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October 24, 2007
Linguists looking for a Pacific Northwest dialect
Linguists generally believe the West is too young to have evolved separate identifiable accent features or words, as has happened in other areas of the United States, and they usually lump together everyone living west of the Missouri River as speaking a similar-sounding type of English.
University of Washington receives A- grade in sustainability
The University of Washington has received a grade of A-minus in the College Sustainability Report Card, issued today by the Sustainable Endowments Institute.
October 23, 2007
UW renews its search for Washington’s brightest fifth- through eighth-graders
The annual statewide hunt for Washington’s most talented fifth-through eighth-grade students is on again by the University of Washington.
October 18, 2007
Official Notices
Public Hearing Notice
Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held at noon on Tuesday, Oct.
Peer Portfolio
MARTIAN DUST-UP: A University of Michigan atmospheric scientist thinks NASA’s Phoenix Mars probe, launched in August and set to land on the Red Planet next May, might disturb the very thing it’s meant to study, according to a recent edition of the university’s newspaper, The Record.
Photographers Group presents annual show
The UW Photographers Group will present its sixth annual group show in the HUB Gallery from Tuesday, Oct.
Marvelous maples
Mary Levin The UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection — which in terms of number of species and cultivated varieties is the most diverse in the country — is showing off its fall colors these days. You can enjoy the collection firsthand on a guided tour led by UW staff horticulturists from 1 to 2:30 p.m….
Then and now: Searching the skies for life
This school year, University Week, the UW campus newspaper for faculty and staff, turns 25 years old.
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
UW early contributor to Nobel prize-winning work by climate group
Within years of its inception, UW faculty began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore last week.
Improved forecasting of volcanic eruptions is part of Malone’s legacy
When Steve Malone retired earlier this month, he could take satisfaction in the great strides that have been made in forecasting volcanic eruptions, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
Tag(s): College of the Environment • Department of Earth and Space Sciences • earthquakes & seismology • Steve Malone
Green living in the green room: KUOW embraces composting
Even as KUOW, the UW’s National Public Radio affiliate, asks for green from its listeners in its pledge drives, the station’s staff and volunteers are going green by recycling and composting, especially in — you guessed it — the green room.
Dawg TV? Public, ‘private’ faces to UW both part of iTunes presentations
Wanted: UW videos and other multimedia materials of interest to people aged 18 to 35.
Author/researchers describe their ‘Fieldwork Connections’
Suppose you went through a series of engaging events with two people from another country.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, baby boomers headline Engineering Lecture Series
Over the next month, the Engineering Lecture Series will look at how UW engineers are inventing technologies to build greener airplanes, enable a car to cross more than a mile of churning water, and even build replacement parts for aging bodies.
Delaney to speak on ‘environmental renaissance’
John Delaney, the UW oceanographer who is leading the effort to build a cabled underwater observatory off the Washington and Oregon coasts, will speak on Tuesday, Oct.
Tag(s): John Delaney • Ocean Observatories Initiative • School of Oceanography
Disability and Society: Examining disability in context
Class title: LSJ/CHID 332: “Disability and Society,” taught by Dennis Lang, affiliate instructor in rehabilitation medicine; and Sharan Brown, Research Associate Professor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, in the College of Education.
UW-initiated biosolids project wins national clean water award
The idea of using biosolids from King County to grow canola, the seeds of which can be refined into biodiesel, has won UW researchers a first-place National Clean Water Recognition Award, presented Monday in Washington, D.
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
UW, state join to monitor climate change impact on humans
Climate changes have jeopardized human health in the past, and are bound to do so again.
Faye Wattleton to give 18th Hogness Symposium Oct. 31
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
In brief
Ethics in Clinician-Vendor Relationships Oct.
EMP’s ‘American Sabor’ savors the Latino influence on American popular music
It’s possible to discuss American Sabor: Latinos in U.
Angelosante joins Health Sciences Administration
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Leonard Hudson to receive HMC Mission of Caring Award
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October 17, 2007
Earliest evidence for modern human behavior found in South African cave
Evidence of early humans living on the coast in South Africa, harvesting food from the sea, employing complex small stone tools and using red pigments in symbolic behavior 164,000 years ago, far earlier than previously documented, is being published in the Oct.
October 15, 2007
Scientists ramp up ability of poplar plants to disarm toxic pollutants
Scientists since the early ’90s have seen the potential for cleaning up contaminated sites by growing plants able to take up nasty groundwater pollutants through their roots.
October 11, 2007
Reminder: Take our two-question survey
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Emmert to speak
President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
Violence prevention workshop available
A workshop on violence prevention is available to faculty, staff and students.
Close to you: UW student actors learn to transfer stage technique to screen
Imagine you’re an actress doing Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene.
New garden makes Pacific Connections
This morning’s groundbreaking for the Pacific Connections Garden, the largest garden added to the Washington Park Arboretum since its founding, was preceeded in recent weeks by the moving of holly trees and shrubs — some as tall as 30 feet — and by a plant collecting expedition to Oregon’s Siskiyous, the first in a series of expeditions to bolster plant collections for the new garden.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
CFD: What would you give to change the world?
This year, the Combined Fund Drive (CFD), Washington State’s workplace giving campaign, asks would-be donors, “What would you give to change the world?”
This year’s campaign began Oct.
Mystery Photos
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
College planning session tailored to UW faculty, staff
On Tuesday, Oct.
Demystifying physics: High school teachers learn inquiry method at UW’s summer program
Physics.
Reminder: Take our two-question survey
If you haven’t already taken our two-question survey, please spend the 5 minutes it will take to do so.
Hans Blix to speak on arms race threat
Hans Blix, who headed the United Nations commission that searched Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, is deeply worried that a new but quiet arms race threatens the world.
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