Meetings

Board of Regents
The UW Board of Regents will hold a regular public meeting at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the Walker-Ames Room of Kane Hall. The Regents will meet in formal session to take official action on personnel appointments and changes, gifts and grants, contracts and agreements with outside agencies and other University business.

The UW Board of Regents meets for the last of three presentations on ways the University can better partner with its K-12 counterpart from 8 a.m. to noon on April 15, 310 HUB. The Impacts of Research on the K-12 Landscape features an assortment of UW professors talking about past, present and future work with K-12 schools, 8 a.m. to noon, 310 HUB.
Secretary of the Board

Association for Women in Science
The Seattle area chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) will present Lili Cheng of Microsoft, Virtual Worlds: Social Interactions in Cyberspace at 7:30 p.m. April 15 at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center Auditorium, 2725 Montlake Blvd. East, Seattle. A reception at the same location will be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cheng is a lead program manager in the Microsoft Research’s Virtual Worlds Group where the research focus is on social interaction. Her talk covers recent projects by the Virtual Worlds Group that demonstrate how people will use the computer to connect to one another in new ways. The meeting is free and open to all members of the public. For more information, call Sally Fitts at (206) 522-5969 or Helen Powell at (206) 568-7634. Additional information about this and other AWIS activities can be found on our Web site: http://www.scn.org/tech/awis.

Classes

Your Path to a Healthy Body Weight, a series of eight weight management classes sponsored by the UWMC-Roosevelt and the Nutrition Clinic, will begin this month. The course is $50. Classes for employees and nonemployees will be held from 6-7 p.m. on Tuesdays, starting April 20, and 2:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesdays, starting April 21. To register, contact the Family Medicine Clinic at 206-598-4055. Classes for UW employees only will be held at the Plaza Café conference rooms at the UWMC from noon until 1 p.m. on Thursdays, starting April 22. For more information or to register, call Nutrition Services at 206-598-4163.

Environmental Health and Safety
Environmental Health and Safety will offer the following free safety classes to University personnel. Pre-registration is required. Call 543-7201 to register, for departmental training, or to be added to the mailing list.