Moving Suzzallo PHOTO: KS20000218_6a PHOTO: KS20000211_15 Moving Suzzallo: The big job of emptying the Suzzallo Reading Room included dismantling and removing the long tables (top), boxing up books (above) and moving out chairs (below). The moving began last week in preparation for seismic upgrading work set to begin next month. The room, along with other portions of Suzzallo, will be closed for 20 months. PHOTO: KS20000211_0

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Nathan Mantua

David W. Russell

Cecilia Moens

Extreme environments such as those at hydrothermal vents on the deep ocean floor are ideal laboratories for astrobiology students to understand the harsh conditions in which life might be found away from Earth. This sulfide structure, or black smoker, contains unusual microorganisms that exist at very high temperatures and pressures and help support communities of more familiar looking tube worms, crabs and other life on the outside of the structure.

Exhibits like this one from the last Engineering Open House will again fascinate visiting school children as the event gets under way once again April 28 and 29. PHOTO: KS980299_20a

Members of the French team consider their assignment during the UW's second annual Global Business Challenge. A team from Brazil won the event that pitted undergraduates from around the world. PHOTO: KS20000201-7

Graduate student Dee Merwin helps Seattle grade school students transfer salmon they've raised in their classrooms to the salmon pond operated by the School of Fisheries on Portage Bay. Merwin is the coordinator of the UW's Salmon in the Classroom program that, in conjunction with the Seattle Public Utilities District, brought hundreds of students to campus April 4 to transfer their fish and learn about the lifecycle of salmon and the importance of clean water from UW graduate and undergraduate students. PHOTO: KS20000179_5a

This Adam Ross work is part of the Henry Art Gallery's exhibit, Shifting Ground: Transformed Views of the American Landscape. The exhibit includes paintings, prints, photographs and drawings. The works span from 1860 to the present. The exhibit will run through Aug. 20.

Kristina Hill holds one of the exhibits her students created forthe stormwater project. PHOTO: KS20000122_10a

Anthony Pagden

Kincaid Path Improvements This map shows where the existing Kincaid Path will be improved and the students' idea for a new nature path. Illustration by Ken Fine/News and Information¶

Boy contemplates brain (bottom) - Several classes of elementary school science students were invited to attend demonstrations and exhibits in the Health Sciences Lobby for Brain Awareness Week in March. The program was organized by Dr. Eric Chudler (top), research associate professor of anesthesiology, who is explaining an exhibit. Chudler also 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 it at http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html Photos by Gavin Sisk

Kristen Swanson

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