News and Updates

If putting up a holiday  tree is on your weekend agenda, you may want to check the on-line Elisabeth C. Miller Library at UW Botanic Gardens for tips on introducing a living tree to your home. The site also offers suggestions about using cut trees in your garden when the holidays are over.

Not interested in decorating a tree? How about eating conifer seedlings, as a lemony addition to salads? Details available from UW Farm.

(By the way, UW arborists remind readers that campus trees and tree limbs are not available for cutting, and that violators can face stiff fines.  They ask that everyone remember that our beautiful campus trees are for everyone to enjoy!)

As the state funding crisis continues with recent news about the Governor’s 2012 supplemental budget and with the state legislature now in special session, many rumors have surfaced about access to the University. A new fact sheet from the Office of External Affairs addresses concerns over the number of undergraduates from Washington state (80%); the UW’s commitment to maintaining economic diversity through financial aid; and other issues relating to affordability and access.

Since 1979, the UW School of Law has offered students the opportunity to represent real clients or mediate real cases by working with faculty members through the Clinical Law Program, part of the School’s mission to provide “generous public service.” The Innocence Project Northwest (IPNW) Clinic grew out of a volunteer effort aimed at freeing inmates who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes.

A two-decade study by UW Medicine physician Dr. Ian de Boer and other researchers reinforced  the importance of early, intensive control of blood sugar levels in type 1 diabetes.