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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.

As of this week, the Huskies are officially part of Leon, Spain.

In honor of Better Hearing and Speech Month, the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic is offering free hearing screenings and 10 percent off the purchase of the following products:

• Ear plugs for hearing protection and noise reduction used for sleeping in noisy environments: $117 + tax
  
• Musician’s ear plugs that reduce the volume but not the quality of the music, (includes one set of filters): $180 + tax
  
• Swimmer’s ear plugs: $117 + tax
  
• Custom ear plugs for personal listening devices: $117 + tax

For an appointment, call 206-543-5440.

UW staffer Jennifer Munro was born and raised in Hawaii, land of sun and surf.

Students of Michael Partington will present music highlighting the intersection of classical and popular music, and the influence of folk traditions, in a program titled Guitar Ensemble: To the Beatles and Beyond.

The UW Ethnomusicology Student Association of the School of Music will present its annual concert of music from around the world, showcasing the musical talents of students in the Ethnomusicology program, at 7:30 p.

Given the fierce debates about K–12 education spending in recent decades, it is surprising that so little is known about the connection between spending and outcomes — in effect, why a doubling of money spent on public schools the past 30 years has yielded only slight improvements in student achievement.

The UW-trained thoracic surgeon is internationally recognized for her work in detecting and treating lung cancer and asbestos-related lung d

Jen Caldwell worked her way through the UW, holding multiple jobs to cover rent, food and tuition.

Seattle’s first-ever “bioblitz” gets under way this month, and naturalists, kayakers and other volunteers are needed to look for as many birds, plants, lichens, spiders, mollusks, frogs and other species as possible in the Washington Park Arboretum during a single 24-hour period.

The close-knit community that is the UW’s Experimental Education Unit is marking its 40th birthday and the end of an era this spring — its longtime leader Jennifer Annable is leaving after 25 years with the school.

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

Tara Brown loves to take pictures.

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.