The latest news from the UW

Michael Copass, UW professor of neurology, recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Seattle Business (formerly Washington CEO) during the magazine’s first Leaders in Health Care recognition event.

UW TechTransfer is offering two new services to support researchers who want to start companies, or have other people start companies using their technologies.

Provost Phyllis Wise has announced that Jerry Baldasty, who has been serving as interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School since August 2008, has accepted the permanent position.

With the flip of a switch June 1, 1909, thousands of electric lights illuminated the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on what’s now the UW campus.

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Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

The company was founded by dancer-choreographer Merlin Nyakim in 2001 and its dancers hail from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and France.

The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students holds a benefit concert featuing three local bands — Million Dollar Nile, Massy Ferguson and Orkestra Zirkonium.

In the area between Lewis and Clark halls on campus, a dream decades in the making is waiting to take shape.

The pianist begins the song with a rousing introduction.

Student jazz ensembles coached by Marc Seales, Tom Collier, Cuong Vu, and Phil Sparks perform original compositions and arrangements from the jazz literature in Jazz Innovations I and II.

You can seen the Arboretum’s renowned plant collections in tours at 1 p.

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Karissa Willhite’s senior art project will do more than just keep her warm.

How forests would look without top predators, such as mountain lions and wolves, is the subject of a lecture March 5 by Aaron Wirsing, assistant professor of forest resources.

“Psychedelica” seems the perfect name for a species of fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren.

TICKET TO RIDE: Deborah Conley-Staerk, UW Bothell public safety officer, is the SMART Commuter of the Year — that is, she is someone who Saves Money And Reduces Traffic.

Maestro Peter Erös will conduct the University Symphony and featured soloist Robin McCabe, director of the School of Music, as they play works by Mussorgsky, Grieg and Debussy.

The Polar Science Center and the Joint Institute of Ocean and Atmosphere, together with the Canadian Studies Center, present “Globalization and Climate Change: Challenges in the New Maritime Arctic,” a lecture by Lawson Brigham of the U.

Renowned flutist Paula Robison of the New England Conservatory, in residence at the UW School of Music March 1-4, will present two chamber music recitals with UW faculty artists and student performers.

This year, at the Burke Museum’s Dino Day, learn all about Triceratops: Where did it live? What did it eat? Who tried to eat it? See real Triceratops fossils, including horns and bones discovered by Burke Museum paleontologists last summer in Wyoming.

Three years ago, students, faculty and TAs responding to a survey on technologies for teaching and learning identified the need for more access to technology and software in classrooms.

The Declaration of Independence may proclaim that all men are created equal, but American whites tend to distribute their prejudice unequally toward certain members of minority groups, according to new research.

As the world marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, there is much focus on evolution in animals and plants.

President Mark Emmert has invited all members of the UW community to join him at 3:30 p.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

On Wednesday, March 4, the University will recognize four assistant professors who have won prestigious national awards with a symposium in their honor.

Student composers presenting their own works and three evenings of jazz are among coming events from the School of Music.

The UW will host a symposium devoted to Contemporary Topics in the Energy Field on Tuesday, March 17.