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Head for Paws-On Science: Husky Weekend, March 30, 31 and April 1, at Pacific Science Center, for 50 stations featuring Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ research. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty, staff, students and their families receive a 20 percent discount on admission during the event, as do Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ alums.

A new online portal and smartphone app lets Washington and Oregon residents enter the addresses of their homes, schools, workplaces or kids’ day care centers to check if they’re in harm’s way should a tsunami hit. The tool, being publicized on the heels of the one-year anniversary of the Tohoku tsunami, was developed by researchers at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

Cherry trees in full bloom in our nation’s capital could be as much as four weeks earlier by 2080 depending on how much warming occurs. So says an analysis conducted at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ that relied on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s own cherry trees as one test of a computer model used in the project.

Lecture on nanomedicine, treating cancer || Honor: business-diversity efforts recognized || Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ plans Autism Awareness Month events for public || Papers uncover political, human sides of school closure || Husky Green Award nominations due March 26

Learn about polar bears and penguins. Center a two-foot tusk on your forehead and imagine youre a narwhal exploring your icy-ocean home. For these activities and more, grab the kids and head for Polar Science Weekend, March 1 to 4, sponsored by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Applied Physics Laboratory and Pacific Science Center.

The plight of the tiger – none of the worlds 350 protected areas in the tigers range is large enough to support a viable population – is the subject of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµs “Sustaining our Worldâ€� lecture March 1. Eric Dinerstein, the World Wildlife Funds chief scientist and a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ alum, will speak on “All Together Now: Linking Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species Conservation and Local Livelihoodsâ€� at 6 p.m., in Kane 220.

“Occupyâ€� subject of Friday teach-in || Holocaust documentary “Roma Tearsâ€� Thursday || Nominations close Feb. 28 for Celebrating Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Women program || 10 offices certified gold, silver by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Green Office program

Jeffrey Ochsner named distinguished professor || Reception Thursday for Distinguished Staff Award nominees || Q Faculty and Staff host Winterruption social || Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Retirement Association offers eldercare workshop March 24

A business incubator unveiled today is one element in a larger commercialization initiative announced by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Michael Young that will double the number of startups produced by the university – from an average of 10 a year to 20 – during the next three years.

Like dominoes, two of Seattles signature oaks in the Washington Park Arboretum toppled under Januarys heavy snows. It turned out that the root balls of each tree had not pulled out of the ground and thus began an effort to pull a 60-foot oak tree, estimated to weigh more than 8,000 pounds, back into the upright position in order to save both trees.