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An panel of experts presents findings from the field and discusses similarities and differences between the Haitain and Chilean earthquakes and what we can expect from future earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest.

The author of The Man Who Ate His Boots shares the enthralling and often harrowing history of the adventurers who searched for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.

Marsha Saxton of the UC Berkeley Disability Studies Program will speak about the complex issues of genetic screening from the vantage point of disability rights, and show and discuss her film about physicians’ interactions with adults with physical disabilities.

Concerned about safety? Wondering how the campus police do their job? You might be a good candidate for the 91̽»¨Police Citizens Academy.

This is the last issue of University Week for winter quarter.

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UW’s Model United Nations team is only a couple of weeks away from its most anticipated event of the year—the National Model United Nations Conference.

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One by one in a ceremony the afternoon of Monday, March 8, representatives of several Thai groups presented the 40 volumes of the World Tipitaka Edition, the Buddhist canon, to the 91̽»¨Libraries.

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

Computers should not play dice.

The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.

The UW’s Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars offers fifth- through 10th grade students a unique combination of vigorous academic work and summer fun in two summer programs.

If you like pie — and really, who doesn’t like pie? — you might want to stop in the 8 at McMahon campus restaurant on Tuesday, March 16.

Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the UW.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular meeting on Thursday, March 18, at 91̽»¨Tacoma.

Kicking the marijuana habit is a killer, just like quitting cigarettes.

On March 8, King County Superior Court Judge Carol Schapira upheld the UW’s decision last spring to temporarily suspend pay increases for its faculty due to the state budget situation.

Nominations are being sought for a new 91̽»¨honor, the Husky Green Award.

On Saturday, March 13, several Human Resources units are moving to Condon Hall because the Staff Human Resources Building is being temporarily closed during new student housing construction.

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.