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A weekend designed for the public to learn directly from 91̽»¨scientists about the amazing research breakthroughs taking place at the UW, with plenty of interactive activities and demonstrations.

PR PUFF?: When IBM announced plans in February to make its software available to colleges via “cloud” computing services, the Chronicle for Higher Education discussed the move in its Wired Campus column, asking was the announcement just “corporate puff”? They quoted Ed Lazowska, holder of the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in computer science and engineering, who perused the IBM Web site and e-mailed, “looks like PR to me.

ROBOT SOCCER?: The University of Utah held a three-day competition in late March involving 1,000 high school students and robots playing a soccer-like game.

A new study shows that 91̽»¨undergraduates are doing a great deal of research as a normal part of their undergraduate programs — more than investigators anticipated.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents’ April 15 meeting has been cancelled.

April 14 is the UW’s largest career fair, and planners expect a big turnout from students and alumni ( 91̽»¨employees are welcome as well) largely because of the current state of the economy and job market.

You need some tomatoes? Grow ’em in the alley.

The 91̽»¨Postdoc Association will hold its annual meeting at 11 a.

Gardeners will find a great selection of young shrubs, small trees, conifers, bonsai starts, and early-blooming perennials at the Arboretum Foundation’s annual Early Bloomers sale on Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.

Treating teenagers hurt in car accidents related to cell phone use prompted pediatrician Brian Johnston to join the Driven to Distraction Ta

Warren Buck is a well-known physicist and professor, and was 91̽»¨Bothell’s first chancellor.

Maria Larionoff, concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Robin McCabe, pianist and 91̽»¨professor, will present sonatas by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Franck in a concert at 2 p.

Richard Ladner will present the 2010 Samuel E.

An harmonic convergence of sorts has led to “A Week of Jazz at the UW” April 12 to 19.

Art work by children of 91̽»¨Tower employees has been hung on a fourth-floor wall now called the Kidz Wall.

When health authorities recommend that people take the stairs at work instead of the elevator to get some regular exercise, they probably don’t have a workplace like the 22-story 91̽»¨Tower in mind.

Microeconomists are wrong about specific things.

The corner of the Washington Park Arboretum at Arboretum Drive and Lake Washington Boulevard is being remade this year with trees and other plants native to Chile as part of the ongoing Pacific Connections Garden project.

Faculty members have approved a plan to restructure the Faculty Senate, reducing it from 267 to 114 members.

Last year at this time, I wrote an article for University Week encouraging our faculty colleagues to consider participation in the faculty councils and committees.

PAINTING WITH PEEPS: Look again at the pink petals in the photo above.

The University has developed an impressive set of tools for communicating in an emergency, and staff are hard at work finding ways to make the UW’s information infrastructure more resilient.

91̽»¨staff, faculty, alumni, affiliates, and students are eligible to register for the 91̽»¨Computer Training Online Learning Subscription.

Last Thursday, the 91̽»¨staged what was probably the largest celebration of Census Day in the state.

Where are we? The photo above was taken somewhere on campus.

It’s Complicated, might be the title of Sara Breslow’s dissertation.

Catterall pioneered research on the molecular basis of electrical signaling by cells, particularly those in the brain.

Allen leads the medical school’s interstate partnership with Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho

When the United States went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, many people began thinking about costs — the cost of deploying troops, the cost to purchase guns and missiles, and the cost of American lives.

Study findings may be a starting point for identifying younger men prone to aggressive forms of cancer.

The Targeted Rural-Underserved Track selects and trains 91̽»¨medical students for high-need specialties and prepares them to

A lecture by Ariel Heryanto, professor of Indonesian Studies at Australia National University, titled Becoming Religiously Hip: Middle Class Muslims in Indonesian Pop Culture.

91̽»¨music students perform works for piano.

Editor’s Note: The 91̽»¨Audio Visual Services Materials Library has more than 1,200 reels of film from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, documenting life at the University through telecourses, commercial films and original productions.