UW News and Information Web     |     UW News     University Week UW News+Community     Kathy Sauber Meeting of the minds UW President Mark Emmert thanks and says goodbye to the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, Monday at Hec Edmundson Pavilion. There, a capacity crowd of about 8,000 watched the Dalai Lama receive an honorary doctorate from the UW. The visit was part of the spiritual leader’s five-day Seeds of Compassion conference. UWTV offered live coverage of the event, and you can watch the archived footage here. VOLUME 25, NUMBER 23   |   4/17/2008  –  4/23/2008  |   UWEEK.ORG 4th Annual Washington Weekend set for April 24-26 The UW will open its doors for a weekend of tours, talks, Husky sporting events and hands-on exhibits when it hosts the fourth annual Washington Weekend from April 24 to 26 at all three UW campuses. Tower dedication set for April 25th Everyone is invited to attend the dedication of the UW Tower, which will be from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, April 25. Publications Services becomes Creative Communications Publications Services has expanded the services it offers its clients, so it has chosen a new name — Creative Communications — to reflect that change. A conservation success story: Hoh River restoration celebrated in traveling exhibit at Burke Fourteen images by wildlife photographer Keith Lazelle will be featured at the Burke in Fast Moving Water: The Hoh River Story, a traveling exhibit that will be on display from April 24 through June 8. World premier of ‘Fair Play’ kicks off drama school’s Discovery Lab Series The UW School of Drama presents Fair Play, by Anna Rosa Parker, April 27 through May 11 in the Meany Studio Theatre. The play is the first in a series designed to give faculty the opportunity to create/research daring new work. Bands, ensemble combine for evening of music April 21 The UW Wind Ensemble and Symphonic, Concert and Campus bands will perform works by Cecile Chaminade, Herbert L. Clarke, Jim Curnow, Percy Grainger, Edward Gregson and John Mackey in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 21, in Meany Hall. Craig Sheppard to perform Book II of 'Well-Tempered Clavier' April 23 Craig, Sheppard, the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor of Piano, will perform the music he describes as "a feast for the intellect and the spirit, manifesting origins of classical sonata form and embodying some of Bach's greatest and most interesting fugal writing." The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in Meany Hall. Qawwali music to be performed at Meany April 26 Pakistani-born brothers Mehr and Sher Ali peform devotional qawwali music with their ensemble at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at Meany Hall. Arts programs show off at ARTS EXPO(SED) April 25 About a dozen departments in the UW arts community will put on their party shoes and perform, practice and present — while sharing the essential facts of pursuing a liberal arts degree — at ARTS EXPO(SED) on April 25. UW to lead $6.25 million project creating electronic Sherlock Holmes Pedro Domingos, a UW associate professor of computer science and engineering, will lead a multi-institutional project designed to push the limits of computers' ability to interpret data and ultimately predict the behavior of complex systems. New iSchool center seeks collaborators The new Center for Information & Society is all about faculty collaboration, and aims to attract UW researchers campuswide who do related work but have not yet collaborated. Peer Portfolio A conference on humor, a staffer who's state poet laureate and other happenings at the UW's peer institutions. UW architecture students win first prize for homeless memorial Several student architects from the UW won first place in this year's national Design Build Challenge. Held in Seattle earlier this month, the competition resulted in two memorials that will travel around Seattle and a set of simple, easily duplicated toilets that will be given to homeless people in the area. UW Botanic Gardens’ maple collection gets national recognition The maple collection at the UW Botanical Gardens, the second largest in North America, has been honored by the North American Plant Collection Consortium. Walls between nations analyzed in April 22 lecture Nation-states are increasingly building physical walls at their borders. What’s the meaning of such walls in a world of global communication? Wendy Brown of the University of California, Berkeley, Solomon Katz Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, takes up these questions April 22. Migdal to deliver Provost Distinguished Lecture Joel Migdal, longtime professor of international studies at the UW, will talk about how microfinance, better health care and enlightened social policies are alleviating poverty in Third World nations when he delivers the spring Provost Distinguished Lecture on Tuesday, April 29. Tickets available today for Black Panthers program Free tickets are available today at the Henry Art Gallery admissions desk for a panel discussion on the Black Panthers slated for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at the gallery. The program is in conjunction with a photo exhibit in Odegaard Library, Black Panthers: Making Sense of History. Summer program guide available from WorkLife The Seattle’s Child Summer Activity Guide, listing hundreds of summer programs for kids, is yours for the asking from UW WorkLife. Idaho foundation establishes scholarship for medical students The Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation of Boise establishes an endowed scholarship for Idaho medical students. Not all smoke alarms created equal A new study finds that household photoelectric alarms are more likely to remain working. High-tech simulators enhance nursing education School of Nursing opens doors to newly renovated learning lab where students deliver care to life-like simulators before providing care to real patients. Alzheimer's disease expert to present Hille Lecture April 22 Dr. Roberto Malinow, Shiley-Marcos Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease, University of California, San Diego, will present the Einar Hille Memorial Lecture in Neurosciences on April 22. Genome Sciences to present panel and symposium April 23, 24 Genome Sciences will present The Personal Genome: Consequences for Society, a panel discussion, and The Personal Genome: Implications for Medicine, a symposium, on April 23 and 24, respectively. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter to give Gloyd Lecture May 1 David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times and author, will deliver the 2008 Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture on May 1. Visiting professor for cardiothoracic surgery to lecture May 2 Dr. David A. Fullerton will be the UW’s 17th Annual Visiting Professor for Cardiothoracic Surgery on Friday, May 2. Can you guess where this photo was taken? Guess correctly, and you might win a gift certificate to the University Book Store!