November 5, 2009
The $50 million appropriated by Congress last week to the Puget Sound Partnership for the clean-up of Puget Sound includes $4 million for the UW to launch an institute to provide expert advice about the Sound, based on the best-available science, to the partnership, policy makers and citizens.
The Evans School of Public Affairs at the UW and the X Prize Foundation are launching the X Prize Lab@UW, which will produce new ideas for X Prizes.
This month the University of Washington Club is giving a free lunch to its 100th customer every day.
Want to help keep the UW a green campus? Then volunteer to help plant 50 of the new trees the University is receiving, thanks to a $5,000 grant from the Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with Toyota.
Remember last year’s snow? Of course you do.
Seventy years after the Spanish Civil War, Spain continues to struggle with the legacy of a war that shattered hopes for a fledgling democracy.
Civil War historian Lorraine McConaghy will talk about her new book, Warship under Sail: The USS Decatur in the Pacific West, at 4 p.
Members of the UW School of Art photography faculty will present their work in an exhibit at Seattle’s Benham Gallery.
The UW will be the first educational institution to provide campus information on BlackBerry hand-held devices.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Are you a smoker thinking of taking a break from the habit for the Great American Smokeout on Thursday, Nov.
The Place of the Falling Waters, a powerful documentary about the Salish and Kootenia tribal histories and the building of the Kerr hydropower dam on Montana’s Flathead Lake, will be shown at 6:30 p.
Gary Karr, considered by many to be the most iconic double bassist of our time, will return to the School of Music for the second part of an extensive interview with Barry Lieberman at 2 p.
Environmental leader Lester Brown, author of books such as Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge and his latest Plan B 4.
The UW has announced a new program to make it easier for students entering the University with a high number of advanced placement and/or Running Start credits to complete a bachelor’s degree in three years.
By day, Ben Thompson helps research the world’s most pressing public health problems as a program assistant at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
Often art is considered elitist or unattainable, but UW students are working to help debunk this belief and show that art can be used as a tool to build community.
Volunteer tutors are needed Saturday and Sunday Nov.
Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft, will give a lecture titled Rethinking Computing at 4:15 p.
Cheerful Givers, the nonprofit group that provides toy-filled birthday bags to low-income children, is having a gift bag-assembling event on Nov.
Editor’s note: Through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the UW community who are personally involved with one of the 2,800 agencies supported by CFD funds.
Dinosaurs on Ice: Jurassic Dinosaurs from Antarctica is the title of a lecture by William Hammer scheduled for 7 p.
Ethnomusicology visiting artist Bora Ju will give a concert at 7:30 p.
David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University Department of Economics, will give the 19th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Friday, Nov.
Stress-evoked changes in circuits that regulate serotonin in certain parts of the brain can precipitate a low mood and a relapse in cocaine-seeking, based on mouse studies published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Frick’s Rexall Drug Store in Sequim, Wash.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Nov.
A new video shows a recent project from the UW Program on Climate Change to demonstrate the many changes to the Puget Sound region expected because of rising sea level.
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.
November 4, 2009
WHAT: Dedication of the Medal of Honor memorial at the University of Washington.
The m.UW mobile campus tool is now available on the BlackBerry. The UW is the first educational institution to offer a BlackBerry app.
Founded in East Berlin in 1985 and still going strong with its original members.
November 3, 2009
Military service had shown them they could effectively combat both enemies on the battlefield and racism in the ranks.
WHO:
November 2, 2009
Awards of $10 million or more go to teams that solve problems facing humanity and create new opportunities
In collaboration with La Raza Commission and other Latino organizations, the Ethnic Cultural Center hosts this annual event.
October 30, 2009
Thirty-eight award-winning performers from China’s national acrobatic Troupe, astounding audiences with their phenomenal prowess and artistry.