Preparing for battle UW students (left to right) Michele Laperna, Kyle Pendergrass, Nels Jewell-Larsen and David Parker prepare their latest creation for a head-to-head contest Saturday with robots from other area teams. The four are members of the Rainier Roboteers, a team that includes students from the UW and Bellarmine Preparatory School in Tacoma and which is hosting a Robotics Festival scheduled for 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Bank of America Pavilion Annex on the UW campus. Although judges will award prizes for the best performing machines, the event will also provide a practice run for regional and national competitions. Smaller robots from the Seattle Robotics Society and other UW groups will demonstrate robotic sumo wrestling, soccer and maze maneuvering prowess. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010085_15a

Changing lanes Kevin McNerney works to repair a damaged computer monitor at the bowling alley in the basement of the HUB. Photo by Steve Hill PHOTO: SH20010076_4a

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C.D. Hoyle, graduate student and lead author of the paper on measuring gravity, works on the device with which the measurement was done. Photo by Mary Levin

This device - a torsion pendulum with 10 holes suspended by a tungsten fiber so thin it is barely visible in the photo - was used by UW scientists to measure the strength of gravity at a distance of just 0.2 millimeter. The pendulum hangs less than a millimeter above a rotating plate that also has 10 holes. The plate exerts gravitational twist on the pendulum that is measured by bouncing a laser beam off a mirror at the top of the pendulum. Photo by Mary Levin

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Dancing delight The UW Chamber Dance Company’s Carol Dilley is one of seven dancers in a company comprised of seasoned dance veterans from around the country. The group will perform this weekend at Meany Hall. Performances are scheduled for Feb. 15-17 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 18 at 2 p.m.

Yamashita with his children outside the Bremerton business he ran after graduating from the UW law school.

UW student Kay Douglas unraveled the myth about Darwin’s supposedly missing leg on the facade of Suzzallo Library. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010091_2a

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Faculty artist David Kopp will give a piano recital Saturday, Feb. 17 at Brechemin Auditorium.

Drama TAs Shontina Vernon, standing at left, and Shad Willingham, second from right, work with a group of UWOnCue students acting out a scene. Left to right the students are Molly Kastner, Chris Ramsey, Nikki Przasnyski and Simina Popa. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010090_22

At a news conference on Monday, Dr. Phil Green, left, and Dr. Maynard Olson talked with reporters.

Rajinder Kaul, scientific coordinator for the UW Genome Center, demonstrates how some of the software works. Photos by Gavin Sisk

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