|
Stimulus money funds studies of ocean surface waves, fire prevention and more
The last full week of September brought the UW the largest number of economic stimulus awards in a single week: 40 of them, adding up to almost $14 million. Among these were a study of ocean surface waves and their relationship to climate change and a study that aims to integrate and develop software tools, databases and management techniques to prioritize forests in need of fire prevention treatments.
|
Management changes at UWTV aimed to widen channel's role
With new management, UWTV, the UW's television station and production facility, is reshaping itself to occupy a more central role in portraying what happens at the UW to the rest of the world.
|
|
Call-and-response theme behind the Henry's new, yearlong exhibit 'Vortexhibition Polyphonica'
Sara Krajewski, associate curator, is the first to give voice in the Henry Art Gallery's new show, Vortexhibition Polyphonica, but other curatorial voices — including your own, if you like — will follow, prompting the exhibit to transform.
|
Online and in depth: The Henry offers new Digital Interactive Galleries
Online visitors can “see” collections without ever coming to the Henry Gallery through its Digital Interactive Galleries project. The Costumes and Textiles collection is already online, with other collections to come.
|
Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet to perform Oct. 15
The Golden West Winds Airforce Woodwind Quintet, the resident woodwind quintet of the United States Air Force Band, will give a free recital of chamber music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in Brechemin Auditorium.
|
|
Legal education is at a crossroads, and UW law school can be a leader, new dean says
One of the newest faces on campus is also the face of a new era in legal education. Kellye Testy, the UW School of Law Dean and James W. Mifflin University Professor of Law, is one of the top leaders across the country looking at how the law school curriculum needs to respond to match the rapidly changing demands facing legal practitioners.
|
A family history in letters: Graduate School's Erika Kreger co-edits book on Salmon P. Chase correspondence with daughters
An offhand comment she made 17 years ago has led indirectly to the publication of a book co-edited by UW staffer Erika Kreger. The book sheds light on a 19th century politician and the two daughters who faithfully wrote to him.
|
Dentistry staffer swims, bikes and runs her way through first Ironman event
Dana Robinson Slote is not your average triathlete, but that changed in August when she completed her first Ironman competition — 2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles biking and 26.2 miles running.
|
‘Jewish radar’ ineffective these days, UW prof says in new book
Martin Jaffee's "Jewish radar" is failing him, and he believes it's a sign of the times, at least on America's West Coast. Jaffee, professor of international studies and holder of the Samuel & Althea Stroum Chair in Jewish Studies, finds that his recent experiences in Seattle in identifying Jews are at odds with what his upbringing on Long Island taught him. He has collected his observations on this topic and others in a new book, The End of Jewish Radar: Snapshots of a Postethnic American Judaism.
|
|
UW Combined Fund Drive to hold Charity Fair Oct. 14
The UW Combined Fund Drive will kick off its 25th anniversary with a Charity Fair from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the commons of Mary Gates Hall.
|
The Center for Global Field Study: Training environmental stewards worldwide
UW Professor Randy Kyes has established a new center to provide an administrative umbrella for field study projects focusing on the intersection between the environment and human health.
|
Students celebrate American Pharmacists Month with ad campaign
UW School of Pharmacy students launch an advertising campaign encouraging people to get to know their pharmacists and medicines better.
|
Landscape architecture professors write book on community gardens
Many cities across North America have community gardens, but only Seattle and a few others include them in urban planning – and it’s helped them thrive. A new book co-authored by two UW professors offers not only insight about the city’s shared gardening plots but practices that could help develop and sustain community gardens elsewhere.
|
The Friends of UW School of Medicine marks 60 years of service
The Friends of the University of Washington School of Medicine reached a milestone in 2009: 60 years of service and generosity to the School’s faculty and students.
|
National expert on urban policy to deliver lecture, participate in forum
Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution will deliver a free public lecture on The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our MetroNation at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct., 13, in 130 Kane.
|
Sculpture park to host UW display on sea level and climate change
The UW is creating a display at the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park that illustrates how projected changes in sea level due to climate change could affect Seattle's waterfront, as well as other more vulnerable waterfront cities elsewhere in the world.
|
Home Movie Day comes to Allen Auditorium Oct. 17
The UW Libraries Special Collections, in collaboration with Media Bay Productions, will sponsor Home Movie Day from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Allen Library Auditorium. The day includes a film preservation clinic and a home movie screening.
|
Communication professors featured in Town Hall lecture series
Communication Professor David Domke will be the first in a new, four-part lecture series on journalism, digital media and civic engagement. He'll speak on Tuesday, Oct. 13.
|
|
|