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June 2010 issue
Accomplishments of ‘most unlikely graduate’ add up
Once a preppy hustler, a cocaine dealer, a drug addict, and a student in Japan, Max Hunter is now a UW Ph.D. student and has begun telling his story.
June 2010 issue
Mobile data tools from UW promote change in developing world
The Open Data Kit, a suite of tools developed by computer scientists and engineers at the University of Washington, makes it possible to use mobile devices for social change in the developing world.
June 2010 issue
In business and in philanthropy, he’s the keeper of ‘the Nordstrom Way’
Bruce Nordstrom has been a force in civic activities, a leader in charitable giving and devoted alum to the University of Washington.
June 2010 issue
Top notch: the 2010 teachers of the year
The seven recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award and one recipient of the Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award share the ability to inspire students to incredible heights.
March 2010 issue
Film documents the birth of Northwest Modernism, a style for the elements
“Modern Views: A Conversation on Northwest Modern Architecture" highlights the region's distinctive style.
March 2010 issue
UW dialysis innovation remains a life-saving loophole
Fifty years ago, UW doctors developed the Scribner shunt, a simple device that created a literal loophole in the death sentence doled out to those suffering with end-stage kidney disease.
March 2010 issue
Garbage tells anthropologist the story of modern migration
Lecturer Jason De Leon collects discarded items to better understand what's happening at the southern border of the United States.
March 2010 issue
A cure for color-blindness could be just a gene away
Jay and Maureen Neitz, who joined the UW School of Medicine faculty in 2008, reported in the journal Nature that they had cured color-blindness in two squirrel monkeys using gene therapy.
March 2010 issue
Alumna travels the world to help people hear
Paige Stringer, ’96, built a platform to extend teacher training, deliver hearing aids, and improve outreach about hearing loss issues to communities in developing countries.
March 2010 issue
Huskies lend a helping hand after earthquake in Haiti
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake, numerous UW Medicine and Health Sciences faculty, students and health professionals went to Haiti to treat the injured and sick and care for the displaced.
March 2010 issue
Forestry student gets the dirt on climate change
In a barren pit on Vashon Island, UW School of Forest Resources graduate student Kate Kurtz is growing a forest—and fighting climate change along the way.
March 2010 issue
When lightning strikes, UW professor knows about it
Call him the lightning listener. Robert Holzworth, UW professor of earth and space sciences, directs the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), a series of stations around the globe that monitor pulses of radio waves generated by lightning strokes.
March 2010 issue
Targeted ultrasound could offer cheap, pain-free breast cancer detection
An inexpensive, noninvasive test can accurately detect breast cancer in younger women, and has the potential to spare thousands from unnecessary surgeries and biopsies, according to new UW research.
March 2010 issue
MRSA gains a foothold at Washington state beaches
Dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria are gaining a foothold in the natural environment, suggests recent research from the UW School of Public Health.
March 2010 issue
Accolades roll in for alumnus’s approach to teaching
Rob Thomas, '93, was named the 2009 Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges U.S. Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
March 2010 issue
Rat City Rollergirls roster full of hard-hitting UW alumni
What comes to mind when you think of the Rat City Rollergirls? If it’s tattooed women and fast, physical action, you’re not alone. But that’s not the whole story.
March 2010 issue
Stories of ingenuity abound at the UW
The UW I find myself returning to is innovative, entrepreneurial, alive. I am lucky to be here, helping tell its stories.
March 2010 issue
Mary Curtis-Verna, 1921-2009
Mary Curtis-Verna, an international opera soprano who spent 20 years as Head of the Voice Department in the University of Washington School of Music, died Dec. 4. She was 88.
March 2010 issue
Edwin Krebs, 1918-2009
Edwin G. Krebs, a UW scientist who shared the 1992 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering a biological switch in cells, died Dec. 21. He was 91.
March 2010 issue
Allison Leach, ’00, helps set the visual tone for ‘Mad Men’
Two reasons why the Emmy Award-winning TV series 'Mad Men' is so highly acclaimed are its visual style and historical authenticity. Assistant costume designer Allison Leach has had a big hand in both.
