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Sept. 2013 issue
UW leads the fight for K-12 STEM education
UW faculty and students are engaging K-12 students in STEM fields and collaborating with teachers.
Sept. 2013 issue
In the performing arts, research fuels creativity
Expanding the boundaries of knowledge in dance, theater and other performing arts requires research of a different stripe.
Sept. 2013 issue
Huskies in the heart of Rome
For 30 years, the UW Rome Center has given students a chance to learn about new cultures, and themselves.
Sept. 2013 issue
At Husky Stadium, it’s a whole new ballgame
After a $261 million privately funded renovation, Husky Stadium reopens Aug. 31, welcoming a fired-up Husky nation mad for football and excited about the prospects for the future.
Sept. 2013 issue
Alumna brings an information revolution to the developing world
At the forefront of those spreading the information revolution to developing countries stands an American nonprofit called Internews. And at the head of Internews stands a friendly, straightforward Maine resident, Jeanne Bourgault, ’86, ’90.
Sept. 2013 issue
AIDS vaccine is always in pharmacy professor’s sights
Now, thanks to a four-year $6.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Shiu-Lok Hu is part of an international network of scientists dedicated to designing and advancing promising new HIV vaccine candidates to clinical trials.
Sept. 2013 issue
Brewster Denny was the founding father of UW Public Affairs
Brewster C. Denny, who died June 22 at age 88, held several key roles in the federal government before honoring the call from UW President Charles Odegaard to return home to Seattle to create an academic program in public affairs.
Sept. 2013 issue
Deep thoughts from Dubs, the Husky mascot
Getting a little snout time with DUBS, the UW’s 13th live mascot, an Alaskan Malamute.
Sept. 2013 issue
Wi-Fi can be used to detect gestures, researchers say
Thanks to gesture-recognition technology developed by University of Washington computer scientists, you may soon be able to brew a pot of coffee, shut off your computer, and turn up the stereo with just a few waves of your hands.
Sept. 2013 issue
Editor’s Eye: a Husky Stadium homecoming
In a few short days, we get to come home to our spiffed up Husky Stadium, and boy, will that feel amazing.
Sept. 2013 issue
Northern Hemisphere pollution a factor in 1980s droughts, research finds
For years, scientists regarded the decades of drought in Central Africa that reached an apex in the 1980s as the result of poor agricultural practices and overgrazing. New University of Washington research, however, shows that the drought was caused at least in part by Northern Hemisphere air pollution.
Sept. 2013 issue
Phosphorous may have been life’s secret ingredient, scientists find
Life on Earth may have never come to exist if not for some meteorites that pelted the planet billions of years ago.
Sept. 2013 issue
Kids know drugs are dangerous; UW researchers want them to know why
An answer to teen drug use isn’t quite as simple as “just say no.” Many teenagers know they are supposed to say no to tobacco, alcohol and other drugs but they don’t know why.
June 2013 issue
Reconstructing hope: One woman’s journey after breast cancer
Diane Mapes shares her personal journey through breast reconstruction, using a new approach at UW Medicine.
June 2013 issue
20 years in the making, Husky Track opens to rave reviews
Since 1920, the track encircling the football field at Husky Stadium was the surface upon which 27 Olympians and 36 NCAA champions sweat for UW. The new—and very purple—Husky Track has been more than 20 years in the making, but the wait was well worth it for track coach Greg Metcalf.
June 2013 issue
Pharmacy alumnus keeps running to honor his father
Catching up with Patrick Gallaher, ’95, founder of the School of Pharmacy’s Memorial Day weekend Border-to-Border relay race that for the past 18 years has raised money for cancer research in honor of his late father.
June 2013 issue
Bryan Pearce, 1958-2013
The University of Washington community lost one of its most beloved members when Bryan Pearce, longtime University Book Store CEO and UWAA board member, died April 20 at the age of 55 from cancer.
June 2013 issue
After dam removal, researchers wait for the sediment to settle
Salmon are headed upstream in the Elwha River for the first time in more than a century, but sediment—and lots of it—is headed downstream. The sediment is the result of the largest dam removal project ever undertaken.
June 2013 issue
Tributes to the power of positivity
For me, positive thinking happens more in June than just about any other time of year. That’s because we get to honor our new graduates and recognize those people who make the UW what it is today: a shining star of a public university that serves our citizens in so many ways it’s hard to count.
June 2013 issue
Astronomer discovers planet that looks a lot like home
Using the Kepler telescope, scientists have been looking for Earth-like planets beyond the solar system since 2009. UW associate professor of astronomy Eric Agol has discovered perhaps the most Earth-like planet yet found outside the solar system.
