The latest news from the UW

Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent is the title of a lecture by Scott Sampson, a dinosaur paleontologist and host of the popular PBS KIDS show Dinosaur Train, set for 7 p.

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

Spending time outdoors during poor air quality days can pose a serious health risk.

Her Albert Schweitzer Foundation fellowship will take place at Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon, West Central Africa.

Student teams analyzed a disease state and drug treatments, and presented their findings and recommendations to the judges.

Medic One, founded more than 40 years ago, continues to set the standard for paramedic training and pre-hospital emergency care

Williams will speak today, May 13, on the biomedical, social, and enviromental determinants of reproductive health.

Sy Montgomery and Brenda Petersen are best-selling natural history writers and longtime friends who weave animals into their narratives of travel and discovery.

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.

Join Provost Phyllis Wise for a town hall meeting where discussion will be about the accomplishments and challenges faced of this academic year.

The Center of Women’s Sports Medicine and Lifetime Fitness presents the second annual Mother & Daughter 5K Fun Run/Walk.

The Huskies return to the field as the reigning 2009 National Champions with 2009 U.

The Center for Human Rights celebrates its inaugural year with people and organizations from the three UW campuses and beyond who are contributing to the promotion of human rights.

A daylong conference marking the 20th anniversary of the UW as a multicampus institution.

Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town hall meeting at 3:30 p.

Forests giving way to commercial development and housing is creating more impervious surfaces — such as streets, roofs and parking lots — and generating more storm runoff that is eroding streams and carrying a chemical brew into Puget Sound.

Words and numbers are often seen as incompatible interests, but not in Stuart Anderson’s world.

Day on the savannah is an inheld breath

between the brief, cool pants of dawn and dusk,

a tawny silence aching to be broken

by any sharp sound.

Ian Buruma, Henry R.

BOOK DOGS: It’s long been suspected that children become better readers when they read aloud, even to dogs.

Board of Regents

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

By 2050, according to the United Nations, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities.

ARCHAEOLOGY ARTISTS: The Burke Museum Archaeology Division was awarded the prestigious John D Spellman Award for Exemplary Achievement in Historic Preservation for 2010 by the King County Landmarks Commission.

What makes UW basketball fans so devoted they’ll camp on concrete for a chance to get on national television? What does the UW’s Lamborghini Lab have to do with Husky baseball? And how does the Husky gridiron gang stay fit in the off-season?

UWTV and UW Athletics will deliver a fresh behind-the-scenes look at Husky athletes and sports programs in a new monthly television show, Dawg Dish on UWTV, channel 27 in the Puget Sound, and <A href="http://www.

Martin Jacques, the author of When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World, will speak from 7 to 9 p.

The Arboretum Foundation and the UW Botanic Gardens Education Department will once again host their popular annual Mother’s Day event at the Arboretum, on Sunday, May 9, from 1 to 4 p.

While many on campus may not have noticed, four Transportation Services units — Commuter Services, Transportation Improvement, Shared Services and Transportation Administration — moved into a new home at the end of March.

When UW Assistant Vice President for Regional Affairs Theresa Doherty’s sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she of course wanted to help.

The UW Center for Multicultural Education will present Patricia A.

Ben London, executive director of the Pacific Northwest chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, will speak at the next meeting of the Voice Foundation, Northwest chapter, which is open to the public.

It’s opera time again at the School of Music.

UW junior and Federal Way native Alexandra Herndon received the 2010 United Negro College Fund/Merck Science Initiative Award, an honor that includes up to $25,000 in scholarships, as well as the opportunity to take part in two summer research internships.