The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is being transformed into a vast art gallery for a six-week exhibition called “Mad Campus.”


The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is being transformed into a vast art gallery for a six-week exhibition called “Mad Campus.”

Moon Ho Jung, associate professor of history, discusses the book he edited, “The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence and Radical Movements across the Pacific,” published by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Press.

Information School Professor Joe Janes takes a look at “The Star Spangled Banner” for his Documents that Changed the World series.

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Nick DiMartino, employee at University Book Store for 44 years, sets his latest novel at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ in the early 1990s.

Sandra Kroupa had to learn a lot about Russian children’s literature in a hurry to curate the exhibit now on display in Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries Special Collections. But it wasn’t meant to be that way. Kroupa is the longtime book arts and rare book curator for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries. The exhibit is “From the Lowly Lubok to Soviet Realism: Early Twentieth Century Children’s Books from Russia.” It is on display outside Special Collections and in its Reading Room in the Allen Library…

The popular Summer Undergraduate Research Poster Session allows Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ students — and some just arriving — to show off their research.

Washington state’s housing market rebounded from its first quarter performance, as the annual rate of existing home sales rose 6.4 percent in the second quarter of 2014.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ moved up one position to No. 15 on the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities, conducted by researchers at the Center for World-Class Universities of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which was released Friday. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ ranked 13th among U.S. universities and fourth among public institutions worldwide. The ranking considers several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, papers published in Nature and Science magazines,…

Seymour Rabinovitch, 95, a professor emeritus who spent four decades in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Chemistry Department, died Aug. 2.

David Briggs, professor emeritus of environmental and forest sciences, will be remembered Sunday, Aug. 17 at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Club.

With a key funding approval, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an international astronomy project of which the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is a founding member, is taking a major step toward becoming a reality.

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ student takes center stage on America’s Got Talent. (With video)

News from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Health Sciences: Alzheimer’s impact on our aging population, hunger cues, trauma treatment study, avoiding burnout, training new neuroscientists, an AIDS-free generation

The Washington State Academy of Sciences has added 18 new members, 10 from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ.

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Many newly elected or appointed officials arrive knowing next to nothing about public finance. That’s why Justin Marlowe of the Evans School of Public Affairs wrote this basic guide to public finance.

Jeffrey Karl Ochsner, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ professor of architecture, discusses the second edition of “Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects.” Ochsner edited both editions, working with a five-person editorial board.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a consortium of institutions of which the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is part, will soon expand its view to see the entire sky, and even peer into the Milky Way’s galactic center.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ political scientist Karen Litfin spent a year traveling to 14 ecovillages worldwide in researching her book “Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community.”

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s New Ventures Facility has been named emerging incubator of the year in a global ranking of top university business incubators.

Summer is here and with that comes a vibrant local arts scene. In this special issue, we highlight events not only on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s Seattle campus but also events in the community that involve our talented students, faculty and alumni.

Joe Janes explores the rules of “an ancient and sometimes dangerous game, now generally regarded as the most popular sport in the world.”

Forty-nine students from eight states are part of the inaugural group of Huskies in the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s first online bachelor’s degree completion program in early childhood and family studies.
The former news planning editor for Aljazeera.com, the online home of Al Jazeera America cable news channel, is the new director of the Office of News and Information.

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ political scientist Rebecca Thorpe discusses her new book, “The American Warfare State: The Domestic Politics of Military Spending.”

Barbara Cantwell, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries staff member, is the co-author of “Corpse of Discovery,” the second book in a series of mysteries featuring “fiery-haired librarian Hester Freelove McGarrigle” and Portland’s old library bookmobile.

Washington state’s newest shellfish hatchery has been named after longtime faculty member Ken Chew.

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Linden Rhoads will leave her post as Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ vice provost for commercialization; Vikram Jandhyala will take over the new position of vice provost for innovation.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ is one of four institutions receiving four Innova Dash all-electric micro vehicles this summer. They will be able to communicate data such as position, speed and battery charge directly to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ’s network, which will provide the information to various research projects.

Creative letters written by Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ undergraduates who studied last summer in Bangalore, India, are gathered in a new book, “T.I.P.S. for Study Abroad.”
News from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Health Sciences: Muscular dystrophy research center, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Medicine part of a care network for Boeing employees, and a Q&A with Aaron Katz, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ expert on health systems and policy.

Gov. Jay Inslee has named Marnie Brown, a recent accounting graduate who will pursue a master’s degree, as the next student member of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Board of Regents.

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News from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Health Sciences: Seafaring Neolithic people, communal bike programs, and high-utilizer patients

Though graduation and summer are approaching, there is still a lot to see on campus, including exhibitions at the Henry Art Gallery and Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

John Stamets, longtime Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ photographer and lecturer in the Department of Architecture, died last weekend. He was 64. He is remembered as a talented photographer and a dedicated teacher and mentor to students. There will be a public celebration of Stamets’ life and work from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 15, in the courtyard on the main floor of Gould Hall. Stamets joined the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ faculty in 1992 and ran the Architecture Photo Lab in the…

Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Today profiles some of 2014’s highest-achieving graduates.