Senior Daniel Holland and anthropology professor Stevan Harrell work on a CD-ROM version of Harrell’s research in Southwest China.

College of Forest Resources Dean David B. Thorud shows Seattle school children how streams are created and flooding occurs during the annual Arbor Day Fair last Saturday. The table-top model Thorud is using allowed children to create streams, dams and flooding by tilting the platform and was central to the water-quality demonstration. TREEmendous Forest Story was the theme of the all-day public event at UW’s Anderson Hall. Children also had a chance to make paper, get crafty with products from the forest and grind garbage into soil. The annual event is conducted by the college and members of its alumni association.

This map shows the locations of sediment deposits in the Puget Sound region associated with one or more tsunamis a millennium ago.

Photos courtesy of the Digital Michelangelo Project, Stanford University

Synthetic Vision: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, an exhibit in the foyer of Allen Library commemorates the 250th anniversary of the poet and scientist’s birth. It presents the scope of Goethe’s scientific interests in the context of the age, his masterpiece Faust and their importance to modern science. The exhibit was produced by the Goethe-Institute, Boston with text by Jane K. Brown, UW Department of Germanics and Douglas Miller, University of Michigan, Flint. The exhibit closes May 15. ¶

The John Stanford International School got its official launch last week as a joint venture between the UW and Seattle public schools. Named after the late superintendent, the school is scheduled to open in fall 2000 at the current Latona Elementary site. The school will house kindergarten to fifth grade and offer three languages, so that students can become bilingual. The UW will connect the school to the Internet 2, a more powerful and faster computer network based at the University, and use the school as a research lab in international education and other education programs. UW professors will help shape curriculum, while graduate and undergraduate students volunteer.

The anniversary logo appears on buttons, banners, and programs for events this week.

A photo taken shortly after the hospital opened in 1959 shows Nurse Lavera McCord measuring a newborn.

Scientific Instruments Open House—Dave Burton, optical technician lead in the Scientific Instruments Division, stands by as Erin Bailey, from the UW Medical Center Eye Clinic, looks at bone growth markers through a microscope during the division’s 50th anniversary open house last week in the Health Sciences Lobby. Photo by Gavin Sisk.

Prepared for Patrol—Boxes of Teddy bears and other stuffed animals were collected recently by UW Medical Center employees for the Teddy Bear Patrol. The animals go to police and fire units to be given to children in traumatic situations. Photo by Criag Degginger.