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By Holly Weese
School of Public Health

Tom Wickizer, UW professor of health services, will deliver the School of Public Health’s Spring Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Reflections on 10 years of Collaborative Research to Improve Health and Health Care for Injured Workers in Washington State.

Last summer, when Meg Melchiors arrived at the small clinic in Ibulanku, a village in Uganda’s Iganga District, she discovered medications were being dispensed in small white paper envelopes with cryptic numerical instructions.

A study conducted at the UW has revealed new connections between food, incomes and education.

More than 100 UW Medicine faculty members, staff and employees attended an April 29 “State of the Division” presentation by Dr.

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.

A lecture titled Pakistani Attitudes Towards Militancy In and Beyond Pakistan, by Christine Fair of the Rand Corporation, presented by the Comparative Religion Program.

Young Ko, a retiree from Weyerhauser Company, presents Fractals Are Everywhere: Why and So What?.

A panel discussion on the arts and why they matter more than ever in this economic crisis.

A seminar by the West Coast Poverty Center titled Immigrant Family Life Following Immigration Raids, presented by Ajay Chaudry, director of New York’s Urban Institute Center on Labor, Human Services and Population.

Sample mushroom treats, use dyes and crayons made from mushrooms to create art, attend a cultivation workshop and more.

Experience the musical traditions of the indigenous peoples of Australia, Papua New Guinea and West Papua.

UW vocal students perform vocal jazz solos.

Make way: Social media is bulldozing the time-worn landscape of traditional media, one 140-character “tweet” at a time.

Members of the UW Vocal Jazz ensembles, under the direction of Dave Cross, perform solo vocal works in a concert at 7:30 p.

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Stereotypes often paint a partial or false picture of an individual or group.

The UW has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles in length under the ice at Davis Strait.

In the summer of 1947, Robert Heilman, then of Louisiana State University, visited Seattle to discuss joining the UW as chairman of the English Department.