The latest news from the UW

When UW students Steve Margitan and Geoff Morgan pitched in with post-earthquake help in China this past spring, they had no idea they’d wind up with $65,000 in donations and 5,700 cards and letters for children in the disaster zone.

What are you doing on presidential debate nights? How about joining a bunch of students, faculty and staff to listen to the candidates? The UW Libraries and WashPIRG are sponsoring live viewing of the presidential and vice-presidential debates on a big screen.

The first study of conduct problems in children to include a significant number of aggressive girls indicates that psychological conditions including conduct disorder may have separate causes in the two sexes.

How’s your blood pressure? Oh, you haven’t had it checked lately? The Employee Health Clinic, located at Hall Health, can help you with that.

Board of Regents

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

The Henry Art Gallery at the UW is administering a new award for emerging artists in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

You can register now for UW Computer Training classes in word processing, graphics and presentations, desktop publishing and other computer-related topics including these new offerings:

• Introduction to Personal Computers and Vista (R703)
  
• SharePoint 2007 for Business Managers (R3001)
  
• SharePoint 2007 Bootcamp (R3002)

You’ll find links to the autumn schedule and a printable course catalog at <A href="https://www.

LOCAL HERO: Russell Ellis, a UW Police Department officer, received a Lifesaving Award at this year’s Governor’s Industrial Safety & Health Conference after going out of his way to help a stranger.

At any given time there is a small army of workers on the UW campus who are not employed by the University.

Online teaching isn’t right for every class, and in-person instruction can be inconvenient for busy professional people.

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

When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now.

Catherine Henderson, who describes herself as a romantic at heart, wrote her prize winning Song of Washington, Stand Up with Pride for Washington, because she wanted to inspire people to be part of something bigger than themselves.

The UW World Series opens its 2008-09 President’s Piano solo recital series at 8 p.

The MacArthur Foundation works so quietly on its genius grants, UW scientist David Montgomery didn’t even know he’d been nominated until he learned of his selection last week.

Over the summer, the UW Police Department got its national accreditation renewed — which is a tougher process than getting accredited in the first place.

Friday, Sept.

New research shows that black and white Americans responded differently when exposed to a video presentation that described Hurricane Katrina and then blamed the botched relief efforts on one of two causes: either government incompetence or racism, because the majority of Katrina’s victims were black.

The Northwest Film Forum will feature two films from the UW Libraries Special Collections on Tuesday, Oct.

A long-standing scientific belief holds that stars tend to hang out in the same general part of a galaxy where they originally formed.

It’s official: The College of Architecture and Urban Planning has been renamed the College of Built Environments.

Did you know that a dried grasshopper’s body is more than 60-percent protein: twice that of chicken or beef? Learn more yummy bug facts from “the Bug Chef,” David George Gordon at The Burke Museum’s10th annual Bug Blast from 10 a.

Those wide-eyed babies are taking in and using more information than previously believed.

Students arriving for autumn quarter classes at the UW Tacoma this week have a new facility that provides much-needed space for campus events, as well as a place for students to hang out and study between classes.

A gathering to celebrate the life of Michael C.

By Peggy Weiss
Harborview Art Program

For more than 30 years, Harborview Medical Center has recognized the powerful humanizing effects of art in the health care environment.

Carlene Anders, Gene Dowers and their children — Danny, 5, and Jessi, 12 — made a special trip to UW Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) on Friday, Aug.

The 2008 Start! Puget Sound Heart Walk is less than two weeks away.

Serge Hakizimana spent 11 years of his life in a refugee camp in Tanzania.

By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy

The International District’s Legacy House — an assisted living facility — recently celebrated 10 years of providing social and housing services to low-income Asian seniors.

By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy

Last year, when UW pharmacy students were called upon to help with a hypertension-awareness initiative at Seattle Seahawks games, the students were more than happy to heed that call.

An analysis of emergency medical services-treated cardiac arrest outcomes in 10 areas in North America finds a fivefold difference in survival rates, according to a study in the Sept.