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Time once again to make way for — you know who (quack!)

The ducklings are coming — maybe — and all is in readiness.

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.

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.

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.

‘Europe’s Dilemma.’

Terri Givens of the University of Texas, speaks on Europe’s Dilemma: Immigrant Integration in Western Europe.

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.

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.

University Faculty Lecturer Nominations due April 14

Reminder: Nominations for the annual University Faculty Lecturer Award are due no later than Wednesday, April 14.

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.

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

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.

The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland

The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.

A timely practice: Post-earthquake evaluation team to drill on campus March 25

There will be an earthquake in Seattle on Thursday, March 25.

Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers

Computers should not play dice.

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.

Mystery Photo

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

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.

Thai delegation presents multi-volume edition of the Buddhist canon to UW

One by one in a ceremony the afternoon of Monday, March 8, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the UW Libraries.

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.

Hunter Handsfield earns prestigious Parran Award for work on sexually transmitted diseases

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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.

Model U.N. is off to NYC for Nationals

UW’s Model United Nations team is only a couple of weeks away from its most anticipated event of the year—the National Model United Nations Conference.

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.