February 18, 2010
UW students using marginal urban land to grow vegetables, a class helping re-prioritize conservation sites on the Columbia River Plateau and a project drawing on indigenous people’s knowledge to manage the threat of wildfires are among the topics during a “Conservation Colloquium” March 3.
While millions of college students spend hours playing the Facebook phenomenon FarmVille, planting and harvesting cyber crops, a group of UW students are doing the real thing on the <A href="http://students.
Class title: Law, Societies and Justice 490/Political Science 401 — Guantanamo and Its Legacy.
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.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW School of Pharmacy faculty work with their Ethiopian colleagues to expand pharmacists’ duties in the populous East African country.
The UW lost a great friend and colleague on February 9 when Kathryn Waddell, executive director of Health Sciences Administration, passed away after a long battle with cancer.
Drawing upon the evidence provided by the Dead Sea Scrolls, Alex Jassen of the University of Minnesota explores the rich world of prophets and prophecy that continued to thrive long after the end of the age of the classical biblical prophets.
The School of Drama reflects on the current economic crisis with a series titled “Looking Up at Down: Plays from the Great Depression.
Songs and Dances for Band features the UW symphonic, campus and concert bands.
February 17, 2010
Adults are armchair psychologists, attributing to ourselves and our social partners various goals, intentions, desires and beliefs to explain our own and others’ behaviors.
February 15, 2010
Electrodes on brain’s surface show that using imagined movements to control a cursor generates larger-than-life signals in only 10 minutes.
February 12, 2010
Students of Michael Partington present a program of music from the classical and romantic eras for guitar solo, duo and trio, and guitar with other instruments.
February 11, 2010
Close is one of six nominees and holder of the UW’s highest award for graduates
Senior leaders at the University of Washington have decided to donate 5 percent of their salaries to the University in support of student scholarships and academic programs.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
School districts can take steps to level out salary inequities caused by maldistributions of teachers, according to researchers at the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Back in 2003 the University decided to try out a new idea by offering four short-term study abroad “Exploration Seminars” during the time between summer and fall quarters.
ACING CASE: The UW picked up plenty of awards in the Council For the Advancement and Support of Education’s District VIII competition, starting with a Grand Gold in fundraising and special event publications for the program of the Annual Recogniton Gala by UW Marketing, Jo-Ann Sire and Creative Communications.
The UW’s Marc Eberhard, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, led a five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan.
Faculty, staff and students using UW-licensed McAfee anti-virus software must replace it by March 31 because the University has chosen a new anti-virus software.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
In fall quarter, 21 UW industrial design students received a challenge to “not do what’s always been done.
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The UW symphonic, concert and campus bands will perform Thursday, Feb.
Editor’s Note: This is the last part of University Week’s four-part series describing the work of the Center for Experiential Learning.
Hands-on exhibits, UW polar experts and a bit of imagination will transport you and your family to the extreme environments of the Arctic and Antarctica later this month during Polar Science Weekend at Pacific Science Center.
For the fourth year in a row, the UW has been named top contributor of Peace Corps volunteers from undergraduate alumni.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Feb.
Shantala Shivalingappa will make her UW World Series debut and introduce Seattle audiences to “kuchipudi,” a form of classical dance from South India, in a concerts Thursday through Saturday, Feb.
Students waiting to check out a book or open reserve materials now have an option: a self-service checkout station on the ground floor of Odegaard Undergraduate Library, installed in December 2009.
Could the answer be as simple as a rubber mat?
Students in fall quarter’s section of Introduction to Mechanical Design mulled over the problem of slight vibrations in the TV camera platforms, or “buckets,” during football games at Husky Stadium.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
When composer Juan Pampin teamed up to create music with violist Melia Watras, what resulted was an innovative piece “for viola and electronic sounds” that neither could quite have achieved alone.
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.
If they gave Academy Awards for the best science music video, the UW would be a serious contender.
The UW Department of Psychology’s fifth annual Allen L.
In 1963, Congress designated February as “American Heart Month” to encourage prevention of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
UW Medicine will be on call to assist International SOS if needed for critical patients evacuated from the winter games.