Joe Janes – UW News

New Student Convocation on Tuesday afternoon opens UW’s 2021-22 academic year

Jackson Holtz — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:42:59 +0000

�� Associate Professor Wendy Barrington will be the featured speaker at the university’s 38th annual New Student Convocation. Barrington has joint appointments in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing in the School of Nursing and the departments of Epidemiology and of Health Systems and Population Health in the School of Public Health.

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UW-created podcasts: ‘Crossing North’ by Scandinavian Studies — also College of Education, Information School’s Joe Janes, a discussion of soil health

Peter Kelley — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:08:03 +0000

UW Notebook visits with the producer of "Crossing North," a podcast by the Scandinavian Studies Department, and notes other podcasts on campus and an appearance by David Montgomery on the podcast "Undark."

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A timely new ‘Documents that Changed the World’ podcast episode: IRS tax Form 1040

Peter Kelley — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:16:26 +0000

Joe Janes of the UW Information School presents a timely installment of his Documents that Changed the World podcast series, about the most infamous tax form of all -- IRS Form 1040.

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UW Faculty Senate celebrates its 80-year history

Jackson Holtz — Fri, 18 May 2018 16:49:39 +0000

Eight decades ago to the day, the Faculty Senate met for the first time at the ��.

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UW-authored books and more for the Dawg on your holiday shopping list

Peter Kelley — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:27:00 +0000

Here’s a quick look at some gift-worthy books and music created by UW talents in the last year or so — and a reminder of some perennial favorites.

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Greetings from Earth: Documents that Changed the World podcast revisits Voyager’s ‘Golden Record,’ 1977

Peter Kelley — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 21:15:41 +0000

Forty years ago this month, Planet Earth said hello to the cosmos with the launch of the two Voyager probes that used gravity to swing from world to world on a grand tour of the solar system. Each bore a two-sided, 12-inch, gold-plated copper “Golden Record” of sights and sounds from Earth and its people — and a stylus to help play the record. Documents that Changed the World: Listen: Voyager’s “Golden Record,” 1977 About 20 billion kilometers (about...

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‘Documents that Changed the Way We Live’: Podcast by UW’s Joe Janes now a book

Peter Kelley — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 19:31:30 +0000

A popular podcast by Joe Janes of the UW Information School is now a book. "Documents that Changed the Way We Live" is being published this month by Rowman & Littlefield.

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Documents that Changed the World: Delayed stock market ticker tape, October 1929

Peter Kelley — Tue, 02 May 2017 15:42:47 +0000

Timing is everything, they say. In the latest episode of his Documents that Changed the World podcast series, Joe Janes of the UW Information School explores how an overload of critical information helped trigger the stock market crash of 1929, and thus the Great Depression. “This is a story about fortunes lost, lives ruined, a world plunged into a decade of depression, the end of an era,” Janes says in the podcast. “And, a story of infrastructure. And like any...

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Documents that Changed the World: Sir Ronald Fisher defines ‘statistical significance,’ 1925

Peter Kelley — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 19:53:20 +0000

Joe Janes' latest Documents that Changed the World podcast is about Sir Ronald Fisher, the man who set the mark of "statistical significance" for ages afterward at 5 percent, no more no less.

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Documents that Changed the World: Noah Webster’s dictionary, 1828

Peter Kelley — Thu, 26 May 2016 18:48:28 +0000

Joe Janes of the Information School turns the attention of his Documents that Changed the World podcst to Noah Webster and his famous, 70,000-word "American Dictionary of the English language" published in 1828.

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