April 20, 2006
A new partnership between the UW, South Seattle Community College and South Seattle neighborhoods will be celebrated with a day trip to that area, available to all, on May 3, guided by community leaders and faculty advisors from both institutions.
Lili Angel’s art is like a Buddhist monk’s sand painting — she spends days or weeks creating it, and then it’s gone.
“They call their project the North Pole Environmental Observatory, but that name gives the impression that it’s some exotic domed facility,” writes New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin.
For Anne Eskridge, it started with the need for a different kind of house.
The University community will have a chance to hear from the co-chair of the Bring Back New Orleans Commission when Barbara Major comes to town Thursday, April 27.
Now through the end of April, the UW will host hundreds of visitors as part of the Arbor Day and Washington Weekend events.
ON JAPAN: It was, the Christian Science Monitor stated, “a Godzilla moment” for Japan when the Nikkei lost nearly $400 billion in value over three days of wild selling in January.
Last summer, University Week contacted employees who have worked here 35 years or longer and asked them for their reminiscences about the UW over the years.
Sheila Edwards Lange has been selected interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity, effective May 15.
CASE CHAMPIONS: The UW did quite well at the regional award competition of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, picking up 21 awards in a variety of categories.
UW students and staff consume close to 5,000 coffee and tea beverages every day.
The scientific theory of evolution and the faith-based belief in intelligent design continue to be the subject of heated debate nationwide.
Many faculty members say that they’d like to use instructional technology more in their classrooms.
April 19, 2006
Among the events coinciding with Earth Day this year are the College of Forest Resources’ annual Arbor Day Fair for area first- and second-graders, and a day of trail building and clean up with volunteers from the Student Conservation Association at the Washington Park Arboretum, a part of the UW Botanic Gardens.
Seattle scientists have developed a new method for analyzing the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) of the human genome.
Sheila Edwards Lange has been selected interim vice president for minority affairs and vice provost for diversity, effective May 15.
April 17, 2006
Charles Mitchell, chancellor of the Seattle Community College District, has been named the 2006 Charles E.
April 14, 2006
President Mark A.
April 13, 2006
Provost Phyllis Wise has announced a plan to integrate better those units that serve undergraduates.
Theater-like improvisations helped spark musical creativity when Seattle-based folk-blues singer Chic Street Man visited the School of Music last week to hold a master class.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Just before winter quarter ended, Serena Maurer successfully defended her dissertation and picked up her doctorate.
Innovative teaching practices of UW faculty and TAs will be showcased on April 25 when the Symposium on Teaching and Learning comes to Mary Gates Commons.
Chow down on pancakes served by your favorite UW athletes and rub elbows with alumni, fans and Big “W” legends as the UW Alumni Association and Big “W” Club hold their second annual UWAA-Big “W” Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, April 22, at Husky Stadium.
The Olympic Natural Resources Center, located in Forks on the Olympic Peninsula, is bringing its annual research review to the main campus for the first time this year.
National Book Award Winner Charles Johnson will deliver the keynote speech at the Friends of the UW Libraries’ first “Literary Voices,” a dinner where guests dine at tables with authors, one of the events of Washington Weekend, April 27-29, on campus.
UW School of Law Professor Paul Steven Miller will be featured in Little People, Big World, a reality show produced by The Learning Channel, at 8 p.
The importance of educating girls and raising the status of women around the world will be the focus of a program next week featuring Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of the San Francisco-based Global Fund for Women.
Double bass player and singer Irina-Kalina Goudeva, with Joshua Parmenter providing live electronics, will present “Lavarayaha,” a solo spectacle for voice, double bass, electronics, visual effects, acting and dancing at 7:30 p.
Stabilizing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at tolerable levels may be possible using cost-effective technology that already exists.
The UW School of Law recently announced the selection of the inaugural five recipients of the William H.
When the Department of Electrical Engineering first came into existence at the UW, electricity remained a luxury in many areas of the country.
The UW International Chamber Music Series concludes its 2005-06 season with the Daedalus String Quartet and guest pianist Byron Schenkman.
The concert by soprano Juliana Rambaldi, scheduled for Monday, April 17, in Meany Theater, has been cancelled.
Karen Cheng, an associate professor of design in the School of Art, has written a new book about creating typefaces titled Designing Type, and will discuss it tonight from 6 to 8 p.
April 11, 2006
The responses I’ve received from readers about my columns on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) graduation requirement are almost evenly split between those in favor and those opposed.
With few of the Pacific Northwest’s 200 coastal rivers remaining unaltered by human development, watershed scientists are meeting this week to consider emerging policy issues and scientific challenges they foresee in the decade ahead.
April 7, 2006
More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 31st University of Washington Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.
April 6, 2006
The small UW Bothell campus looked like it needed something special, in real life as well as on its Web cam.
Perhaps it’s not surprising that the UW’s top-rated School of Nursing is also a leader in philanthropy.