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Rowing shells feel tippy, as if any movement might capsize them, until rowers get used to them.

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Class title: “Atmospheric Sciences 111: Global Warming, Understanding the Issues,” taught spring quarter by Theodore Anderson, a research associate professor and part-time lecturer.

Richard Penny has been named vice chancellor for advancement and external relations at UW Bothell.

The move of campus units to UW Tower is already a bit more than a third complete, and more units will move in over the summer.

Drums will sound from the Meany Studio Theater when the School of Music presents World Percussion, featuring the UW Percussion Ensemble, at 7:30 p.

BLOODHOUNDS: The University of California-Davis School of Veterninary Medicine has opened a community-based blood donor program — for dogs.

Bugs Bunny famously asked, “What’s opera, doc?” The School of Music will address that question with its Spring Opera Workshop, at 7:30 Thursday, June 5, in the Meany Studio Theater.

Looking for some jazz for a warm spring evening? The UW School of Music has two offerings for jazzoids in coming days, both instrumental and vocal.

American folk songs, gospel numbers with special guests, chamber singing and an evening of performance from combined UW choirs all are among events being presented by the UW School of Music in the next week.

The UW Interdisciplinary Visual Arts program will present its 2008 Senior Exhibiton, titled Synthesis, June 11 to 14 at the School of Art’s Sandpoint Gallery in Seattle’s Magnuson Park.

Nancy Penrose is back at the University after visiting the country she once lived in but didn’t remember.

UW Botanic Gardens will present a program on greening your home at 7 p.

Last August, Taso Lagos was terrified he, his program assistant and his 13 undergraduates would be caught in wildfires raging across central and southern Greece.

Jen Drumm, The coordinator of Dawg Daze, the annual event welcoming new students to campus, is looking for faculty and staff who are interested in participating.

When Herbert Blau received an honorary degree recently, the occasion was particularly poignant.

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

Biofuels based on ethanol, vegetable oil and other renewable sources are increasingly popular with government and environmentalists as a way to reduce fossil fuel dependence and limit greenhouse gas emissions.

Former Surgeon General of the United States C.

By Melinda Young
School of Pharmacy

The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 62,400 new cases of melanoma — a malignant form of skin cancer — will occur in the United States in 2008.

Two faculty members in the Department of Medicine were recently appointed to endowed professorships.

The School of Medicine’s Department of Pharmacology will present the 21st Annual Edwin G.

Straws.

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) celebrated its 40th year at the UW last week by hosting an open house for a devoted cadre of supporters among marine scientists and resource users.

After 40 years of work on behalf of diversity at the UW, many of the challenges which prompted the initial protests still remain, but the agenda has broadened in ways that no one back in 1968 could have predicted.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1 p.

More than 200 invited guests will help “ring in” the new bells in Gerberding Hall’s tower on Saturday, May 31.

In the run-up to river restoration following the planned dismantling of two hydroelectric dams on the Elwha River — the largest dams, by far, to be removed anywhere — scientists led by UW researchers have undertaken the complex task of documenting what’s in the river valley now.

Class title: “Critical Studies of Homeless Youth Issues,” General studies/Nursing.

Ignatius Rigor would be the first to say he’s no expert on polar bears, their listing as a threatened species last week or the policies of George W.

When the world’s most powerful subatomic particle collider begins gathering data this summer, it will be a major milestone for a number of UW scientists.

Bionic contact lenses.

UW HERO: Northwest Dollars for Scholars has selected UW President Mark A.