Mark Emmert Wins 2008 Community Hero Award
University of Washington President Mark Emmert has been singled out to receive the "2008 Community Hero Award" from the Northwest Dollars for Scholars organization. (Seattle PI  5/6/2008)

Former WWII Internees Recieve Honorary UW degrees
66 years later, the UW plans to issue honorary degrees to all those Japanese Americans forced to leave campus in the months after Pearl Harbor. It's an unprecedented move for the UW, which has issued just 11 honorary degrees since 1885. (Seattle Times  5/4/2008)

UW helped nurture computing ideas, Gates says
As teenagers, Paul Allen and Bill Gates wandered the University of Washington campus, trying to pilfer free computer time. They let their minds wander to a future when computing power would essentially be free. Gates, in the final stop of his last university-speaking circuit as a full-time Microsoft employee, told students and faculty at the UW on Friday about what they imagined then and how much of what they dreamed of is becoming reality. (The Seattle Times  4/26/2008)

Learn
The New York Times Magazine looks at green initiatives at campuses across the U.S. The UW's efforts lead off the article. (The New York Times Magazine   4/20/2008)

UW leading computer study for Defense Department
The University of Washington is leading a five-year study by seven universities to help the military process vast amounts of computer information. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer  4/17/2008)

Arthritis-drug maker withheld risk data, UW study finds
The maker of the controversial arthritis drug Vioxx knew of significant risks associated with the medicine at least three years before a massive nationwide recall, but withheld the information from federal officials and later downplayed the death rates, according to an analysis by University of Washington professors. (The Seattle Times  4/16/2008)

Students get chance to quiz Dalai Lama
Inside a packed stadium at the University of Washington Monday, the Dalai Lama delighted some 7,500 students by answering questions on everything from AIDS to the green movement. But outside Edmundson Pavilion before the event, the largest protests against the Dalai Lama's five-day Seattle visit culminated with several hundred people chanting and singing. (The Seattle Times  4/15/2008)

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