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June 2009 issue
In Seattle, you find Nobel laureates on the bus
Working at the UW, particularly, it's easy to forget how much of the day one spends surrounded by geniuses.
June 2009 issue
Man’s best friend helps track orcas’ health
The best way to gauge a whale’s health is to study its scat, and that requires a little Lab work.
March 2009 issue
Steve Sarkisian sees W’s in UW’s near future
Steve Sarkisian says he wouldn't have come to Washington as the new head football coach if he didn't think the Huskies could win — and win right away.
March 2009 issue
Economic downturn hits UW right in the wallet
Gov. Chris Gregoire, '69, '71, warned that her 2009-11 state budget would contain "something ... for everybody not to like," and the University of Washington proved to be no exception.
March 2009 issue
Forks High School principal takes Twilight spotlight in stride
When Kevin Rupprecht, '06, accepted the job of principal at Forks High School, he didn't realize he was signing on to be a minor celebrity as well.
March 2009 issue
Art historian? Anthropologist? Just call Ellen Dissanayake a scholar
Ellen Dissanayake is working in a field she invented: evolutionary aesthetics, the study of art-making as an innate human behavior that helps us survive.
March 2009 issue
Her life’s work: solving the evolution of art
Ellen Dissanayake came up with a paradigm-changing theory: Art-making evolved as a behavior that contained advantages for human survival-and those advantages went far beyond what Charles Darwin ever imagined.
March 2009 issue
Songbirds’ secrets could hold clues to human speech
UW Professor of Psychology and Zoology Michael Beecher wanted to understand the social dimensions of learning how and from whom birds learn to sing in the wild. So he and his students began tramping through the thickets of Seattle's Discovery Park to find out.
March 2009 issue
Future doctors hone their diagnostic skills at art museums
Last fall, the UW School of Medicine and the Henry Art Gallery teamed up to offer a new course to help medical students develop their diagnostic skills by visiting art museums.
March 2009 issue
Researcher uses her math skills to fight brain tumors
A little more than 10 years ago, Kristin Swanson, a graduate student in applied mathematics at the UW, began work on an audacious project: an equation to model the growth and spread of brain tumors in individual patients.
March 2009 issue
Essay: It was a very odd year
In the early 1970s, while earning my master’s degree in political science from the UW, I lived in a halfway house for psychiatric outpatients. I was not a psychiatric outpatient myself, but it was the only place I could find that had rooms for rent.
March 2009 issue
Too many children are missing shots, IHME finds
Childhood vaccination rates are increasing, but not as quickly as many governments around the world have claimed. That's the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
March 2009 issue
Computer scientist is helping the deaf and blind feel at home in a wired world
Richard Ladner is developing a variety of accessibility technologies to help people who are blind or deaf use computers, communicate and — perhaps closest to his heart — learn.
March 2009 issue
With Mariners, Seattle native works side-by-side with his heroes
Seattle native Ken Barron, ‘03, spent his middle-school years living in Japan, where baseball was big and his favorite player was Orix BlueWave superstar Ichiro Suzuki. Now he works side-by-side with his childhood idol.
March 2009 issue
How 61,000 floating Nikes helped an oceanographer find his calling
Curtis Ebbesmeyer recalls the event that first turned him on to flotsam: the Great Sneaker Spill of 1990.
March 2009 issue
UW is hearing tribes’ voices as never before
Since Mark Emmert’s arrival as president, the UW has renewed its focus on recruiting and retaining more Native American students, faculty and staff.
Dec. 2008 issue
Bold decisions paved the way for others
A pair of stories are a humbling reminder of just how much people will sacrifice for freedom, whether from an oppressive government or an intolerant culture.
Dec. 2008 issue
Husky legend and gay icon David Kopay is at peace and at home
David Kopay, '64, became the first professional athlete from a major team sport (he retired from the NFL in 1972) to announce publicly that he was gay.
Dec. 2008 issue
Librarian hopes to spread the word in Cambodia
Wanna Net doesn’t know how old he is, but he does know one thing: He’s one of the very few Western-credentialed librarians in Cambodia — maybe the only one.
