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A study in red
Fall arrived with a bang on the UW campus, including some brilliant colors before the rain set in. This shot shows the Henry Gallery and Odegaard Undergraduate Library from 15th Avenue Northeast.

VOLUME 27, NUMBER 3 | 10/15/2009 – 10/21/2009 | UWEEK.ORG

Economic stimulus awards top $100 million, include funds for work in Latin America and with Native Americans
As of Oct. 11, the UW had received 325 economic stimulus awards totaling almost $141 million. Among them are a grant to study traumatic brain injury in Latin America and funds to update a cancer information program for Native Americans.

What's old is relevant again: Dances from the '30s featured in Chamber Dance Company's 'The Shape of Dissent'
The UW Chamber Dance Company resurrects old dances from the 1930s in a program titled The Shape of Dissent, a reminder that poverty and homelessness are not new events in America.

UW's Carole Terry to perform at St. Mark's Cathedral
Carole Terry, professor in the School of Music, will perform on St. Mark’s Cathedral's Flentrop Organ at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, part of the cathedral's All-Mendelssohn Weekend commemorating the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Jacob Lawrence Gallery presents work by Garvens
Constructions, photographs and drawings by Associate Professor of Art Ellen Garvens are featured in a new exhibit that focuses on bodies and their surrogates as a reflection on the experience of touch, balance and memory.

Faculty artist Stephen Fissel to perform on bass trombone Oct. 19
UW faculty artist and Seattle Symphony Orchestra trombonist Stephen Fissel will present solo music for the bass trombone in a concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in Brechemin Auditorium.

Playing French Seattle to feature works by Feydeau, Balzac, Beckett and Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec
They're Playing French at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre — Feydeau, Balzac and Beckett, sacrebleu!

Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records
A UW Seaglider operated for nine months and five days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished on a single mission.

UW oceanographer is a lead scientist in largest airborne survey of polar ice
UW oceanographer Seelye Martin is chief scientist of a project called Operation Ice Bridge that will use aircraft to conduct what NASA says is the largest airborne survey ever made of ice at the Earth's polar regions.

A place in space for Praczukowski — help identify this week's Lost and Found Film
It was 1966 and Art Professor Edward Praczukowski was inspired by outer space, with each of his paintings an "astronaut adventure." Help Film Archives Specialist Hannah Palin flesh out the context of this two-minute film.

Official Notices
A regents meeting and a blood drive.

An ‘accumulation’ of old cars — starring a 1937 Plymouth sedan
A UW lecturer and lab manager owns eight cars, the newest of which was built in 1982. But they’re no problem for him — he was raised working on cars.

Streissguth garden is all in the family
Ann and Daniel Streissguth started a garden at their home back in the 1960s; now they've collaborated with their son on a new book about it. The book will be celebrated by The Arboretum Foundation from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Graham Visitors Center in Washington Park Arboretum.

UW Dental Alumni Association director gives son special gift
Randy Newquist, director of the UW Dental Alumni Association, donated a kidney to his 18-year-old son Jason this summer.

What do research administrators talk about when they get together? A look at the 'stage hands' of academic research
About 1,100 research administrators will come to Seattle for their annual conference Oct. 17-21. A look at these necessary figures behind the scenes of groundbreaking research.

Inventor of the Year Awards honor work on cystic fibrosis drug
Drs. Bonnie Ramsey, Arnold Smith and Bruce Montgomery will receive Inventor of the Year awards Oct. 26. The trio developed a drug that improves the lives of patients with cystic fibrosis.

UW breaks ground on nation's largest molecular engineering building
UW leaders broke ground on the new molecular engineering building on Friday, Oct. 9. The 90,000-square-foot building will consist of a 28,000-square-foot basement, an 8,000-square-foot sub-basement and four above-ground levels each measuring about 12,000 square feet. It's expected to open in 2012.

At last – a soda-cup lid that’s compostable
UW Housing and Food Services is one step closer to reaching its goal of zero-waste with the introduction of the first compostable soda cup lid.

Open access to scholarship in the spotlight Oct. 20-22
The UW will celebrate Open Access Week Oct. 20-22 with a series of four panel discussions sponsored by University Libraries.

Combined Fund Volunteer: Mendez understands problems immigrants face
Liz Mendez, senior counselor in Admissions, volunteers her time on the board of Casa Latina.

UW Medical Genetics Clinic celebrates 50th anniversary
The UW Medical Genetics Clinic marks a half-century with several events, including a daylong symposium Thursday, Nov. 5, featuring world-renowned researchers.

NASA shuttle astronaut, energy 'smart grids,' cyber-security talks the focus of College of Engineering fall lecture series
A space-walking astronaut, a pair of cyber-security experts and energy-saving "smart grids" will be the lineup for the College of Engineering's fall lecture series, Oct. 21 to Nov. 17, in Kane Hall.

Big chill: Experts discuss the last Ice Age in Oct. 18 event at the Burke
It was pretty cold around here 12,000 years ago. How did humans and animals survive the last Ice Age? Experts will warm up to the topic in a daylong public event.

Talk traces long journey of Japanese art treasure
Heather Blair, assistant professor of religious studies at Indiana University, will give a talk titled Sacred, Scrap, or Art? The Modern Career of Zao Gongen at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in 312 Art.

UW Astrobiology Program to present lecture series 'Life and the Universe' through Nov. 17
The UW Astrobiology Program presents a series of lectures by renowned experts in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic discoveries and the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Race and AYPE. How did the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition reflect, reproduce and perhaps challenge prevailing notions of race and empire? "Race and Empire at the Fair: The Alaksa-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Historical Perspectives" explores that question.
1:30-4:30 p.m., Allen Library, fourth floor.

Savery Hall open house. The departments of economics, philosophy and sociology invite the campus community to stop by and explore the newly renovated building. There will be tours, photos, door prizes, architectural information and faculty members on hand from all three departments.
4:30-7:30 p.m., Savery Hall.

Home Movie Day. A celebration of amateur films and filmmaking. Features a film preservation clinic by UW Film Archives Specialist Hannah Palin.

2-5 p.m., Allen Library.

Picturing AYPE. Join Nicolette Bromberg and John Stamets, author and photographer of Picturing the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a new book by UW Press with photos of the fair site then and now.
7 p.m., Suzzallo Library, room 101.

‘Playing French.’ The third annual Playing French Seattle festival of dramatic works will feature Romanian-born playwright Matei Visniec and also includes work by Georges Feydeau, Honore de Balzac and Samuel Beckett, all staged in French.
Through Oct. 28, Ethnic Cultural Theater.

Eirik Johnson. Join the artist as he discusses the Henry exhibition Sawdust Mountain. The culmination of four years' photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, the exhibit showcases the strained relationship between industries that rely on natural resources and the communities they impacted.
7-8:30 p.m., Henry Art Gallery auditorium.

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