The latest news from the UW

The world financial crisis has been a painful game of musical chairs, but now governments and financial managers are scrambling to bring players back to the table, said a panel of financial experts Monday evening at the UW.

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

The week before the opening of Twelfth Night, the Meany Studio Theatre is abuzz with the frenetic energy of a rehearsal.

Washington state Speaker of the House Frank Chopp will be in attendance at the first Faculty Senate meeting of the academic year today.

Board of Regents

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

The UW Bothell recently received approval from the Higher Education Coordinating Board to extend its MBA Program southward to Bellevue.

Boys who experience childhood physical or sexual abuse are more likely to use sexually coercive behavior against an unwilling female partner when they are adolescents and young adults.

Some costs will rise, of course, but some coverage levels will, too.

DETOX SCAM: Late-night television ads promote a product called Kinoki Cleansing Detox Pads, which are often applied to the feet, and claim to remove toxins from the body.

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Hurricane Gustav blew away the premiere of UW Communication Professor Hanson Hosein’s second film, Independent America: Rising from Ruins, but as it turned out, the storm was a lagniappe (a French New Orleans word for bonus) for Hosein and his film.

Playing French Seattle, a UW student organization, is presenting two plays and two staged readings of work by José Pliya — in French.

Jazz for vibraphone and piano, world premieres on viola and eerie, Halloween-friendly organ music are among events offered by the UW School of Music in coming days.

Recent Work by Zhi Lin: Unheard, Forgotten and Disregarded Stories will be presented at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Oct.

A group of public officials from Hunan Province in China is visiting the UW this week to learn about how Washington state’s Freedom of Information law works, particularly in regard to records held by large public universities.

October 27 through November 30 marks the UW’s annual open enrollment period for medical and dental insurance as well as other benefits.

DIGITAL HISTORY: The recently developed Civil Rights Digital Library (<A href="http://www.

The learning of science and math is a civil rights issue, and schools should give students broad participation in those areas as early as possible, says Philip Bell, a UW associate professor of learning sciences.

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Seattle’s only Egyptian mummy, nicknamed “Nellie,” will make a rare public appearance at the Burke Museum during the “Mysteries of Ancient Egypt” family event from 10 a.

By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations

Consider the roughly 35-square-inch area of anatomy that comprises the face.

The UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine has been awarded two grants to pursue research projects on multiple sclerosis (MS), and aging with a physical disability.

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Irwin Bernstein will receive the fifth annual Inventor of the Year Award and Babak Parviz and Tueng Shen will share the first Emerging Inventor of the Year Award.

Five UW researchers have received $100,000 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grants for innovative global health research.

The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery recently presented Distinguished Service Awards to UW faculty members Albert L.

Matt Kaeberlein, UW assistant professor of pathology, and Weiqing Li, UW assistant professor of biological structure, have received the Ellison Medical Foundation’s New Scholar Award in Aging for 2008.

When Luis Alberto Urrea, author of this year’s Common Book, The Devil’s Highway, appears in Kane Hall Oct.

So, you’ve watched the stock markets gyrate enough to make you dizzy.

Seattleites have spent decades fearing the Big One, the earthquake we’re apparently overdue for.

Two visiting artists will perform at the School of Music in the next week.

For Marcia Killien, taking on the job of Secretary of the Faculty seems an appropriate and challenging next chapter to a long career of academic and University service.

A new “Environmental Innovation Practicum” course, offered this quarter, will be a springboard for a universitywide competition that will encourage students to develop practical solutions to environmental problems.

The UW’s president and provost have both been elected to prestigious national societies.

The UW has announced that it is adding three more transit companies to its popular U-PASS program.