January 22, 2019
From John F. Kennedy to Janis Joplin, the former UW sociology major and Daily shooter has a knack for making his subjects feel at ease.
December 1, 2018
To recognize Ton Foley and Alan Sugiyama for their drive to make life better, two roadways were named in their honor.
November 30, 2018
The FreshJess founder developed her voice and built a following for her blog, which is going strong after 10 years.
October 26, 2018
For her legacy of service that continues to this day in a volunteer capacity, the University of Washington presented Patti Taylor the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award.
Nonconformist and social media star Kevin Ninh shares his story of self-discovery.
August 6, 2018
For 40 years, a group of Seattle-area women has helped UW students strive to be the best in science and engineering.
June 22, 2018
Dennis Edmondson, ’80, ’13, invented the studs inside the Nanoengineering & Sciences Building.
June 20, 2018
Not many financial advisors make it onto the Forbe’s list of America’s Top Wealth Advisors. But Foster School of Business and UW Law School graduate Stephen Hollomon did.
June 6, 2018
This spring, 20 dawgs teamed up to build a UW-themed tiny house to shelter the homeless.
June 4, 2018
Junior Coffey went from the NFL to training racehorses. He's been one of the most successful trainers at Emerald Downs.
A trumpet player in the Husky Marching Band during the late ’80s, she gave acting a try before becoming a sports radio journalist for ESPN 710.
June 2, 2018
Anne-Lise Nilsen has known the next Husky mascot since he was 9 days old.
May 24, 2018
The painter behind our June 2018 cover is a UW master's student.
April 5, 2018
Jazz drummer Adam "Von" Baron, '97, is headed to Japan to tour his latest albums.
March 14, 2018
We talk with Ambassador Allan P. Mustard, ’78, America's top diplomat in Turkmenistan.
March 13, 2018
Pat Miller Evans, ’51, came from a family with strong Seattle and UW roots.
March 6, 2018
Stefan Savage, ’02, earned a MacArthur "genius" grant for his work on cyber security.
March 3, 2018
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.
Student activism in 1968 led the UW to create one of the nation’s first office of minority affairs. Here’s their story. And their outlook for the future.
February 26, 2018
Under the leadership of David Mitchell, Bremerton's Olympic College grew into one of America's best two-year institutions.
February 14, 2018
Jackson Rohrbaugh, ’09, is the newly minted master sommelier at Canlis, one of Seattle's premier fine-dining spots.
January 11, 2018
After 30 years with the Seattle Police Department, Noreen Skagen, ’52, became the first woman U.S. Marshal of Western Washington.
January 9, 2018
Fueled by an appetite for social justice, Jeffrey Lew, ’06, set out to end the stigma of school lunch debt.
December 15, 2017
Life lessons from newspaper publisher Assunta Ng, ’74, ’76, ’79.
December 14, 2017
The best volleyball player in UW history, Krista Vansant, '15, had her jersey retired.
December 7, 2017
A UW-trained engineer quit his job to shake up the burgeoning world of electric bikes.
The first Northwest history textbook written since 1989 isn't a boring list of facts—it's a compilation of riveting, high-stakes stories.
November 30, 2017
An undiagnosed traumatic brain injury rocked her life. By thinking positive, Shanda Taylor Boyd, '94, took back control.
September 27, 2017
Screenwriter Temple Mathews teams up with his daughter to produce a romantic comedy for all ages.
September 20, 2017
A 1962 grad reflects on her family's history at the UW.
September 13, 2017
Society’s focus on STEM careers has contributed to a precipitous drop in liberal arts majors. It could be a problem.
September 12, 2017
Five questions with Anita Campbell, the former Husky running star who came back to UW to coach.
Ted and Jeremy McGregor operate one of the best alternative weekly papers in the nation.
September 7, 2017
“We’re in the ideal spot for owls,” says Paul Bannick, a wildlife photographer who climbs trees and hikes tundra to capture images of the nocturnal predator.
August 18, 2017
Heather Roskelley, ’83, made a magical image of a notoriously elusive bird.
The ’67 grad "put his heart and soul" into carrying on his family's legacy in the U District.
As an undocumented immigrant, he dreaded going to the dentist. Now he goes the extra mile to put his patients at ease.
July 26, 2017
Theodore R. Anderson Jr. (1937-2017) met his wife when they both were applying for positions at Ski Patrol.
June 15, 2017
Rep. Helen Sommers protected funding and expanded opportunities.
June 13, 2017
Denise Attwood, '88, helped raise $130,000 for relief efforts after the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
June 7, 2017
At 26, State Rep. Melanie Stambaugh is the youngest member of the Washington Legislature.
Laura Dowling, ’81, ’91, served as the Chief Floral Designer in the Obama White House.
June 1, 2017
Rick Welts, president of the Golden State Warriors, returns to the NBA's biggest stage.
May 30, 2017
Kelsey Plum, '17, is the first UW player to be picked first in a professional basketball draft.
May 29, 2017
In his five decades of public service, Norman Rice has helped build a community we are all proud of.
May 10, 2017
Joy Plein received this year's UW-UWRA Distinguished Retiree
Excellence in Community Service Award.
May 1, 2017
It's almost like Gary Ausman, ’63, ’74, has never left campus. Because he hasn't.
Overnight, 25-year-old Jenya Dokukina, '14, became the parent of her 11-year-old sister.
Emily Bolton Cabaniss, ’14, is the librarian for the Seattle Opera, one of only three opera companies in the entire U.S. to have their own librarian.
A high school essay by Bruce Lee is one of the earliest examples of his handwriting.
December 15, 2016
Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, ’80, receives the 2016 UW Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award.
Tacoma native Marilyn Strickland, '84, wants to be her city's most vocal advocate for education.
September 1, 2016
Christopher Brown, ’16, a Marine combat veteran, works alongside men and women veterans from all military branches. With them in mind, he co-founded Growing Veterans, a nonprofit farm that grows produce for farmers markets and food banks.
June 1, 2016
“It’s been a dream career impacting so many people’s lives.” Jill Wakefield, ‘83, retires after 40 years with Seattle Colleges.
Brock and Damon Huard both found NFL careers and success after their UW playing days, and both felt drawn to come home.
UW faculty member Jennifer Stuber is part of a bipartisan effort to prevent suicides.
Whether on a mountain, in a boardroom or on a boat, Sally Jewell is leading the way.
March 1, 2016
With five children and a sixth on the way, the Nguyen family fled Vietnam. Washington Governor Dan Evans opened the door to a life the family never would have imagined.
Carver Gayton, ’60, ’72, ’76, authors a gripping biography of his great-grandfather, Lewis G. Clarke, who escaped slavery and inspired a key character in “Uncle Tom's Cabin.”
December 1, 2015
She wants to serve the world’s best steak. That’s why chef Renee Erickson, ’95, is now in the ranch business.
Grethe Cammermeyer, ’76, ’91, challenged the ban on gays in the military and, eventually, she won.
Author Langdon Cook infuses his writing with a message of caring for the environment he calls home.
September 1, 2015
When disaster strikes, Mercy Corps co-founder Dan O'Neill, ’72, dives in to help.
June 1, 2015
His 36-year career as a Democratic Congressman for Washington’s 6th District may have ended in 2012, but he’s still on the case protecting wildlife and fighting to bolster the economy in his native region.
In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” Lloyd Hara took it to heart. It’s why he went to graduate school to study public affairs and spent the past 40 years in public service.
March 1, 2015
Ron Simons is having one hell of a second act and he’s got three Tonys, a Drama Desk Award for Best Play, a Drama League Award, and even a prize for best documentary to prove it.
December 1, 2014
Cinema Books owner Stephanie Ogle reintroduces classics, champions new treasures and plays a starring role in celebrating film.
September 1, 2014
Landscape architecture alumnus Steve Durrant is helping Seattle take a big step by unveiling the city’s first bike-sharing program.
June 1, 2014
When Laura Pavlou visits Gig Harbor’s Washington Corrections Center for Women, she sees hope and vitality. Behind the steel gates of the maximum-security prison, it is her mission to nurture potential.
March 1, 2014
Ekene “Kennie” Amaefule is a former Nurse of the Year at Harborview Medical Center who has single-handedly improved health care, education, social services and access to clean water in her native village of Imo State, Nigeria.
Teresa Tamura captures poignant stories of hardship from a World War II relocation center in her book "Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp."
December 1, 2013
June 6, 1966 marked a memorable date in what, retrospectively, was to begin an improbable journey to the University of Washington.
Sea salt is typically made in coastal areas where the climate stays warm and dry most of the year, but Brady Ryan, ’10, doesn’t like to do things conventionally. In 2012, he started San Juan Island Sea Salt, harvesting sea salt in the Pacific Northwest using techniques he began learning at UW.
For Ryan Lewis, ’09, the whirlwind of fame is only a few years removed from days ensconced in Suzzallo Library and the Parnassus cafe in the basement of the Art Building.
September 1, 2013
At the forefront of those spreading the information revolution to developing countries stands an American nonprofit called Internews. And at the head of Internews stands a friendly, straightforward Maine resident, Jeanne Bourgault, ’86, ’90.
Brewster C. Denny, who died June 22 at age 88, held several key roles in the federal government before honoring the call from UW President Charles Odegaard to return home to Seattle to create an academic program in public affairs.
June 1, 2013
Catching up with Patrick Gallaher, ’95, founder of the School of Pharmacy’s Memorial Day weekend Border-to-Border relay race that for the past 18 years has raised money for cancer research in honor of his late father.
Even at 87, the 2013 Alumnus Sigma Laude Dignatus recipient continues to serve his alma mater while leading the fight for social justice.
The multidisciplinary training Michael Phillips received at the UW made him an ideal person to pioneer research on the nature of suicide in China.
March 1, 2013
The blog Molly Wizenberg started for fun in the year she spent finishing her M.A. in cultural anthropology has propelled a career as an acclaimed food writer and owner of a bustling restaurant and, most recently, a cocktail bar.
Catching up with Robert Merry, ’68, political journalist, former CEO of Congressional Quarterly and author of "Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians."
Jim Pugel, ’81, keeps mementos from the sometimes-grueling adventures he completes each year with his former University of Washington crew teammates.