The latest news from the UW

Commuter Services is seeking to increase parking and U-PASS rates to help financially sustain the U-PASS program.

Sandra Soderlund, a professor of organ and harpsichord at Mills College in Oakland, Calif.

Zensi, a research startup that uses simple technology to monitor electricity and water use in the home, has been acquired by international electronics company Belkin.

The Professional Staff Organization will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Wednesday, April 28, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane — the place where it all began.

The satirical admonition to “vote early and often” takes on new significance as the UW competes for a grant to help preserve the Theodor Jacobsen Observatory.

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

Mary Levin UW Police Officer Patrick Gilbert (right) demonstrates striking locations for the use of a collapsible baton with Officer Tom Warwick in the annual Citizens Academy class on Wednesday, April 14. The 10-week class continues through June 2.

Are there genes that eliminate the side-effects of popularly used antibiotics? Is there a link between Facebook usage and psychological disorders? How does racial socialization within African-American families impact identity? Can we efficiently utilize piezoelectric and servo energy harvesting systems to reduce E-waste?

Such questions and more will be addressed by UW faculty or students at the 18th annual Pacific Northwest Ronald E.

Make your plans to walk with your UW colleagues in the “March for Babies” on Saturday, May 15, at Seattle Center.

The problem: The Seattle International Film Festival had been using social media to spread the word about its films, but efforts had been piecemeal rather than highly organized.

Eight individuals, groups and projects were recognized on Earth Day as the first-ever winners of Husky Green Awards.

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Schools of choice, also known as charter schools, bring out fierce debate among parents, teachers, legislators and administrators — a whole slew of people.

Just in time for Earth Day, the UW has been rated one of the 15 “greenest” colleges in the country by Princeton Review.

UW Extension is changing its name, and will henceforth be called UW Professional & Continuing Education, or PCE for short.

Mexican performer Laura Rebolloso will present a concert at 7:30 p.

AEROSOLS AND CLIMATE UW Atmospheric Sciences Professor Robert Charlson, who has spent decades researching the effects of tiny airborne particles called aerosols on climate, has been selected to deliver the third Bert Bolin Lecture in Climate Research at the University of Stockholm in Sweden.

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A UW faculty member whose inventions led to the use of yeast cells to make pharmaceutically important proteins and another professor who studies human impacts on world fisheries and the global ocean environment have been named fellows by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Years in the planning, the replacement of the UW’s Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) is set to begin this winter and finish in 2012 — and the center’s many patrons could not be more pleased.

The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media will present an evening of new electronic and computer music, featuring Swedish guitar virtuoso Stefan Ostersjo, at 7:30 p.

Spring has brought good news to the UW’s Disability Studies Program: It has a new administrative home in the College of Arts & Sciences and received a major donation, too.

Just don’t say “opposites attract.

Two UW graduate students in the School of Art raised $2,000 for charity last November with their Hello Poster Show at the Parnassus Cafe, an exhibit of posters each bearing that friendly greeting.

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

UW researchers have gathered evidence that dangerous plaques in blood vessels can rupture by overproducing protein-digesting enzymes.

Each year six students, one each from the UW health sciences schools, are selected for this award

The books are Gender Equality: Transforming Family Divisions of Labor and Gendered Tradeoffs: Family, Social Policy and Economic Inequality in Twenty-one Countries.

You may not have noticed them, but the campus is home to a small group of great blue herons who have built nests in trees south of Drumheller Fountain for the past three years.