The latest news from the UW

Each medication on your health plan’s “approved list” is there, in part, because a pharmacist vouched for it.

By Elizabeth Sharpe
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

Jude Van Buren, an alumna of the UW’s Department of Environmental Health, returned to her alma mater this month as director of Environmental Health & Safety, a department that supports and monitors workplace safety and health practices at the university.

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Columbia University political scientist Andrew Gelman speaks on Coalitions, Voting Power, and Political Instability as part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium.

Geoffrey Boers conducts the Chamber Singers in a program of works by Northwest composers, including UW faculty member Giselle Wyers and UW Chorale Conducting students Eric Barnum and Laurie Betts Hughes.

The University Chorale explores both the nature of love and love of nature in this year-end concert, which features “I Died for Beauty,” an Emily Dickinson poem set to music by American composer Jerry Ulrich and dedicated to the University Chorale, plus new works by UW composer Giselle Wyers.

The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) presents a special screening of video shorts created by students in the course Experiments in Digital Video: The Architecture of Time.

A book launch for Building Ships, Building a Nation: Korea’s Democratic Unionism Under Park Chung Hee by Hwasook Nam, UW professor of history and international studies.

Last in the second annual French and Francophone Film Festival.

Many buildings on the UW campus are no strangers to renovation; now it’s time for the landscape to get a little love.

The Henry Art Gallery has reduced its hours due to the challenges of the current recession.

Class title: EDUC 402: YouTube Goes to College: Documenting Excellent Teaching and Learning on the UW Campus, taught by Eugene Edgar, professor in the College of Education; Mary Pat Wenderoth, senior lecturer in biology; and Scott Macklin, chief technology officer of the College of Education.

The UW is offering free access to HuskyJobs, its online job search system, this summer for recent UW graduates as well as alumni.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

The UW could receive $250 million to $300 million as the result of the federal government’s economic stimulus package.

“I have to be able to look my granddaughter in the eye.

The second week of our photo contest is over and we have another winner! Drum roll please: The prize goes to Lisa Jones, who answers phones and takes emergency calls at the University, for her photo, Suzzallo Reading Room in Reflection.

MOWER POWER TO THEM: Every year, hundreds of people bring their power mowers to the University of Missouri campus for its annual tune-up clinic, according to the campus newspaper, MizzouWeekly.

Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter.

The third location of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute opens today in Everett.

It’s a fine week for singing, starting June 1 on campus.

The third lecture in the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium Series features Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University, speaking on the topic, Coalitions, Voting Power, and Political Instability.

The Improvised Music Project’s first festival, a three-day event May 28-30, is intended to jump start a UW-based effort at rejuvenating the local scene for new music.

In a joint effort, King County, City of Bothell and UW Bothell are providing a unique opportunity to see what the transportation future holds when the Hydrogen Road Tour makes a stop in Bothell during its border-to-border, nine-day trek.

OK, so what do you do with an old fire station that no longer works for fighting fires but those honking big front doors have to be kept because of historic preservation rules?

You get some architecture students at the UW to come up with some nifty designs.

CHANGE AGENT: Marguerite Roza, research associate professor in the College of Education, received one of two Change Agent of the Year Awards at the NewSchools Venture Fund annual summit.

Provost Phyllis Wise invites UW faculty, staff and students to join her to discuss the accomplishments and budgetary challenges of the current academic year and to look forward to the University’s future.

The outdoor eating space next to By George is a little more attractive these days, thanks to a partnership between the UW Information and Visitors Center and UW Botanic Gardens, with a little help from Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

When Carla Rickerson was the Pacific Northwest librarian at the UW 25 years ago, she created an exhibit on the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition to commemorate its 75th anniversary.

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In August of 1909, during the third month of the immensely popular Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Mrs.

The UW Wind Ensemble and symphonic, concert and campus bands perform Symphony #7 by David Maslanka and other works.

A student-led effort aimed at challenging legal scholars, NGO leaders, and policy makers to confront the humanitarian crisis at the heart of climate change.

Donald Tong, Hong Kong commissioner for economic and trade affairs, speaks on “Riding out the Economic Doldrums: The Hong Kong Story.