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Student Tomio Tran works on his own bike on a recent morning at the ASUW Bike Shop. The shop will move to the first floor of Condon Hall when the HUB begins its remodel in June. To learn more about the Bike Shop, visit its Web site, here.

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VOLUME 27, NUMBER 20   |   3/11/2010  –  3/31/2010  |   UWEEK.ORG
Community Bulletin
Goodbye until spring
This is the last issue of University Week for winter quarter. We will return on Thursday, April 1. Information for that issue should be e-mailed to uweek@u.washington.edu by March 25. Enjoy spring break!

Administrative Affairs
Judge upholds freeze of UW faculty salaries
On March 8, King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira upheld the UW’s decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation. The lawsuit, filed in October by a professor at the UW’s Bothell campus, claimed that UW had wrongfully denied 2 percent raises that had been promised to all “meritorious” faculty members.

Arts & Entertainment
Singers, symphony combine in ‘Mass for our Time’
UW Music Professor Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale and University Symphony in Mass for our Time, a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times. The concert is at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 12, in Meany Hall.
Beethoven piano sonata cycles is subject of lecture-recital
School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis will present a lecture-recital on Beethoven’s piano sonata cycles at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 14, in Brechemin Auditorium.

Research
Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers
Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a UW computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, you should get back the same result. He and his colleagues have developed a way to get modern, multiple-processor computers to behave in predictable ways, and they’ll present their work at an international conference.
UW conservation biologist urges more protection for elephants
Samuel Wasser, a UW biology professor, is lead author of a paper appearing in the March 11 edition of Science that urges greater protection for African elephants.
The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
It’s long been known that bits of sodium chloride permeate the air along seacoasts, and that the bit of chloride lingering in the air can react with nitrogen oxides to form nitryl chloride, a forerunner of chlorine atoms. Now, in a surprise, researchers have found that this chemistry thought to be restricted to sea spray occurs at similar rates in air above Boulder, Colo., nearly 900 miles away from any ocean.
Male batterers consistently overestimate rates of violence toward partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the UW.
Researchers discover gene that affects susceptibility to tuberculosis and clues to how it works
TB can be highly infectious to some people and not others. A gene region that controls inflammatory responses may be behind this difference.
Trying to kick the marijuana habit? UW study wants you
Kicking the marijuana habit is tough. That’s why researchers at the UW’s Innovative Programs Research Group are looking for 70 marijuana-dependent adults in the Puget Sound area to participate in a clinical research trial that will test state-of-the-art treatment approaches for people who want to stop using marijuana.

Uweek Features
Etc. Campus news & notes
A lifetime achievement award for Earl Hunt; UW students excel as mediators in the American Bar Association Mediation Competition; Steven Shadle honored by the Associaton for Library Collections & Technical Services; UWB student Andrew Nguyen given the National Orientation Directors Association Student Leadership Award; Ted Beauchaine given the Davida Teller Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award from the Psychology Department’s Graduate Program Action Committee.
When computers were big: Help identify this week’s Lost & Found Film
This week’s film comes from the hazy, black-and-white past of room-sized computers. Can you help Film Archivist Hannah Palin learn a bit more?
Official Notices
There will be blood — drives, that is, lots of them; alcohol and drug research grants are still available, the Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the United States, and a notice of possible rule making on a classroom materials policy.

Honors and Awards
Hunter Hansfield earns prestigious Parran Award for work on sexually transmitted diseases
Since the 1970s, Hansfield has been a trailblazer in prevention for and research on all types of sexually transmitted diseases.
A new campus award for environmental stewardship: The Husky Green Award
Nominations are being sought for this new honor, which is being established by the Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee. Winners will be announced on Earth Day, April 22.

Buildings and Grounds
A timely practice: Post-earthquake evaluation team to drill on campus March 25
There will be an earthquake drill on campus on Thursday, March 25, to be conducted by Campus Engineering. The drill is called ATC 20, and involves a 20-minute evaluation of campus buildings. It’s just what they’d start doing in minutes if there were a real earthquake.
Several HR units moving to Condon Hall during construction of student housing
On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.

Teaching
Grand prize team lights up UW global social entrepreneurship competition
The winning plan called for replacing kerosene lamps with rechargeable LED-lights in Rwanda and other places that lack reliable electricity.
Asian language textbook creators find commonalities in department roundtable
Seven department language teachers, from lecturers to tenured professors, discussed their work as well as trends and challenges in foreign language textbook development at a recent roundtable.

UW and the Community
UW Police offer Citizens Academy Wednesdays March to June
Concerned about safety? Wondering how the campus police do their job? You might be a good candidate for the UW Police Citizens Academy. This year's Citizens Academy runs Wednesdays from March 31 to June 2.
UW Libraries joins open-access photographic fun on Flickr Commons
Vintage photos of tobogganing women and curling men are part of a collection the UW Libraries has posted on Flickr Commons.
Model U.N. is off to NYC for Nationals
UW’s Model United Nations team is only a couple of weeks away from its most anticipated event of the year — the National Model United Nations Conference. On March 26, 14 members of the UW team will be headed to New York City.
Thai delegation presents multi-volume edition of the Buddhist canon to UW
One by one in a Monday afternoon ceremony, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the UW Libraries.
Neuromuscular junction will be topic of Einar Hille Memorial Lecture in Neurosciences
Dr. William Betz from the University of Colorado, known for his studies of nerve cell control of muscles, will give the 20th annual Hille Lecture.
Burke offers series of talks on paleontology beginning March 30
Can extinction be good? You can explore the answer to this question and more with Burke Museum paleontology curators in a series of Tuesday talks inspired by the Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway exhibit.
A slice of heaven: March 16 is Pie Day at 8 McMahon
All manner of pies will be available March 16 at 8 McMahon. There will be hand pies like Cuban-style beef empanadas, pot-style pies like the Cape Codder (with shrimp and clams in a rich sherry cream sauce), British-style steak and mushroom pies, quiche pies, sweet pies — even a Frito pie and a Snickers pie.
Summer programs registering at Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars
Registration is open for summer programs designed for fifth through 10th grade students with qualifying test scores.

Technology
Panel to discuss health care impact of genetic discoveries
The public is invited to a UW panel discussion April 6 on how genome sciences advances might affect the cost and quality of health care.


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UNIVERSITY WEEK EDITOR'S PICKS
Highlights from the UW's Calendar of Events

Thursday 03/11
‘Love for Sale.’ Polygamy in Indonesia goes under the microscope in this drama about three wives in three different marriages, each from vastly different backgrounds and places. This film will be introduced by Francisco Benitez, UW assistant professor of comparative literature.
7 p.m., 210 Kane.

Of climate and forests. David Peterson, UW professor of forest resources and research biologist with the U.S, Forest Service, speaks on Climate, Forests, and Future: A View from the Treeline, part of the annual "Sustaining Our Northwest World" series and the inagural College of the Environment's dean's lecture.
7 p.m., 120 Kane.

Friday 03/12
‘A Mass for Our Time.’ Geoffrey Boers leads the combined Chamber Singers, University Chorale, and University Symphony in a series of works portraying relevant themes for our times.
7:30 p.m., Meany Hall.

Sunday 03/14
Exploring Beethoven. In this lecture-recital, School of Music alumnus Dainius Vaicekonis discusses Beethoven's approach to musical structure and reveals the coherence of his piano sonatas. The recital will present three sonatas of opuses 10 and 31, along with other sets.
3 p.m., Brechemin Auditorium.

Thursday 03/18
‘Breakfast with Scot.’ A comedy about a gay retired hockey player turned television sportscaster who becomes the legal guardian of his brother's stepson and faces his reluctance to become a parent. This film will be introduced by Natalie Debray, a lecturer in communications. The final film in the free See Movies at Kane series.
7 p.m., 210 Kane Hall.

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Workers on the site of the new molecular engineering building appeared in shadow during a recent lunchtime "sun break."



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