December 3, 2009
U District Food Bank needs holiday help, and don’t forget other Combined Fund Drive agencies
The University District Food Bank is asking for some holiday help.
Faculty Dance Concert.
Highlighting the diverse talents of the UW’s award-winning Dance Program faculty, along with the artistry of special guests and performances by undergraduate and graduate students.
UW student athlete graduation rate tops average of other Division I institutions
Figures released Nov.
‘Moving the Rock’ reception.
A book launch/signing reception for Mary Abrums, UW Bothell associate professor of nursing.
Now hear this: Hearing aid seminar coming Dec. 7
There will be a free hearing aid informational seminar from 1 to 2:30 p.
WTO remembered.
A screening of Jill Frieberg’s film This is What Democracy Looks Like to mark the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle.
Old music, new buildings: Collegium Musicum performs three concerts
Three medieval music events will echo through the campus next week, with music written for a 12th century cathedral presented in two resonant 21st century campus spaces — the Allen Center and Mary Gates Hall.
School days in Neah Bay: Help identify this week’s Lost and Found Film
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
A plethora of musical performances from the School of Music
The School of Music will have two events to choose from on Monday, Dec.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents meeting for December has been canceled.
Get holiday greens and more at Arboretum sale, reception
The Arboretum Foundation’s beloved holiday sale returns to the Graham Visitors Center at the Washington Park Arboretum from 2 to 8 p.
Forum to take up issue of child safety and the courts
Should the legal standards for returning a child to his or her biological parents be the same as those that dictate removal? That is just one of the questions to be discussed at an event sponsored by the UW School of Law Court Improvement Training Academy (CITA).
Program with UW involvement a finalist for ‘Changemaker’ award, and you can vote for it
Since last May, the UW School of Social Work, funded by the Mental Health Transformation Project out of the Governor’s office, has been helping to build the Washington State Coalition to Improve Mental Health Reporting, which aims to build relationships between journalists and community members with the goal to improve the public’s understanding of mental health and wellness through accurate news reporting.
UW Photographers Group opens exhibit
Repetition at the Intersection is the title of an exhibit by the UW Photographers Group that opens Monday, Dec.
Class Notes: Astrobiology studies the nature of life — starting with Earth
Class title: Astrobiology 115: Life in the Universe.
Originality will rule at School of Music’s Composers’ Workshop on Dec. 4
Student composers will present original works for traditional instruments, electronic realizations and works for newly created instruments in the Composers’ Workshop, 7:30 p.
Etc.: Campus news and notes
COURTING SUCCESS: UW School of Law students Lisa Benedetti, Andrew Gardner and Justin Andrews won the regional National Moot Court Competition last weekend, defeating Seattle University in the final rounds.
December 1, 2009
‘Songs of Transition.’
The UW Chamber Singers and University Chorale team up for Between the Now and the Not Yet: Songs of Transition.
November 30, 2009
Referencing Dali.
When Gabriela’s husband returns from the Persian Gulf she struggles to reconnect with a changed man in this evocative, moving story rooted in magical realism.
November 24, 2009
Lise de la Salle.
One of the true surprises and highlights of the 2007-08 President’s Piano series, Lise de la Salle astonished Seattle audiences with the maturity, expressiveness, and depth of her playing.
November 21, 2009
Shadmehr Aghili.
An Iranian musician, singer and songwriter.
AYP Symposium.
This daylong public symposium about the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will feature keynote speaker Robert Rydell, the premier world’s fair historian.
November 20, 2009
Little Big Band.
The Burke Museum presents a rocking evening of Native American rock, blues, jazz, storytelling and dance at Meany Hall.
November 19, 2009
German unity.
Konrad Jarausch of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill kicks off a two-day conference marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall called “Legacies of Unification: Twenty Years of German Unity” with a lecture titled “Germany 1989: A New Kind of Revolution?” Conference continues on Nov.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
A conductor at work, but why the movie? Help identify this week’s Lost and Found Film
Editor’s Note: The UW Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.
Disaster tip of the month: Creating a ‘safe room’ in your home
Editor’s note: The Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department is offering a tip a month to help people get prepared for a disaster.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Nov.
UW ranks seventh nationally in students studying abroad
The UW is seventh in the nation among doctoral institutions in how many students it sends on study abroad programs.
Business Diversity Supplier Fair set for Dec. 3
The UW Business Diversity Program presents its annual UW Business Diversity Supplier Fair from 11 a.
Transgender Day of Remembrance events on Nov. 20
This week, the UW’s Q Center is hosting several events to commemorate the Transgender Day of Remembrance on Nov.
Helping provide ‘a decent and affordable place to live’ is volunteer’s reward
Editor’s note: Through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the UW community who are personally involved with one of the 2,800 agencies supported by CFD funds.
Concert, symposium close out yearlong celebration of AYP centennial
On Nov.
UW Chorale, Chamber Singers present combined concert Dec. 1 in Meany
The UW Chorale and Chamber Singers present a concert, Between the Now and Not Yet: Songs of Transition, at 7:30 p.
A soldier and his wife at the center of School of Drama’s new production
Jose Rivera’s riveting examination of military families, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, is the next production for the UW School of Drama.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
Harborview staffer Bruce Taylor invites the public to celebrate with him the nomination of his book, Kafka’s Uncle and Other Strange Tales for the &Now Award for Innovative Writing, as well as the launch of his new Web site, <A href="http://www.
It’s an exhibition – and a gift exchange – at the Henry beginning Nov. 20
Artists Sol Hashemi, Jason Hirata and Claire Cowie are bringing gifts to the Henry Gallery Gift Shop.
Trouble reading UWeek in Gmail? We’re working on it
Some of our readers have reported difficulty recently with reading their University Week e-mail through Gmail.
Greg Hakim to give next MathAcrossCampus colloquium Dec. 3
The next colloquium in the MathAcrossCampus series will be Estimation and Prediction of Complex Systems: Progress in Weather and Climate, to be presented by Greg Hakim, UW associate professor of atmospheric sciences.
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