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March 2014 issue
Professor finds hope after heartache of husband’s suicide
Jennifer Stuber lost her husband to suicide. Now she's working to remove the stigma of mental illness.
March 2014 issue
A soldier’s promise: ‘We will come back for you’
Haunted by the deaths of two soldiers in a bunker he designed, Rich Kirchner returns to Vietnam to find his fallen comrades.
March 2014 issue
Me and my dad: following in his footsteps on Everest
The first time I approached Everest’s summit in ‘94, tears ran down my face as a deep sense of connection to my father welled up inside of me — a connection as a climber I had finally earned a right to call my own.
March 2014 issue
Excerpt from Ed Viesturs’s ‘The Mountain: My Time on Everest’
The first time I tried to climb Mount Everest was in the spring of 1987. It was a very different mountain then from the swarmed-over scene it’s become today.
Dec. 2013 issue
Charles Matthaei witnessed war history, then became a Baking Hall of Famer
For his service during World War II, Charles Matthaei was named the 2013 UW Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient.
Dec. 2013 issue
Essay: Undaunted
June 6, 1966 marked a memorable date in what, retrospectively, was to begin an improbable journey to the University of Washington.
Dec. 2013 issue
Julie Kientz sees tech as a tool for better health
Julie Kientz's sense of discovery spawned a career predicated on using technology to help others and improve their health.
Dec. 2013 issue
Brady Ryan, ’10, is a sea salt savant
Sea salt is typically made in coastal areas where the climate stays warm and dry most of the year, but Brady Ryan, ’10, doesn’t like to do things conventionally. In 2012, he started San Juan Island Sea Salt, harvesting sea salt in the Pacific Northwest using techniques he began learning at UW.
Dec. 2013 issue
25 years of improving lives in Africa
Health Alliance International (HAI) is celebrating its 25th year of helping people in developing countries lead healthy lives.
Dec. 2013 issue
Brain signals onset of autism
Between ages 3 and 10, children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit distinct brain chemical changes that differ from children with developmental delays and those with typical development, according to a new study led by UW researchers.
Dec. 2013 issue
Study shows more distracted drivers than expected
In Washington state’s first study to examine driver use of electronic devices, UW investigators saw that more than 8 percent of drivers were engaging with such devices behind the wheel, higher than previously estimated.
Dec. 2013 issue
Researchers send signal from one brain to another
UW researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to control the hand motions of a fellow researcher.
Dec. 2013 issue
Soldiers, robots share a bond, researcher says
Julie Carpenter, who earned her doctorate in education from the UW in June, isn’t interested in fantasy movie robots. She wants to know something more serious: the social relationship between robots and their operators in the military.
Dec. 2013 issue
UW’s focus on holistic education is reshaping childhood learning
Instead of pondering why kids fall behind, the UW’s approach stacks the deck in their favor by looking at the factors that may have unexpected effects on performance, ranging from social and cultural to physical and emotional.
Dec. 2013 issue
Ryan Lewis tops the music charts on his own terms
For Ryan Lewis, ’09, the whirlwind of fame is only a few years removed from days ensconced in Suzzallo Library and the Parnassus cafe in the basement of the Art Building.
Dec. 2013 issue
Montana is always in Ivan Doig’s heart, and his novels
Ivan Doig's tales of the West have made him one of America's top authors.
Dec. 2013 issue
When Don James arrived, players knew it was a new era
Husky coaching legend Don James died on Oct. 20 at age 80. Paul Strohmeier, ’77, a defensive lineman when James was hired and a graduate- assistant coach under James in 1976, offers a perspective on the beginning of the “Dawgfather” era.
Dec. 2013 issue
Students are in good hands with Denzil Suite
Catching up with Dr. Denzil Suite, the new Vice President for Student Life, on eyeing Seattle, serving students and getting lost.
Dec. 2013 issue
Editor’s Eye: Critical thinking can take you anywhere
It should come as no surprise that a 2009 CHID graduate makes up half of one of the hottest names in hip-hop music today: the local tandem of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
Dec. 2013 issue
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
The cover of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks succinctly proclaims the book’s storyline: “Doctors took her cells without asking. Those cells never died. They launched a medical revolution and a multimillion-dollar industry. More than 20 years later, her children found out. Their lives would never be the same.”
