The latest news from the UW

On Friday, April 25, the newest addition to the UW campus — the UW Tower — will be dedicated, and everyone is invited.

Are you wondering what to do with your child this summer?

The Seattle’s Child Summer Activity Guide 2008 lists hundreds of summer programs for kids aged 2-18.

Free tickets are available today at the Henry Art Gallery admissions desk for a panel discussion on the Black Panthers slated for 7 p.

Renowned faculty pianist Craig Sheppard will perform Book II of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier in concert at 7:30 p.

Mehr and Sher Ali perform qawwali music with their ensemble at 8 p.

Tools such as microfinance, better health care and enlightened social policies are alleviating poverty in Third World nations.

WHAT’S FUNNY?: The University of Michigan seems to have an ongoing interest in humor.

Porous Sovereignty, Walled Democracy is the title of a lecture by Wendy Brown, Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, slated for Tuesday, April 22.

The UW School of Drama presents the world premiere of Fair Play by Seattle playwright Anna Rosa Parker April 27 through May 11 in the Meany Studio Theatre.

The UW will lead a multi-institutional group pushing the limits of computers’ ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the behavior of complex systems.

What’s in a name? Quite a bit, it turns out.

A new center based at the UW Information School aims to draw researchers across campus who conduct related work but haven’t collaborated.

Wildlife photographer Keith Lazelle, whose splendid images of the Hoh River valley are going on display at the Burke Museum and in a new book, says that though he shoots scores of exposures, he usually knows it right away when he has the photo he wants.

The North American Plant Collection Consortium has granted member status to the UW Botanic Gardens’ Acer (maple) collection at the Washington Park Arboretum.

The UW Wind Ensemble and Symphonic, Concert, and Campus bands will perform works by Cecile Chaminade, Herbert L.

ARTSLINK, an organization by students for students, will present ARTS EXPO(SED), a showcase of art-oriented departments at the UW, from noon to 4 p.

They created both the practical and the poetic.

From Gerberding Hall to the Graves Building, Suzzallo Library to Savery Hall, it’s a safe bet that many UW employees have seen only bits and pieces of what the campus as a whole has to offer.

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

When Lu Hilton was a student in the UW School of Nursing in the ’50s, learning patient care was pretty low tech.

The UW Department of Genome Sciences will present a panel discussion on The Personal Genome: Consequences for Society on Wednesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.

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The cost of medical education continues to rise, with medical students often amassing a staggering amount of debt in the process.

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David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and best-selling author, will deliver the 2008 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture.

Sherman Alexie, National Book Award-winner for Young People’s Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, will deliver the keynote speech at “Literary Voices,” an event sponsored by Friends of the UW Libraries at which guests dine at tables with authors.

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The Pavel Haas Quartet will perform at 8 p.

The UW community and local agencies are co-sponsoring an all-day human trafficking conference, “Asian Pacific Islander Community Responses to Human Trafficking: Working Together to Create Change,” on Saturday, April 12, in Architecture Hall.

Who are the next generation of great artists? What traditions and inspirations are they drawing upon to create the next great work? One answer can be found at the UW School of Art spring BFA shows at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery.

Board of Regents

There is no Board of Regents meeting for April.

A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a UW fish expert.