February 24, 2009
Washington state’s system for imposing fines and fees, or legal financial obligations, on people convicted of felonies is riddled with inequalities and is hindering individuals from rejoining society, according to a report prepared for a state commission by University of Washington researchers.
“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.
The UW Percussion Ensemble performs a variety of contemporary music composed for metallophones, membranophones, and ideophones.
Hear presentations describing community planning in China and India, with a discussion on bridging the gap between graduate research and professional practice.
February 23, 2009
The West Coast Poverty Center asks, do bridge and highway tolls disproportionately burden low-income households? A seminar with UW researchers that’s open to the public.
Students of Tom Harper, Joyce Guyer, Jane Eaglen, Giselle Wyer and Tess Altiveros present art songs and arias from France, Germany, Italy and beyond.
February 21, 2009
Nelita True, professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music, will perform works by Beethoven, Faure, Liszt and more.
February 20, 2009
The University of Washington has transferred the remains of eight individuals whose bones were in the archives of a UW forensic anthropologist working at the UW from 1968 to 1991 to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Findings and recommendations from recent interviews with about 100 campus research leaders regarding the use of information technologies to support their work and future needs.
February 19, 2009
New research shows that the large-scale evolution of microbes was mostly complete 2.5 billion years ago, and that included the beginning of the modern aerobic nitrogen cycle.
The good news from Olympia is that legislators’ attention has been focused extensively on higher education for the past several weeks.
Three longtime UW administrators will gather to talk about how their feminist principles play out in their work in a roundtable next week sponsored by the Women Studies Department.
The opportunities and limitations of team teaching is the subject of “Meet, Greet, Teach” Thursday, Feb.
UW voice students perform art songs and arias by Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn in the voice division recital at 7:30 p.
When it comes to global affairs, the UW is “number one but a lot of people don’t know it.
The UW’s HuskyTV system is ready for the switch to digital television (DTV).
On Thursday, Feb.
A new map depicts the “solar system” of the Puget Sound technology industry as it developed over the past 30 years, as told through the genealogy of 711 companies, institutions and organizations.
Marking the end of International Polar Year, the chair of the eight-nation council that is assessing the implications of increased shipping in the Arctic Ocean will give a lecture on campus Thursday, Feb.
Imagine you live in the suburbs of Chicago and you must commute hundreds of miles to a job in Iowa just to put food on the table.
GM + U-M = ABCD: General Motors and the University of Michigan have teamed up to help speed up the design of advanced batteries for electric cars.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
The Japan Studies Program, The Henry M.
Class title: GEOG/SIS 111: Global Youth, taught by Dr.
“A university is a community of scholars contributing, each according to his own talents and interests, to the transmission and advancement of knowledge.
About 90 educators and others were on hand in Mary Gates Hall the afternoon of Thursday, Feb.
Nelita True, professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, will perform works by Beethoven, Faure, Liszt, and more in a visiting artist recital at 7:30 p.
The Jupiter String Quartet will make its Meany Hall debut in a concert at 8 p.
John Vinson, the UW’s new police chief, is a veteran law enforcement officer who stresses that cooperation and teamwork are how to make a good police department even better.
By Nedra Pautler
Department of Bioengineering
A new interdisciplinary center based in the UW Department of Bioengineering will work on guiding biologically based drugs to targets inside the cell.
The Seattle chapter of the Online News Association and the UW Department of Communication will host a panel discussion, “Journalism on the Brink? Can Digital Save It?” The discussion will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.
Top administrators and students from the UW School of Dentistry met with key legislators in Olympia on Feb.
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
BizTech, the UW campus technology fair, will not be held in 2009.
Low-back pain continues to impose a huge burden on industrialized societies, in terms of symptoms, medical costs, productivity, and work absence.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
UW Neuropathology Fellow Russ Huber doesn’t think of himself as a hero, even if that’s what the local papers are calling him.
Two UW faculty members are among 118 early career scientists, mathematicians, and economists to be chosen as Alfred P.
Seeking material for a novel, Charles invites a spiritualist into his house.