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February 5, 2009

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary season, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is on its first tour in more than a decade.


‘University Week’ seeks help with upcoming articles

The editors of University Week are looking for help from the campus community in reporting a couple of upcoming stories.


New residents of Kincaid Hall are in the shell-making business

Foreign visitors are nothing new for the UW campus, but during this school year three strange guests from a distant land have taken up residence in Kincaid Hall.


Windows in time: Advertisements of the old West on display in new digital collection

Beer as a healthful family tonic? Cigarettes you can “smoke all day” long with no ill effects? Asbestos that does triple duty as a furniture polish, insect repellant and carpet cleaner?


Welcome to the world of Northwest print advertising, turn of the century style — the last century, that is — in a new digital image collection by the UW Libraries Special Collections Division called Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918.


Etc.: Campus news & notes

LIBRARY LIONS: Three UW Libraries employees won national and international honors recently.


Heartburn belies reflux’s complex causes, subtle symptoms

By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations


One curly fry and energy drink at a time, Americans are feeling the sting of acid reflux.


Bus left you waiting in the cold? Use your cell phone to track it down

It’s a question heard at countless bus stops: “Have you seen the number 48 go by?”

Cold, impatient bus riders stamp their feet, check their watches and wonder if that bus is ever going to come.


Missing piece in chromosome increases epilepsy risk


Tiny deletions in a section of human chromosome 15 are linked to an increased risk of idiopathic generalized epilepsies, according to results of a multi-center study published this month in Nature Genetics.


Class Notes: Writers on Writing brings people together for writing, reading, conversation

Class title: English 285: Writers on Writing, taught by the UW creative writing faculty, led by Professor Richard Kenney, and Teaching Assistants Scott Provence and Sarah Erickson.


Neighborhood Clinics are at the top of their game

By Allison Osenar
UW Physicians Network
 


The UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics recently received a score of 100 percent in a survey conducted by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).


Lucy’s legacy.

Donald Johanson, the scientist who discovered “Lucy” in 1974 shares his insights and explores the lessons learned from looking at humanity through the lens of time.


UW Health Sciences Libraries target improving patient care

A new service aimed at providing health professional with access to evidence-based information is being unveiled throughout Washington State.


Mystery Photo

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


Ramsey highlights challenges, opportunities for UW Medicine

Steve Butler
News & Community Relations




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Leonard Hudson to receive Trudeau Medal

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Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.


Free money: The UW Medicine Employee Referral Program is going strong

There’s no simpler way to say it: UW employees who successfully refer a new hire for one of many medical positions can get a cash incentive of $1,200 through the Employee Referral Program.


UW scholars to discuss Seattle Asian Art Museum exhibit of paintings from Indian history

South Asian scholars at the University will be lending their expertise during a recently-opened exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum that they have greatly anticipated.


UW TechTransfer secures two highly experienced IP professionals to join unit

UW TechTransfer, the unit that facilitates the commercialization of UW research, has hired Todd Alberstone as director of intellectual property management and Ed Cummings as a licensing officer focused on computing technologies.


‘Friday the Thirteenth Mallet Jazz’ coming on — well, you know the day

UW faculty vibraphonist Tom Collier will present Friday the Thirteenth Mallet Jazz, a concert of original compositions and jazz standards at 7:30 p.


February 3, 2009

Cholesterol confidential.

Jay Heinecke, professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, presents the first lecture in the 2009 Molecular Medicine Public Lecture Series, When Good Cholesterol Goes Bad.


Mini-med school.

First in a six-part series of lectures and demonstrations open to the public and designed to teach about medical education, research and clinical care at the UW.


February 1, 2009

‘Big Love.’

Classical drama meets modern-day excess in this fiercely entertaining adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Maidens.


January 30, 2009

Hear Hartwell.

The Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting will feature guest speaker Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, speaking on ‘Science and the Arts.


January 29, 2009

Guitar Ensemble celebrates Spain and Latin America on Feb. 6

Students of Michael Partington will present music with guitar to celebrate Spain and Latin America, in ¡Guitarra! at 7:30 p.


Trapsters — dragsters built using mousetraps — race at School of Art

Students in Magnus Feil’s industrial design classes built mousetrap-powered cars, called them trapsters, and raced them last Wednesday — and the world beat a path to their door.


Graduate School to offer workshop on succeeding in graduate education Jan. 30

The UW Graduate School will offer “Nuts and Bolts: How to Successfully Navigate the Graduate School,”  the first in a series of interactive workshops for international graduate students from 12:30 to 2 p.


UW alumna Wendy Yamashita returns to perform Jan. 31

School of Music alumna and pianist Wendy Yamashita will return to the UW for a visiting artist recital at 5 p.


Study looks at survival disparities in lung cancer

Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report by UW researchers in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.


Etc.: Campus news & notes

EXPERIMENTAL EXCELLENCE: Geoffrey Boynton, associate professor of psychology whose research interest is in the neural correlates of human visual perception, is the recipient of the Early Investigator Award from the Society of Experimental Psychologists.


Official Notices

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.


Media Center offers Puget Sounds, Netflix for instructors and more

Art rock.


Daniell named Rohm & Haas professor of public health sciences

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Where do children learn science? Everywhere, new research shows


While talking about his recent research, Philip Bell of the College of Education tells a story about a girl who loved to play with the mortar and pestle her grandmother used for cooking when the two visited every Saturday, and how that interest evolved.


UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives series continues with Laynie Browne

UW Bothell’s Writing for Their Lives literary series will continue with author Laynie Browne at 6:30 p.


Series examines how new technology transforms way we see planet

Miles Logsdon, a UW oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb.


Registration open for UW Summer Youth Programs

Registration is now open for summer youth programs sponsored by UW Educational Outreach.


Some of Earth’s climate troubles should face burial at sea, scientists say

Making bales with 30 percent of global crop residues — the stalks and such left after harvesting — and then sinking the bales into the deep ocean could reduce the build up of global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by up to 15 percent a year, according to just published calculations.


Technical Communication adopts new name: Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering

As of this month the 20-year-old department of Technical Communication, which began its life 35 years ago as a program in the UW’s College of Engineering, has a new name.


‘Big Love’ a sprawling, brawling story of 50 runaway brides

MFA directing student Desdemona Chiang took on a big challenge when she decided to do Charles Mee’s Big Love as her thesis production.



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