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February 16, 2011

Mark your calendars for Global Health Week Feb. 28 to March 4

Global Health Week has a great line-up of events — lectures, an award-winning film, trivia night, career fair, and more — brought to you by the Global Health Resource Center.

Currie will discuss his travels uncovering dinosaur fossils from around the world to learn how these amazingly diverse animals were so successful for more than 130 million years.

The Jacobsen Observatory at the UW will open its new season of tours and open houses in a few weeks. Come see the universe you’ve been living in.

February 15, 2011

Celebration of Alena Suazos life to be held Feb. 16 at UW School of Law

A memorial service will mark the life of Alena Suazo, who graduated from the law school in June.

UW launches initiative to double online enrollments

Online course enrollments will increase to 24,000 over next three years.

February 14, 2011

Egypt: The Revolution and the Future

Whats next for Egypt? Four UW experts, including two in Cairo, will address the question in a panel discussion on Thursday, Feb. 17.

February 11, 2011

Kent School District and UW launch partnership program for three-year degree completion

The UW is launching an accelerated program allowing students to graduate in three years.

February 10, 2011

19th Annual UW Medicine Salute Harborview Gala takes place Sat., Feb. 26

The UW Medicine Salute Harborview Gala is the premier fundraising event to support the mission of caring at Harborview Medical Center. Please join us and help us continue to provide world-class care for people from all walks of life.

February 9, 2011

Sustaining forests and ourselves is topic Feb. 24

The speaker at the School of Forest Resources annual public lecture has climbed trees on four continents using ropes and mountain-climbing techniques to study animals and plants that live in the treetops.

Get a preview of the Northwest Flower & Garden Show and help support the Arboretum at the same time by attending the Arboretum Foundations annual preview gala.

African-American athletes share their life stories in John C. Walters new book from University of Washington Press.

February 8, 2011

A dance response to ‘Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic Feb. 8

Students from Dance Composition II will respond in movement to the exhibit ‘The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic’ 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in 267 Meany.

February 2, 2011

UW Experts on the Arab crises

As the Arab crises continue, UW experts are available for media interviews.

The UW ranks third among colleges and universities sending undergraduate alumni to the Peace Corps, and first in graduate alumni.

Lecturer traces Chinese history through one family

“Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey Through Chinese History” is the title of a lecture by Joseph Esherick, professor of modern Chinese history at UCLA, to be given at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in the Walker-Ames Room, Kane.

Professor Michael Sells from the University of Chicago will speak on “Holocaust, Armageddon, and the Clash of Civilizations” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 8, in 210 Kane. The talk is the Founders Annual Lecture in Comparative Religion and Contemporary Life.

Burke curators and other experts will be on hand to help you figure out what that odd thing is that you found in the garden last spring.

January 26, 2011

Show and tell at the Burke: Behind the Scenes Night 2011

For members, the Burke Museums Behind the Scenes Night is a chance to explore usually unseen specimen collections. But for the staff and students volunteering as experts for the night, its a big natural science show and tell — and they do it well.

The UW chapter of Engineers Without Borders hosts its biggest fundraiser of the year, a dessert and wine tasting and silent auction, on Monday, Jan. 31. See a slide show of the group’s work in Bolivia.

Combined Fund Drive 2010 ends with record $2 million-plus

Once again, despite tough times, the UW community has stepped forward to help others in a record-breaking way. The 2010 Combined Fund Drive, which ended Dec. 10, raised a record $2,044,404.

The UW psychology department – a world leader in diversity science – will focus on diversity in its sixth annual Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lecture Series, which begins Feb. 16. Over the course of three installments, six speakers will discuss ways of breaking down barriers to diversity in business, law and health care.

Are you ready to be freezin for a reason? The annual Polar Plunge to raise money for the Special Olympics is co-sponsored by the UW Police Department. It is set for noon Saturday, Jan. 29.

January 19, 2011

Airlift Northwest Open House January 21

Airlift Northwest welcomes visitors to an open house at its new offices and hangar. See the aircraft that transport critically injured patients, and meet staff who provide medical services inflight.

Elizabeth Alexander, who wrote and delivered President Obamas inaugural poem, says it is time for Americans to begin a more nuanced civic conversation about race and culture. She will speak about that idea at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27 in 130 Kane.

A film and lecture series will be offered in tandem with the traveling exhibit “The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic,” now on display in the lobby of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

January 12, 2011

One year after earthquake, students still working for Haiti

A group promoting awareness of conditions in Haiti constructed a simulation of a typical improvised Haitian tent city on the UW Tacoma campus Jan. 12, including tarps for roofs, rudimentary cooking conditions and buckets for toilets.

Ludo Max, associate professor of speech and hearing sciences, says that ‘The Kings Speech’ is an accurate portrayal of stuttering and of the techniques used to overcome the speech disorder during the 1930s and 1940s. But there are some inconsistencies with what is known today about stuttering.

January 5, 2011

Whats wrong with a rich Indian, UW prof asks in new book

Think of an Indian – a Native American – and many people will think of poverty. Not fine art, opera tickets, personal airplanes and ballet lessons for the kids. But in a new book, Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History, UW American Indian Studies professor Alexandra Harmon explores historical and contemporary examples of wealthy Indians.

A fair for volunteer opportunities, a discussion with Julian Bond and Gregory Hicks, Health Sciences events and the UW Tacoma Unity Breakfast and a talk by Michael Honey — there are many ways to honor and learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this year.

Join Bill Steele from the UW Department of Earth and Space Sciences on Thursday, Jan. 6, to learn about the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network and more. It’s part of an information meeting planned by the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the UW

January 3, 2011

Meet Dermestes maculatus: The Burke Museums flesh-eating volunteers

They slave away by the thousands in private, quietly giving their lives for science. No, not graduate students, they are members of the Dermestes maculatus species — otherwise known as flesh-eating beetles. And they help the UWs Burke Museum with a sensitive and important job.

PBS is looking for students to take part in a re-enactment of the “Freedom Riders” of 1961 to promote a new documentary, and students are invited to apply.

Researchers from 28 information schools around the world and members of the Seattle business community will meet Feb. 8 to 11 in Seattle for iConference 2011.

December 17, 2010

Philip Howard to speak at Town Hall

Howard, an associate professor of communication, will speak Jan. 14 regarding Muslim politics and the Internet.

December 15, 2010

Holiday bowl festivities planned

The Huskies will face Nebraska in the 2010 Holiday Bowl at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 30 in San Diego, and the UW Alumni Association has big plans.

December 9, 2010

Watch the Huskies in the NCAA volleyball regionals live on UWTV

UWTV will broadcast NCAA regional volleyball semifinals live from Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Friday, Dec. 10.

December 8, 2010

Information session on Early Entrance Program set for Jan. 5

Students, parents and teachers of middle-school aged children are invited to learn more about the Transition School/Early Entrance Program at the UW at an information session on Wednesday, Jan. 5.

Some of the best examples of UW architecture student drawings from 1914 to 1947 are on display in Allen Library until March 12.

December 2, 2010

Have your say about disabilities and universal design on Dec. 6

Do you have opinions or experiences to express about disabilities and interior/universal design? You can share your views in a public forum on disabilities called Have Your Say.

December 1, 2010

Author ponders snails, slugs and life in the very slow lane

Step into a world that, until now, youve only stepped on, says the book jacket of the newest book by David Gordon.

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