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.
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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.
PAINTING WITH PEEPS: Look again at the pink petals in the photo above.
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 members have approved a plan to restructure the Faculty Senate, reducing it from 267 to 114 members.
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.
Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.
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.
Art work by children of UW Tower employees has been hung on a fourth-floor wall now called the Kidz Wall.
An harmonic convergence of sorts has led to “A Week of Jazz at the UW” April 12 to 19.
Richard Ladner will present the 2010 Samuel E.
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, 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.
Warren Buck is a well-known physicist and professor, and was UW Bothell’s first chancellor.
Treating teenagers hurt in car accidents related to cell phone use prompted pediatrician Brian Johnston to join the Driven to Distraction Ta
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.
The UW Postdoc Association will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.
You need some tomatoes? Grow ’em in the alley.
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.
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The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been cancelled.
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.
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.
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.
Recipients of the prestigious Brechemin Scholarship are presented in recital.
Learning & Scholarly Technologies hosts an open house to showcase the Technology Studios at Odegaard Library.
The fifth annual Garden Lovers’ Book Sale will raise money for the Elisabeth C.
Learn about the latest hearing aid options the first Monday of each month.
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.
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.
Terri Givens of the University of Texas, speaks on Europe’s Dilemma: Immigrant Integration in Western Europe.
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.
UW has launched its newest biomedical research enterprise, the center for Systems and Translational Research on Infectious Disease, <A href="http://viromics.
Mistrust can exact a high toll.
Instead of kicking back and watching Monday Night Football, <A href="http://www.
The graduating class gathered at the UW Health Sciences Lobby March 18 to learn their placements from National Residency Matching Progra
National and local speakers will discuss how media shapes views of health, equality and social justice.
There’s an experiment being conducted at the University, but it isn’t in a laboratory.
The ducklings are coming — maybe — and all is in readiness.
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.
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.