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Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV and KOMO 4 today announced a new broadcast partnership to share stories about the people, places and discoveries from the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ through the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµTV television series, “Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ|360.â€� Beginning on Saturday, March 24 at 4:30 p.m., KOMO 4 will air “Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ|360â€� right before their evening news broadcast.

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

Return with us to 1958 for the latest installment of Lost and Found Films, where readers help identify and describe old film clips from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Libraries audio visual collections.This weeks film clip is titled “Inaugural,â€� and probably shows part of the inaugural dinner for Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ President Charles Odegaard, which was indeed in November of 1958.

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.

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.

Suyama will discuss his work in the 2012 Deans Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ College of Built Environments, at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, in 120 Kane Hall. Afterward, he will sign copies of “Suyama: A Complex Serenity,” written by Grant Hildebrand, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ emeritus professor of architecture, and published in March by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ Press.