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March 4, 2010
Horner to speak on ‘How to Build a Dinosaur’ March 5
Can dinosaurs be brought back to life? Is there a velociraptor lurking in the cells of every chicken? Does extinction have to be forever? Jack Horner, one of the most influential paleontologists of our time, will tackle these questions and more at the 2010 Burke Lecture at 7 p.
UW Honors Program to launch new curriculum including interdisciplinary honors
When Rob McKenna arrived at the UW in 1980, he joined the University Honors Program.
UW receives national recognition for community service
The UW has been named to the 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
OCEAN OFFICIAL: The American Geophysical Union, an international 5,800-member organization concerned with Earth and space sciences, has elected Jim Murray, UW professor of oceanography, as president-elect of its ocean sciences section.
Engage Speaker Series: Where science meets storytelling
For scientists, the research always comes first.
UW Libraries collaborates with Taiwan library to digitize rare Chinese classic books
UW Libraries’ East Asia Library and the National Central Library of Taiwan will begin a project this summer to digitize Chinese rare books held at the East Asia Library and Special Collections at UW Libraries.
Dinosaurs and their closest relatives originated earlier than thought
A team of paleontologists that includes Christian Sidor from the UW has discovered a dinosaur-like animal — one that shared many characteristics with dinosaurs but fell just outside of the dinosaur family tree — living 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs.
Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at UW Tacoma.
School of Music: There will be jazz March 8, 10, 11
Jazz will be in the spotlight at three events coming from the School of Music — the Studio Jazz Ensemble on March 8 and Jazz Innovations I and II concerts on March 10 and 11.
Pianist Regina Yeh and violist Hillary Herndon team up for March 8 concert
School of Music alumna Regina Yeh will team with Hillary Herndon to present solo and duo works for viola and piano in a guest artist recital at 7:30 p.
Composers’ Workshop, Symphonic Band concert coming from School of Music
Student composers will present original works and the UW Symphonic Band will play in events coming from the School of Music.
Writer’s Block Literary Festival: Experience an epiphany
Writer’s block can strike anyone.
Widening broadband
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to speak March 4
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, will discuss what’s ahead for computing, with a particular focus on how cloud computing will change the way people and businesses use technology.
Forest change topic of first-ever College of the Environment dean’s lecture
From wildfires to wild flowers — Pacific Northwest forests appear to be changing.
March 3, 2010
Gospel Choir.
Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice UW Gospel Choir in songs of praise and revelation, hymns, call-and-response numbers, and other expressions of the gospel tradition.
Whales, salmon and the Sound.
Rob Williams, 2009-10 Canada-US Fulbright visiting research chair, will discuss his research on two transboundary issues in marine conservation: evaluating the effects of ocean noise on whales, and estimating the amount of salmon required to support resident killer whale populations.
March 1, 2010
Ancient Shipwrecks.
Shipwrecks survive as archaeological examples of their time and provide insights into their home cultures.
February 28, 2010
‘Guitar plus!’
In this faculty recital, Michael Partington is joined by a diverse cast of colleagues in a program of gems from the chamber repertoire for guitar, with music ranging from Boccherini to Takemitsu.
‘Rising from Ruins.’
Hanson Hosein’s documentary film, Rising From Ruins, recounts the emotional experiences of the men and women who returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
February 26, 2010
Jane Coop on piano.
A professor of piano at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Coop will perform works by Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Obomsawin film.
A screening of WABAN-AKI: People from Where the Sun Rises, by Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, a member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canada’s most distinguished documentary filmmakers.
February 25, 2010
‘Meany Beat.’
The UW Percussion Ensemble performs a variety of contemporary music composed for metallophones, membranophones, and idiophones.
‘End of Summer.’
Part of the School of Drama’s series of readings called “Looking Up at Down: Plays from the Great Depression,” actors perform a staged reading S.
‘Persepolis.’
The extraordinary animated film based on Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novels about coming of age in Iran.
Regenerative medicine pioneer Atala to give Rushmer Lecture
Dr. Anthony Atala led the Wake Forest team that developed the first lab-grown organ, a bladder. Atala will speak at the UW March 25
Childhood leukemia rates climb in southern Iraq
Childhood leukemia rates have more than doubled over the past 15 years in the southern Iraq province of Basrah, according to the study, “Trends in Childhood Leukaemia in Basrah, Iraq (1993-2007),” published online Feb.
Chopping, sawing and sitting around: Film shows life in Pack Forest in 1949
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.
UW authors on writing.
English Professor Shawn Wong and UW alumna Tanya Egan Gibson will discuss fiction, publishing and the differences between academic and creative writing.
Bill Berkson reads.
Poet, critic, teacher and “sometime curator” Berkson will read from a new publication, Portrait and Dream.
Biosimilar drugs are topic of UW School of Pharmacy conference for biotech, pharmaceutical professionals
The biosimilars are coming.
Admissions staff work together to process avalanche of autumn applications
It’s become a kind of mantra that in lean times, UW offices must do more with less — and this time of year, nowhere is that more true than at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
Mystery Photo
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Deadline to nominate outstanding UW women extended
The deadline for nominating an outstanding woman for the annual “Celebrating UW Women” has been extended to Friday, March 5.
Former drug dealer to speak about his journey away from violence March 2
Max Hunter, a former drug dealer, will explain how he came to accept violence as a legitimate tactic for achieving his ends and how he made a transition to nonviolent action in a lecture at 6 p.
Etc.: Campus news & notes
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: UW alumnus Wolf Bauer, legendary mountaineer, kayaker, environmental educator and conservationist, will be honored by the Washington state Legislature for his many achievements and for his 98th birthday on Friday, Feb.
Workplace gendered tradeoffs lead to economic inequalities for women
Despite big changes over recent decades, workplace gender inequalities endure in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world.
Teams bring sustainable solutions to address poverty to UW in annual international competition
As the world’s top athletes complete their competition in Vancouver, BC, a global competition of another kind is getting under way in Seattle — the sixth annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC).
School of Music offers guitar selections Feb. 28, and Schumann music March 1
The UW School of Music will offer a program of guitar music on Feb.
Earthquake engineers release report on damage in Haiti
A five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan.
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