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January 24, 2009
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.
Mini-Medical School begins Feb. 3
UW Medicine’s Mini-Medical School, a six-session evening program offered each year at the UW, will begin on Feb.
President Obama’s Dreams from My Father named Common Book for 2009
It seems fitting that in this week of change and inaugural excitement, the UW’s next Common Book should be new President Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
Surgery checklist proves worth in worldwide study
A year-long World Health Organization pilot program in eight hospitals around the world–including UW Medical Center — has proven conclusively that inpatient deaths can be significantly reduced, along with the rate of major complications after surgery, by following a simple checklist.
UWPD places officer in HUB for lunchtime outreach
Do you have questions about crime prevention or campus safety? Maybe about bike registration or how to secure your electronic equipment?
An officer of the UW Police is now on hand to help for two hours at lunchtime every day — from 11:15 a.
School of Public Health name shortened
On Jan.
Concerto Competition winners solo with the UW Symphony Jan. 29
The UW Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.
UW continues to lead U.S. universities in contributing Peace Corps volunteers
UW graduate students Shella Biallas and Chami Arachchi found multiple reasons to join the Peace Corps.
Charles Hirschman to address immigration in Faculty Lecture
Forget the Mayflower, the Daughters of the American Revolution and even the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Visiting scholar to lecture on antisemitism
Antisemitism: An Eternal Hatred? is the title of a lecture by Steven Beller slated for noon Tuesday, Jan.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
MathAcrossCampus.
Martin Grotschel of the Technical University of Berlin presents “Combinatorial Optimization in Action,” part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium series, given by high-level researchers and are open to all.
Witnesses to genocide: Program presents interviews with Rwandan tribunal
Chief Prosecutor Hassan Jallow has confronted individuals responsible for masterminding hundreds of thousands of deaths in Rwanda.
Study questions our understanding of early TB infection
Tuberculosis bacteria can commandeer the body’s defenses in the early stages of infection and redirect them for their own offensive strategies, according to results reported Jan.
January 21, 2009
New data show much of Antarctica is warming more than previously thought
New research shows that, contrary popular belief, much of Antarctica has been warming like the rest of the world for the last 50 years.
Jenny Lewis solo.
Jenny Lewis solo.
January 20, 2009
‘Astronaut food approach’ to medical testing: Dehydrated, wallet-sized malaria tests promise better diagnoses in developing world
Researchers at the University of Washington 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.
Vatican lecture series.
The first in a five-part series titled “The Vatican in the 20th Century: The Popes Confront a Turbulent World” presented by James Ramon Felak, associate professor of history.
President Barack Obama.
Join the campus community to watch Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States.
January 19, 2009
A day on, for Dr. King.
The Martin Luther King Day of Service begins with a kickoff celebration for students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends.
January 16, 2009
The JACK Quartet.
They push the boundaries of the most demainding string quartet repertoire with what the Chicago Sun-Times called “powerhouse playing.
January 15, 2009
Watch the inauguration at the libraries
The UW Libraries will offer live viewing of the presidential inauguration on a big screen in two locations.
Coming up
Life Sciences Discovery Fund information sessions: Two information sessions on 2009 project grants will be held this month at the UW.
History Lecture Series to discuss The Vatican in the 20th century
The 2009 UW Alumni Association and College of Arts and Sciences History Lecture series will explore a century of changes and challenges that shaped the modern Catholic Church and forever altered the state of world politics.
Updated ranking for School of Pharmacy
The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, which keeps track of statistics on pharmacy schools around the nation, now ranks the UW School of Pharmacy second (rather than third, as mentioned in last week’s “Best of 2008” story) in National Institutes of Health research funding awarded to individual researchers at a pharmacy school.
Teacher contracts not so inflexible, study shows
By Debra Britt
Center on Reinventing Public Education
Collective bargaining agreements are not necessarily the “boogey-man” barriers to reforming the nation’s high schools as many educators believe, according to a new study from the UW Bothell’s Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE).
Freeze! UWPD promotes Polar Plunge for Special Olympics on Jan. 31
Some cops tell you to pull over and some cops tell you to move along — but Sgt.
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