October 22, 2009
Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel and as a source for making other chemicals.
LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT: If you’re looking for some sparkly entertainment, stroll down to Westlake Park between 5 and 9 p.
As the 2009-1010 academic year gets under way, the UW’s Bothell and Tacoma campuses are bulging at the seams with record enrollments.
Chinese Film Week, October 26-31, offers discussions and screenings of award-winning writer and director Peng Xiaolian’s films, as well as an appearance by Peng herself.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Nov.
Imagine the UW’s Seattle campus 40 years from now:
The University has received many honors and awards for its sustainability efforts.
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.
Depression in older cancer patients is very common, and has debilitating effects on their quality of life both during and after treatment.
By Emily Lee
Special to UW Health Sciences
Uplift International, a Seattle-based NGO, is run with the support of Beth Rivin, UW research associate professor of law and director of the Global Health and Justice Project.
Pacifier, baby bottle or finger sucking may hamper a child’s speech development if the habit goes on too long.
The company resurrects old dances from the 1930s in a program titled The Shape of Dissent, a reminder that poverty and homlessness are not new events in America.
Join the artist as he discusses the Henry exhibition Sawdust Mountain.
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.