April 8, 2010
An engineer, an entrepreneur and an environmentalist walk into a vacated airplane hangar … or, in the case of the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge, held on April 1, hundreds of them ventured into Hangar 30 in Seattle’s Magnuson Park.
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.
Last Thursday, the UW staged what was probably the largest celebration of Census Day in the state.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
It’s Complicated, might be the title of Sara Breslow’s dissertation.
Catterall pioneered research on the molecular basis of electrical signaling by cells, particularly those in the brain.
Allen leads the medical school’s interstate partnership with Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho
When the United States went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, many people began thinking about costs — the cost of deploying troops, the cost to purchase guns and missiles, and the cost of American lives.
Study findings may be a starting point for identifying younger men prone to aggressive forms of cancer.
The Targeted Rural-Underserved Track selects and trains UW medical students for high-need specialties and prepares them to
A lecture by Ariel Heryanto, professor of Indonesian Studies at Australia National University, titled Becoming Religiously Hip: Middle Class Muslims in Indonesian Pop Culture.
UW music students perform works for piano.
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.
April 7, 2010
The survey found that those who are racially resentful, who believe the U.S. government has done too much to support blacks, are 36 percent
Learning & Scholarly Technologies hosts an open house to showcase the Technology Studios at Odegaard Library.
Recipients of the prestigious Brechemin Scholarship are presented in recital.
April 3, 2010
Learn about the latest hearing aid options the first Monday of each month.
The fifth annual Garden Lovers’ Book Sale will raise money for the Elisabeth C.
April 2, 2010
Shayne, a lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell, reads from her book They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism.
April 1, 2010
University Week will run a story about Earth Day activities at the UW’s three campuses on Thursday, April 15.
Undergraduate student William Johnson of Seattle has been named a Putnam Fellow, scoring in the top five out of more than 4,000 competitors.
Austin Ross, professor emeritus of health services in the UW School of Public Health, was inducted March 21 into Modern Healthcare’s Healthcare Hall of Fame.
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.