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April 8, 2010
Celebrating the census: Population numbers a powerful research tool for demographers
Last Thursday, the UW staged what was probably the largest celebration of Census Day in the state.
UW Medicine pediatrician and injury-prevention researchers at Harborview play a role in new cell phone measure
Treating teenagers hurt in car accidents related to cell phone use prompted pediatrician Brian Johnston to join the Driven to Distraction Ta
Computer training available online
UW staff, faculty, alumni, affiliates, and students are eligible to register for the UW Computer Training Online Learning Subscription.
Early Bloomers plant sale at the Arboretum
Gardeners will find a great selection of young shrubs, small trees, conifers, bonsai starts, and early-blooming perennials at the Arboretum Foundation’s annual Early Bloomers sale on Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.
Emergency communications: A growing set of tools to keep campus community informed
The University has developed an impressive set of tools for communicating in an emergency, and staff are hard at work finding ways to make the UW’s information infrastructure more resilient.
UW Postdoc Association holding annual meeting Wednesday, April 14.
The UW Postdoc Association will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.
Student clean-tech innovations impress at UW Environmental Innovation Challenge
An engineer, an entrepreneur and an environmentalist walk into a vacated airplane hangar … or, in the case of the UW Environmental Innovation Challenge, held on April 1, hundreds of them ventured into Hangar 30 in Seattle’s Magnuson Park.
100 plans for 100 gardens is goal of ‘urban food’ conference
You need some tomatoes? Grow ’em in the alley.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
PAINTING WITH PEEPS: Look again at the pink petals in the photo above.
Large attendance anticipated at the Spring Career Fair
April 14 is the UW’s largest career fair, and planners expect a big turnout from students and alumni (UW employees are welcome as well) largely because of the current state of the economy and job market.
The faculty voice: Never more important than now
Last year at this time, I wrote an article for University Week encouraging our faculty colleagues to consider participation in the faculty councils and committees.
Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been cancelled.
Faculty Senate approves restructuring plan
Faculty members have approved a plan to restructure the Faculty Senate, reducing it from 267 to 114 members.
UW undergrads now routinely do research, study shows
A new study shows that UW undergraduates are doing a great deal of research as a normal part of their undergraduate programs — more than investigators anticipated.
Arboretum launches next phase of Pacific Connections Garden project
The corner of the Washington Park Arboretum at Arboretum Drive and Lake Washington Boulevard is being remade this year with trees and other plants native to Chile as part of the ongoing Pacific Connections Garden project.
Peer Portfolio
ROBOT SOCCER?: The University of Utah held a three-day competition in late March involving 1,000 high school students and robots playing a soccer-like game.
We know the what of this film; help identify the why
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.
Prisoners, pirates, pool sharks populate entertaining ‘Cartoon Introduction to Economics’
Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.
Newsmakers
PR PUFF?: When IBM announced plans in February to make its software available to colleges via “cloud” computing services, the Chronicle for Higher Education discussed the move in its Wired Campus column, asking was the announcement just “corporate puff”? They quoted Ed Lazowska, holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering, who perused the IBM Web site and e-mailed, “looks like PR to me.
TRUST recruits and prepares medical students for service in rural and underserved areas
The Targeted Rural-Underserved Track selects and trains UW medical students for high-need specialties and prepares them to
Stairmasters: Climbing to fitness at UW Tower
When health authorities recommend that people take the stairs at work instead of the elevator to get some regular exercise, they probably don’t have a workplace like the 22-story UW Tower in mind.
Infertility increases a man’s risk of prostate cancer
Study findings may be a starting point for identifying younger men prone to aggressive forms of cancer.
‘Kidz Wall’ at UW Tower exhibits art
Art work by children of UW Tower employees has been hung on a fourth-floor wall now called the Kidz Wall.
April 7, 2010
Brechemin scholarship winners.
Recipients of the prestigious Brechemin Scholarship are presented in recital.
LST Open House.
Learning & Scholarly Technologies hosts an open house to showcase the Technology Studios at Odegaard Library.
April 3, 2010
Gardening book sale.
The fifth annual Garden Lovers’ Book Sale will raise money for the Elisabeth C.
Ear-responsible?
Learn about the latest hearing aid options the first Monday of each month.
April 2, 2010
Julie Shayne reads.
Shayne, a lecturer in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at UW Bothell, reads from her book They Used to Call Us Witches: Chilean Exiles, Culture, and Feminism.
April 1, 2010
13th annual UW Home Improvement Fair provides big ideas for small budgets
Next week on your lunch hour learn how to go green — and save green — on projects in and around your home.
Newsmakers
TWEETING POLS: Twitter is becoming popular among the nation’s governors, according to a winter story in USA Today that quoted Kathy Gill, UW senior lecturer in communication.
UWTV to broadcast eight Washington softball games
UWTV and UW Athletics will televise eight of the defending NCAA champion Husky softball team’s games this season, all against competition from the nation’s top softball league — the Pacific-10 Conference.
School of Public Health dean finalists will present to the public
The Provost’s Advisory Search Committee for Dean of the School of Public Health, chaired by Dean Marla Salmon, has recommended five finalists for the position.
It’s lonely on the right – but sometimes the rewards can be sweet
The circle of conservative and libertarian academic historians in the United States is so small that they all know each other.
Samuel Lieu, Judith Lieu to speak on campus
Samuel Lieu, professor of ancient history at McQuairie University in Australia, and Judith Lieu, Lady Margaret’s professor of divinity at Cambridge University, will be speaking next week on campus.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Professor Emeritus of Health Services Austin Ross inducted into Healthcare Hall of Fame
Austin Ross, professor emeritus of health services in the UW School of Public Health, was inducted March 21 into Modern Healthcare’s Healthcare Hall of Fame.
Up on the roof: A very green pilot project at the Botany Greenhouse
The Botany Greenhouse is aiming to show the campus how it can get even greener, not with plants inside, but on top, with a living “green” roof on a shed alongside the greenhouse proper.
Doing anything cool for Earth Day?
University Week will run a story about Earth Day activities at the UW’s three campuses on Thursday, April 15.
UW students use spring break to launch rockets in Nevada desert
A group of 12 University undergraduates and two graduate students, along with three faculty and staff members, spent a big part of spring break in the Nevada desert trying to launch a rocket to 20,000 feet altitude at speeds well beyond the speed of sound while transmitting data to the ground.
Awards of Excellence recipients announced
The University will honor 21 individuals and one team of six this year as part of the annual Universitywide awards program.
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