The latest news from the UW

We’ve come a long way from Marian the librarian.

In an effort to steer the campus community toward its other restaurants when the HUB closes, UW Housing & Food Services is offering an “all you can eat” lunch option for $6.

For the first time, U-PASS members at the UW who are between 18 and 20 years old can join Zipcar and take advantage of Zipcar discount memberships through U-PASS.

On June 8, World Oceans Day, Washington Sea Grant launched Washington on Water (WOW), a new website to help teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade zero in on marine education resources available statewide.

So you have an old U.

A new online study to help people quit smoking is being launched at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

As a public health student, performing artist Michaela Leslie-Rule filmed the views of Tanzanian women on intimate partner violence and gen

According to a 2007 study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, teamwork breakdowns, such as lack of supervision and patient hand-off problems, account for 70 percent of errors by medical trainees.

Andrew Whiteman is looking at a photograph of Japanese macaque monkeys languishing comfortably in steaming hot pools.

This special reading features Paul Martinez Pompa, reading from his first full-length collection of poetry, My Kill Adore Him; and Aaron Michael Morales, reading from his first novel, Drowning Tuscon.

Opening reception for the Burke Museum’s latest exhibit, the International Conservation Photography Awards.

Laura Baker, assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the UW Medical School, speaks on Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: First Signs and Beyond.

The UW’s 135th Commencement.

The Speak to Succeed Toastmasters Club will hold an open house.

The University Symphony performs Bach with faculty artist Carole Terry on harpsichord, and students sing in the UW Recital Choir.

Find out Friday, June 18, what UW scientists learned from their instruments and being on board a sailing ship that traveled 28,000 miles, all the way around North and South America.

A UW expert on climate change and planning for its consequences — someone whose advice has been sought at every level from the local Puget Sound basin to the international Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — will ask the question Whither Ocean Governance? Is Effective Management the Holy Grail? in a special lecture Friday, June 4.

The UW is moving to a process whereby admissions decisions are not made until all applications have been received and assessed.

A species of fish with rare, forward-facing eyes like humans and a body colored with swirls of tan and peach zebra stripes has made the list of top 10 new species.

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New rates begin July 1 for Fleet Services

On July 1, new Fleet Services rates will go into effect.

THE VALUE OF ETHNIC STUDIES: James Banks, professor of education and director of the UW Center for Multicultural Education, discussed the teaching of ethnic studies on a recent segment of National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation series.

LIFETIME ACHIEVER: Psychology Professor Alan Marlatt will receive the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy’s Career/Lifetime Achievement Award at the Association’s convention in San Francisco in mid-November.

When the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences was formed 40 years ago, Peter Breysse was one of its founding faculty members.

Ask a Bonderman travel fellow where she is going — or where he has been — and settle in for a fascinating conversation.

The 2010 Undergraduate Bonderman Fellows are Zachary Triber Brown, Joseph Andrew Cramer, Autumn Cutter, Luke Jensen, Brittany Ann Lichty, Nina Tan, and Alex Win.