March 2001 issue
In the aftermath of the election mess in Florida, UW experts offer their ideas for improving the system.
March 2001 issue
Howie Odell who coached the Husky football program from 1948-1952.
March 2001 issue
After joining the UW athletic department in the early 1970s, Tony Softli became a trusted adviser to many of the University’s African-American athletes.
March 2001 issue
It’s now a UW tradition, but when it was founded in 1968, the Experimental College was anything but traditional.
March 2001 issue
Throughout the history of the space program, our alumni have pushed back the boundaries of the final frontier.
March 2001 issue
Don Matthews, retired chair of the UW’s political science department, donated $800,000 for an endowment in the Department of Political Science.
March 2001 issue
Two mergers in the College of Arts and Sciences could change the way students learn about communications and earth sciences.
March 2001 issue
When it comes to phytonutrients in vegetables, the demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible.
March 2001 issue
A $10 million gift by Neal Dempsey, ’64, and his wife, Janet, to support academics and athletics is the largest alumni gift ever to the university.
March 2001 issue
The dangers of space include bone loss, muscle atrophy and even cancer. The UW hopes to protect the next generation of astronauts and bring about earthly cures.
March 2001 issue
A Center for Mind, Brain and Learning to conduct innovative research on early brain and behavioral development has been created at the University of Washington.
March 2001 issue
The University of Washington and a union representing its teaching assistants came to an agreement that avoided a walkout by the UW’s 1,600 TAs.
March 2001 issue
The Year 2000 Husky football team had the most memorable season in the last quarter century—or perhaps over the team’s entire 111-year history.
March 2001 issue
Lawmakers are writing a 2001-03 budget that could severely impact enrollment, tuition, faculty salaries and other issues crucial to the University of Washington.
March 2001 issue
The era of the hard-boiled reporter is over. The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma helps the media cope with reporting on—and living with—violence.
Dec. 2000 issue
In its heyday, the UW campus observatory was a magical place. Now the future of the cute little building, sitting just east of Memorial Way, is up in the air.
Dec. 2000 issue
Hermann Pundt was a professor of architecture and art history at the University of Washington for 32 years.
Dec. 2000 issue
Almost a century after snubbing Takuji Yamashita, the state's legal establishment is taking steps to honor the first Japanese graduate of the UW Law School.
Dec. 2000 issue
Mary Dreher Tift's vision of taking family objects—cut glass bowls, cigar boxes, carafes—and turning them into works of art will be on display in an exhibit.
Dec. 2000 issue
In what UW officials believe is the largest private gift ever made to the University for a specific disorder, Richard and Susan Fade have donated $5 million to endow a new center for the treatment of autism.