People
March 1, 2011
Passion for policy
Tracie Stevens is the first woman to chair the National Indian Gaming Commission, the agency that regulates the $27 billion Indian gaming industry.
On the radar
Cliff Mass is perhaps the most conspicuous weather guru in the Northwest and heir to former TV weatherman Harry Wappler’s local fame.
December 1, 2010
Paul S. Miller, 1961-2010
Paul Steven Miller was a University of Washington law professor and a major player in the disability rights movement because of his dwarfism.
Roberto Maestas, 1938-2010
Roberto F. Maestas, ’66, ’71, was the founder and longtime executive director of El Centro de la Raza.
Virginia B. Smith, 1923-2010
Virginia B. Smith, ’44, ’46, ’50, helped shape American higher education.
Jon K. Rider, 1940-2010
Jon K. Rider was a former Marine commander who changed careers and spent six years as executive director of the University of Washington Alumni Association.
Market man
Ben Franz-Knight, '96, is executive director of the Pike Place Market Preservation & Development Authority, the organization that oversees the 103-year-old Seattle institution.
Medicine for the masses
Using business, medical and engineering smarts, UW alumni are solving medical problems in Washington and beyond.
Penguin pad
Dee Boersma and her team spent the last three weeks of September in the Galápagos Islands, building 120 nests for the endangered Galápagos penguins.
Rick Steves' worldview
Rick Steves, ’78, is an idealist. He doesn’t expect you to agree with him. But he’s not speaking his mind or advocating controversial legal reform to be popular.
'What Work Is'
“What Work Is” was featured in the 2010 UW Common Book, You Are Never Where You Are. Since 2006 the UW has chosen one book for all freshmen to read.
September 1, 2010
Don Coryell, 1924-2010
Don Coryell, ’50, ’51, was a Husky defensive back who went on to become one of the greatest offensive coaches in football history.
Whitney Harris, 1912-2010
Whitney R. Harris, ’33, was the last of the prosecutors who brought high-ranking Nazi war criminals to justice at the Nuremberg trials, died April 21 at his home in St. Louis.
Spencer Shaw, 1916-2010
Spencer G. Shaw was a University of Washington professor emeritus of library science who was a nationally recognized storyteller and advocate for children’s reading.
Rounding home
Often overlooked during the Mariners' playoff runs of the 1990s was the fact that the starting third baseman was a Husky: Mike Blowers, who played two years at the University of Washington (1985-86).
Hot in Hollywood
Standing 6 foot 4, Joel McHale is a tall man in Hollywood. And now, he’s a big man in Tinseltown.
June 1, 2010
Stage to screen
Lynn Shelton, ’87, parlayed a UW degree in drama into a 10-year career on the stages of New York. But she found her true calling when she opted to pursue a career behind a camera.
Innovative idealism
Student teams from across the University of Washington and other state schools heralded their inventions of clean, green technologies at the second annual UW Environmental Innovation Challenge.
Pursuit of potential
Once a preppy hustler, a cocaine dealer, a drug addict, and a student in Japan, Max Hunter is now a UW Ph.D. student and has begun telling his story.