People

May 30, 2017

kelsey plum

Plum gets picked first

Kelsey Plum, '17, is the first UW player to be picked first in a professional basketball draft.


May 29, 2017

norman rice seattle mayor asld uw

Man of the city

In his five decades of public service, Norman Rice has helped build a community we are all proud of.


May 24, 2017

Making an impact

Eddie Pasatiempo received this year's Distinguished Service Award.


May 23, 2017

RALINA JOSEPH UW

World of difference

From mentoring students to training allies, faculty of color can measure their success in many ways.


May 10, 2017

joy plein uw

A life of Joy

Joy Plein received this year's UW-UWRA Distinguished Retiree
Excellence in Community Service Award.


May 6, 2017

BOB FERGUSON, UWHRC, UW, ANA MARI CAUCE, TRUMP, TRAVEL BAN, ANA MARIE CAUCE

Talking Trump

Attorney General Bob Ferguson, '89, returned to campus.


May 1, 2017

Golden Grad

It's almost like Gary Ausman, ’63, ’74, has never left campus. Because he hasn't.


March 24, 2017

Super citizens

Bruce and Joannne Harrell honored with Charles Odegaard Award.


Memorials: March 2017 Issue

To report an obituary, email columns@uw.edu or write to Columns Magazine.


March 1, 2017

Character: Conor Casey

Conor Casey tells Columns about his work in the Labor Archives of Washington.


February 28, 2017

Jill bourne

Branching out

Jill Bourne, an iSchool alum, was named 2017 Librarian of the Year.


Two giants, one legacy

Willis Konick and Al Sugiyama committed their lives to education and social justice.


Akio Takamori

Akio Takamori (1950-2017)

The sculptor was a master of making people smile with his beautiful and sometimes cartoonish works.


Esther Wilkins Tufts

Esther M. Wilkins (1916-2016)

The founder of the School of Dentistry’s dental hygiene program, known as the godmother of modern dental hygiene, died Dec. 12 in Boston.


Young alum takes on role of parent after mother passes away

Overnight, 25-year-old Jenya Dokukina, '14, became the parent of her 11-year-old sister.


iNTERREUPTING PRIVILEGE

Interrupting privilege

Students and alumni come together for 10-week workshop about race relations.


Daniele Meñez, ASUW president

A student voice

Danielle Meñez is the first Filipina student body president in UW history.


Higher education in Haiti

Jean-Elie Gilles, ‘98, ‘02, built a new university in Haiti.


Emily Cabaniss

Libretti librarian

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.


richard cooley

Indomitable spirit

Remembering Richard Cooley, a chairman of Wells Fargo who taught in the Foster School of Business.


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