The latest news from the UW

PENGUINS PROVE IT: Penguins are showing us that climate change has already occurred, UW Biology Professor Dee Boersma told The New York Times in a recent interview.

In order to continue the U-PASS program in the face of unprecedented transit cost increases, Commuter Services is proposing parking and U-PASS rate changes.

What do you get when you combine engineers, entrepreneurs and environmental experts? A host of innovative, clean-tech solutions to real-world environmental problems and the business plans to back them up.

For every student you see manning the front desk at Odegaard or shelving books at Suzzallo, there are dozens more working behind the scenes to ensure UW Libraries run smoothly.

ATHENA ACHIEVER: Susan Eggers, Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, has won the Athena Lecturer Award, given to women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science.

The Arboretum Foundation’s annual Early Bloomers Plant Sale returns from 10 a.

A combination of raw talent and skilled coaching has landed UW mathematics undergraduates an unprecedented finish in the 2008 Putnam competition, whose results were recently announced.

Who are the next generation of great artists? What traditions and inspirations are they drawing upon to create the next great work? One answer can be found at The Jacob Lawrence Gallery as it presents the UW School of Art spring BFA shows.

Boris Berman, professor of piano at Yale University, will perform works by Chopin and Debussy in a concert at 7:30 p.

What do a rat wearing underpants, some marine biologists and a defecating penguin have in common? (Please see Fig.

The planet Mars has a moon named Deimos, so it seems only appropriate that the ocean observatory MARS in Monterey Bay have its own DEIMOS.

A new classroom in the Health Sciences Center is linking dental students and instructors on UW’s Seattle campus to students in Spokane, thanks to some technology designed and installed by staff at UWTV.

Susan Gulkis Assadi, principal violist with the Seattle Symphony, will lead a master class with students of faculty violist Melia Watras at 1:30 p.

A nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated.

Two presentations sponsored by student advisory boards of so-called “learning links” are happening in the next month.

Each year, the UW Department of Genome Sciences holds its Annual Symposium, involving a series of talks by world-renowned researchers on contemporary topics in genetics, genomics computation, and related tools and technologies.

Due to the UWMC expansion project, there will be changes to the existing shuttles serving South Campus.

Keith Elkon, UW professor of medicine and head of the division of rheumatology, recently received a 2009 Kirkland Scholar Award from the Mary Kirkland Center for Lupus Research.

Sleep quality and aging is the focus of the Spring Healthy Aging Lecture, sponsored by the UW School of Nursing’s de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging.

When Arno Motulsky was first recruited to the UW in 1953 as a hematology instructor, his research in genetic blood diseases attracted him to the emerging broader field of medical genetics.

Rodney Ho, associate dean for research and new initiatives and the Milo Gibaldi Endowed Professor of Pharmaceutics at the UW School of Pharmacy, has been named the recipient of the 2009 Paul R.

Controversial journalist Alison Weir is executive director of “If Americans Knew,” a think tank focusing on Israel and Palestine and specializing in media analyses.

UW music students perform on piano in this installment of the Brechemin Piano Series.

The first day of a three-day conference April 9-11 sponsored by the World Peace Buddhist Club called “Transforming the Human Spirit, From a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace.

From the outside, Clark Hall, the longtime home of the UW’s Army, Navy and Air Force Reserves Officer Training Corps (ROTC), looks about the same.

Journalist Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, opens the new lecture series “Coffee: From the Grounds Up” offering a sweeping overview of coffee’s impact on the world since its discovery on Ethiopian mountainsides.

Joyce Guyer soprano and UW assistant professor of music, will perform a faculty recital accompanied by Craig Sheppard.

Janine Anderson, longtime arboretum guide and landscape designer, leads a tour of the UW Botanic Gardens’ ever-evolving collection of conifers, ranging from the familiar to the obscure.