The latest news from the UW

Family and friends paid tribute to the outstanding contributions of two devoted alumni at the UW’s second annual Recognition Gala recently.

According to its new chair, this year’s Faculty Senate has a clear agenda that it shares with the administration.

The UW World Dance Series at Meany Hall, which opens with the Martha Graham Dance Company tonight, brings a touch of the old as well as the new, the familiar along with the eclectic.

Kipling West has dabbled in brain juice, converted a Margaret Thatcher puppet to a nun with boxing gloves and created a tarot deck just for cats.

Patricia Carson, a senior vice president at United Airlines, will become the vice president for human resources, beginning Monday, Oct.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Applications wanted
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS) invites applications from University of Washington faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States.

TICK, TICK, TICK: That’s the sound of the biological clock of American women who put education and career ahead of starting a family.

POLICING PARTNERS: UW Police Chief Vicky Peltzer will be leading a delegation of law enforcement executives to South Africa soon, sponsored by the Ambassador People to People Program.

Attention all men.

The open enrollment period for the state medical and dental plans, which runs from Oct.

The state of Washington is in the process of making a major change in its civil service system.

An ambitious new venture in scholarly publishing is aiming to broaden access to current research and to lower costs for academic libraries.

Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships.

400 to attend landmark SEARCH meeting in Seattle on all aspects of Arctic change

Women who carry inherited mutations in the genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 have a lifetime risk of breast cancer of more than 80 percent, as well as a high risk of ovarian cancer, according to the most comprehensive study to date of these women and their families.

Vouchers, charter schools and other school-choice programs might not make America’s schools any more segregated and unequal than they are today, according to a new study.

Married heterosexual couples can learn a great deal from gay and lesbian couples, far more than the stereotypical images presented by the television show “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” according to the first published observational studies of homosexual relationships.

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

Since New Student Orientation in September, visitors to the Odegaard Undergraduate Library have been invited to fold a paper crane.

Name: Marilyn Gregory

UW Job: Field Coordinator, Young Women’s Health Study, School of Social Work

Volunteer Activity: I am a member of the board for the University District Food Bank.

The imprisonment of more than 117,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry was no spur-of-the-moment decision launched in reaction to the Dec.

Like a sparring Hollywood tabloid couple, the squabbles are getting harder and harder to ignore.

Two recently designated “scholar-citizens” are receiving support from brand new graduate fellowships this fall.

Imagine a sleek, sports car-like contraption into which you can climb, sinking into a soft leather seat in a semi-reclining position.

Reference Update

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Hall Health Primary Care Center will offer flu shots in the upcoming weeks for the campus community.

There’s more to music than meets the ear.

Students, staff and campus visitors alike can meditate, write poems, try yoga, experience “being present” and even listen to a story on Oct.

The UW is part of an ambitious effort to develop new tools for assessing students’ skills in information and communication technologies (ICT).