Samuel Lieu, professor of ancient history at McQuairie University in Australia, and Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge University, will be speaking next week on campus.
April 1, 2010
April 1, 2010
Samuel Lieu, professor of ancient history at McQuairie University in Australia, and Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge University, will be speaking next week on campus.
The Provost’s Advisory Search Committee for Dean of the School of Public Health, chaired by Dean Marla Salmon, has recommended five finalists for the position.
TWEETING POLS: Twitter is becoming popular among the nation’s governors, according to a winter story in USA Today that quoted Kathy Gill, UW senior lecturer in communication.
The UW Women’s Center has already been through one move this year, as Cunningham Hall was relocated from its old home across from Architecture Hall to its new one near Parrington Hall.
You don’t need to be a computer or energy expert to see that going from 60 servers down to eight is bound to result in a huge energy savings.
The opening and reception for I Say Hello, You Say Goodbye/You Say Hello, I Say Goodbye, a group photography show with work by Anita Bingaman, Joan Bowers, Maria Festing, Deborah Conger Hughes, Nathan Makan, Ian Painter, Stan Raucher, and Jerry Wade, will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.
What if all software was open source? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program.
While navigating the warren of corridors in the Health Sciences T-Wing, be on the lookout for the Conference Room Gallery, in room T-269.
Creating a dictionary for a fading language can help breathe new life and relevance into that tongue.
It’s an intercollegiate challenge that’s a little bit different.
Last month stadiums reverberated as students on the UW’s basketball team made it to the Sweet Sixteen round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament.
LIFE CHANGER: Jennifer Cohen, assistant director of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies program, was honored with the Hannah G.
The University will honor 21 individuals and one team of six this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program.
The Botany Greenhouse is aiming to show the campus how it can get even greener, not with plants inside, but on top, with a living “green” roof on a shed alongside the greenhouse proper.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
The circle of conservative and libertarian academic historians in the United States is so small that they all know each other.
UWTV and UW Athletics will televise eight of the defending NCAA champion Husky softball team’s games this season, all against competition from the nation’s top softball league — the Pacific-10 Conference.
Next week on your lunch hour learn how to go green — and save green — on projects in and around your home.
Reminder: Nominations for the annual University Faculty Lecturer Award are due no later than Wednesday, April 14.
Faculty members from Oregon State University and University of Arizona and a lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy are finalists for dean of the College of the Environment and will visit campus this week and next.
Petitions by Tanzania and Zambia for exceptions to a ban on ivory sales, strongly opposed by conservationists including Samuel Wasser of the UW (see our story <A href="http://uwnews.
The ducklings are coming — maybe — and all is in readiness.
There’s an experiment being conducted at the University, but it isn’t in a laboratory.
National and local speakers will discuss how media shapes views of health, equality and social justice.
The graduating class gathered at the UW Health Sciences Lobby March 18 to learn their placements from National Residency Matching Progra
Instead of kicking back and watching Monday Night Football, <A href="http://www.
Mistrust can exact a high toll.
UW has launched its newest biomedical research enterprise, the center for Systems and Translational Research on Infectious Disease, <A href="http://viromics.
A group of 12 University undergraduates and two graduate students, along with three faculty and staff members, spent a big part of spring break in the Nevada desert trying to launch a rocket to 20,000 feet altitude at speeds well beyond the speed of sound while transmitting data to the ground.
Terri Givens of the University of Texas, speaks on Europe’s Dilemma: Immigrant Integration in Western Europe.
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.
March 30, 2010
A new system makes it possible to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program.
March 29, 2010
Findings suggest new ideas for diagnostic, preventative and therapeutic approaches to heart attacks and stroke
March 24, 2010
The center applies systems analysis and computational biology to find clinically useful defenses against difficult infectious
March 23, 2010
An panel of experts presents findings from the field and discusses similarities and differences between the Haitain and Chilean earthquakes and what we can expect from future earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.
March 22, 2010
The author of The Man Who Ate His Boots shares the enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
March 19, 2010
UW Students for Equal Health Hosts Free Conference on Media and Health April 10 with Major Mediz Experts
Marsha Saxton of the UC Berkeley Disability Studies Program will speak about the complex issues of genetic screening from the vantage point of disability rights, and show and discuss her film about physicians’ interactions with adults with physical disabilities.
March 18, 2010
Eight of 10 students said that to get their research underway, they often went to Wikipedia for background information.