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Location |
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10:00 am |
Music 213 |
School of Music presents Guitar Master Class with Paris Guitar Duo:
The acclaimed Paris Guitar Duo - Judicäel Perroy and Jeremy Jouve - lead a guitar master class with students of Michael Partington. |
website |
10:00 am – 2:00 pm |
Red Square |
Burke Museum Booth:
See and touch objects from their collections and get to know the Burke Museum. |
website |
10:00 am – 4:00 pm |
Red Square |
Solar Car Races – Renewable Energy Was Never So Fun:
Build and race a model solar car while learning about renewable energy initiatives at the UW. |
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10:00 am – 5:00 pm |
Burke Museum |
Free Admission to the Burke Museum:
Explore the Hungry Planet exhibit and join special behind-the-scenes tours. |
website |
10:30 am |
Botany Greenhouse |
Greenhouse Tour:
Limited to the first 25 guests, visitors will learn about plants of all types: carnivorous, orchids, cacti and some you'll know by smell. |
website |
10:30 am – 11:00 am |
Savery Hall 136 |
Department of Philosophy presents Ethics and Climate Change:
Are we each responsible for our carbon emissions? In this interactive mini-class, Professor Lauren Hartzell Nichols explores both the complexity of this question and how we may start to seek an answer to it. |
website |
10:45 am – 11:00 am |
Kane Hall
Room 110 |
Honors Program Films –Scientific Method:
5 minute film taken and compiled by students exploring the scientific method and its place in our society including an interview with Jeremy Littell, a climate scientist working at UW. |
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11:15 am – 11:30 am |
Kane Hall
Room 110 |
Honors Program Films –Ethical Ways of Knowing:
A film project exploring the different topics and questions relating to the intersection of religion and ethics, and medicine. |
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11:00 am – 4:00 pm |
Henry Art Gallery |
Free Weekend Admission to the Henry Art Gallery During HuskyFest:
Visit Seattle's oldest art museum with the newest art and ideas. Guides will lead free tours of the galleries. |
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11:15 am – 11:45 am |
Savery Hall 136 |
Department of Philosophy presents The Giving Tree – Philosophy for Children (and Adults!):
Our discussion will be inspired by a famous children’s book filled with philosophical puzzles. Participants of all ages welcome! |
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11:45 am – 12:30 pm
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Kane Hall
Room 110 |
Demo - Mapping Youth Journeys:
Multiyear website development and research initiative that seeks to use new mapping technologies to teach young people technological skills, civic engagement and spatial histories. |
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12:00 pm – 12:30 pm |
Savery Hall 136 |
Department of Philosophy presents What is Poetry and So What?
What do Tristan Tzara, Tom Stoppard, and Shakespeare have in common? We’ll use these authors, scissors and a hat to talk about poetry and the nature of art. |
website |
12:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
Brechemin Auditorium
Music Building |
School of Music Student Performances:
Performances by School of Music students in Brechemin Auditorium. |
website |
12:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
Odegaard Library
2nd & 3rd Floor |
Foundational Faces of the University of Washington:
Putting faces to the architecture around us, view restored historic portraits of campus namesakes from Denny and Hutchinson to Gould and Suzzallo. |
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12:15 pm – 1:00 pm |
Kane Hall
Room 220 |
Video – Home Alive:
Through an indie-rock class offered at the University of Washington, two seniors, Leah Michaels and Rozz Therrien, were exposed to a grassroots, self-defense organization called Home Alive. This documentary is focused around community response to tragedy using the Do It Yourself ethos to try to make a difference. |
website |
12:30 pm |
Meet at Botany Greenhouse |
UW Medicinal Herb Garden Tour:
Discover the medicinal properties of plants, historical uses of Pacific Northwest native plants and the origin of many medicines used today. |
virtual tour |
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm
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Kane Hall
Room 110 |
Demo – Dr. Quintard Taylor presents Blackpast.org:
An online reference guide dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history in the United States and on the history of the more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world. |
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12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
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Kane Hall Lobby |
Poster Presentations & Demonstrations:
- Improving Patient Outcomes Using Nonverbal Cues
- A Real Options Approach to the Economics of Uranium Enrichment
- Political Science Research
- 13 Ways to View a Superhero
- Ion Trapping Demo & Live Feed
- Horse Play
- Jackson School of International Studies International & Transnational Task Force
- Sage-Software for Math Research
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12:45 pm – 1:15 pm |
Savery Hall 136 |
Department of Philosophy presents Respect for Autonomy? Some Limiting Cases in Bioethics:
Interactive facilitated discussion to explore philosophical limits to the medical ethics principle requiring respect for patient autonomy. |
website |
1:15 pm – 2:00 pm
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Kane Hall
Room 220 |
Video - Hip Hop in the 206:
Community, class members & student performances are featured in this video sharing the impact that hip hop has had on their lives and communities. |
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1:00 pm – 4:00 pm |
Physics Astronomy Building A Wing |
Department of Astronomy presents Transitioning Exoplanets Studies with the Kepler Satellite:
A student-run view of Kepler Satellite data including a display of light curves. |
website |
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Shows every 30 minutes |
Digital Planetarium
Physics Astronomy Building A Wing |
Department of Astronomy presents the UW Digital Planetarium Experience:
This 30-minute immersive media experience brings together imagery from the world's best ground- and space-based telescopes. Shows are limited to 40 people each. Register for free tickets. |
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1:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
Art Building
1st Floor |
School of Art Open House:
Art | Art History | Design students share their work and give live demonstrations. |
website |
1:30 pm |
South Rainier Vista Lawn
Meet at Drumheller Fountain Information Booth |
Conservation Canine Demonstration:
Get to know Tucker, a scat detection dog, and learn about the important work he does with the UW's Conservation Canine Program. |
website |
1:30 pm –
2:00 pm |
Savery Hall 136 |
Department of Philosophy presents Debating Moral Issues – the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl:
Two teams of UW students exchange arguments concerning an ethical issue. Audience members will determine which team is most persuasive. |
website |
1:45 pm –
2:30 pm
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Kane Hall
Room 110 |
Demo - LegSim Voters Guide:
A virtual legislature teaching tool. |
website |
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm
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Kane Hall
Room 220 |
Wagnerian Influences in Othello:
Interactive presentation featuring audio clips investigating the first Italian performance of an opera written by German composer Richard Wagner and the integration of foreign influences into the musical culture of Italy as demonstrated by Giuseppe Verdi's work. |
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