Dec. 2014 issue
Cinema Books owner Stephanie Ogle reintroduces classics, champions new treasures and plays a starring role in celebrating film.
Dec. 2014 issue
Brain cells that multiply to help birds sing their best during breeding season are known to die back naturally later in the year. For the first time, researchers have described the series of events that cue new neuron growth each spring.
Dec. 2014 issue
Mobile phones have become second-nature for most people. What’s coming next, say UW researchers, is the ability to interact with our devices not just with touchscreens, but through gestures in the space around the phone.
Dec. 2014 issue
Researchers have found that children as young as 2 intuitively use mathematical concepts such as probability to help make sense of the world.
Sept. 2014 issue
University of Washington researchers used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of flies after they encountered a looming image of an approaching predator.
Sept. 2014 issue
Tidal power holds tremendous potential, especially here in the Evergreen State, because of the sheer volume of water moving in and out of Puget Sound each day.
Sept. 2014 issue
The UW’s internationally-known architecture department enters its second century with bold designs on the future.
Sept. 2014 issue
Ann Hamilton delves again into the world of animal-human relationships in her upcoming show at the Henry Art Gallery.
Sept. 2014 issue
She fights crime the only way she knows how — with directness, smarts and a wicked sense of humor.
Sept. 2014 issue
Cleaning up pollution. Delivering health care. Improving education. Just a routine day at UW Tacoma.
Sept. 2014 issue
Louise Little is a University Book Store icon. She started 34 years ago as a cashier and is now CEO. But it all started when she read Nancy Drew as a kid.
Sept. 2014 issue
A lot of Husky fans feel something new is in the air, something we haven’t really felt in a long time: hope.
Sept. 2014 issue
None of us knows what adversities life will bring. It was more than fifteen years ago, in 1999, when I first discovered that my wife, Linda, was having serious problems with short-term memory loss. It was the first stage of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
Sept. 2014 issue
Scott Magelssen has had more lives than an accident-prone cat, thanks to interactive simulations.
Sept. 2014 issue
Landscape architecture alumnus Steve Durrant is helping Seattle take a big step by unveiling the city’s first bike-sharing program.
Sept. 2014 issue
UW electrical engineers have developed telerobotics technology that could make disaster response faster and more efficient.
Sept. 2014 issue
Computer scientists from the UW and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches everything there is to know about any visual concept.
June 2014 issue
After eight remarkable seasons at Boise State, Chris Petersen was finally ready for the next challenge, becoming the head football coach at the University of Washington.
June 2014 issue
Expanding medical education in Eastern Washington’s largest city will address a key problem: increasing the number of primary care physicians in rural and underserved areas.
June 2014 issue
Cristobal J. Alex is out to change the political landscape of the United States as the head of the Latino Victory Project.