Faculty & Staff
December 16, 2020
A year to remember
Historians and information experts encourage us to preserve our memories and mementos so future generations might understand this exceptional time.
December 7, 2020
Scholar and mentor
After earning his doctorate, Christopher Beasley established the Husky Post-Prison Research Lab.
November 29, 2020
For many UW retirees, service never stops
Retiring from the UW doesn’t end the story for faculty and staff. They are driven to serve their communities on a local or global scale.
November 12, 2020
A new face teaches American portraiture
Assistant Professor Juliet Sperling, pictured here, began teaching American art history at the University of Washington this fall. She took us on a tour of U.S. history by looking at 18 portraits over four centuries.
September 30, 2020
Campus ambassador
Our sketchbook profiles Alice Lee, manager of the UW Visitors Center.
September 16, 2020
Book takes honors
A book by UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Emily Thuma won the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies.
Being there
For many older Americans, the rhythms of every day have not just changed during the COVID-19 pandemic; they have stopped.
September 11, 2020
Beauty by all accounts
To experience the true beauty of the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, look no further than the photographs of Loyd Heath.
Values and victories
Jennifer Cohen started working at the UW athletic department in 1998 and was promoted to athletic director in 2016.
Our lives, disrupted
We asked three UW experts—a historian, a leader in education and an expert in infectious disease—how we might use this time of challenge and change to plan for a better future.
August 21, 2020
Make fine art with a UW professor, from his kitchen to yours
The chair of UW’s Printmaking Program designed a popular new class during the pandemic, stamping out doubt about how effective remote learning can be.
August 4, 2020
Stars in her eyes
Astronomer Emily Levesque’s new book shares the wonder of stargazing—and the adventures it’s taken her on.
June 26, 2020
Radical listening
Ralina Joseph, professor of communication and director of the UW Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, is leading exercises in “radical listening."
June 14, 2020
Impact from afar
The UW faculty are impactful even when they find themselves having to venture into uncomfortable territory. They “flatten the curve” while still producing and disseminating knowledge.
June 11, 2020
Screen gems
Sheltering in place against the novel coronavirus prevented us from photographing our Teachers of the Year as we always do—in person. So we captured them the way students saw them during spring quarter.
June 4, 2020
Her work spans oceans
Jacqueline Padilla-Gamiño studies issues such as global environmental change, ocean acidification and microplastics in the ocean.
Stat keeper
Craig Heyamoto, ’75, ’78, has compiled stats for UW football and basketball since the 1970s. Today, he is in charge of the UW stats crew.
The joy of rereading
Like a good friendship, your relationship with a book can become richer as you get to know it better.
Ahead of the curve
Fast, accurate COVID-19 testing quickly went into effect here, thanks to the heroic efforts of UW Medicine faculty and staff.
May 14, 2020
Dangerous cells
Professor Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread.