April 27, 2006
What was the longest-running television show with an African-American cast? Why was the popular early situation comedy Amos ‘n’ Andy cancelled after just two years? What made a 1968 Petula Clark television special a memorable event in the televised history of race relations?
These are a few of the historical nuggets to be found in the Historical Dictionary of African-American Television by Kathleen Fearn-Banks, recently published by Scarecrow Press.
Provost Phyllis Wise tackled a wide range of subjects last week when she held a town hall meeting open to the whole University community.
April 26, 2006
It is a marvel of nature that a creature such as a caterpillar changes into something quite different, a butterfly.
April 25, 2006
Room and board at Harvard costs $9,578.
April 20, 2006
Open houses, demonstrations, tours and art walks, lectures, performancs, sporting events and more await visitors to campus for the second annual Washington Weekend, Thursday, April 27, through Saturday, April 29.
Nominations sought
Nominations are open for the Scribner Courage in Health Care Award, named after the pioneering UW faculty member Dr.
Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, have been named as Magnuson Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year.
The American Lung Association will hold its “Asthma Walk 2006” on Sunday, April 30 at Husky Stadium.
There are two kinds of celebrity patients: those who are well-known before they become sick and those who become celebrities because of their illness or how it is treated.
On April 18, Dr.
The UW will receive nearly $400,000 to educate health-care providers about the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing influence on how drugs are prescribed.
ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY
Funding available
The UW Specialized Center of Research in Pharmacology of Drugs in Pregnancy (UW SCOR; supported by NICHD and ORWH) announces the availability of funds for one year pilot research grants ($10,000 per award) on the pharmacology of drugs in pregnancy.
Provost Phyllis Wise will hold a town meeting from 4 to 5 p.
More than 65 exhibitors will demonstrate the latest in research and technology in health sciences and medicine at the 31st UW Health Sciences Open House from 9 a.
English soprano Jane Eaglen will conduct a master class with four School of Music voice students at 3:30 p.
Online e-mailing and working wifi connections can be very convenient, but is the electrononic point-and-click world all it’s cracked up to be?
The Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity at the UW Information School and the The Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security are teaming up to sponsor a discussion about technology and privacy titled Privacy: Reconciling Reality from 6 to 9 p.
Well known author (Loving What Is) Byron Katie will be coming to the UW on Thursday, May 11 for two events — one for students in the Psychology and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Departments and one for the general public.
Syria is the focus of a forum and a concert next week on the UW campus.
“Remembering Japanese American Redress: A Symposium on History, Incarceration, and Justice” will be presented from 9 a.
WHERE ARE WE?
As he looked forward to painting a portrait of UW President Mark Emmert last week, German painter Stefan Budian said his main plan was to have no plan at all.
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.