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Illustrious career brings singular honors for Mike Wallace

For more than 40 years, John “Mike” Wallace has been a fixture at the UW.

Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity welcomes UW State GEAR UP Project

The UW State GEAR UP Project (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) has joined the UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D), Vice President for Minority Affairs and Vice Provost for Diversity Sheila Edwards Lange has announced.

‘Living Voters Guide’ invites Washington voters to hash out ballot initiatives

Voters across the country are entering the season of ballot measures.

Workshop to address complicated issue of long-term care insurance

Health care reform may address a variety of current problems, but one that it scarcely touches is long-term care.

Mystery Photo

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

New grants keep UW at top of schools receiving Title VI funding

Grants totaling $17.

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.

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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Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

Slade Gorton and Bill Gates Sr. to debate income tax initiative at UWT

UW Regent Bill Gates Sr.

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

UW Medicine brand launch helps inform the public on health system

UW Medicine launched its new marketing and messaging campaign with a special event for its leadership team at Meany Hall on Sept.

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

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

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.

UW, Seattle Children’s launch new pediatric oral health center

With UW Provost and Interim President Phyllis Wise in attendance, <A href="http://www.

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.

From film school to medical school, UW grad pursues his passion

Sean Ackerman’s first movie, <A href="http://www.

UW researchers seek to improve access to personalized drug therapy for underserved populations

The UW has joined a nationwide network of scientists through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how genes affect individual response to medicines.

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.

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.

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.

New UW-based Northwest Climate Center to develop new tools for climate change planning

A grant of nearly $3.

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

‘Now Urbanism’ kicks off with panel discussion Oct. 7

Today, half of the world’s population lives in cities.

Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity awarded Student Support Services grants

The UW Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity (OMA&D) was recently awarded a pair of grants from the U.

U.S. poised to repeat mistakes concerning nuclear wastes, researchers say

Much of the problem of dealing with high-level nuclear waste — from both defense wastes and spent fuel from commercial nuclear power — is political and social, yet the search to date for workable solutions has been dominated by technological remedies, says Thomas Leschine, a UW professor of marine affairs.

Etc: News & Notes from around campus

GREEN UW: The UW was a winner of a 2010 Green Washington award from Seattle Business magazine, which recognized those companies and organizations that are “in the forefront of making our state a greener place to live and work” according to the magazine.

Memorial planned Oct. 3 for Randolph ‘Ran’ Hennes

A memorial service for Randolph “Ran” Hennes, former associate director of the University Honors Program and history department lecturer, will be held at 1 p.

UW Bothell nursing students in first UW program offered in Everett

The first UW program to be offered in Everett begins Oct.

Young investigators will hunt clues at Burke Museum in ‘Seek Your Own Proof’ online game

This fall, the Burke Museum will be visited by a number of secret agents, each on a special mission, seeking information vital to their task.

New faculty get orientation, too — in the Faculty Fellows Program

Chantel Prat was nervous.