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The Fourth Annual UW Postdoctoral Association Research Symposium will be held from 2 to 5 p.

Board of Regents

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

On Sunday Nov.

The person who committed suicide in Red Square Oct.

Seattle winters all but guarantee buckets of rain, blustery winds and — unfortunately for stargazers — clouds, clouds, clouds.

Joseph Felsenstein, professor of Genome Sciences and of Biology at the UW, will speak on Evolutionary Trees, Coalescents and Gene Trees: Can Mathematicians Find the Woods? at 3:30 p.

In the second lecture of the “Lucy Talks” series, Katherine Taylor, a forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, will discuss the basics of her field and the science of reading bones.

Journalism students from Russia and UW Tacoma got an up-close look at American-style journalism in action as election-night guests of the Tacoma-based News Tribune newspaper Nov.

Marc Seales and friends will present an evening of jazz that draws heavily on Seales’ recent experiences in Paris, as well as his own take on songs of his youth at 7:30 p.

The UW’s Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature was created in 1909 in response to community demand.

Once upon a time, it was enough for University freshmen to get through first-year English composition courses.

It sounds like a tale straight from CSI: The bully invades a home and does away with the victim, then is ultimately found out with the help of DNA evidence.

UW Bothell will celebrate the fall 2008 launch of its Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (MACS) Program with guest lecturer Toby Miller from 6 to 8:30 p.

There are challenges in the foster care system and UW Professor Mark Courtney, a leading expert on U.

The School of Music’s first opera production this year proves that even back in 1777, humans were already thinking about going to the moon.

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

Faculty and staff at the UW generally report that they are proud to work here and satisfied with their employment experience.

A recent study in mice shows the ability of the fetal heart to grow healthy cells to compensate for cardiac tissue lost to disease.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, one of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a contract to the UW to use systems biology approaches to comprehensively analyze and model the virus-host interactions and cellular response networks that are induced or altered during the course of acute respiratory virus infection.

The UW Photographers Group fall exhibition will be on display in the UW Medical Center’s Skylight Gallery from November 11 through December.

By Staishy Siem
News & Community Relations

UW Medical Center is scheduled to break ground this winter on the first phase of a two-part construction project designed to give the hospital much needed space for patient care.

As obesity rates continue to rise in the United States — and related health care costs — UW researchers continue to offer findings that may offer some possible solutions, or explanations.

By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations

This past springtime I was cheerfully anticipating new work digs.

Interested in starting your own company? Want to take your knowledge beyond the academic setting? Have a great idea for a product but don’t know what to do next? Next week, the UW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the UW’s Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) will host the second annual EntrepreneurWeek, a five-day series of talks, events and networking opportunities focused on starting new companies.

This year’s Common Book, The Devil’s Highway, brings U.

Class title: CHID 498: Poetics of Play in Digital Role-playing Games, taught by Terry Schenold, doctoral candidate in English.

Board of Regents

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

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