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Dec. 2000 issue
President offers mental exercise: Imagine UW as 3 different places
President Richard L. McCormick is challenging the members of the UW community to create a "culture of possibilities" that would help build a better university—and a better world.
Dec. 2000 issue
Record number of freshmen arrive; diversity numbers encouraging
The entering class this fall is one for the record books, say UW officials, as 4,983 new freshmen broke previous enrollment levels and set academic highs as well.
Dec. 2000 issue
Kennewick Man puts UW in a bitter custody battle
The saga of Kennewick Man is a volatile mix of race, religion, politics and science, and the UW is right in the middle of it.
Dec. 2000 issue
Hannah Wiley moves beyond dance to foster an arts community on campus
It isn't just her personality that makes Hannah Wiley ideally suited to run the UW's summer arts festival. It's her choices in the earlier chapters of her life.
Sept. 2000 issue
UW Bothell has a place to call home
Defying its critics, UW Bothell finally has a permanent campus with a stunning design in a unique setting.
Sept. 2000 issue
Huskies picked to finish near the top in Neuheisel’s second season
Tabbed the early favorites to capture the Y2K Pac-10 crown, football coach Rick Neuheisel warns Husky players and fans not to get caught up in the preseason hype.
Sept. 2000 issue
Nearly 5,000 new freshmen expected this fall
The University of Washington is preparing for its largest incoming class ever as 4,935 new freshmen are expected to attend when Fall Quarter starts Sept. 25.
Sept. 2000 issue
New studies leave researchers split on c-sections
In the debate over Caesarean sections, researchers are finally considering women's health. What they've found so far could be troubling.
Sept. 2000 issue
2 fatal shootings leave trail of grief at UW
A UW freshman, medical resident and pathology professor died in two separate shooting incidents in spring 2000.
Sept. 2000 issue
Radio days: When students turned KUOW into ‘Radio Free Seattle’
On May 7, 1970, during a student strike, a group of about 50 students walked into KUOW's studios in the Communications Building and demanded air time.
Sept. 2000 issue
Paul Heyne taught economics to thousands of UW students
Economics Lecturer Paul Theodore Heyne did not let his diagnosis with kidney cancer get in the way of his love for teaching.
June 2000 issue
Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000, was ‘foremost black artist’ of U.S.
Jacob Lawrence rose from a rough childhood to become one of America's most passionate chroniclers of the African-American experience.
Sept. 2000 issue
Richard Evanson, ’58, turned barren sand into luxurious Turtle Island
Richard Evanson dedicated himself to revitalizing an island, turning it into an ecological paradise with the help of Fijian natives.
Sept. 2000 issue
Brotman Awards honor Technical Communication, CHID programs
The Department of Technical Communication and the Comparative History of Ideas Program won 2000 Brotman Instructional Excellence Awards.
Sept. 2000 issue
Parody distributed in The Daily draws fire
An article published in a May 19 supplement to the Daily offended students, faculty, regents, alumni and the public, causing the supplement editor to resign.
Sept. 2000 issue
Older women less likely to receive heart attack treatment
Older women are less likely to receive early treatment following a heart attack than older men and are more likely to be assigned a do-not-resuscitate order during their hospital stay, UW researchers reported.
Sept. 2000 issue
Rudy Crew brings ‘tough love’ approach from schools to UW K-12 institute
Rudy Crew was the first—and only—choice to launch the UW's K-12 leadership institute.
Sept. 2000 issue
Record gift helps students pursue nursing careers
Bob and Jean Reid of Bellingham made a $5 million deferred gift to the University of Washington School of Nursing—the largest gift in the school's history.
June 2000 issue
UW researchers are quietly making inroads on traffic
While everybody's talking traffic, the UW is actually doing something about it, but is anyone listening?
June 2000 issue
Rita Colwell, ’61, honored for a career spent breaking barriers
Enthralled by science, Rita Colwell broke through a decades-old glass ceiling to become the first woman to lead the National Science Foundation.
