Engineering feat Grabbing that frisbee appeared to be a tougher task than designing bridges during the frisbee tournament that was part of Engineering Week. Engineers planned a series of events leading up to the Engineering Open House scheduled for this Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21. See story... Photo by Mary Levin PHOTO: Ml20010272_31a

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Preschoolers like the one on the right, who is not a part of Dawson’s research, react to their mother’s face. Children with autism do not show such recognition. Photo by Mary Levin PHOTO: ML960363_5a

Clean cars, cities An official from the Clean Cities Coalition talks with a student on Red Square. The group was on hand to showcase some environmentally friendly cars as part of Earth Week festivities. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010269_23

Midday madrigal Two junior high students act out a Monteverdi madrigal during a recent midday concert by the UW Chamber Singers. The concert was part of the School of Music’s fifth choral music festival, which drew more than 2,000 young singers from 43 choirs in the U.S. and Canada. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010270_6

Pianist Claudia Hoca will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 28 in Brechmin Auditorium.

Christine Palermo will be featured on a new UW Web site, Learning @ the Leading Edge. The site (http://www.washington.edu/univrel/lale) features bright stories from the campus community. Palermo, a UW undergraduate, made an interesting discovery that has implications for future HIV treatment. Photo by Mary Levin

Healing Garden on display UW Medical Center’s new Healing Garden is ready for visitors from the Society for Arts in Healthcare conference, which is meeting in downtown Seattle this week. Tours at UWMC on Saturday will include the garden, along with other aspects of the medical center’s Art Program. The Healing Garden, which is in a terrace space south of the Barrel Vault on the third floor, was planned and built by a combined fine arts/landscape architecture class, part of the Public Art Curriculum supported by UW Tools for Transformation funding. Results of the study done as part of the planning will be presented at the conference by Daniel Winterbottom, associate professor of landscape architecture. Below, Winterbottom does some work on wood bench pieces. Photos by Gavin Sisk

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Neuroscience for kids In early March several classes of elementary school science students attended demonstrations and exhibits in the Health Sciences Lobby for Brain Awareness Week. The event was organized, as in the past several years, by Dr. Eric Chudler, research associate professor of anesthesiology. Chudler, who also speaks frequently to science classes in schools, maintains a very rich Web site, Neuroscience for Kids, which is supported by a Science Education Partnerships Award from the National Center of Research Resources. See the web site at http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html Photo by Gavin Sisk

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