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January 29, 2009
Trapsters — dragsters built using mousetraps — race at School of Art
Students in Magnus Feil’s industrial design classes built mousetrap-powered cars, called them trapsters, and raced them last Wednesday — and the world beat a path to their door.
Talking about teaching, twice-monthly at the UW Club
Teaching is on the menu at the UW Club twice a month.
Seattle’s striking history comes into focus with year-long celebration
Ninety years ago Seattle shut down.
Coming up
Library Lecture Series: “Chronic Pain Is a Disease in its Own Right” will be the topic when Dr.
UW staffer and her puppets head to Bangladesh to teach kids about tooth care
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School of Law looks back on 30 years of clinical training
When Alan Kirtley graduated from Indiana University’s law school in 1972, he had had no clinical training.
‘Big Love’ a sprawling, brawling story of 50 runaway brides
MFA directing student Desdemona Chiang took on a big challenge when she decided to do Charles Mee’s Big Love as her thesis production.
Some of Earth’s climate troubles should face burial at sea, scientists say
Making bales with 30 percent of global crop residues — the stalks and such left after harvesting — and then sinking the bales into the deep ocean could reduce the build up of global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, according to just published calculations.
Registration open for UW Summer Youth Programs
Registration is now open for summer youth programs sponsored by UW Educational Outreach.
UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives series continues with Laynie Browne
UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series will continue with author Laynie Browne at 6:30 p.
Daniell named Rohm & Haas professor of public health sciences
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Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Study looks at survival disparities in lung cancer
Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report by UW researchers in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Graduate School to offer workshop on succeeding in graduate education Jan. 30
The UW Graduate School will offer “Nuts and Bolts: How to Successfully Navigate the Graduate School,” the first in a series of interactive workshops for international graduate students from 12:30 to 2 p.
Guitar Ensemble celebrates Spain and Latin America on Feb. 6
Students of Michael Partington will present music with guitar to celebrate Spain and Latin America, in ¡Guitarra! at 7:30 p.
Research links seismic slip and tremor, with implications for subduction zone
In the last decade, scientists have recorded regular episodes of tectonic plates slowly, quietly slipping past each other in western Washington and British Columbia over periods of two weeks or more, releasing as much energy as a magnitude 6 earthquake.
Art enhances medicine: Learning to look more closely
Twenty-somethings in a huddle peer closely at mural-size photos in the Henry Art Gallery and then, two weeks later, at intricate 19th century illustrations of Egyptian flora and fauna at the Frye Art Museum.
Saving carpet from the landfill, five tons at a time
By Breona Gutschmidt
Facilities Services
Not long ago, a Facilities Services shop that handles flooring diverted its first dumpster-full of old carpet from a dead end in the landfill to a new life as recycled carpet.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
University Symphony.
Winners of the October 27 concerto competition perform with the University Symphony.
Technical Communication adopts new name: Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering
As of this month the 20-year-old department of Technical Communication, which began its life 35 years ago as a program in the UW’s College of Engineering, has a new name.
January 28, 2009
Some of Earth’s climate troubles should face burial at sea, scientists say
Making bales with 30 percent of global crop residues — the stalks and such left after harvesting — and then sinking the bales into the deep ocean could reduce the build up of global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, according to just published calculations.
Annual Faculty Lecture.
Annual Faculty Lecture.
January 27, 2009
UW’s Neighborhood Clinics earn fourth consecutive perfect score from national accrediting organization
The UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics recently received a score of 100 percent in a survey conducted by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
January 26, 2009
How to snowshoe.
How to snowshoe.
January 24, 2009
The World in Your Cup.
Opening events for the Burke Museum’s new exhibit, Coffee: The World in Your Cup.
Wagner and Mahler.
The Seattle-based Lake Union Civic Orchestra is joined by baritone soloist Clayton Brainerd.
January 23, 2009
Advancing the status of women in Afghanistan with Afghan leader Feb. 5
Sakena Yacoobi will offer insights into the Afghan women’s struggles 11:30 a.
Job seeking in 2009.
Part of the 10th annual Career Discovery Week, the full name of the event is “Job Seeking 2009: The Cold Hard Truth & What You Can Do About It.
January 22, 2009
Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people’s behavior
The old real estate maxim “location, location, location” also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people.
Tree death rate in Pacific Northwest doubled in 17 years
Trees are dying twice as fast as they did three decades ago in older forests of the western United States and scientists suspect warming temperatures are a contributing factor. In the Pacific Northwest and southern British Columbia, the rate of tree death in older coniferous forests doubled in 17 years.
Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people’s behavior
The old real estate maxim “location, location, location” also plays a role in how infants learn to understand the ambiguous actions and behavior of other people.
Caffeine fix: The Burke kicks off Coffee Jan. 24 and 25
What’s the story behind your cup of coffee? As the top coffee consumers in the country, most Seattleites can spot a coffee vendor from a mile away.
Enthusiastic audiences attend Martin Luther King Jr. tributes
Programs at Harborview Medical Center on Jan.
‘Astronaut-food approach’ to medical testing: Dehydrated, wallet-sized malaria tests promise better diagnoses in developing world
Researchers at the UW have developed a prototype malaria test printed on a disposable Mylar card that could easily slip into your wallet and still work when you took it out, even months later.
Coming up
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Tree death rate in Pacific Northwest doubled in 17 years
Trees are dying twice as fast as they did three decades ago in older forests of the western United States and scientists suspect warming temperatures are a contributing factor.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder.
Career Discovery Week has information for current staff members, too
Career Discovery Week has been a yearly event at the UW for a decade, but this year for the first time a “staff track” will be offered, filled with sessions that might appeal to the already-employed.
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