Organometallic Catalysis Summer School

The Summer School will be held on the campus of The University of Washington in Seattle. Housing arrangements will be provided in University Conference Housing, which is on or directly adjacent to campus and only a few minutes walk from the Chemistry buildings. The University is serviced by several bus lines making travel to downtown Seattle fast and easy.

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the closest major airport to the University and is only 20-30 minutes away by car. See this website for more information on traveling to Seattle and The University of Washington.

Noah Sealth, chief of the local Suquamish Native American tribe, was one of the founders of the city. Seattle is named after him.
Before it got the name Seattle in late 1852, the city was known as Duwamps.
The Great Seattle Fire of 1889 burnt up most of the first Seattle downtown. It was rebuilt within a year, literally on top of the remains of the older downtown. You can still see sections of the original downtown on the colorful Seattle Underground Tour.
3.2 million people live in the Greater Seattle Area. About 570,000 live in Seattle itself. Read more data about Seattle.
More than 75% of Seattle residents have internet access at home. The Seattle WiFi Map Project recently mapped out thousands of wireless networks in Seattle.
Seattle is one of the fittest cities in the country, especially for walkers and bikers.
Seattle has the highest per-capita music and dance attendance in the country, with 80 live music clubs (not counting the movable dance clubs and shows) and 15 symphony orchestras.
Seattle has 29 professional theatres, 56 fringe theatre companies and seven theatre schools.
Ballard, in north Seattle, was once a Norwegian fishing village. The Alaskan fishing fleet still winters there before heading out on salmon runs.
The Nordic Heritage Museum is the country's only museum honoring the heritage of people from the five Nordic countries.
Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Ernestine Anderson all lived in Central and South Seattle over the years.
Seafair is a massive two-month summer festival that showcases the traditions and diversity of Puget Sound with parades, festivals, triathalons, hydroplane races and air shows.
Alki Beach is one of the city's longest white sand beaches, 2 miles along the west side of West Seattle.
U-Dist is the nickname of the neighborhood surrounding the University of Washington.
The Wing Luke Museum in Chinatown/International District is the country's only museum devoted to Asian-American history, with displays on immigration, the arts and traditional medicine.

Seattle and the Pacific Northwest generally have a wet climate, but June, July and August are our dryest and warmest months. Temperatures in the summer usually hover around a pleasant 75, though we also have been known to suffer through weeklong heat spells in the high 80s or low 90s. Average high temperature in July/August is 75°F, average low temperature is 56°F. July is the generally the warmest month in Seattle as well as the driest.