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“Celebrating Seattle’s Striking History: 90th Anniversary of the Seattle General Strike” will bring together union members, students, scholars, musicians, and community organizers at Seattle’s Labor Temple.

“Arctic Sovereignty and Climate Change: A Nordic Perspective.

The editors of University Week are looking for help from the campus community in reporting a couple of upcoming stories.

Former Starbucks CEO Jim Donald has been named Executive-in-Residence for the Business Program at the 91̽»¨Bothell.

In the next two months, an energetic team of faculty, staff and students from all three campuses, coming together as the Climate Action Team, will be developing the first draft of a blueprint for deepening the UW’s commitment to sustainability.

91̽»¨TechTransfer, the unit that facilitates the commercialization of 91̽»¨research, has hired Todd Alberstone as director of intellectual property management and Ed Cummings as a licensing officer focused on computing technologies.

Board of Regents

The Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 3 p.

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

Donald Johanson, the scientist who discovered “Lucy” in 1974 shares his insights and explores the lessons learned from looking at humanity through the lens of time.

Class title: English 285: Writers on Writing, taught by the 91̽»¨creative writing faculty, led by Professor Richard Kenney, and Teaching Assistants Scott Provence and Sarah Erickson.

It’s a question heard at countless bus stops: “Have you seen the number 48 go by?”

Cold, impatient bus riders stamp their feet, check their watches and wonder if that bus is ever going to come.

LIBRARY LIONS: Three 91̽»¨Libraries employees won national and international honors recently.

Foreign visitors are nothing new for the 91̽»¨campus, but during this school year three strange guests from a distant land have taken up residence in Kincaid Hall.

Celebrating its 40th anniversary season, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company is on its first tour in more than a decade.

SHAME, SHAME: Mark Twain pointed out that “man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to,” a recent <A href="http://www.

Donovan Stokes, professor of double bass at Shenandoah Conservatory, will present an eclectic mix of classical, world and electronic compositions by Sarasate, Misek and Stokes in a Barry Leiberman and Friends concert at 2 p.

A quick reminder: The deadline for submitting nominations for Celebrating 91̽»¨Women is Feb.

Kole Kantner is a veritable evangelist of Ride in the Rain, the UW’s annual celebration of bike commuting in the Northwest’s most traditional weather pattern.

91̽»¨faculty vibraphonist Tom Collier will present Friday the Thirteenth Mallet Jazz, a concert of original compositions and jazz standards at 7:30 p.

South Asian scholars at the University will be lending their expertise during a recently-opened exhibit at the Seattle Asian Art Museum that they have greatly anticipated.

There’s no simpler way to say it: 91̽»¨employees who successfully refer a new hire for one of many medical positions can get a cash incentive of $1,200 through the Employee Referral Program.

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Steve Butler
News & Community Relations

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A new service aimed at providing health professional with access to evidence-based information is being unveiled throughout Washington State.

Tiny deletions in a section of human chromosome 15 are linked to an increased risk of idiopathic generalized epilepsies, according to results of a multi-center study published this month in Nature Genetics.

By Brian Donohue
News & Community Relations

One curly fry and energy drink at a time, Americans are feeling the sting of acid reflux.

Beer as a healthful family tonic? Cigarettes you can “smoke all day” long with no ill effects? Asbestos that does triple duty as a furniture polish, insect repellant and carpet cleaner?

Welcome to the world of Northwest print advertising, turn of the century style — the last century, that is — in a new digital image collection by the 91̽»¨Libraries Special Collections Division called Early Advertising of the West, 1867-1918.

First in a six-part series of lectures and demonstrations open to the public and designed to teach about medical education, research and clinical care at the UW.

Jay Heinecke, professor in the School of Medicine’s Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, presents the first lecture in the 2009 Molecular Medicine Public Lecture Series, When Good Cholesterol Goes Bad.

Classical drama meets modern-day excess in this fiercely entertaining adaptation of Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Maidens.

The Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting will feature guest speaker Lee Hartwell, Nobel laureate and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, speaking on ‘Science and the Arts.

Miles Logsdon, a 91̽»¨oceanographer who specializes in understanding Puget Sound, coastal Washington and the Pacific using instruments mounted on earth-observing satellites, is the kick off speaker Feb.

While talking about his recent research, Philip Bell of the College of Education tells a story about a girl who loved to play with the mortar and pestle her grandmother used for cooking when the two visited every Saturday, and how that interest evolved.

Art rock.