Alumni

April 30, 2024

Art under cover

In a city known for its literature, Tom Eykemans and Jayme Yen created a festival that celebrates the beauty of books.

April 24, 2024

The replacement

Braden Bishop starred in the outfield at the UW, but it’s a Mariner moment for which he’ll never be forgotten.

April 11, 2024

The last DJ

After a career of shaved turkey legs and tartar-sauce baths, Tim Hunter can’t quite turn the dial.

March 19, 2024

In focus

Tina Dang and Miguel Laureano Damian combine their skills to create striking imagery and videos.

Huskies on Arrakis

The UW and the Pacific Northwest played their part in the "Dune" universe.

March 15, 2024

Thermal creatures

In her current Seattle exhibit, Saya Moriyasu, ’91, imagines magical mineral spirits in paper and clay.

February 27, 2024

A Black woman sits in an Adirondack chair with her chin resting on a fist.

Colleen McElroy, 1935-2023

Colleen McElroy, 1935-2024, was the first Black woman to be promoted to a full professorship at the UW.

February 24, 2024

A group of four students harvest vegetables in a verdant green field

Living laboratory

Each year, some 1,200 to 1,500 Huskies find their way to the UW Farm through classes, service-learning programs, research projects and clubs.

A woman with honey blonde hair, wearing a brown suede jacket, crosses her arms in a large field with mountains in the background

Reaching and teaching

Teacher Pamela Savagaonkar saw a gap in STEM education for kids and started a venture in Snoqualmie Valley.

A young Korean woman with her dark hair slicked back stares over her shoulder with an inquisitive expression

Raves for novelist

E.J. Koh’s debut novel affirms her place among powerful American storytellers.

A blonde woman in an animal print blazer smiles

Clean-energy Republican

Heather Reams advocates for clean energy and discusses climate change from a Republican perspective.

Two illustrated figures - one outlined in blue and the other in red - stand on stilts above a mess of blue and red barbed wire

Civic and civil

Husky Civic Saturdays bring people together to explore moral questions that concern all of us.

February 23, 2024

An illustration of a Trojan horse reading a giant book

Beware the hollow horse

Words of caution from 2,000 years ago are relevant today as our country experiences an alarming escalation in efforts to censor books.

February 7, 2024

Close up on a mural of a colorful bird

Beauty after chaos

The Wing Luke Museum unveils a new mural across Canton Alley after the museum's windows and doors were vandalized in an alleged hate crime in September.

January 27, 2024

Black and white photograph of a man in a football uniform smiling

City Hall's top dawg

Bruce Harrell, ’81, ’84, talks about football, family and Seattle's transformation in an exclusive Q&A.

January 25, 2024

A woman in a green apron smiles at a customer

Out of the box

Pastry chef Lauren Tran, who bakes up desserts with Southeast Asian flavors, tells us how she got her start.

January 8, 2024

A man in a grey cardigan and blue button down shirt smiles in front of an academic building.

A new history

Ned Blackhawk's book about Native Americans in U.S. history won the National Book Award for its enlightening take on "rediscovering" America.

December 18, 2023

A man smiles in the crowd at the Olympics

The Jim Caple effect

The Husky grad, Daily writer, IMA softball champ and all-around good guy entertained us with his clever writing and sharp mind.

December 13, 2023

A man smiles in the projection booth of a theater, holding a film reel.

Cinema steward

Tom Mara, who helms the Seattle International Film festival, is making history by transforming the Cinerama into SIFF Cinema Downtown.

December 12, 2023

Two mannequins (without heads, arms or legs) painted with imagery of roads, people and objects.

East and West

Cheryll Leo-Gwin, '75, '77, draws on her history with fabric and jewelry arts in her new Jack Straw exhibit "Larger than Life."