May 14, 2009
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.
The College of Education holds its Spring Open House to introduce participants to its undergraduate and graduate programs.
May 9, 2009
Team members take turns walking, jogging, or running around Husky Stadium track to raise money for cancer awareness, education and research.
May 8, 2009
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.
The UW Career Center presents a workshop called Applying to Graduate of Professional School.
May 7, 2009
If you watched one of the final episodes of the NBC television show “ER” in March 2009, you had a chance to see how doctors and medical teams use a checklist before performing surgery.
A settlement that the Berman Environmental Law Clinic helped negotiate means that after nearly a century, water will once again flow year-round at a historic site in Spokane.
From impacts of budget cuts to best practices in reaching students through social media, academic advisers, student services staff and faculty from colleges and universities around the state will have a lot to discuss at the 21st annual Community College & University of Washington Advising Conference on May 8 in the HUB.
“I was always in an exercise mode, and after I retired, I was looking for some way to stay fit,” said Ernestine Robinson, an energetic 71-year-old.
The Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity and the Friends of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) will present their annual celebration beginning at 5:30 p.
Jody Tate was busy earning his doctorate in English from the UW when he heard Radiohead’s Kid A album, released in 2000.
Editor’s note: There are many organizations open to the UW faculty and staff.
One of the Pacific Northwest’s most influential fishery biologists speaks Wednesday, May 13, about the turbulent transition of U.
More than a dozen experts will discuss the future of forestry in the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, May 14, from 1 to 5 p.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
When the UW School of Medicine opened in 1946, its leaders quickly became aware that the university needed a medical center of its own so that new doctors could receive a clinical experience consistent with the medical school’s curriculum.
When the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The UW Center for Multicultural Education and the Area of Curriculum and Instruction present Diana Hess doing the center’s 12th Book Talk, from 11 a.