May 7, 2009
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.
TACOMA’S NEW DAWG: Those of us in Seattle or Bothell may not know it, but Harry the Husky now has a brother of sorts.
If an emergency occurs on campus, how will the UW respond?
Representatives of a number of campus departments gathered at the UW Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in the Bryant Building on Thursday, April 30, to study that question in an afternoon-long disaster drill called Operation Crash Start.
The UW Schools of Music and Drama will present Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin May 13-17 in Meany Theater.
Nearly 700 UW undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium.
Faculty and staff are invited to join Provost Phyllis Wise from 3:30 to 5 p.
The School of Music’s students of jazz, guitar and ethnomusicology will offer public performances in three separate events in coming days.
A new program designed to improve public understanding and news reporting of mental health and mental illness is being launched by the UW’s School of Social Work and the Washington State Mental Health Transformation Project.
Alvin Kwiram calls it a story of perseverance.
The second show of the spring at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery will feature the BFA graduates working in fibers, sculpture, ceramics or painting.
A conference bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars on the intersections of place, racial and social inequity and human well-being.
A bilingual production by Teatro Milagro that takes place in Patagonia and explores the power struggle when nature, indigenous Mapuche Shamans and timber interests collide.
The Arboretum Foundation and the UW Botanic Gardens’ Education Department will host its annual Mother’s Day event at the Arboretum, from 1 to 4 p.
The American String Project, a 15-member string orchestra started by UW Music Professor Barry Lieberman and his wife, Maria Larionoff, will perform May 14, 16 and 17 at Benaroya Hall.
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