May 6, 2010
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.
The Arsenic Century by UW medical historian Dr.
Yvonne Haddad of Georgetown University, author of several publications on Muslim and Christian relations, speaks on Demystifying the Orient: Arab-American Christian Scholars and Study of the Middle East.
Pacific Science Center visitors blast away at acid and bacteria in 3-D game, ‘Attack of the S. Mutans.’
The most comprehensive assessment to date of global adult mortality appears today, April 30, in The Lancet .
UW music students perform works for piano.
May 5, 2010
The UW professor of piano in concert, playing Schubert’s last three sonatas.
May 4, 2010
Bruce Cumings, professor of history at the University of Chicago, explores the relationship between the U.
May 3, 2010
May 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.
The city of Leon has lent 9,000 square feet, rent free, in El Palacio del Conde de Luna.
Public Hearing on Proposed U-PASS and parking rate changes for FY 2011.
May 2, 2010
Now in its third year.
May 1, 2010
Husky Baseball at Safeco Field sees its fourth year.
The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences present this event discussing current advances in mental health.
A Cinco de Mayo Celebration.
April 30, 2010
High-income countries such as the United States trail countries that spend less on health care, including Costa Rica, Tunisia, and Albania
April 29, 2010
UW faculty pianist Craig Sheppard will perform Franz Schubert’s last three piano sonatas in his annual faculty recital, at 7:30 p.
The Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase gives everyone the chance to experience first-hand the UW’s best educators.
Hearing the word health research probably brings to mind white-coated workers doing mysterious things with lab equipment, with any benefits to the public years down the line.
The social work discipline has been around for a century.
On April 27 President Mark Emmert wrote to the campus community and dropped a bombshell:
“It is with very mixed emotions that I am writing to let you know that today I have accepted the presidency of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
There are no comic book shops in Russia, says Jose Alaniz, assistant professor of Slavic Languages and Literature — no deep appreciation of heroic or sensational comic adventures by the mainstream.
Buddy Ratner, UW professor in the departments of bioengineering and chemical Engineering, has been selected to give the 2010 University Faculty Lecture.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Seventeen-time Grammy award-winning guitarist Pat Metheny will make a special appearance at the UW School of Music on Friday, April 30, when he leads a clinic with UW jazz students.
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth’s history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign.
A group of more than 40 Japanese delegates, including a survivor of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, will be featured in a forum on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons at 12:30 p.
For the first time in 71 years, the Huskies will be playing a non-weekend contest in Husky Stadium to accommodate a nationwide telecast on ESPN.
Why do workers get paid what they do? Over the past few decades, U.
Assistant Professor of Music Huck Hodge has been out of graduate school less than two years, but already he’s received two prestigious honors and is an alternate for a third.
You could call it “Campus Makeover, the Hall Health Edition.
It was a serious and substantive meeting with White House staff over workplace flexibility issues that Randi Shapiro, UW Work Life director, got to attend on March 31.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Students could smell the Guatemalan river before they were close.
A national study shows that ranibizumab injections plus laser therapy results in dramatic improvement in vision.