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June 1997 issue
Columns wins 13 awards in writing, editing, design, photography
Columns Magazine won 10 of the awards in the 1996 Washington Press Association's Communicator of Excellence Competition.
June 1997 issue
Kincaid blaze destroys lab, burns evolution research
A zoologist's research went up in flames March 24 as a two-alarm fire caused more than $225,000 in structural damage to a fifth-floor laboratory in Kincaid Hall.
June 1997 issue
Tuition, faculty salaries to rise under state budget
The new two-year state budget has UW officials cautious about the future of the University.
Sept. 1997 issue
Alumnus Chuck Close shows the art of determination
Chuck Close's life is a compelling tale of determination in the face of disability.
June 1997 issue
At research center, patients take on risk for the sake of a cure
From bone marrow transplants to cancer vaccines, patients in the Clinical Research Center opt for experiments that could save lives, maybe even their own.
Sept. 1997 issue
UW honors the best of 1997
The UW honors the best teachers, TAs and public servants of the year.
June 1997 issue
Chuck Close overcame struggles to become a renowned artist
The 1997 UW Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus and pioneer in photorealism survived a spinal blood clot to paint again.
June 1997 issue
The day the UW campus went ‘Bully’ for Roosevelt
“Teddy" Roosevelt had been out of office for two years, yet his popularity was never higher when he visited the UW in 1911.
June 1997 issue
Gregory Falls, 1922-1997
Gregory A. Falls was a former chair of the UW School of Drama who is credited with creating Seattle's vibrant theater scene.
June 1997 issue
Victor Mills, ’26, is the man who invented Pampers
Through his ingenuity, Victor Mills, '26, touched the lives—or at least the behinds—of just about every American born in the past generation.
June 1997 issue
Drugs, surgery show equal results for heart-attack patients in study
Heart attack patients show nearly identical survival rates, whether treated with powerful anti-clotting drugs or with balloon angioplasty, say UW researchers.
June 1997 issue
Hormones may place women at greater risk for facial pain
One reason why many more women than men suffer from problems with their jaws may be related to the role of female reproductive hormones.
June 1997 issue
Reverse discrimination suit aimed at UW law school
Katuria E. Smith, '94, filed a lawsuit against the UW law school, claiming that she was a victim of racial discrimination when she was denied admission.
June 1997 issue
18 UW programs get top ranking in U.S. News survey
The University of Washington School of Medicine claimed three No. 1 rankings in the U.S. News & World Report annual survey of graduate programs and professional schools.
June 1997 issue
Gift will carry Padelford family’s legacy into the next century
Philip Padelford made a million-dollar gift that will carry his family's legacy into the next century and beyond.
March 1997 issue
Monkey business: The story of the UW Medicinal Herb Garden and its guardians
In the 66 years they have rested atop twin 12-foot poles at the entrance of the UW's Medicinal Herb Garden, two guardian monkeys have repeatedly been sitting ducks to vandals.
March 1997 issue
Leslianne Shedd, ’90, a victim of crash of hijacked airliner
Leslianne Shedd fulfilled a lifelong ambition to work in foreign service by joining the U.S. State Department right after graduating.
March 1997 issue
John Morefield, making a difference in children’s education
John Morefield is taking his work to a higher pulpit as an elementary district coordinator for Seattle schools.
March 1997 issue
Subliminal messages can affect cognition, researchers show
UW psychologists say there is some evidence that subliminal messages can affect human cognition.
March 1997 issue
Lab mice stay thin on a fast-food diet
UW scientists have produced a genetic mutation that keeps laboratory mice thin even on a very high-fat diet.
