Faculty & Staff

December 1, 2013

In good hands

Catching up with Dr. Denzil Suite, the new Vice President for Student Life, on eyeing Seattle, serving students and getting lost.


September 1, 2013

Career pursuit

Now, thanks to a four-year $6.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Shiu-Lok Hu is part of an international network of scientists dedicated to designing and advancing promising new HIV vaccine candidates to clinical trials.


On Dubs' mind

Getting a little snout time with DUBS, the UW’s 13th live mascot, an Alaskan Malamute.


June 1, 2013

Global perspective

Divya McMillin became director of UW Tacoma’s Global Honors in 2009. Founded in 2004, the campus-specific program offers upper-division seminars that focus on global themes and issues.


March 1, 2013

Power of storytelling

A W.B. Yeats quote greets soldiers as they enter the classroom of Shawn Wong at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on a frosty, fall morning: “Write about yourself when you are most like yourself.”


Virtual guardian

Tadayoshi Kohno’s efforts to stop hackers are the stuff of science fiction movies.


September 1, 2012

Stat star

Awards and honors aren’t what it’s about for the School of Public Health’s Daniela Witten, assistant professor in the nation’s No. 1 rated Biostatistics Department. She’s in it for the work.


June 1, 2012

Top teachers

The 2012 recipients of this University of Washington’s prestigious teaching awards may be from fields ranging from social work to surgery, but one thing they have in common is their ability to inspire students.


March 1, 2012

Belief in teaching

A passion for excellence in education led to a career as a UW professor and now an administrator.


The Dawgmother

The founding director of UW Student Athlete Academic Services is the recipient of the 2012 Charles Odegaard Award for her work on behalf of diversity.


New wisdom on teeth

Dr. Greg Huang, Chairman of the UW Department of Orthodontics, says, that for those whose wisdom teeth are developing normally, a watchful waiting approach may be reasonable.


Taming the saxophone

The Broctave Key—the first U.S. patented invention from one of the UW Arts divisions—is now on its way to being manufactured.


Breaking barriers

Thaddeus Spratlen and Lois Price Sratlen, ’76, UW emeritus professors who broke barriers and raised the bar for women and people of color in higher education, have presented the UW with a $1 million lifetime gift.


December 1, 2011

The kids' advocate

Catching up with Adie Simmons, ’88, Founding Director, Washington State Office of the Education Ombudsman.


Futuristic fellow

Shwetak Patel, a UW assistant professor in computer science & engineering and electrical engineering for the past three years, has been honored as one of this year’s MacArthur Fellows.


September 1, 2011

Denny's legacy

Many Husky families have UW roots that go back generations, but no one has deeper roots than Brewster Denny.


June 1, 2011

Karma Hadjimichalakis, 1944-2011

Karma Hadjimichalakis was a principal lecturer in business economics and finance in the UW’s Foster School of Business and one of the University’s most beloved teachers.


Up to the challenge

With an adventurer’s spirit, Michael Young plans to make the UW a leader in solving the public higher education funding model.


Maestro steps aside

Matt Krashan, the UW’s maestro of music, dance and more, will retire in September from his position as director of the UW World Series, a program that is recognized nationally for its excellence and innovation in the performing arts.


Off to Libya

Ali Tarhouni, a senior lecturer in the Foster School of Business, told his microeconomics class that despite the death sentence on his head, he would be moving back to Libya, his homeland.