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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.

The UW Alaska Salmon Program, the world’s longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.

UW Tacoma broke ground this week for Court 17, the new housing and parking complex to be developed through a public/private partnership.

The UW Office of Minority Affairs’ Ronald E McNair Program/ Early Identification Program and the Graduate School’s Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program will hold their 13th annual spring research conference Friday and Saturday, May 6 and 7, in the HUB.

Student digital portfolios have become an increasingly popular means to assess student learning.

Concerns are heightened on the UW campus over the fate of the federally funded programs grouped under the title TRIO, whose aim is to increase higher education access for low-income students and those who are the first in their families to attend college.

The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans.

A proposed change in the writing requirement for students in the College of Arts and Sciences will be among the items under discussion next week at a meeting sponsored by the college’s Writing Council.

The Washington State Legislature passed a budget for higher education in the coming biennium that was a compromise between versions passed by the state House and the Senate.

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The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans.

The University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program, the world’s longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.

The Honorable Robert E.

Washington’s Child Restraint Law, passed in 2002 as the first such law to be enacted in the U.

We affect the environment by what we build, but what we build, in turn, affects us and our health.

Six graduate students, one from each health sciences school, are working on projects as Magnuson Scholars for the 2004-2005 academic year.

It’s all in the heels and toes, “Tone” says.

It all started with an old hole in the ground discovered on the 301-acre site of the Colonial Williamsburg living museum in Virginia.

The biggest mass extinction in Earth history, some 251 million years ago, was preceded by elevated extinction rates before the main event and was followed by a delayed recovery that lasted for millions of years.

Patricia Spakes believes it’s her destiny to be at UW Tacoma.

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

COVER GUYS: Housing and Food Services’ Paul Brown and Jean-Michel Boulot grace a magazine cover this month, but it isn’t Gentleman’s Quarterly.

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of articles by the chairs of Faculty Senate committees and councils.