The latest news from the UW

UW chapter of American Pharmacist Association praised for outreach and advocacy.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation announced April 13 that Dr.

Powers, UW alumna and chief pop music critic of The Los Angeles Times, will give the first of three lectures sponsored by the Women Who Rock collective of the Women Studies Department.

This ensemble provides a unique experience for University students to come together with performers and creators both within and outside the UW to present a creative and diverse event, and a rich experience for both the audience members and performers.

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The accolades for this top-notch ensemble are as extensive as they are impressive: 30 acclaimed recordings with Deutsche Grammophon, eight Grammy Awards, three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and more than three decades of outstanding performances worldwide.

Faculty pianist Marc Seales performs original compositions with Portland-based musicians Gary Hobbs and Dave Captein on drums and bass and UW faculty artist Cuong Vu on trumpet, with a special appearance by UW percussionist Tom Collier.

Violinist Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony, and pianist and UW Music Professor Robin McCabe, perform together for the first time.

The 2009 National Champion Huskies women’s softball team takes on Arizona, and you can watch it live.

A weekend designed for the public to learn directly from UW scientists about the amazing research breakthroughs taking place at the UW, with plenty of interactive activities and demonstrations.

PR PUFF?: When IBM announced plans in February to make its software available to colleges via “cloud” computing services, the Chronicle for Higher Education discussed the move in its Wired Campus column, asking was the announcement just “corporate puff”? They quoted Ed Lazowska, holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering, who perused the IBM Web site and e-mailed, “looks like PR to me.

ROBOT SOCCER?: The University of Utah held a three-day competition in late March involving 1,000 high school students and robots playing a soccer-like game.

A new study shows that UW undergraduates are doing a great deal of research as a normal part of their undergraduate programs — more than investigators anticipated.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been cancelled.

April 14 is the UW’s largest career fair, and planners expect a big turnout from students and alumni (UW employees are welcome as well) largely because of the current state of the economy and job market.

You need some tomatoes? Grow ’em in the alley.

The UW Postdoc Association will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.

Gardeners will find a great selection of young shrubs, small trees, conifers, bonsai starts, and early-blooming perennials at the Arboretum Foundation’s annual Early Bloomers sale on Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.

Treating teenagers hurt in car accidents related to cell phone use prompted pediatrician Brian Johnston to join the Driven to Distraction Ta

Warren Buck is a well-known physicist and professor, and was UW Bothell’s first chancellor.

Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Robin McCabe, pianist and UW professor, will present sonatas by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Franck in a concert at 2 p.

Richard Ladner will present the 2010 Samuel E.

An harmonic convergence of sorts has led to “A Week of Jazz at the UW” April 12 to 19.

Art work by children of UW Tower employees has been hung on a fourth-floor wall now called the Kidz Wall.

When health authorities recommend that people take the stairs at work instead of the elevator to get some regular exercise, they probably don’t have a workplace like the 22-story UW Tower in mind.

Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.

The corner of the Washington Park Arboretum at Arboretum Drive and Lake Washington Boulevard is being remade this year with trees and other plants native to Chile as part of the ongoing Pacific Connections Garden project.

Faculty members have approved a plan to restructure the Faculty Senate, reducing it from 267 to 114 members.

Last year at this time, I wrote an article for University Week encouraging our faculty colleagues to consider participation in the faculty councils and committees.

PAINTING WITH PEEPS: Look again at the pink petals in the photo above.

The University has developed an impressive set of tools for communicating in an emergency, and staff are hard at work finding ways to make the UW’s information infrastructure more resilient.

UW staff, faculty, alumni, affiliates, and students are eligible to register for the UW Computer Training Online Learning Subscription.