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April 8, 2010
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.
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.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
PAINTING WITH PEEPS: Look again at the pink petals in the photo above.
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.
Faculty Senate approves restructuring plan
Faculty members have approved a plan to restructure the Faculty Senate, reducing it from 267 to 114 members.
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.
Prisoners, pirates, pool sharks populate entertaining ‘Cartoon Introduction to Economics’
Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.
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.
‘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.
School of Music celebrates two decades of jazz program with a week of performances
An harmonic convergence of sorts has led to “A Week of Jazz at the UW” April 12 to 19.
Ladner to present Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Richard Ladner will present the 2010 Samuel E.
UW Libraries announces Springer e-journal cancellations to take effect mid-April
In continuing response to last July’s reductions in funding, access to 1,219 electronic journals from prominent science publisher Springer will be lost as of mid-April, UW Libraries has announced.
Maria Larionoff, Robin McCabe team up for concert April 11
Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Robin McCabe, pianist and UW professor, will present sonatas by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Franck in a concert at 2 p.
Faculty, student talents will turn out for Paws-on Science: Huskies Weekend, April 9-11
Warren Buck is a well-known physicist and professor, and was UW Bothell’s first chancellor.
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
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.
UW Postdoc Association holding annual meeting Wednesday, April 14.
The UW Postdoc Association will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.
100 plans for 100 gardens is goal of ‘urban food’ conference
You need some tomatoes? Grow ’em in the alley.
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.
Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been cancelled.
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.
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.
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.
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
Bought any Pfffft Deodorant? Help identify this week’s Lost & 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.
‘Europe’s Dilemma.’
Terri Givens of the University of Texas, speaks on Europe’s Dilemma: Immigrant Integration in Western Europe.
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.
Center for Systems and Translational Infectious Disease Research (STRIDE) established
UW has launched its newest biomedical research enterprise, the center for Systems and Translational Research on Infectious Disease, <A href="http://viromics.
Difficulty trusting and reaching out to others may shorten diabetes patients’ lives
Mistrust can exact a high toll.
UW Medicine neurosurgeon to co-chair National Football League injury committee
Instead of kicking back and watching Monday Night Football, <A href="http://www.
UW medical students meet their match
The graduating class gathered at the UW Health Sciences Lobby March 18 to learn their placements from National Residency Matching Progra
UW Students for Equal Health hosts free conference on Media and Health April 10
National and local speakers will discuss how media shapes views of health, equality and social justice.
A study in clean: Custodial Services tests cleaning methods, becomes magazine cover story
There’s an experiment being conducted at the University, but it isn’t in a laboratory.
Time once again to make way for — you know who (quack!)
The ducklings are coming — maybe — and all is in readiness.
International convention shoots down proposed Zambia, Tanzania ivory sales
Petitions by Tanzania and Zambia for exceptions to a ban on ivory sales, strongly opposed by conservationists including Samuel Wasser of the UW (see our story <A href="http://uwnews.
Finalists in College of the Environment dean search visit campus starting Thursday
Faculty members from Oregon State University and University of Arizona and a lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy are finalists for dean of the College of the Environment and will visit campus this week and next.
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