Features
August 29, 2018
Career puppeteer
If these puppets could talk, they would describe Aurora Valentinetti as the UW's beloved puppeteer.
June 4, 2018
Legends of the IMA
Why did we keep playing softball even after graduating? Because we loved softball and the IMA league was much more fun than other leagues. And we really wanted those championship T-shirts.
June 2, 2018
Mr. Smith’s journey
With core values formed by his Chehalis upbringing, Orin Smith went on to become a business leader who knew how to treat people right.
April 28, 2018
Heart, soul and ice cream
For 85 years, Husky Deli has warmed hearts in West Seattle with scrumptious sandwiches, house-made ice cream and goodies from the world over.
March 4, 2018
Keeper of the flame
A founding member of UW's Black Student Union, Emile Pitre has spent 50 years building solutions from the inside out.
March 3, 2018
Perfectly Claire
Best-selling feminist author Claire Dederer, ’93, on growing up grunge, creating a literary canon for the Northwest, and bad men who create great art.
OMA&D at 50: The people behind the movement
Student activism in 1968 led the UW to create one of the nation’s first offices of minority affairs. Here’s their story. And their outlook for the future.
January 9, 2018
The lunch guy
Fueled by an appetite for social justice, Jeffrey Lew, ’06, set out to end the stigma of school lunch debt.
December 28, 2017
Forging new links
A new type of fire-resistant wood reduces atmospheric carbon and can be made of damaged trees. Could it revive depressed economies in Washington’s rural timber communities?
December 7, 2017
The opioid boom
The prevailing practice for treating addiction to painkillers led to the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history.
November 15, 2017
Students of nature
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is changing the faces—and future—of conservation.
November 8, 2017
The art of preservation
The Conservation Center repairs up to 12,000 items each year.
September 13, 2017
Humanities anyone?
Society’s focus on STEM careers has contributed to a precipitous drop in liberal arts majors. It could be a problem.
September 12, 2017
Scions of Spokane
Ted and Jeremy McGregor operate one of the best alternative weekly papers in the nation.
August 18, 2017
'We came here to contribute'
As an undocumented immigrant, he dreaded going to the dentist. Now he goes the extra mile to put his patients at ease.
June 12, 2017
The Mountaineers
In a time before trails, UW climbers found a way to trek the Pacific Northwest.
May 29, 2017
Man of the city
In his five decades of public service, Norman Rice has helped build a community we are all proud of.