May 21, 2009
By Dana Slote Robinson
Early Childhood Oral Health
Nearly a year and a half after contributing $5 million to combat childhood dental disease, executives from Washington Dental Service and the WDS Foundation leadership, together with representatives of Seattle Children’s and the UW School of Dentistry, donned hard hats and brandished sledge hammers to take part in a “wall breaking” ceremony for a new children’s oral health facility.
Per-Olof Berggren of the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, is the speaker for the Department of Pharmacology’s 22nd annual Edwin G.
May 20, 2009
In a new book, University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward suggests that Earth is ultimately inhospitable to life, and that life itself might be the primary reason. Rather than the nurturing idea of the Gaia hypothesis, he invokes the darker Medea from Greek mythology.
Musical groups share the satisfying sounds of percussion from various geographic areas of the world.
May 19, 2009
Formed in 1989, this African American ensemble makes creating new and diverse audiences for chamber music an integral part of its mission.
May 18, 2009
The 46th annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading, by Paul Muldoon, Princeton faculty member and the poetry editor of The New Yorker.
May 17, 2009
The 34th annual Stroum Lecture Series, “Encounters with the Past: Remembering the ‘Bygone’ in Israeli Culture.
May 15, 2009
The fourth annual UW Bothell 5K Run-Walk.
Students of Michael Partington present music for guitar from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
May 14, 2009
University of Washington Provost Phyllis Wise has announced that Kellye Testy, who currently is dean and professor of law at Seattle University, will become dean of the UW School of Law, effective Sept.
Media are invited to join Governor Christine Gregoire, Zackery Lystedt, school athletic coaches and others at the bill signing of HB 1824 to develop guidelines for concussion and head injury risk for Washington youth at 11 a.
The first week of our photo contest is nearly over and already we have more than 50 entries.
Through sophisticated statistical analyses and advanced computer simulations, researchers are learning more about the genomic patterns of human population structure around the world.
UW Provost Phyllis Wise has announced that Kellye Testy, who currently is dean and professor of law at Seattle University, will become dean of the UW School of Law, effective Sept.
Astronaut Scholar Pavan Vaswani will talk about his experiences at the Ninth Annual Astronaut Scholar Technical Conference and the U.
Class title: ENVIR 450: For Your Information (FYI): Roots and Realities of Sustainability, taught by Jason Scullion, a graduate student in the College of Forest Resources and the Evans School of Public Affairs, and Julia Parrish, professor and associate director of aquatic and fishery sciences.
His journey has taken him from being an aspiring professional football player to the business world and eventually to where he is today — a multi-talented actor and singer.
When two graduate students in dance were contemplating music for their creations in the MFA/Faculty Dance Concert next week, they turned to the guy who’s been accompanying their dance classes ever since they arrived at the UW.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, May 14, at UW Tower.
Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Graduate School and the UW Libraries are teaming up to create a new Center for Teaching and Learning at the University that will draw on the expertise of many units on campus.
Voice students of faculty artists Tom Harper, Joyce Guyer, and Jane Eaglen will present an all Italian recital that includes songs, arias and operatic ensembles from Italian opera from the Classical and Romantic periods with selections by Mozart, Leoncavallo, Ponchielli, Donaudy, Rossini and others.
As part of the Court in the Community Program, the Washington State Supreme Court will visit the UW School of Law on Tuesday, May 19.
The UW College of Arts and Sciences has announced that the Jewish Studies Program in the Henry M.
There has been sharp disagreement in recent years about how much, or even whether, winter snowpack has declined in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon during the last half-century.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
For those looking for kosher or halal diets, a bit of change has come to the UW campus.
GOIN’ TO THE CHICKENS: Jennifer Adrien is the assistant director for MBA Global Programs in the Michael G.
The more informal side of the UW School of Music will take a turn at the annual concert of the Ethnomusicology Student Association.
A new study at the UW seeks to find out how walking exercise will benefit people who have an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
By Ashley Wiggin, School of Nursing &
Melinda Young, School of Pharmacy
Imagine a pill bottle that could “talk” to you, reminding you when to take medication or how much to take.
Countless times a day people judge their confidence in a choice they are about to make — that they now can safely turn left at this intersection, that they aren’t sure of their answer on a quiz, that their hot coffee has cooled enough to drink.
A recently completed international multi-center clinical trial has found that acyclovir, a drug widely used as a safe and effective treatment to suppress herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which is the most common cause of genital herpes, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by people infected with both HIV and HSV-2.
May 13, 2009
Peter Eros conducts and Noel Koran directs Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
The Italian Studies Advisory Board and the Division of French & Italian Studies present travel tips from three Seattle Times editors.
The Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program present their annual celebration, fete and honors.
May 12, 2009
Media advisory: UW Undergraduate Research Symposium features 700 young minds
There has been recent disagreement about the snowpack decline in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, but new research leaves little doubt that a warmer climate has a significant effect on the snowpack, even if other factors keep year-to-year measurements close to normal for a period of years.