from AAUP listserv: Working Towards a Union for the UW faculty by Raya Fidel, Professor, Information School The quality of faculty work life at the UW has deteriorated during the last decade. Throughout the years the Faculty Senate has worked diligently to represent the faculty and it needs[...]
Posts Tagged ‘BREAKING NEWS’
April 6th, 2011 - 12:53 pm § in America
UPDATE: Wisconsin Voters Recall Republican Judge
UPDATE: — The Waukesha County clerk announced that the vote total announced for Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race had been mistaken — The new total puts Prosser on a significant path to victory, about 7,500 votes ahead of Kloppenburg. Sad outcome. Will the energy that [...]
April 6th, 2011 - 10:59 am § in China
The Boss Comes to Beijing
Ed. Today’s edition of Xinhua News announces that Dylan is giving a concert in Beijing. Unfortunately, world famous artist, Ai Wai Wai, will not be able to attend as he is in prison for casting aspersions on the good intentions of the oligarchy. from Inquirer.Net, 3/12/2011: BEIJING &[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Misc.
One last world shaking discovery from Fermilab: The God Particle?
From Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it. … The Higgs Boson? “Nobody knows what this is, if it is real, it would be the most significant dis[...]
April 6th, 2011 - 9:04 am § in UW
USN&WR: UW Medical School ONLY Public School In Top Ten!
I am sure we would all like to tell Jim McDermott, our Congressman, about this? Congressman, McDermott, an MD and a strong advocate of better health care for Americans, seems unaware that the UWSOM is rated #1 in primary care and rural medicine. He should visit Seattle![...]