2022 Awards of Excellence recipients听

June 9, 3:30 – 5:30 PM | Meany Hall

This year鈥檚听Awards of Excellence鈥痳ecipients are being recognized for achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service and staff support.听

The winners will be honored from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on June 9 at the听Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. The 天美影院community鈥痑nd the general public are encouraged to attend.鈥疶he program includes a one-hour ceremony hosted by President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Mark Richards, followed by a reception with hors d鈥檕euvres, desserts, a photo booth and a chance to connect and celebrate with your team members and the rest of the 天美影院community.听

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Undergraduate Design Show

June 8 -18 |

Free |

Undergraduate Composers Concert

June 7, 6:30 PM |

Free |

Crossing North Podcast

View at your leisure |

Crossing North听is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.听Crossing North听is produced and hosted by Colin Gioia Connors, lecturer of Scandinavian Studies, with Kristian N忙sby, visiting lecturer of Danish.

(Re)Defining American Labor Lecture Archive

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罢丑别听UWT Labor Solidarity Project听presents recordings of a past weekly seminar that adopted an intersectional approach while exploring the recent histories of the regional, national, and global labor movements. Each recording features a presentation and discussion facilitated by a leading voice in mapping the trajectory of labor activism and scholarship.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 天美影院faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Joff Hanauer Honors Lecture Series:听Seattle/PNW History

March 23, 5:00 – 6:00 PM |听

Museums on a Mission?

March 25, 10:30 AM |听

This talk, sponsored by the School of Art + Art History + Design, will explore the personal journey of Dr. Straussman-Pflanzer, Curator and Head of Italian and Spanish Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, as a caretaker for Old Master art in a range of museums in the United States 鈥� from the civic to the academic and back again. Foregrounded will be efforts to diversify these collections through acquisitions and exhibitions. Two case studies of exhibitions, one focusing on early modern Italian women artists and the other on early modern race will be considered.听Her talk听will be followed by a Q&A session.

Exhibit:听Cruisin鈥� the Fossil Coastline

Through May 2 |听

Free |

Crossing North Podcast

Crossing North听is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.听Crossing North听is produced and hosted by Assistant Teaching Professor of Scandinavian Studies Colin Gioia Connors, with Visiting Lecturer of Danish听Kristian N忙sby.

Free |

Plural Possibilities & the Female Body

Through May 9 |听

This exhibition explores the gendered construction and deconstruction of the female body and its representation. Across painting, photography, and sculpture and a range of artistic strategies from abstraction to documentary, the exhibition aims to create a counterpoint to persistent myths and reductive ideas about femininity and gender norms. The artworks included wrestle with questions of power and self-possession in relation to pleasure, desire, and acts of looking, as well as challenge traditional Western conceptions of beauty and a fixed gender binary.

Free |

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Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 天美影院faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Set in Motion: A Public Art Exhibition

December 2020 – February 2021 | Throughout Seattle

Drop-in Meditation Session: Atenci贸n Plena y Compasi贸n Para Cerrar el A帽o

December 21, 6:00 – 7:00 PM |

Public Opinion and Polls in the 2020 Presidential Election

Recorded event |

While polls and public opinion research are essential components of a healthy democracy, they also have come under attack in recent years, particularly for 鈥渕iscalling鈥� various elections. In October, the Department of Communication hosted a virtual conversation with Kate Kenski (University of Arizona) and Lydia Saad (Gallup) to discuss polling and public opinion today 鈥� and their implications for the health of American politics beyond 2020. The event was organized by the 天美影院鈥檚 Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy.

Crossing North Podcast

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Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 天美影院faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Re/frame: All Together Now

December 17, 12:00 – 1:00 PM and 6:30-7:30 PM |

This Is Beethoven

December 16 – 19 |

#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night听

December 17, 8:00 PM |

Join the Burke Museum for #BurkeFromHome Trivia!听The top three winners at the end of the game will each win a pair of free tickets to the Burke Museum so you can come visit the museum when it reopens.听The first place player also wins a gift card to听Optimism Brewing.

鈥楴either Free Nor Fair鈥� Podcast

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Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 天美影院faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Drop-in Session: Cultivating Gratitude in Challenging Time

June 22, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Zoom

Noticing what we are grateful for and cultivating practices of gratitude can ease anxiety and increase our feelings of connection. This session, hosted by Becca Calhoun, MPH,听will include a guided gratitude meditation, a discussion of the benefits of gratitude and an introduction of several gratitude practices that can be used throughout our daily lives.

Free听|

Henry Art Gallery Viewpoints: A Dialogue Between Jean-Fran莽ois Millet and Jeanne Dunning

Live until June 28 |

Viewpoints听is a rotating series that highlights works from the Henry’s听, paired with commentary and insights from 天美影院 faculty.

This iteration features representations of women and domestic labor in nineteenth-century prints by Jean-Fran莽ois Millet (France, 1814-1875) and the video听Icing听(1996) by Jeanne Dunning (U.S., born 1960). Faculty contributions include professors Juliet McMains in the Department of Dance, and Priti Ramamurthy in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies. Visit the before it closes on Sunday, June 28th.

#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 7:00 PM听|听Virtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 7 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back鈥攖his time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers!

Free, please register for access听|

Meany Center – Grupo Corpo Strike Timelapse

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Have you wondered what the work looks like in setting the stage for Meany performances? Check out this timelapse from April when the Grupo Corpo tech team and Meany Center Tech team took out and loaded the truck so Grupo Corpo could do to their next venue.

The Ellison Center’s Podcast Archive

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Did you know the The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies听 has an archive of podcasts covering interviews and lectures over the last several years? The center’s goal is to promote in-depth interdisciplinary study of all major post-communist subregions – Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltic region, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and Russia – in order to understand the legacies of the imperial and communist past as well as to analyze the emerging institutions and identities that will shape Eurasia’s future.

Podcast: The Hell Creek and Back; The Story of the Tufts-Love T. rex

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A world of blistering heat and dirt, a biosphere where 20-foot-tall dinosaurs roamed. Home to cretaceous creatures that could rip apart their prey with 6-inch serrated teeth! Venture into this landscape to learn how a group of researchers and school teachers tracked down the elusive Tyrannosaurus Rex in the sweltering badlands on Montana.听 Follow how the last-minute discovery of a small protrusion of ribs led to the extraction of the savage toothed king! You鈥檒l be on the ground in an active paleontological field research site examining fossils from millions of years ago. You鈥檒l even discover out what it takes to bring a prized scientific discovery into the forefront of research.

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 天美影院faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听

Earth Day 50th Anniversary: Gaia Has a Fever

April 22, 2:00 PM听| Livestream

Join the Department of History, College of the Environment听and 天美影院Earth Day in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.听Dr. Jennifer Thomson will give a talk听untangling the history of oil corporations, climate justice, and environmental听governance. Beginning with physicist James Lovelock鈥檚 Gaia hypothesis, she鈥檒l discuss the involvement of oil corporations in climate research, and explore a truly听liberatory environmental politics.

Free, please register for access听|听

COURSE:听Introduction to Basic Plant Morphology – Learning the Parts of the Plant

April 22 and April 23, 6:00 – 7:00 PM | Online Classroom

Celebrate Earth Day by expanding your plant vocabulary!听David Giblin, Collections Manager of the 天美影院Herbarium,听teaches this two-part class. Learning the basic vegetative and reproductive parts of vascular plants that we know from our gardens, kitchens, and walks in nature, provides an opportunity to improve plant identification skills.

This class is offered online. Viewing instructions will be sent before the start of the class.

Cost is $20听|听Register & More Info

After the Blast The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens: Webinar with Dr. Eric Wagner

April 22, 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Zoom Webinar

In anticipation of the 40th Anniversary of the major Mount St. Helens eruption, 天美影院Libraries and 天美影院Press are proud to host a zoom webinar featuring Eric Wagner, Ph.D., author of After the Blast: The Ecological Recovery of Mount St. Helens.

Since it’s eruption in 1980,听Mount St. Helens has been surprising ecologists and in After the Blast,听Wagner takes readers on a fascinating journey through the blast area and beyond. From fireweed to elk, the plants and animals forest scientists saw would not just change how ecologists approached the eruption and its landscape, but also prompt them to think in new ways about how life responds in the face of seemingly total devastation.

Free, please register for access听|听Register & More Info

Ask Your Farmer!

April 23, 11:00 AM |

The 天美影院Farm is still producing food, but under restricted operations and without the usual dedicated crew of student volunteers. Farm manager Perry Acworth will host this Instagram Live session, showing the work that鈥檚 happening on the 天美影院Farm and answering questions about the Farm and our food systems. If anyone has questions on how they can grow food for themselves, this is your moment!

Livestream takes place on and will begin at 11 AM.

Free听|听More Info

Virtual Poetry Caf茅 for Poetry Month

Month of April | Online engagement

Since launching in April 1996,听National Poetry Month听has given people an annual occasion to celebrate the importance of poets and poetry in our culture. This April feels like an especially great time to explore the power of poetry and how it can be used to craft connection and celebrate the things that mean most to us!

Join Whole U this April for a virtual听天美影院Poetry Caf茅听to share the poems we love, write some of our own, and connect with our wider community over the written word.听To help get your creativity flowing, The Whole U devised UW-themed poetry prompts to try on your own or with colleagues and friends.

Pick the prompt that resonates most with you then share your favorite poems or original compositions with us by sending them to听wholeu@uw.edu听or by tagging them听#UWPoetryMonth听on social media.

Free听|

Crossing North Podcast

Ongoing | Online

Crossing North听is a podcast about Nordic and Baltic society and culture. Episodes feature interviews with authors, performers, and leaders from Scandinavia and the Baltic, as well as discussions with faculty in the Scandinavian Studies Department and Baltic Studies Program.

In the most recent episode, released April 15, Colin Gioia Connors interviews author Nora Ikstena and听assistant professor Liina-Ly Roos. Learn why Ikstena’s novel听Soviet Milk about Soviet-occupied Latvia was so popular that libraries had to create a special loan policy for the book.

Missing the Henry? View the online collection!

Ongoing |听

From photography to textiles, the Henry Art Gallery’s permanent collection contains more than 27,00 objects from around the world.听 The collection originated with the gift of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings donated to the 天美影院 by听Horace C. Henry听in 1926. It has grown over the years through acquisitions from exhibitions and through the generosity of art collectors, artists, and donors.

Luckily for those looking to reconnect with art while working remote, the Henry has an extensive听the online collection database. Learn more and .

Looking for more ways to engage? The Henry is also sharing content across their social media platforms daily!

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#BurkeFromHome Trivia Night

Every Friday, 8:00 PM听|听Virtual Event

Join the Burke Museum online on Fridays at 8 PM for #BurkeFromHome Trivia. The popular Burke Trivia Night is back鈥攖his time online to practice social distancing while having loads of fun! Get your nerd on with natural history and culture-themed trivia.

BYOB, snacks, and slippers! Check out for a preview!

Free, please register for access听|

Staying home? Here’s what to watch

Ongoing | Your favorite streaming service

Looking for ways to stay entertained while staying at home?听If you’ve already binged all the shows in your Netflix queue, fear not. Faculty in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies听have gathered television and film recommendations to fit every mood.

Looking for more?

Check out UWAA’s Stronger Together web page for听more digital engagement opportunities.

Karin Bornfeldt receives Outstanding Investigator Award from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

, a professor of medicine and pathology, has received an from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The award will total more than $7.2 million for up to seven years, with about $1 million in the first year.

The award is under the institute’s R35 Program, which promotes scientific productivity by giving principal investigators with multiple projects the freedom to conduct research that breaks new ground or extend previous discoveries in heart, lung, blood and sleep research.

Bornfeldt’s research project is titled “Identifying New Strategies for Prevention of Cardiovascular Complications of Diabetes.”

Bornfeldt is director of the , deputy director of the and associate director for research of the . She serves as associate editor of the journals Circulation Research, Diabetes, and the Journal of Lipid Research.

Read more at the Department of Medicine .

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Guntis 艩midchens of Scandinavian studies honored by Republic of Lithuania

, 天美影院associate professor of Scandinavian studies and Baltic studies, has received a state decoration from the Republic of Lithuania.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus臈da presented 艩midchens the in a celebration on Feb. 16, which since 1918 has been Lithuanian Independence Day. The award notes 艩midchens’ “active promotion of Lithuanian language, history and culture in the United States.”

艩midchens is the UW’s Kazickas Family Endowed Professor of Baltic Studies. He is the author of the 2014 book “The Power of Song: Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution,” about a nonviolent resistance movement in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Order for Merits to Lithuania is one of four types of orders bestowed, and the Cross of the Knight one of five of Insignia of the Orders.

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10 天美影院engineering professors receive Google Faculty Research Awards

Ten 天美影院College of Engineering faculty have been named recipients of . The grants, among Google recently , support world-class technical research in computer science, engineering and related fields. Each award provides funding to support one graduate student for a year.

The recipients are , , , , and of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; and of the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering; of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering; and of both the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering.

The is “to identify and strengthen long-term collaborative relationships with faculty working on problems that will impact how future generations use technology,” according to Google.

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