Features
June 1, 1992
Foley behind the headlines
Speaker of the House Thomas Foley has led a distinguished career. Here’s a personal look at the UW’s alumnus of the year.
March 1, 1992
Top Dawg speaks
Excerpts from "James," the new autobiography of UW football coach Don James.
Tree of hope
Once seen as worthless, the Pacific Yew is the only natural source of taxol, a powerful cancer-fighting drug.
December 1, 1991
Menu memories
Some of the old haunts are ghosts now, but others are scaring up plenty of student business.
Born to be wild?
With some fish near extinction, experts debate the merits of wild runs vs. hatchery breeding.
A view to a coup
A relaxing UW alumni cruise suddenly became a glimpse into the second Russian revolution.
Marathon man
Jeffrey Dutton, a 3:30 marathon runner and 1991 UW medical school graduate, obtains all his nutrition from fluid that is pumped into his body through a shunt.
September 1, 1991
On the wrong track?
Light rail isn't the cure-all for the Puget Sound area's traffic mess, UW experts warn.
Zoller’s gift
It's not Hollywood fiction, but the true story of a UW professor whose brain injury forced him to start life over.
Hedges at the helm
The UW has a winner as its new athletic director, hiring Barbara Hedges as only the second woman to head a top collegiate sports program.
Buried memories
Our remembrances of things past—even of child abuse—may be more fiction than fact, says one UW professor.
June 1, 1991
In the wake of war
The victorious outcome of the war—and the few American casualties—have created a watershed in American public opinion, four UW historians say.
Champion of education
The 1991 Alumna Summa Laude Dignata has been fighting for higher education since she graduated. Her latest mission: Hold together a college torn by strife.
The best of 1991
Traditionally, June is the month when the UW and its alumni association announce the winners of the annual teaching and public service awards.
Experts debate initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide
Initiative 119, if passed, would expand the conditions for terminating medical treatment and would legalize physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
Literary fame
UW English Professor Charles Johnson, is holding steady through the months of accolades that have followed winning the 1990 National Book Award in fiction.
March 1, 1991
Historic hindsight
The story of American Indians, says UW Professor Richard White, is not a tidy narrative with all the facts leading in one direction.
Debate over requirement
It is time, reformers say, to add an ethnic studies requirement to the foundation of a liberal education.
Rollin' in roses
It turned out to be one for the record books when the Huskies beat the University of Iowa Hawkeyes 46-34 in the 1991 Rose Bowl Game.