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Accrediting progress to be reviewed April 21-22
Representatives from the North West Commission of Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) will be visiting the UW Seattle campus April 21 and 22 to review progress that has been made since the last decennial accreditation visit in 2003.
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Study reveals competitiveness of pro staff total compensation
How does UW’s compensation package compare to other local employers? Better than you might expect, according to Milliman, an independent consulting firm that conducted a total compensation study of professional staff compensation.
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Attendees at first-ever Women’s Summit explore issues
Leadership training, child care and communication were three of the issues that came to the fore at the first ever Women’s Summit, held March 12 on campus. Sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Women (PACW), the summit was a chance for those working on women’s issues to come together, learn from each other and make recommendations on matters important to women.
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Quincy Jones to be UW commencement speaker, receive honorary doctorate
Quincy Jones, a distinguished musician, composer, producer, arranger and conductor for more than six decades, will be the UW commencement speaker June 14 in Husky Stadium.
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Student and her flying feet entertain at airports
Senior Alice Gosti spent her spring break in airports, but she wasn’t waiting for a plane. She was performing a special dance created just for those transient spaces.
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Free tickets available for artist’s lecture
Free tickets will be available beginning today for a lecture by artist Brian Tolle, set for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at the Henry Gallery auditorium. Tolle’s sculpture, Stronghold, stands near the medical center.
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Irish pianist teaches, performs at UW
The UW School of Music will present a Celebration of Beethoven with Irish pianist John O’Conor at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, in Meany Theater. O’Conor will also participate in a panel discussion and teach a master class on Saturday, April 5, in Brechemin Auditorium.
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Musical theater symposium slated April 11-12
A two-day symposium on American musical theater organized by Larry Starr, the Ruth Waters Endowed Professor in Music History at the UW School of Music, will be held on Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, in Brechemin Auditorium.
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Spring training for parents? Youth sport programs would benefit
Parents and coaches can make youth sports a fun, learning experience or a nightmare. But to achieve the former, sports officials and organizations must provide more training programs, especially for parents, say UW sports psychologists Frank Smoll and Ron Smith, who have been studying the youth sport experience and designing programs to improve it for a quarter of a century.
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Satellites can help Arctic grazers survive killer winter storms
Rain falling on snow sounds like a relatively harmless weather event, but when it happens in the far north it can mean lingering death for reindeer, musk oxen and other animals that normally graze on the Arctic tundra, UW researchers say.
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Then and Now: Dawgs in space
An article in University Week 10 years ago noted the acceptance of two UW graduates into astronaut training. This year, both of the graduates flew in the space shuttle.
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Libraries staffers enjoy spring (rolls) a little early
For the past two months, UW Libraries staffer Jung-Ho Ryu has been delivering spring rolls to his fellow libraries employees — between 800 and 900 in all. And on March 20 — fittingly, the first day of spring — he came to the end.
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Three UW students honored as medalists
Three UW students have been honored as medalists for having the strongest academic record in their class for the previous year. Chad Klumb, Pavan Vaswani and Ting-You Wang are the honorees for the freshman, sophomore and junior classes respectively.
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Slideshow: Columns come home to Sylvan Theater
How do you move four very old, very precious columns from the shop where they were repaired to the Sylvan Theater where they belong? Very carefully. A crew of 22 collaborated to pull off the feat over spring break.
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Broken Obelisk removed for renovation
Red Square is looking a little barer these days because the iconic sculpture Broken Obelisk has been removed. Our photographer was on hand when representatives from Fabrication Specialties dismantled the two-ton sculpture and took it away for renovation.
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Campus paint markings mean a new, georeferenced campus map is under way
Students come to the UW to find their place in the world. And in a way, that’s also what Facilities Services is doing for the University, with the creation of an absolutely true, accurate map of campus, referenced to its exact location on Earth. It’s also why there were so many brightly painted manhole covers, white crosses and other markings on the pavement around campus in recent weeks.
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Compassion is theme as students work during Alternative Spring Break
About 140 undergraduates volunteered to work in rural schools and health care clinics in the state as part of Alternative Spring Break. In connection with the visit this month by the Dalai Lama, writing this year focused on the theme of compassion, which was also the topic of a March visit to campus by the Dalai Lama’s emissary.
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Task Force students investigate college apparel industry in Guatemala
Sixteen UW members spent last quarter learning about conditions in Guatemalan factories where collegiate apparel is made. The class is one of those known as Task Force classes, which involve intense study of a real-world topic. The students presented their findings to President Mark Emmert.
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International Humanitarian award for UW Engineers Without Borders project in Bolivia
See a slideshow of the UW chapter of Engineers Without Borders’ humanitarian work in the remote mountains of Bolivia. This project won the 2007/2008 International Humanitarian award at the recent Engineers Without Borders-USA conference. The UW chapter was especially excited to receive the honor given that the group is just three years old, and the Bolivia project was the chapter's first. For more information about EWB and the recent conference see the previous UWeek article (http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleid=40433).
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Conference acts as matchmaker for business and life sciences
Think you have a million-dollar idea? What about a 10-million-dollar idea, or a 100-million-dollar idea? If so, you wouldn't have been the only one at this year’s Invest Northwest meeting to think so. Invest Northwest is a place where the next cures for cancer — or at least diagnostic tests for cancer — vie to become a reality.
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Williamson to give Samuel E. Kelly Lecture April 23
Black Students, Campus Activism, and the Reform of Higher Education: History and Legacy is the title of this year’s Samuel E. Kelly Lecture, set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Henry Art Gallery. Sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity, the speech is by Joy Ann Williamson, associate professor in the College of Education.
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Lectures explore faith, finance in American politics
The College of Arts and Sciences and the UW Alumni Association are sponsoring a lecture series, “Faith & Finance: Twin Pillars of American Politics,” that will examine how and why faith and finance became central to political debates and shape the political landscape of American government.
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Burke Museum summer camps: Dinosaurs, DNA, polar bears and climate change
The Burke Museum will offer hands-on natural science learning experiences in five camps this summer for students from second through 12th grade — including a new all-day, weeklong camp for high school students combining environmental science and video production.
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Public meeting on proposed increases to parking, U-PASS set for April 9
With gas prices and bus fares rising and a new parking tax in place, the cost of UW parking permits and U-PASS cards will also likely go up. Proposed increases average 12 to 13 percent. UW Commuter Services will hold a public meeting on these proposals from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, in 310 HUB.
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