May 12, 2005
The head of the United Nations Environment Program’s Post-Conflict Assessment Unit and chairman of the unit’s Iraq Task Force will be the featured speaker at a lecture Tuesday evening that caps the UW Program on the Environment’s War and the Environment day.
Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space.
The President’s Diversity Appraisal Implementation Fund has awarded $400,000 to 13 proposals for innovative projects that will enhance student development, enhance faculty diversity or improve the campus, workplace or classroom climate.
Several UW faculty members are involved in the newest production of the Pacific Performance Project, GRAVITY, which will be presented May 18–22 in the Playhouse Theater.
Outreach, partnership and communication were the topics Kristina Johnson kept coming back to during a forum for the second of the provost candidates to visit the campus.
This year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium will attract more than 500 participants — a growth of ten-fold in the program’s eight-year history.
May 8, 2005
Critical issues in the treatment of trauma throughout the continuum of pre-hospital care, emergency care, surgical care, acute care and rehabilitation will be the focus of WAMI 2005: Current Practices in Adult and Pediatric Trauma, a two-day conference sponsored by Harborview Medical Center, the designated Level I trauma center for Washington, as well as the trauma and burn referral center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WAMI).
May 5, 2005
Walk to a sink, in a kitchen or a bathroom, and turn on the faucet.
The weekend after he took up his duties as UW registrar in 1969, Tim Washburn took his family on an outing to dig razor clams.
While Patrick Christie is trying to shake up the way undergraduates frame issues in the new course “Society and the Oceans,” the UW is trying to frame the large lecture class in new ways as well.
The UW School of Music’s spring opera, Orphee aux Enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld), will be presented next week in Meany Theater.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series on the councils and committees of the Faculty Senate.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Editor’s note: This is one of a series on the councils and committees of the Faculty Senate.
Injury prevention and injury outcomes will be the main topics for a short course, Injury Research Methods (EPI590TJ), to be held July 11 to 15 at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, 401 Broadway.
The next presentation in the series on “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” will be on “Funding to Aid in Academic Collaboration with Small Business.
The National Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday the election of Seattle researchers Dr.
Bioethics and Public Health
“Beyond Bioethics: Thinking about Ethics in Public Health” is the topic for a Symposium on Teaching and Learning, sponsored by the School of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Cardiothoracic Surgery Visiting Scholar
“Investigating the Mechanism of Neurologic Injury in Cardiac Surgery” is the topic for Dr.
Taking antibiotics weekly for a year does not reduce the risk of a heart attack or other cardiac event for patients with stable coronary artery disease, according to a UW study.
General Notices
Board of Regents Meeting
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting at 3 p.
There is currently no waiting list for community college students eligible to transfer to the UW in Seattle.
In the UW Alumni Association lecture series, “World War II: The War That Changed America,” seven distinguished history professors will talk about the many ways this watershed event affected life away from the battlefield — positive and negative.
Issues of diversity and interdisciplinary work dominated the discussion when the first of three scheduled candidates for provost visited the campus this week.
The results of the most recent legislative session may not have satisfied all of the University’s aspirations for enhanced support, but it was certainly better than most experts would have predicted four months ago.
BOSTON — A leading scientist trying to understand and treat autism suspects that a failure to engage in such normal social activities as looking at a parent’s face or listening to speech sounds early in life may help explain the profound impairments in social and language development shown by most children with the disorder.
Earth’s climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space.
May 3, 2005
Sick and injured children come in all sizes, challenging their caregivers to provide them with appropriate doses of medication and other necessary therapies.
There is currently no waiting list for community college students eligible to transfer to the University of Washington in Seattle.
More than 1,100 fifth through eighth graders from across Washington will be honored Saturday on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington for their outstanding verbal and/or mathematical talents.
May 2, 2005
WHAT: Briefing on proposals for Congress to improve oversight and accountability of charities.
April 29, 2005
To celebrate the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Andersen (1805 – 1875), Suzzallo Library will feature a special exhibition from May 3 to Aug.
April 28, 2005
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Aw, just take a walk, why dontcha.
The Honorable Robert E.
When Dan White was tried for the 1978 murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and member of the Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk, was it an execution of justice as in carrying out justice, or was it an execution of justice as in killing justice?
The double meaning is entirely deliberate in the title of the School of Drama’s latest production, Execution of Justice, which opened last night in Meany Studio Theater and will run through May 8.