bound’ of normal
In recent decades the thinning of glaciers at the edge of Antarctica has accelerated, but new UW-led research indicates the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.
Tag(s): climate change • College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • polar scienceApril 12, 2013
Celebrating Earth Day at the Arboretum
New device could cut costs on household products, pharmaceuticals
A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers money, particularly for some soap products.
Tag(s): Alice Dohnalkova • Amy Shen • College of Engineering • Department of Mechanical Engineering • Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tsunami debris could be found in Washington’s annual beach cleanup
The annual beach cleanup may turn up new items from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan more than two years ago and sent objects to the Washington coast.
Tag(s): Ian Miller • oceanography • Washington Sea Grant
Airlift Northwest will station a Turbo Commander aircraft in Juneau
The new Turbo Commander aircraft will allow the medical transport service to reach more people living in outlying rural areas of Southwest Alaska.
Tag(s): Airlift Northwest • Alaska • Chris Martin • UW MedicineApril 11, 2013
Arts Roundup: Music, art — and a Western from the School of Drama
This week brings art exhibits, lectures and several events from the UW School of Music, and the School of Drama wrangles the Western genre for a six-part, ensemble-created show.
Space-age domes offer a window on ocean acidification
At Friday Harbor Labs, students are conducting a three-week study on the effects of ocean acidification using a strategy that’s midway between a controlled lab test and an open-ocean experiment.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Friday Harbor Laboratories • James Murray • ocean acidification • School of Oceanography
Senate confirms Sally Jewell as Interior secretary
UW musician finds key to solving saxophone discord
Tuberculosis fighter and promoter reveals what’s behind its split identity
Latest research findings suggest the possibility of reverting TB hyper-susceptibility to TB hyper-resistance.
Tag(s): infectious disease • Lalita Ramakrishnan • microbes and virusesApril 10, 2013
Burke Museum Herbarium launches new wildflower app
The “Washington Wildflowers” app, out this week, includes information for more than 870 common wildflowers, shrubs and vines.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • UW Herbarium
Bringing art to Arctic narwhal research
April 8, 2013
News Digest: Police department open house, Magnuson scholars named, ethics of health care ‘migration’
Police department open house April 17 || 2013 Magnuson Scholars named || Bioethicists to discuss ethics of health care ‘migration’
New book explores Harry Truman’s record on civil liberties
A few questions for Richard Kirkendall, UW professor emeritus of history and editor of the new book, “Civil Liberties and the Legacy of Harry S. Truman.”
Tag(s): books • College of Arts & Sciences • Department of History • Q&AApril 5, 2013
World renowned brain cancer researcher to join UW Medicine
Neurosurgeon Eric Holland has been recruited to establish a preeminent brain cancer program at UW Medicine and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute.
Tag(s): Alvord Chair • cancer • Eric Holland • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center • neuroscience & brain scienceApril 4, 2013
Explore global health through the arts during Global Health Week
Dance, photography, cinema, theater and music will convey how the arts can make a difference in public health.
Tag(s): ArtsUW • Department of Global Health • School of Medicine • School of Public Health
Arts Roundup: Music, art, fiction — and the Burke Museum’s ‘Coast Salish Weekend’
There’s much to see and hear on campus as spring quarter begins — music. art, lectures and fiction — even though the true campus stars are the cherry blossoms.
Tag(s): Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture • Henry Art Gallery • Meany Center for the Performing Arts • School of Art + Art History + Design • School of Drama
Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity (audio)
A UW physicist has used new satellite data to update his decade-old recreation of the sound of the Big Bang at the birth of the universe.
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