October 29, 2009
You can learn about today’s hearing aid options at “Ear-Responsible?” an informational seminar about hearing loss and hearing aids geared for those who are not familiar with
hearing aids or who may be interested in getting new hearing aid technology.
Employees who serve on the UW Health and Safety Committees help ensure the safety of everyone in the campus community — and nominations are now open for the next two-year committee terms, which will begin on Jan.
The Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall will reverberate with the sounds of spooky organ music when students of Carole Terry perform the beloved annual concert of organ classics on the UW’s Littlefield Organ at 7:30 p.
UNDERSTANDING JAPAN: The UW Japan Studies Program has received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Award for 2009.
International multicultural education will be the theme for a daylong conference at the UW Friday, Oct.
Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, will speak on Who Are the New Polluters at 6:30 p.
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.
Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America.
The Walt Disney Company began offering refunds for its “Baby Einstein” DVDs, videos and similar products more than two years after UW researchers showed that the DVDs marketed as boosting infants’ language learning were actually detrimental.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Nov.
UW Medicine’s Tumor Vaccine Group holds its third annual open house Thursday, November 5, from 5 to 9 p.
Every day you work alongside people who are fabulous at what they do.
Although nearly 80 percent of the United States population lives within two hours by ground or helicopter transport to a verified burn center, there is substantial state and regional variation in geographic access to these centers, according to a study in the Oct.
By Joel Berg
Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dentistry
In August of this year I was invited by the Peruvian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to lecture and represent the Early Childhood Oral Health (ECOH) program abroad.
By William Heisel
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
A study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the UW and Harvard University has been named the best open-access medical paper of the past five years by the journal PLoS Medicine.
Screening and discussion of Chinese films as part of the ongoing celebration of 30 years of U.
Join the iconic literary detective as he and his faithful sleuthing partner, Dr.
October 27, 2009
Tsunamis are among the most-devastating natural calamities.
A good many Washington voters haven’t decided their choices for Seattle mayor, King County executive or Initiative 1033.
Open enrollment is from Oct.
Francisco Goldman, an acclaimed novelist who specializes in recreating poignant episodes in the political and social history of the Americas, will discuss his painstakingly researched account of the assassination of a Guatemalan bishop, Msgr.
Looking for items to promote your department or organization? There will be a number of vendors on hand to discuss your needs and give you additional ideas for future promotions.
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents an evening of tape and computer music, with Barry Truax as guest composer.
October 26, 2009
Biologists document a second breeding season for songbirds that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in the tropics.
October 25, 2009
Shakespeare’s final play is a wonder of invention — an exuberant celebration of theatrical art and artifice.
October 24, 2009
UW School of Music alumna Becky Billock performs works by American women composers, including Marion Bauer, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen, Amy Beach, Emma Lou Diemer and Margaret Bonds.
October 23, 2009
By order of Gov.
Join the Henry to celebrate new exhibitions Vortexhibition Polyphonica, Allan Sekula: Waiting for Tear Gas, Polaroids: Mapplethorpe, and Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain with karaoke and cupcakes, too.
October 22, 2009
Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the UW at a formal academic convocation Monday, Oct.
The UW Photographers Group will hold its eighth annual exhibition, Chiaro e Scuro, from Oct.
UW scientist instrumental in important step to convert methane gas to a liquid, giving the potential of making it more useful as a fuel.
Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus.
The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
For nearly two decades scientists have known about the Seattle fault and have been refining their understanding of the danger it presents to the Puget Sound region if it ruptures in a major earthquake.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the naturalist and transcendental philosopher, inspired audiences but also irritated them.
“There’s no such thing as a traditional production of The Tempest.
They say it takes 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.
There aren’t many college professors who would (or could) write a column called The Naked Truth, but those who know Sociology Professor Pepper Schwartz won’t be surprised that she’s doing just that.