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October 16, 2009
Race and AYPE.
How did the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition reflect, reproduce and perhaps challenge prevailing notions of race and empire? “Race and Empire at the Fair: The Alaksa-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Historical Perspectives” explores that question.
October 15, 2009
NASA shuttle astronaut, energy ‘smart grids,’ cyber-security talks the focus of College of Engineering fall lecture series
A space-walking astronaut, a pair of cyber-security experts and energy-saving “smart grids” will be topics for the College of Engineering’s fall lecture series, which this year it titled <A href="http://www.
Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents work by Garvens
The Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents Devices: Works by Associate Professor Ellen Garvens now through Oct.
Big chill: Experts discuss the last Ice Age in Oct. 18 event at the Burke
12,000 years ago residents of the Puget Sound lived in the coldest temperatures the region has ever known.
UW breaks ground on nation’s largest molecular engineering building
UW leaders officially broke ground on a molecular engineering building on Friday, Oct.
Faculty artist Stephen Fissel to perform on bass trombone Oct. 19
UW faculty artist and Seattle Symphony Orchestra trombonist Stephen Fissel will step from the back of the orchestra to the front of the stage to present solo music for the bass trombone in a concert at 7:30 p.
UW Dental Alumni Association director gives son special gift
By Steve Steinberg
School of Dentistry
Randy Newquist took a little extra time off this summer, but he wasn’t slacking.
Official Notices
Board of Regents
The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.
Inventor of the Year Awards honor work on cystic fibrosis drug
Drs.
Open access to scholarship in the spotlight Oct. 20-22
The UW will celebrate Open Access Week Oct.
What’s old is relevant again: Dances from the ’30s featured in Chamber Dance Company’s ‘The Shape of Dissent’
A homeless woman does not seem at first glance to be the perfect subject for a dance.
Playing French Seattle to feature works by Feydeau, Balzac, Beckett and Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec
The third annual Playing French Seattle festival of dramatic works will feature Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec and also includes work by Georges Feydeau, Honoré de Balzac, and Samuel Beckett.
A place in space for Praczukowski — help identify this week’s Lost and 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.
Talk traces long journey of Japanese art treasure
Heather Blair, assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University, will give a talk titled Sacred, Scrap, or Art? The Modern Career of Zao Gongen at 2:30 p.
UW Medical Genetics Clinic celebrates 50th anniversary
By Mary Guiden
News and Community Relations
UW Medical Genetics Clinic faculty, administration and staff will celebrate the clinic’s 50th anniversary Nov.
What do research administrators talk about when they get together? A look at the ‘stage hands’ of academic research
When Lawrie Robertson worked as administrator of the Division of Public Health Sciences at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, he got to know a graduate student named Christopher Li.
An ‘accumulation’ of old cars — starring a 1937 Plymouth sedan
By Peter Kelley
University Week
Mike Harrell says he doesn’t collect cool old cars, exactly — it’s more that he accumulates them.
Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records
A UW Seaglider operated for nine months and five days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater-vehicle group has accomplished on a single mission.
Where are we?
The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.
Streissguth garden is all in the family
By Catherine O’Donnell
News & Information
The Streissguth Gardens began when Daniel Streissguth and Ann Roth Pytkowicz fell in love.
UW oceanographer is a lead scientist in largest airborne survey of polar ice
By Sandra Hines
News & Information
During the next six years Operation Ice Bridge will use aircraft to conduct what NASA says is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at the Earth’s polar regions.
UW Astrobiology Program to present lecture series ‘Life and the Universe’ through Nov. 17
The UW Astrobiology Program presents a series of lectures by renowned experts in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries and the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s theory of evolution.
UW’s Carole Terry to perform at St. Mark’s Cathedral
Carole Terry, professor in the School of Music, will perform works by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn and Schumann on the St.
Combined Fund Volunteer: Mendez understands problems immigrants face
Editor’s note: Through the duration of the Combined Fund Drive campaign, University Week will spotlight members of the UW community who are personally involved with one of the 2,800 agencies supported by CFD funds.
At last – a soda-cup lid that’s compostable
UW Housing and Food Services is one step closer to reaching its goal of zero-waste with the introduction of the first compostable soda cup lid.
Economic stimulus awards top $100 million, include funds for work in Latin America and with Native Americans
By Mary Guiden and Catherine O’Donnell
News & Information
The UW has passed the $100 million mark in economic stimulus awards.
October 14, 2009
AYPE Exhibit Tours.
The last of three public tours of the Libraries Special Collections exhibit The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: When the World Came to Campus.
October 13, 2009
Sylvia Toran.
This solo piano recitalist’s career has taken her to Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
Presidential address.
UW President Mark A.
October 9, 2009
Reading the Constitution.
You may be surprised at the familiarity or newness of this amazing document as 100 readers bring it to life for the fourth annual reading.
Indigenous healing.
Columbia University’s Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart will discuss historical trauma for indigenous peoples and the historical trauma response, and will present an intervention aimed at facilitating healing.
October 8, 2009
There’s something fishy going on–but what is it? Help the library identify this week’s Lost and 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.
Online and in depth: The Henry offers new Digital Interactive Galleries
The Henry Art Gallery’s new Digital Interactive Galleries will give the public an unprecedented level of detail and context about some of the museum’s key subcollections.
A family history in letters: Graduate School’s Erika Kreger co-edits book on Salmon P. Chase correspondence with daughters
A comment Erika Kreger made in passing to a colleague 17 years ago served as the inspiration for a fascinating historical project that has just now come to fruition.
‘Jewish radar’ ineffective these days, UW prof says in new book
Martin Jaffee’s “Jewish radar” is failing him, and he believes it’s a sign of the times, at least on America’s West Coast.
Blog profile: “Ron’s View” has personal takes on education, family, sports and really good food
Members of the UW community are increasingly expressing themselves in personal blogs about their interests, professional matters or some combination of the two.
Call-and-response theme behind the Henry’s new, yearlong exhibit ‘Vortexhibition Polyphonica’
Sara Krajewski, associate curator, is the first to give voice in the Henry Art Gallery’s new show, Vortexhibition Polyphonica, but other curatorial voices — including your own, if you like — will follow, prompting the exhibit to transform.
Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet to perform Oct. 15
The Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet, the resident woodwind quintet of the United States Air Force Band, will give a free recital of chamber music at 7:30 p.
A growing history: Preserving a century of Washington state agriculture literature
After a four-year process, the UW Libraries has completed a project to identify and preserve the most important Washington state agriculture, forestry and fishery literature published between 1820 and 1945.
Dean of Evans School of Public Affairs elected to national academy
Sandra O.
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