The latest news from the UW

The Dance Program’s final concert of the season, featuring MFA artists who bring rich professional histories to their work at the UW.

Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales, Tom Collier, Cuong Vu, and Phil Sparks will pay homage to jazz icons with new arrangements of the classics and break new ground with original progressive jazz compositions.

Join the fun and enjoy food, networking, tours, music, career development, and more.

Students and faculty from the School of Music Voice Division, along with Peter Eros and the University Symphony, present songs and arias from the opera repertoire.

Students of Michael Partington present a program of music that highlights the influence of folk and popular music in classical composition and arrangements.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

The UW AIDS Clinical Trials Unit will be hosting an HIV Research Open House on Tuesday, June 8 from noon to 3 p.

Class title: ARCHY 101: Archaeology in Film, taught by Ben Marwick, an assistant professor of anthropology.

Provost Phyllis Wise spoke about the budget and the University’s vision for the future at a Town Hall on Tuesday, May 11.

UW Tacoma Chancellor Patricia Spakes has announced that she will step down as chancellor in July 2011.

May 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.

The NE 45th Street Viaduct connecting the west end of NE 45th Street with University Village and points east will be closed to drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists from June 14 to Sept.

The UW Bothell celebrates its 20th year of operations in 2009-10 and reflects on its history of accomplishment at a campus celebration and open house.

Nearly 750 of the UW’s most talented and accomplished undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the Thirteenth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium from noon to 5 p.

For the fourth time in as many years, representatives of area Native American tribes will gather at the UW to discuss issues important to the indigenous community.

One doesn’t usually get previews of coming attractions for orchestras, but this year anyone interested in attending one of the upcoming concerts by the American String Project can get a preview online.

Poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg will present the annual Roethke reading, sponsored by the Department of English, at 8 p.

An Evening with author Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World: the Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World.

At first glance, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche may not seem like a good subject for a musical.

The MFA Dance Concert will be presented May 20-23 in Meany Studio Theater.

They’ll be writing on the walls, dancing on the lawn and roller-skating on the ballroom’s hardwood floors in coming days to say goodbye to the Husky Student Union, the HUB, before its two-year remodel.

A new era in UW student housing began Wednesday afternoon, with the official groundbreaking on a long-term student housing construction project that will add living space for more than 2,000 students by the year 2020, at no cost to taxpayers.

Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.