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The UW World Series will present the renowned Parsons Dance company in performance Feb.

The UW School of Music has several concert events in coming days, including guitar students, a double bass player and guest artists the Affinity Ensemble and pianist Christina Valdes.

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“Cultivating ‘Creativity’ in the Classroom” is the next presentation in the Practical Pedagogy series.

Pianist Juana Zayas will perform at 8 p.

This week the UW Police Department swore in a new recruit, but she didn’t speak during the ceremony — at least not in English.

It’s not news that SkillSoft e-Learning classes are available to UW staff members.

In the digital age, organizing a photo collection has gone from bad to worse.

Two-winged insects such as houseflies and mosquitoes that are active during the light of day rely on their vision for flight control, but they also get help from organs called halteres, which grow where a second set of wings might otherwise be found and aid in navigation.

At the same time that its faculty and staff members have been helping the state look to the future concerning working forests and the potential for biofuels from woody debris, the UW’s College of Forest Resources kicked off a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary.

Look around any organization and chances are you’ll be able to find at least one person whose negative behavior affects the rest of the group to varying degrees.

The stack of proposals is about 4 inches thick — ideas from 38 UW units interested in space in the recently purchased UW Tower, or space that might become available on the Seattle campus if a unit moved all or part of itself to the tower.

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The Keck Microscopy Facility will hold an open house, Friday, Feb.

Ramanan Laxminarayan, senior fellow at Resources for the Future in Washington, D.

A palliative care family conference program developed at Harborview Medical Center improves communication between family members and clinicians, and helps reduce some of the symptoms related to the trauma of a loved one’s death, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the digital age, organizing a photo collection has gone from bad to worse.

Some of a neighborhood’s features — the length of its blocks, how many grocery stores or restaurants are nearby — may be more than selling points for real estate agents.

Although mobile phones have long been a part of the business community, they are quietly becoming entrenched in personal lives.

Look around any organization and chances are you’ll be able to find at least one person whose negative behavior affects the rest of the group to varying degrees.

Two-winged insects such as houseflies and mosquitoes that are active during the light of day rely on their vision for flight control, but they also get help from organs called halteres, which grow where a second set of wings might otherwise be found and aid in navigation.

Harris leads Health Promotion Research Center

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Most people on campus know the UW Health Sciences Library as a font of health information for students, staff and faculty.

Roberta Wilkes
Department of Medicine

Many engaged in the fundamental study of human biology would like their work applied to improving health and advancing the understanding and treatment of disease.

In December, Dr.

The digital divide is no longer just a term to connote the differences in Internet use between the rich and the poor.

The yellowish haze you may have seen floating at the edge of the horizon on a sunny Seattle day is doing more than clouding the view of Mount Rainier.

Lizabeth (Betsy) Wilson, dean of University Libraries, is the Association of College and Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Academic/Research Librarian of the Year.

They’ve won the national championship, met President George W.

Board of Regents

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

The camera’s in tight; we’re watching a close-up shot.

Class Title: Tacoma Global Honors Program: Global Imaginations, taught by Sam Parker.

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization is presenting a series of films from Iran in collaboration with the Seattle Art Museum.

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

In 1997, Suzanne Jeneby went to Kenya as a 21-year-old Washington native, bringing nothing but a backpack and a determination to volunteer in a hospital.