February 12, 2009
America’s severe economic crisis means less money for education and reductions in teaching and staff jobs, according to projections by Marguerite Roza, senior scholar at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, at UW Bothell, and research assistant professor in the College of Education.
K-12 school districts that lay off personnel according to seniority cause disproportionate damage to their programs and students than if layoffs were determined on a seniority-neutral basis.
The UW School of Music and Southeast Asia Center will present an evening of Javanese performing arts showcasing shadow puppetry, gamelan music and dance at 7:30 p.
Students of the UW School of Music will perform new selections from the past 50 years in a program arranged by new faculty composer Huck Hodge.
The region’s newest source of news about Puget Sound was launched last Friday by UW environmental journalism students and their instructor.
The Jacob Lawrence gallery will host a no holds barred, no rules exhibition of unbridled student talent Feb.
UW Special Collections Film Archivist Hannah Palin will introduce “Home Movie Day,” an event of the Society of American Archivists UW Student Chapter, from 5 to 7 p.
A royal palace in Leon, Spain will become the second European campus of the UW.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Matthew O’Donnell, dean of the University of Washington’s College of Engineering and professor in the department of bioengineering, and David Auth, a UW affiliate professor in bioengineering and consultant based in Kirkland, Wash.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Meeting the information technology needs of the UW’s research leaders is going to challenge the University to provide the right kinds of resources and sufficient resources, not just in traditional infrastructure but in human expertise.
Sri Lankan human rights activist and feminist Nirmala Rajasingam will speak at 6:30 p.
The UW Press and the presses at Fordham University, University of California (FlashPoints series), University of Pennsylvania, and University of Virginia have been awarded a collaborative grant of $1.
Utilities work is under way near Husky Stadium in preparation for light rail construction scheduled to begin after the 2009 Husky football season.
Statistics Professor Peter Guttorp fiddles with a remote control, pointing it at a device to make a videoconference connection with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Pianist Angela Hewitt will present a concert at 8 p.
Growing up with a heroin-addicted parent exposes children to a variety of detrimental experiences before the age of 18 and new research indicates that girls are four times more resilient than boys in overcoming such adverse events.
The UW Speech and Hearing Department is offering a free seminar to learn about hearing loss, today’s hearing aid options and communication strategies, Monday, March 2.
PREMIER PRESS: The UW Press was honored with 12 awards recently, eight for its designers and four for the content of its books.
Undergraduate Honors student Sam Sudar is the most recent UW student selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
UW researchers have helped develop a new kind of microscope to visualize cells in three dimensions, an advance that could bring great progress in the field of early cancer detection.
There are tough times ahead as the University prepares for budget cuts from the Legislature.
Frances Contreras does not hesitate to use strong language to describe the poor state of Latino education in the United States.
If the budget cuts proposed in December by Gov.
Whose Arctic is it anyhow? Or how can competing international claims be resolved? With the polar ice cap melting, significant oil and gas reserves may soon be accessible, and the Northwest Passage shipping route could become far more navigable.
The UW School of Drama presents Blithe Spirit, a riotous look at the afterlife by Noel Coward, from Feb.
Tonight the Burke Museum is throwing a birthday party for one of those scientists whose name is known by everyone — scientist and nonscientist alike.
An informal lecture early this evening and a big combined-band concert next Thursday may be the only campus events at the UW directly noting the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
The Pacific Northwest has a higher incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) than most anywhere on earth.
The UW Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Basic Biology of Aging will fund pilot projects in basic research on the biology of aging.
Breast cancer affects one woman in nine during her lifetime, and the risk increases with age.
Medical Education Research & Scholarship Forum: “It’s Not Marcus Welby MD’s Library Any More!” Presenters: Ann Whitney, head, Systems, Health Sciences Libraries; Sherry Dodson, clinical librarian; and Sarah Safranek, information management librarian.
Tom Fleming, UW professor of biostatistics and statistics, will deliver the School of Public Health’s Winter Quarter Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Clinical Trials: Discerning Hype from Substance.
By Ashley Wiggin
School of Nursing
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By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy
There’s much more to the practice of pharmacy than many people think.
The genome of the evolutionary ancestor of humans and present-day apes underwent a burst of activity in duplicating segments of DNA, according to a study to be published in Nature Feb 12, the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday.
Did you miss “Immigration and American Identity,” the Annual Faculty, delivered by Charles Hirschman, on Jan.
Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love will share her thoughts on the writing life and some of her current projects.
February 11, 2009
Growing up with a heroin-addicted parent exposes children to a variety of detrimental experiences before the age of 18 and new research indicates that girls are four times more resilient than boys in overcoming such adverse events.