We hear a lot about the income from the UWs pre-professional sports being used to pay for less valuable varsity activities. I happened to look at the Harvard Gazette tonight. Odd but it seems that Harvard’s AD, with far less income than the Huskies, supports a lot more sports than we have.[...]
Posts Tagged ‘UW’
September 16th, 2014 - 11:06 am § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Challenge: What is a fair wage for a University President?
Lets start at the top: How much do you think Drew Faust, President of Harvard, earns? $250,000 $500,000 $900,000 $1,500,000 $3,000,000 $5,500,000[...]
September 11th, 2014 - 2:46 am § in The Ave Scene
Burke Museum to pitch Legislature for a new building
The Seattle Times reports that the UW wants the legislature to fund a new builfing to replace the 52 year old Burke Museum. The current building is too small toexhibit the collection and the lack of air-conditioned or climate-control puts its extensive, important collections at risk. Its directo[...]
September 8th, 2014 - 10:35 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
Mary Claire King Wins Lasker Award
I for one will be awake Sunday night, Oct 7, when the Nobel Committee makes its annual announcement. Mary Claire is obviously a leading candidate for that award. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awards — announced this morning that UW Prof. Mary-Claire King is one of five scientists be[...]
September 5th, 2014 - 9:44 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
The Animal Farm Model for Running a University
U. of Illinois Chancellor, Phyllis Wise, after a less than exemplary ethical record as the UW Provost, now faces faculty outrage over the dismissal of a Palestiniam American as a candidate for the UI faculty. Steven G. Salaita is well known as a critic of Israel. Controversy erupted last month w[...]
July 13th, 2014 - 10:23 am § in Schools & Colleges, The Ave Scene
VASCULATA … and the MOMA
Tomorrow is the beginning of the course, VASCULATA, that I offer every year in vascular biology . The course rotates around the country at those campuses that have a critical mass of people in my field. The field is, as biology goes, very new. Four decades ago when the field be[...]
July 4 Coup: Rick Perry to Fire UT President
In case you missed the news about “The July 4th Coup,” on Friday news outlets reported that the outgoing UT System Chancellor, Francisco Cigarroa, apparently gave UT Austin President William C. Powers Jr.. an ultimatum: quit your job by July 4, or be fired by the Regents this week. A p[...]
July 1st, 2014 - 3:19 pm § in Misc.
UW Mathematicians Awarded Simons Fellowships
Congratulations to University of Washington mathematicians Sandor Kovacs and Eric Shea-Brown, recipients of 2014 Simons Fellowships.[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in Schools & Colleges
Can Seattle be Competitive?
In an era of constricting NIH funds, in state that has never been generous to its research universities, in a county where billionaires abound but show little interest in local philanthropy, in a city with a shrinking biotech industry .. can Seattle survive as a big time biology center? Read about o[...]
What a waste!
After his plans for a new Seattle Waterfront were widely derided as not being innovating and not reflecting anything of Seattle, the city’s contract with James Corner for 8 million has already spent $7.5 million dollars. Cornet is an international landscape architect, well known for [...]