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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.

Dean of Evans School of Public Affairs elected to national academy

Sandra O.

Stimulus money funds studies of ocean surface waves, fire prevention and more

The last full week of September brought the UW the largest number of economic stimulus awards in a single week: 40 of them, adding up to almost $14 million.

Genome-wide hunt reveals new genetic links in autism

About 90 percent of autism spectrum disorders have suspected genetic causes but few genes have been identified so far.

UN Secretary-General to receive honorary UW degree Oct. 26

Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the UW at a formal academic convocation at 3:30 p.

National expert on urban policy to deliver lecture, participate in forum

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, will deliver a free public lecture on The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation at 6:30 p.

Etc: Campus news and notes

SCIENCE INTO ART: UW oceanographer Neil Banas will have the rare experience of having his scientific data turned into art this weekend.

UW’s newly named ‘Lamborghini Lab’ brings composite parts to sports car arena

A partnership between the UW and the Italian sports car company Automobili Lamborghini has been formalized, and the presidents of both organizations attended the naming ceremony of the UW’s Automobili Lamborghini Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory this week.

No longer lost in the weeds: History of farmworkers comes to life on Web

Cesar Chavez and California’s San Joaquin Valley are what come to most people’s minds when farmworkers’ struggles for decent wages and working conditions are mentioned.

The Center for Global Field Study: Training environmental stewards worldwide

When Lauren Jorelle was a UW student, she went to Indonesia as part of a field study program sponsored by the Washington National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychology.

Department of Energy grant will assist UW move to hybrid, electric vehicles

The UW has received a $283,400 grant from the U.

Landscape architecture professors write book on community gardens

Many cities across North America have community gardens, but only Seattle and a few others include them in urban planning — and it’s helped them thrive.

Mystery Photo

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

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.

‘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.

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.

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.

Newsmakers

POLLUTION PONZI: David Barash, UW professor of psychology, frequently contributes to The Chronicle Review, the magazine of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting Thursday, Oct.

Study: Portfolio school districts are still works in progress

Portfolio school districts are promising new developments but they still have big problems to solve,” is how Paul Hill describes reforms in the four big cities being studied by his team at the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at UW Bothell.

Emmert to address UW community Oct. 13

President Mark Emmert will deliver his annual address to the UW community at 3:30 p.

Sculpture park to host UW display on sea level and climate change

The UW is creating a display at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park that illustrates how projected changes in sea level due to climate change could affect Seattle’s waterfront, as well as other more vulnerable waterfront cities elsewhere in the world.

Communication professors featured in Town Hall lecture series

The UW Department of Communication is partnering with Town Hall in Seattle to present a four-part lecture series on journalism, digital media and civic engagement.

Management changes at UWTV aimed to widen channel’s role

UWTV, the UW’s television station and production facility, is reshaping itself to occupy a more central role in portraying what happens at the UW to the rest of the world.

Home Movie Day comes to Allen Auditorium Oct. 17

The UW Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day from 2 to 5 p.

Dentistry staffer swims, bikes and runs her way through first Ironman event

Dana Robinson Slote is not your average triathlete.

Legal education is at a crossroads, and UW law school can be a leader, new dean says

One of the newest faces on campus is also the face of a new era in legal education.

UW Combined Fund Drive to hold Charity Fair Oct. 14

The UW Combined Fund Drive, the UW’s workplace giving campaign, will kick off its 25th anniversary with a Charity Fair from 11 a.

October 7, 2009

Managing mortgages.

Learn about refinancing, home equity loans, reverse mortgages, how to avoid predatory lenders and more.

October 6, 2009

Son de Madera.

A performance, and a discussion of Fandango Sin Fronteras, a movement of musicians and organizers in Veracruz and California building a transnational community dedicated to social justice.

October 5, 2009

Powerful documentary to be shown Nov. 6 at the Ethnic Cultural Center

The Place of the Falling Waters, a powerful documentary about the Salish and Kootenia tribal histories and the building of the Kerr hydropower dam on Montana’s Flathead Lake, will be shown at 6:30 p.

October 2, 2009

Astronaut Fred Haise.

Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise will talk about his incredible experiences and present this year’s Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Award.

Henry Art21.

Be the first to view the new Henry exhibition Vortexhibition Polyphonica, an unusual and dynamic approach to exhibiting objects from the Henry’s permanent collection.

October 1, 2009

Two School or Dentistry department chairs to leave posts

Two departmental chairs at the School of Dentistry have announced that they will be stepping down from their posts.

Psychiatrist dedicated to improving lives, deaths of older adults

Judith Yarrow
Health Promotion Research Center

For the past 10 years, Dr.

‘Wondrous Cold’: Smithsonian exhibit on Antarctica visits Burke; UW Antarctic research also featured

What’s it like to live and work in Antarctica, the world’s coldest, windiest, driest and most remote continent on Earth? A new traveling exhibit coming to the Burke Museum called Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey explores the question through the dramatic, large-format photography of Joan Myers, who spent more than a year on the frigid continent.

H1N1 influenza recommendations include “common sense”

By Chris Tachibana
Special to UW Health Sciences

Even before classes started, the first suspected cases of H1N1 influenza hit campus.

Stimulus money to boost study of AIDs, cancer and more

By Mary Guiden,  News and Community Relations
& Catherine O’Donnell, News and Information

The money continues to roll in.

UW Medicine/Seattle Public Library Lecture Series begins Oct. 7

Does caffeine reduce the risk of skin cancer? Research suggests that consuming caffeine in coffee and other beverages may lower the risk of skin cancer.