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The chill in the air means it’s time to become familiar with the University’s inclement weather and suspended operations policies and the new numbers to call for the latest information on possible disruption of operations.

What if you had to work all day in a language not your own? How would you feel if, despite education in your native tongue, you couldn’t fully grasp the nuances of the language around you each work day?

Such is the case for a number of UW employees who are not native speakers of English, from maintenance crews to research fellows.

Ten UW faculty members have been awarded the distinction of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS.

A pilot project in participatory democracy will begin later this month in King County, pairing local policymakers with young adults who were once in foster care and are now existing on minimum-wage incomes.

What would you call an alien if you encountered it on the street tomorrow? What if that alien didn’t come from another world but rather was created in a laboratory right here on Earth and functioned differently from other Earth life?

Either way, Peter Ward has the beginnings of an answer.

The level and breadth of interest in the subject of climate change and its effects in Washington state was evidenced Thursday as a capacity crowd of more than 600 attended “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: Planning for Climate Disruption,” sponsored by King County and various state agencies.

Marilla Svinicki, associate professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, will be the speaker at the Quarterly Forum on Teaching and Learning, scheduled for 2 p.

The University of Washington Retirement Association (UWRA) offers its next Long-term Care Insurance Workshop from 5 to 7 p.

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Provost Phyllis Wise will hold her first Town Meeting with the University community from 3:30 to 5 p.

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Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Information Sessions

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

To publish academic and scholarly writing and research is to swim against an ever-growing tide of pop celebrity blather, exploitive tell-alls and diet crazes.

When the press picks up on research a university professor is doing, he or she can win a bit of notoriety, but it’s a rare day that a professor winds up in a comic strip.

Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.

Karen VanDusen, director of the UW’s Environmental Health & Safety unit, has been named by Gov.

UNDER THE SEA: A recent New York Times article described how networks of tiny sensors are being used by scientists to “help fill an observational gap between microscopes and telescopes” in studies of forests, rivers, plate tectonics and undersea environments.

The School of Public Health and Community Medicine has been chosen to receive $3.

Among patients who are insured by Medicare, the risk of early death after bariatric surgery, sometimes known as gastric bypass surgery, is considerably higher than has been suggested by previous research.

It started as a classic bad day.

The way we see them undulate through the water and their eyes — their eyes are dark without a flicker of life as you see in the eyes of a dog or cat or other animals — well, it’s just a primordial instinct to be afraid,” says Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Professor Vince Gallucci of sharks.

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Suzanne Ortega was immediately interested when she saw the UW’s Graduate School was looking for a new dean.

UW Medical Center is a recipient of the 2005 Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention & Sustainable Practices, the state’s highest honor for taking care of the environment while doing business in Washington.

WHITE HOUSE KEYNOTER: David Hawkins, social work professor and founding director of the Social Development Research Group, has a date today at the White House.

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The subject of shared governance remains a major focus for the UW Faculty Senate this year, as Ashley Emery, professor of mechanical engineering, steps up to become chair.

The first all-university colloquium on conservation issues, planned for Nov.

Type 2 diabetes and depression can be a fatal mix.

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Many baffled parents have wondered whether their teenagers would ever stop growing.

University of Washington officials who have reviewed plans for a proposed additional bridge crossing the Arboretum and Union Bay have found that the proposal is “unacceptable” to the UW.

The 2005 Engineering Lecture Series, “Engineering the Unexpected,” focuses on how UW engineers are taking the lead in designing ways to respond when disaster strikes.

UW Bothell Associate Professor Kevin Laverty is the principal investigator for a three-year $600,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to develop community partnerships to address the region’s most important environmental management problems and opportunities.

Have you seen the colorful banners posted across campus that say “Creating Futures”? They’re part of a new phase in the UW Foundation’s eight-year quest to raise $2 billion in public support.

Immigrants are more dispersed and far more entwined with American-born people when measured by the households in which they live rather than counted individually on the traditional basis of census tract, neighborhood, metropolitan area or state.

An organization formed last year to represent the interests of post-doctoral scholars at the UW has continued to grow.

Seattle Information

The UW’s Seattle enrollment for autumn quarter 2005 is 39,251, including 2,019 non-matriculated students (those who are not seeking degrees) enrolled in credit courses through University Educational Outreach.