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Trees are dying twice as fast as they did three decades ago in older forests of the western United States and scientists suspect warming temperatures are a contributing factor.

Board of Regents

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

Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica — the East Antarctic Ice Sheet — has actually been getting colder.

Career Discovery Week has been a yearly event at the UW for a decade, but this year for the first time a “staff track” will be offered, filled with sessions that might appeal to the already-employed.

UW Medicine’s Mini-Medical School, a six-session evening program offered each year at the UW, will begin on Feb.

It seems fitting that in this week of change and inaugural excitement, the UW’s next Common Book should be new President Barack Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

A year-long World Health Organization pilot program in eight hospitals around the world–including UW Medical Center — has proven conclusively that inpatient deaths can be significantly reduced, along with the rate of major complications after surgery, by following a simple checklist.

Do you have questions about crime prevention or campus safety? Maybe about bike registration or how to secure your electronic equipment?

An officer of the UW Police is now on hand to help for two hours at lunchtime every day — from 11:15 a.

On Jan.

The UW Symphony will perform at 7:30 p.

UW graduate students Shella Biallas and Chami Arachchi found multiple reasons to join the Peace Corps.

Forget the Mayflower, the Daughters of the American Revolution and even the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Antisemitism: An Eternal Hatred? is the title of a lecture by Steven Beller slated for noon Tuesday, Jan.

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

Martin Grotschel of the Technical University of Berlin presents “Combinatorial Optimization in Action,” part of the MathAcrossCampus Colloquium series, given by high-level researchers and are open to all.

Chief Prosecutor Hassan Jallow has confronted individuals responsible for masterminding hundreds of thousands of deaths in Rwanda.

Tuberculosis bacteria can commandeer the body’s defenses in the early stages of infection and redirect them for their own offensive strategies, according to results reported Jan.

Jenny Lewis solo.

The first in a five-part series titled “The Vatican in the 20th Century: The Popes Confront a Turbulent World” presented by James Ramon Felak, associate professor of history.

Join the campus community to watch Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States.

The Martin Luther King Day of Service begins with a kickoff celebration for students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends.

They push the boundaries of the most demainding string quartet repertoire with what the Chicago Sun-Times called “powerhouse playing.

The UW Libraries will offer live viewing of the presidential inauguration on a big screen in two locations.

Life Sciences Discovery Fund information sessions: Two information sessions on 2009 project grants will be held this month at the UW.

The 2009 UW Alumni Association and College of Arts and Sciences History Lecture series will explore a century of changes and challenges that shaped the modern Catholic Church and forever altered the state of world politics.