October 21, 2009
University of Washington’s Institute of Translational Health Sciences and its partners—Group Health Research Institute, Duke University and Wayne State University—have developed a new web site to help researchers create and sustain successful multisite research collaborations.
It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
Pacifier, bottle, or finger sucking may hamper a child’s speech development if the habit goes on too long.
With eight Medal recipients, the UW has more such alumni than any other public university in the country except the service academies.
October 20, 2009
Depression in older cancer patients is very common, and has debilitating effects on their quality of life both during and after treatment.
The third annual Playing French Seattle festival of dramatic works will feature Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec and also includes work by Georges Feydeau, Honore de Balzac and Samuel Beckett, all staged in French.
October 19, 2009
New research finds evidence that ancient earthquakes rased land at least 6 feet on the west edge of Washington state’s Puget Sound.
Join Nicolette Bromberg and John Stamets, author and photographer of Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a new book by UW Press with photos of the fair site then and now.
October 17, 2009
A celebration of amateur films and filmmaking.
October 16, 2009
The departments of economics, philosophy and sociology invite the campus community to stop by and explore the newly renovated building.
How did the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition reflect, reproduce and perhaps challenge prevailing notions of race and empire? “Race and Empire at the Fair: The Alaksa-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Historical Perspectives” explores that question.
October 15, 2009
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.
The UW Astrobiology Program presents a series of lectures by renowned experts in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries and the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
By Catherine O’Donnell
News & Information
The Streissguth Gardens began when Daniel Streissguth and Ann Roth Pytkowicz fell in love.
A UW Seaglider operated for nine months and five days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater-vehicle group has accomplished on a single mission.
When Lawrie Robertson worked as administrator of the Division of Public Health Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he got to know a graduate student named Christopher Li.
Heather Blair, assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University, will give a talk titled Sacred, Scrap, or Art? The Modern Career of Zao Gongen at 2:30 p.
The third annual Playing French Seattle festival of dramatic works will feature Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec and also includes work by Georges Feydeau, Honoré de Balzac, and Samuel Beckett.
The UW will celebrate Open Access Week Oct.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.
UW faculty artist and Seattle Symphony Orchestra trombonist Stephen Fissel will step from the back of the orchestra to the front of the stage to present solo music for the bass trombone in a concert at 7:30 p.
UW leaders officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building on Friday, Oct.
12,000 years ago residents of the Puget Sound lived in the coldest temperatures the region has ever known.
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents Devices: Works by Associate Professor Ellen Garvens now through Oct.
A space-walking astronaut, a pair of cyber-security experts and energy-saving “smart grids” will be topics for the College of Engineering’s fall lecture series, which this year it titled <A href="http://www.
By Mary Guiden and Catherine O’Donnell
News & Information
The UW has passed the $100 million mark in economic stimulus awards.
UW Housing and Food Services is one step closer to reaching its goal of zero-waste with the introduction of the first compostable soda cup lid.
Carole Terry, professor in the School of Music, will perform works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Schumann on the St.
By Sandra Hines
News & Information
During the next six years Operation Ice Bridge will use aircraft to conduct what NASA says is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at the Earth’s polar regions.
The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
By Peter Kelley
University Week
Mike Harrell says he doesn’t collect cool old cars, exactly — it’s more that he accumulates them.
By Mary Guiden
News and Community Relations
UW Medical Genetics Clinic faculty, administration and staff will celebrate the clinic’s 50th anniversary Nov.
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.
A homeless woman does not seem at first glance to be the perfect subject for a dance.
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Randy Newquist took a little extra time off this summer, but he wasn’t slacking.
October 14, 2009
For an animal that has a brain about the size of two grains of sand, a lot of plasticity seems to be packed into the head of the tropical paper wasp Polybia aequatorialis.
The last of three public tours of the Libraries Special Collections exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus.
October 13, 2009
UW President Mark A.
This solo piano recitalist’s career has taken her to Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.