What do you do if you are a scientist who studies space physics and electromagnetic properties of the atmosphere and a powerful force — namely, lightning — interferes with your work? If you are Robert Holzworth, you study the interference.
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“Oh My Aching Back!” is the topic of the March 3 free public lecture at the downtown Seattle Public Library.
The UW Percussion Ensemble will perform a variety of contemporary music composed for metallophones, membranophones, and idiophones in an evening called Meany Beat, at 7:30 p.
Seattle Symphony Orchestra double bassist Jordan Anderson will perform original compositions and the Concerto for Doublebass by Eduard Tubin at 2 p.
PROSTATE CANCER AND SUICIDE: Men are nearly twice as likely to commit suicide and more likely to suffer heart-related ailments in the months after getting a prostate cancer diagnosis, according to a recent study.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting today, Thursday, Feb.
Baltasar Garzón, an investigating judge with Spain’s National Court who indicted Chilean dictator Augosto Pinochet, will speak at the UW School of Law at 6 p.
Harnessing brain signals to control keyboards, robots or prosthetic devices is an active area of medical research.
Have you ever felt physically or emotionally threatened at the UW because of your sexual orientation or gender status? It’s the sort of thing the Q Center is looking to learn with a new campuswide survey.
David Shields’ newest book explores a new genre that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction.
Three UW faculty members are among 118 recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships, given by the Alfred P.
People with cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that clogs airways with thick mucous, frequently have lung infections that defy treatment.
Eight public school students, working with the UW-based SoundCitizen organization, have launched what is probably the nation’s first effort to sample plasticizers in marine waters.
Adults are armchair psychologists, attributing to ourselves and our social partners various goals, intentions, desires and beliefs to explain our own and others’ behaviors.
Students of Michael Partington present a program of music from the classical and romantic eras for guitar solo, duo and trio, and guitar with other instruments.
Making her UW World Series debut, Shivalingappa introduces Seattle audiences to “kuchipudi,” a classical dance form of South India.
The UW Program on Climate Change’s ninth annual lecture.
UW music students perform works for piano.
A coming-of-age film that reveals the clash between modernity and Kyrgystan’s traditional culture.
Proceeds from the Feb. 27 gala directly support the world class care delivered to patients from all walks of life at Harborview
UW Medicine will be on call to assist International SOS if needed for critical patients evacuated from the winter games.
In 1963, Congress designated February as “American Heart Month” to encourage prevention of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
The UW Department of Psychology’s fifth annual Allen L.
If they gave Academy Awards for the best science music video, the UW would be a serious contender.
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.
When composer Juan Pampin teamed up to create music with violist Melia Watras, what resulted was an innovative piece “for viola and electronic sounds” that neither could quite have achieved alone.
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
Could the answer be as simple as a rubber mat?
Students in fall quarter’s section of Introduction to Mechanical Design mulled over the problem of slight vibrations in the TV camera platforms, or “buckets,” during football games at Husky Stadium.
Students waiting to check out a book or open reserve materials now have an option: a self-service checkout station on the ground floor of Odegaard Undergraduate Library, installed in December 2009.
Shantala Shivalingappa will make her UW World Series debut and introduce Seattle audiences to “kuchipudi,” a form of classical dance from South India, in a concerts Thursday through Saturday, Feb.
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, Feb.
For the fourth year in a row, the UW has been named top contributor of Peace Corps volunteers from undergraduate alumni.
Hands-on exhibits, UW polar experts and a bit of imagination will transport you and your family to the extreme environments of the Arctic and Antarctica later this month during Polar Science Weekend at Pacific Science Center.
Editor’s Note: This is the last part of University Week’s four-part series describing the work of the Center for Experiential Learning.
The UW symphonic, concert and campus bands will perform Thursday, Feb.
Beginning Feb.
In fall quarter, 21 UW industrial design students received a challenge to “not do what’s always been done.
Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Faculty, staff and students using UW-licensed McAfee anti-virus software must replace it by March 31 because the University has chosen a new anti-virus software.
The UW’s Marc Eberhard, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, led a five-person team sent to evaluate damage from the devastating magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan.