UW News and Information Web     |     UW News     University Week UW News+Community     Jennifer Au Boom time Michelle Sadamori from Ontario, Ore., practices on a Japanese taiko drum during the North American Taiko Conference that was held on campus last week. According to Stan Shikuma, a nurse at the UW Medical Center and one of the event’s coordinators, about 500 people from all over the U.S. and Canada attended the conference, which featured numerous workshops and performances. VOLUME 24, NUMBER 35   |   8/16/2007  –  9/26/2007  |   UWEEK.ORG Information: It's at the center now What is information management, and why should you care about it? Changes are afoot that could make information more accessible, more consistent and more able to meet the needs of schools, colleges and other units. Sculpture with a purpose: UW-made art adorns trail Five undergraduate students who took a class in the UW Public Art Program are spending the summer creating sculptures that will serve a useful purpose. Their work will be installed on the interpretive trail at the Willapa Bay Wildlife Refuge near Ilwaco, Wash. A weekend of interactive fun planned at the Burke Song, dance, storytelling and demonstrations of art and crafts will be offered in Celebrate Native American Arts!, a special two-day event at the Burke Museum, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 18 and 19. NSF grant helps UW continue photonics research A team led by Larry Dalton, a UW chemistry professor, has received a five-year, $18 million grant from the National Science Foundation to continue its pioneering work in the field of photonics, the use of light to carry information, which many scientists believe has the potential to dramatically change modern life. State of the climate: Report to cite effects of climate change on state's health, agriculture An assessment of the impact of climate change on the state, being launched this week by the UW’s Climate Impacts Group for the Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development, is the most comprehensive ever. Official notices Etc: Campus news & notes Our model library, some divine designers and an honored criminologist are among the tidbits we've collected about UW faculty and staff. Economics: The funny science Didja hear the one about the economist who became a stand-up comic? Yoram Bauman is an instructor for the Program on the Environment, but most Tuesday nights find him at the Comedy Underground, cracking wise about — no joke — economics. Worms crawl in and out at UW Bothell They’re wrangling Red Wrigglers at UW Bothell these days. And what those compost-friendly worms leave behind enriches the herbicide-free campus environment. Of basketball and Socrates When the Husky men’s basketball team heads to Greece Aug. 27 for a series of exhibition games, they’ll be traveling with Socrates. That’s because in their off-court time, they’ll take part in a classics class that focuses on the man who is often called the father of western philosophy. Emmert signs protest letter UW President Mark A. Emmert is one of the signatories of a letter from presidents of U.S. universities published in The New York Times which protests an effort by British academics to boycott scholars at Israeli universities. UW staffers working toward wireless campus Two years after setting out to provide wireless connections campuswide within a three-year time span, work toward implementing the UW Wireless Initiative is on schedule. Generally speaking, the project is about two-thirds done. UWMC performs adult heart-lung transplant Surgeons at the UW Medical Center performed Seattle’s first adult heart-lung transplant on 30-year-old Patrick Farris of West Richland, Wash., on Aug. 6. Lehman and Goff receive 'Ladies' Home Journal' Health Breakthrough Awards UW physicians Constance Lehman and Barbara Goff have been awarded Ladies’ Home Journal’s second-annual Health Breakthrough Award for their work in transforming health care for women and families. Public Health honors state's farmworker trainers UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine presents its first Community Service Award for Community Partners to farmworker trainers. Research group helps protect artistic vision The Field Research and Consultation Group, a state-funded service unit based in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, work with artists and craftsmen to reduce health and safety dangers. In brief Selected upcoming health sciences events Can you guess where this photo was taken? Guess correctly, and you might win a gift certificate to the University Book Store!