The latest news from the UW

What abilities do University faculty and staff need to do their jobs well? That’s a question staff at Professional and Organizational Development (POD) set out to answer when they conducted a Universitywide needs assessment survey recently.

Tuition early on was $10 a semester and courses ranged from wood technology — including learning how to recognize the commercial timbers of the United States and know their properties — to forest protection, which mainly concerned how to thwart fungi, insect pests and forest fires on timberlands.

Hey, when’s the last time you checked your information in the UW online campus directory?

Is the information in your entry correct and up to date? Does it reflect that last promotion, transfer or appointment? You can correct it yourself, you know.

With the change of seasons it’s time to familiarize yourself with the University policies that apply during periods of severe weather, and in the event of a temporary suspension of nonessential operations.

Kathrine Handford will perform works by Buxtehude, Bach, Bartok and others at an organ concert Sunday, Nov.

STUDENTS FOR SERVICE: A team of UW landscape architecture students has been selected from hundreds of national and international entries for an award in the community service category from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Luis Fraga went from a high school that was 86 percent Mexican American to a college where he was one of only 16 Mexican Americans out of a class of about 1,600.

Early viewing of violent television programs is linked to later aggressive and anti-social behavior in boys and doubles the risk of future childhood attention problems, according to a pair of news studies published Monday in the November issue of Pediatrics.

Barry Lieberman will perform with Seattle Symphony friends, Maestro Peter Eros will conduct the University Symphony playing a UW composer’s piece, and Tom Collier will jazz it up with visiting saxophonist Gary Herbig, all in concerts coming soon from the UW School of Music.

University Stores will sell its remaining inventory at a sale for UW departments, non-profits, and agency accounts on Thursday, Nov.

The Professional Staff Organization’s fall member meeting, originally scheduled for today, Thursday, Nov.

Marco Antonio (Maco) Garavito, formerly active in the Guatemalan resistance and current director of the Guatemalan Mental Health League, will give a talk titled The Dream of Peace in Guatemala at 7 p.

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) and the Science and Engineering Business Association (SEBA) have teamed up to host the UW’s first EntrepreneurWeek, a selection of entrepreneurial events, speakers, and networking opportunities for students, faculty and staff.

The diversity of the UW student body will be on display at the The Foundation for International Understanding Through Students (FIUTS) CulturalFest, 3:30-7:30 p.

A UW poll shows that three measures on the state’s November ballot may pass, but two are statistically tied, and plenty of voters remain undecided.

Justin Percival is looking for ways to help victims of Duchenne muscular dystrophy increase muscle strength.

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

The President’s Piano Series, presented by the UW World Series, will be launched with a performance by Yevgeny Sudbin at 8 p.

Compared to men there’s a higher percentage of women earning doctorates in biology than in most other fields of science.

This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.