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October 7, 2010
New grants keep UW at top of schools receiving Title VI funding
Grants totaling $17.
2010 Combined Fund Drive kicks off with Oct. 13 Charity Fair
The UW will kick off its 2010 Combined Fund Drive, the state’s workplace giving campaign, with a Charity Fair from 11 a.
University of Bergen and University of Trondheim Faculty who have been Visiting Faculty at the UW, 1979-2010
Asbjorn Aarseth, Comparative Literature, 1979-80
Dangfish Aarskog, Pediatrics, 1980-81
Rolf Eide, Psychology, 1980-81
Rolf Manne, Chemistry, 1981-82
Lorentz Irgens, Epidemiology, 1982-83; 1993-94
Anne Bjorg Tveit, Dentistry, 1982-83
Orm Overland, English, 1983-84; 1992-93; 2001
Alf Grannes, Slavic Languages & Literature, 1983-84
Alex Haerem, Law, 1983-84
Jan Mossin, Finance, 1983-84
Knut K.
Depression during pregnancy increases risk for preterm birth and low birth weight
Clinical depression puts pregnant women at increased risk of delivering prematurely and of giving birth to below-normal weight infants, according to a report published Oct.
Did you know Radford Court is open to UW employees?
With UW Ethernet, a 24-hour fitness center, on-site day care and playgrounds, a 24-acre park-like atmosphere and other amenities, Radford Court is a pretty nice place to live.
UW Faculty who have been Visiting Faculty at the University of Bergen and the University of Trondheim, 1979-2010
Pierre Welander, Oceanography, 1979-80
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Burke Trivia Night.
The return of the Burke Museum’s monthly pub quiz for science buffs, culture gurus and museum lovers.
Bauhaus comes to our house: Chamber Dance Company takes on dances of the 1920s, 1930s in upcoming concert
Debra McCall was walking up New York City’s 42nd Street one day when she happened upon a film festival at City University of New York.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.
Study: Teacher turnover is a disadvantaged school problem, not a charter school problem
A new study from the National Charter School Research Project at the UW’s Center on Reinventing Public Education may quiet some fears that charter schools are particularly susceptible to teacher turnover.
Slade Gorton and Bill Gates Sr. to debate income tax initiative at UWT
UW Regent Bill Gates Sr.
Compagnie Jant-Bi.
Combining movement and music from traditional dance forms with contemporary themes and dynamic physical virtuosity, Jant-Bi takes African dance in captivating new directions.
Tickets available for School of Drama’s new season
Season tickets are now on sale for the UW School of Drama’s lineup of plays.
Hear what makes for good acoustics at Oct. 11 Northwest Voice Foundation meeting
The meeting at UW Eagleson Hall is open to all persons interested in voice
Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics
In recent decades, documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere — from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges — have been attributed to global warming.
October 4, 2010
Lee Konitz New Quartet.
Alto saxophonist Lee Konitz has enjoyed one of the most creative and prolific careers in modern jazz, performing with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, Stan Kenton’s Orchestra and the Miles Davis Capitol Orchestra (aka Miles Davis Tuba Band).
Latino Film Festival.
A free screening of No Son Invisivbles (They Aren’t Invisible): Mujeres Mayas & Microfinances as part of the Seattle Latino Film Festival.
October 1, 2010
Henry Art Gallery Open House
View the latest exhibits, dance to live sixties soul with The Witness, view a glow-in-the-dark slideshow from Sol Hashemi and more as the Henry kicks off another year of great art and activities.
September 30, 2010
Pharmacy professor Joy Plein named Distinguished Alumna of Idaho State
Idaho State University recently bestowed its highest alumni honor to UW Professor of Pharmacy Joy Plein.
UW Bothell debuts new principal preparation program
This year, UW Bothell begins its new Leadership Development for Educators Program (LEDE), which will support teacher instructional leaders and help them document their learning so that it contributes to requirements for a masters degree and state residency principal certificate.
Michaela Leslie-Rule wins Young Investigator Award for work on gender-based violence
Michaela Leslie-Rule, a 2010 master’s graduate of both the UW Evans School of Public Affairs and the School of Public Health, was honored with a Young Investigator Award this summer at the 2010 Global AIDS Conference in Vienna.
Eight UW professors elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Eight UW professors are among 17 scientists newly elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing scientific achievements.
Vice President Joe Biden to attend Tacoma rally Oct. 8
Vice President Joe Biden will be on the UW Tacoma campus for a Get Out the Vote Rally on Friday, Oct.
80 percent of agricultural expansion in tropics came at expense of forests
Tropical forests — and not previously cleared land, as some have contended — were the primary source of new agricultural land in the tropics from 1980 through 2000, according to a paper published online in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New UW-based Northwest Climate Center to develop new tools for climate change planning
A grant of nearly $3.
Burke Museum to show off collection of hand-woven textiles in ‘Weaving Heritage’
The Burke Museum has been collecting international textiles for over a century and holds a permanent collection of over 2,000 hand-woven pieces.
Comfortable at Condon: Former HUB offices getting used to new home
Lost and Found hasn’t gone missing and the ASUW Bike Shop hasn’t ridden off into the sunset — they’re over at Condon Hall now, where many HUB offices have relocated during that building’s two-year remodeling project.
Program aims to help Indonesian universities host international students
The UW is one of six US institutions that will be working with six Indonesian universities to help them build the capacity to provide high-quality study abroad programs for U.
‘We the people’: Read and hear the U.S. Constitution Oct. 8
There’s no need to be dramatic when you read aloud from the U.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
School of Medicine hosts Walker-Ames Scholar Dr. Roger Strasser, a global leader in rural physician training
The founding dean of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine met with local groups
34 University of Washington doctoral programs rated highly on national assessment
By Elizabeth Lowry
Director of Marketing and Communications
The Graduate School
Fifteen of the UW’s doctoral programs were very highly rated, and 19 programs were highly rated among their peers at major universities across the country in an assessment by the National Research Council, according to the UW Graduate School’s analysis of the rankings.
Interim President Phyllis Wise: The University’s needs won’t wait
Editor’s note: Interim President Wise will give the annual president’s address to the UW community at 3:30 p.
UW Nursing’s Betty Bekemeier named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar
Betty Bekemeier, UW assistant professor of nursing, has won a competitive grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study how research partnerships between public health leaders in government, academia and the non-profit sector can answer practice-based questions that affect public health policies.
Campus in 2010 is one big construction zone (and that’s a good thing)
If it seems as if the campus is one large construction site right now, that’s because it is.
Volunteer with Jumpstart and help local preschoolers prepare for kindergarten
In Seattle, more than 80 percent of children living in poverty under the age of 5 enter kindergarten without the skills necessary to learn.
UW, Seattle Children’s launch new pediatric oral health center
With UW Provost and Interim President Phyllis Wise in attendance, <A href="http://www.
‘Now Urbanism’ kicks off with panel discussion Oct. 7
Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities.
UW leading $7.5 million study of animal flight and aerial vehicles
The Office of Naval Research has awarded a five-year, $7.
Mice engrafted with human immune cells may pave way to better typhoid fever treatments
Better treatments and prevention for typhoid fever may emerge from a laboratory model that has just been developed for the disease.
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