After submitting an assessment of its sustainability practices to the two-year-old Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System this fall, the UW received a gold rating, giving it the highest score among the nine Pac-12 universities that decided to assess themselves. Information was gathered by the Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability Office and graduate students with the UW’s Environmental Management Certificate Program.
Find out what some high-energy, “unadoptable” canines are doing to assist a Center for Conservation Biology program tracking how animal populations are affected by environmental change. It’s one of the latest segments from UW|360, available Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on UWTV, Comcast channel 27, or online at uwtv.org/uw360.
The next meeting of CUCAC (City-University Community Advisory Committee) will be held:
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Place: UW Tower, 4333 Brooklyn Avenue, Seattle, WA 98105 – 22nd Floor
Items on the agenda include:
| University District Livability Partnership Presentation |
| Sound Transit U District Station Update |
| Community Conversations |
Take a break from the never-ending 2012 political news cycle with a trip back to the administration of Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal in Documents that Changed the World: An 18 1/2-minute presidential mystery, the latest installment of the Documents that Changed the World podcast series from the UW Information School.
The Living Voters Guide, an interdisciplinary collaboration among the UW Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Communication, and Political Science, and presented in partnership with Seattle City Club, won the 1st Place Social Venture Partners Award in the 2012 SIFP (Social Innovation Fast Pitch) competition rewarding new ideas for social impact. The Living Voters Guide is an on-line, citizen-generated guide to state, regional, and local measures on the November 2012 ballot, allowing voters to work together to refine their positions.