March 19, 2010
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.
March 17, 2010
UW Department of Global Health and Physicians for Social Responsibility Host War & Global Health Conf. April 23-25
Mistrust can exact a high toll.
March 12, 2010
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March 11, 2010
A team of conservationists writing in Science says relaxing a moratorium on ivory sales could increase the slaughter of African elephants.
Cell phone use peaked on Thursdays, Fridays and during afternoon rush hour, when the ratio was one in 13.
Concerned about safety? Wondering how the campus police do their job? You might be a good candidate for the UW Police Citizens Academy.
This is the last issue of University Week for winter quarter.
UW’s Model United Nations team is only a couple of weeks away from its most anticipated event of the year—the National Model United Nations Conference.
One by one in a ceremony the afternoon of Monday, March 8, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the UW Libraries.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Computers should not play dice.
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.
The UW’s Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers fifth- through 10th grade students a unique combination of vigorous academic work and summer fun in two summer programs.
If you like pie — and really, who doesn’t like pie? — you might want to stop in the 8 at McMahon campus restaurant on Tuesday, March 16.
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the UW.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at UW Tacoma.
Kicking the marijuana habit is a killer, just like quitting cigarettes.
On March 8, King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira upheld the UW’s decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation.
Nominations are being sought for a new UW honor, the Husky Green Award.
On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.
Can extinction be good? You can explore the answer to this question and more with Burke Museum paleontology curators in a series of Tuesday talks inspired by the Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway exhibit.
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.
One minute the three women are tobogganing along in their bathing suits and the next they’re sprawled in the snow, grinning and unharmed after perhaps the most amiable (and fake) tobogganing accident of 1925.
MASTER MEDIATORS: UW School of Law students Charlotte Williams and Joel Emans won the regional American Bar Association Mediation Competition held at the University of Oregon School of Law last weekend.
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
Next Thursday, 168 graduating UW medical students will learn where they will train as residents on what has come to be called “Match Day.
There will be an earthquake in Seattle on Thursday, March 25.
UW Music Professor Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony in Mass for our Time, a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times.
School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis will present a lecture-recital on Beethoven’s piano sonata cycles at 3 p.
Faculty members in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature not only teach 10 different languages, many also create textbooks for language instruction — and for multiple learning levels, at that.
The first time Charles Ishimwe left Rwanda was when he entered the Sixth Annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) sponsored by the UW Foster School of Business.
The public is invited to a UW panel discussion April 6 on the how genome sciences advances might affect the cost and quality of health care
UW researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis.
UW voice students present opera scenes directed by faculty artist Thomas Harper.
March 10, 2010
A group of computer scientists have found a way to tame multiprocessor computers, which behave in wildly unpredictable ways even as they bec
Researchers find that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to occur only on seashores, occurs at similar rates 900 miles inland.