Letter from the Dean

What's News
Curating "This Place Called Home" at the Burke | Professors Sound Off on Political Blog | UW Undergrads' Asteroid Discoveries | Henry Art Gallery's New Director | A UW Donor by Age Three | With Sage Software, Mathematics is Within Reach

Meet Ana Mari Cauce, Dean of Arts & Sciences
"I feeel lucky to have the opportunity to give my best efforts to the part of this university that I most love," says Ana Mari Cauce, who becomes dean of the College on March 31.

The Act of Adoption
Throught the School of Drama's Adopt an Actor program, donors are paired with an actor entering his or her final year of the Professional Actor Training Program.

New Life for Aging Labs
The UW's aging freshman chemistry laboratories have been described as "something out of Dickens." With renovations, they are now ready for the 21st century.

Seeing Meany in a New Light
A new lighting system provides much-needed flexibility for the many productions presented at Meany Hall.

An Exhibit with Latin Flavor
Three UW faculty were guest curators for American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, on view at the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum through September 7, 2008.

A Poetry Box is Born
In Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, A&S alumna Mary Kollar ('65, '81) shares poetry with passersby through a poetry box outside her house.

A Poet with Patience
A&S alumnus Brian Culhane, who has been writing poetry for more than 30 years, will have his first book of poetry published through an award from The Poetry Foundation.

A&S Research
Horacio de la Iglesia: When Circadian Rhythms Desynchronize
Henrik Wolff : Questioning the Savings in Daylight Saving Time

Awards, Honors, and Professorships
Sherman Alexie' National Book Award | Jeffrey Eaton Named Marshall Scholar | Other Awards, Honors, and Professorships

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