January 25, 2007
Chuck Blumenfeld, a partner at Perkins Coie LLP law firm who was president of the UW Alumni Association for 2005-06, has been selected as executive director of the UW Alumni Association and UW associate vice president for alumni relations, effective Feb.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
January 23, 2007
January 19, 2007
Chuck Blumenfeld, a partner at Perkins Coie LLP law firm, and who was president of the University of Washington Alumni Association for 2005-06, has been selected as executive director of the UW Alumni Association and UW associate vice president for alumni relations, effective Feb.
January 18, 2007
All bumblebees are not always as busy as, well, a bee.
“The Noble Road to Peace,” UW Medical Center/Health Sciences celebration honoring Dr.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Wylie Burke, professor and chair of the Department of Medical History and Ethics, became president of the American Society of Human Genetics on Jan.
Wes Cowan, star of the PBS television series History Detectives and guest appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, will share his antiquing adventures as the guest of the Burke Museum at 7 p.
In a study of non-human primates infected with the influenza virus that killed 50 million people in 1918, an international team of scientists has found a critical clue to how the virus killed so quickly and efficiently.
The UW will be well represented in a quilt show opening at the Seattle Convention and Trade Center this weekend, and not all of the exhibitors are from the School of Art.
Most days, Ethelyn Abellanosa is just like other staffers who labor at the University of Washington.
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and UW cooperative institute dedicated to understanding climate and its effects is starting its 30th year with a new director.
Robin McCabe, director of the UW School of Music, will perform with a very special guest on Jan.
The University Symphony, under the baton of Peter Eros, will perform at 7:30 p.
The people have pledged and the numbers are in.
The UW International Chamber Music Series will present the internationally acclaimed Vertavo String Quartet in concert at 8 p.
The Winter Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning is partnering with the Catalyst Spark Session to address issues related to teaching in wireless classrooms on campus.
When Charlene Reyes landed in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, it was her first time outside the three west-coast states.
Michael Collins, author of Death of a Writer, will speak at the Friends of the University of Washington Libraries Annual Meeting at 7 p.
Frances Contreras, UW assistant professor of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, will be among those honored by the newspaper Northwest Asian Weekly in its Women of Color Empowered luncheon series.
A new building at the UW is just the 11th in the country and the second at a higher education institution to be rated as LEED-CS Gold by the U.
Career Discovery Week, now in its eighth year at the UW, is not only an excellent way for students to learn about the professional options that await them, it’s also a chance for UW faculty, staff and alumni to shine by sharing their own experiences.
Justice Albie Sachs of the Constitutional Court of South Africa will speak at the UW School of Law from 3:30 to 5 p.
Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don’t fit the stereotype of unhappy “nerds” who are humorless, isolated misfits, according to a new study.
Academic Opportunities
Pilot project funding
The Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH) is offering pilot project funding in broadly defined areas of “gene-environment interactions.
January 17, 2007
For information regarding the portions of this study conducted by the University of Wisconsin, contact Terry Devitt, <A href="mailto:trdevitt@wisc.
January 16, 2007
Students who entered college when they were 12 to 14 years old don’t fit the stereotype of unhappy “nerds” who are humorless, isolated misfits, according to a new study.
January 11, 2007
The UW World Dance Series continues with Shen Wei Dance Arts Jan.
The UW Purchasing Department has passed its latest audit by the federal government with flying colors, and has been approved for another three years.
Randy Hodgins will always wonder what might have been.
As of Tuesday, about 900 members of the UW community had signed up to help on the Martin Luther King Jr.
Many faculty and staff were instrumental in making UW Health Sciences a site of excellence in the second half of 2006.
Paleontologist Christian Sidor is unwrapping 260 million-year-old fossils with the same enthusiasm as a kid under a Christmas tree.
Denise Anderson’s adventure as a volunteer English teacher in a small village in China’s central Shaanxi Province began when her husband, who was working on a remodeling project, decided he should stay home during their usual September vacation break.
Avian virus mutations
It was buried on Page 6 of the University of Wisconsin newspaper, Wisconsin Week, but it reads like front-page news: “Scientists find mutations that let bird flu adapt to humans.
Virginia “Ginger” Warfield, UW senior lecturer in math, always knew she’d become a mathematician — it was in the genes, you might say.
Sitting in a classroom and listening to a professor talk about how the human body responds to the extreme environment of a mountaintop is one thing.
Earth’s inhabitants are used to temperatures that vary, sometimes greatly, between day and night.
A UW College of Forest Resources think tank says Washington forests are being threatened from within.