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April 1, 2010
University Faculty Lecturer Nominations due April 14
Reminder: Nominations for the annual University Faculty Lecturer Award are due no later than Wednesday, April 14.
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.
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.
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.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
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.
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.
Etc.: News & notes from around campus
LIFE CHANGER: Jennifer Cohen, assistant director of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Jewish Studies program, was honored with the Hannah G.
UW student wins mathematics competition, named Putnam Fellow
Last month stadiums reverberated as students on the UW’s basketball team made it to the Sweet Sixteen round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament.
PhotoCity, virtual capture-the-flag, starting this week on UW campus
It’s an intercollegiate challenge that’s a little bit different.
A dictionary for the Yakama language, more than 20 years in the making
Creating a dictionary for a fading language can help breathe new life and relevance into that tongue.
Campus Destination: The Conference Room Gallery, UW Health Sciences T-Wing
While navigating the warren of corridors in the Health Sciences T-Wing, be on the lookout for the Conference Room Gallery, in room T-269.
Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been canceled.
What if all software was open source? A code to unlock the desktop
What if all software was open source? Anybody would then be able to add custom features to Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Apple iTunes or any other program.
Photo exhibit opens April 8 in Skylight Gallery
The opening and reception for I Say Hello, You Say Goodbye/You Say Hello, I Say Goodbye, a group photography show with work by Anita Bingaman, Joan Bowers, Maria Festing, Deborah Conger Hughes, Nathan Makan, Ian Painter, Stan Raucher, and Jerry Wade, will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.
Educational Outreach reduces server energy consumption by 80 percent
You don’t need to be a computer or energy expert to see that going from 60 servers down to eight is bound to result in a huge energy savings.
Women’s Center has new home in College of Arts & Sciences
The UW Women’s Center has already been through one move this year, as Cunningham Hall was relocated from its old home across from Architecture Hall to its new one near Parrington Hall.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
March 23, 2010
Seismic lessons.
An panel of experts presents findings from the field and discusses similarities and differences between the Haitain and Chilean earthquakes and what we can expect from future earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.
March 22, 2010
Anthony Brandt.
The author of The Man Who Ate His Boots shares the enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.
March 19, 2010
Disability and DNA.
Marsha Saxton of the UC Berkeley Disability Studies Program will speak about the complex issues of genetic screening from the vantage point of disability rights, and show and discuss her film about physicians’ interactions with adults with physical disabilities.
March 11, 2010
Opera workshop.
UW voice students present opera scenes directed by faculty artist Thomas Harper.
Researchers discover gene that affects susceptibility to tuberculosis and clues to how it works
UW researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosis.
Panel to discuss health care impact of genetic discoveries
The public is invited to a UW panel discussion April 6 on the how genome sciences advances might affect the cost and quality of health care
Grand prize team lights up UW global social entrepreneurship competition
The first time Charles Ishimwe left Rwanda was when he entered the Sixth Annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) sponsored by the UW Foster School of Business.
Asian language textbook creators find commonalities in department roundtable
Faculty members in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature not only teach 10 different languages, many also create textbooks for language instruction — and for multiple learning levels, at that.
Beethoven piano sonata cycles is subject of lecture-recital
School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis will present a lecture-recital on Beethoven’s piano sonata cycles at 3 p.
Singers, symphony combine in ‘Mass for our Time’
UW Music Professor Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony in Mass for our Time, a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times.
A timely practice: Post-earthquake evaluation team to drill on campus March 25
There will be an earthquake in Seattle on Thursday, March 25.
UW medical students will take part in National Residency Match Day March 18
Next Thursday, 168 graduating UW medical students will learn where they will train as residents on what has come to be called “Match Day.
UW conservation biologist urges more protection for elephants
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
Etc. Campus news & notes
MASTER MEDIATORS: UW School of Law students Charlotte Williams and Joel Emans won the regional American Bar Association Mediation Competition held at the University of Oregon School of Law last weekend.
UW Libraries joins open-access photographic fun on Flickr Commons
One minute the three women are tobogganing along in their bathing suits and the next they’re sprawled in the snow, grinning and unharmed after perhaps the most amiable (and fake) tobogganing accident of 1925.
When computers were big: 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.
Burke offers series of talks on paleontology beginning March 30
Can extinction be good? You can explore the answer to this question and more with Burke Museum paleontology curators in a series of Tuesday talks inspired by the Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway exhibit.
Several HR units moving to Condon Hall during construction of student housing
On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.
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