The latest news from the UW

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.

Events ranging from a poetry reading to lectures by distinguished visitors from Peru are part of “Even Cowboys Get the Blues: A Celebration of the Life and Poetry of Luis Hernandez,” planned for next week on campus.

The author of the recently released Leaving the Lectern: Cooperative Learning and the Critical First Days of Students Working in Groups, was quite annoyed when he was first expected to take part in group learning.

A pilot project now under way is a big step toward the goal of “anytime, anywhere learning.

The University of Washington’s K-12 Resource Guide is a searchable database providing information about the many educational resources available to K-12 students and educators.

You can learn about who lived at Discovery Park thousands of years ago at the Burke Museum’s Urban Archaeology Day from 10 a.

The medical/dental open enrollment period for UW employees is from Oct.

Sound Transit has issued a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement and is seeking comment at two public hearings in November.

Last week’s paper issue of University Week contained an insert with a summary of the results of the survey of faculty and staff conducted last spring by the Leadership, Community and Values Initiative.

UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.

The Committee to Improve the UW Undergraduate Experience will be holding three open meetings for faculty and staff in October.

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

The sixth annual Costco Scholarship Breakfast, which supports the Costco Scholarship Fund, raised more than $2.

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.

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

The search is on again for the brightest fifth- through eighth-grade students across Washington.

UW President Mark Emmert will give his annual address to the UW community at 4 p.

The UW Information School will hold three public events in coming days related to its search for a new dean.

Academic opportunities

Proposals wanted for CSSS Seed Grants The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Seed Grants Program announces a new round of seed grants.

Collier & Dean, the duo featuring UW Music Professor Tom Collier and his friend Dan Dean, will perform their 40th Anniversary Concert at 7:30 p.

Jane Brown, professor of Germanics, has received a Humboldt Research Award in recognition of lifetime achievements in research.

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

A new office is opening on campus alongside the By George Café in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library: The Husky Card Account & ID Center will be a convenience for students and some staff.

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It’s a lot like an art class on upper campus.

Recurrent miscarriage (RM) can have devastating emotional effects on a woman and her partner.

The third Russell Ross Endowed Lecture will be given by Dr.

UW physicians featured on KING-TV Friday

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About 30 exhibits and hands-on demonstrations were set up in the Health Sciences Lobby and adjacent courtyard as part of the Dawg Daze orientation program for new entering freshmen and transfer students in late September.

All over the world, researchers are trying to find the answer to making spinal cords whole again after they have been injured.

It’s not every day that a UW assistant professor leaves Mary Gates Hall to head a foreign delegation at a major overseas conference of the United Nations.