June 2006 issue
A relatively simple screening process detects enzyme deficiencies in newborns, allowing treatment to begin before too much damage has been done.
June 2006 issue
What, exactly, is a student doing on the UW's highest governing board? Lots, as it turns out.
June 2006 issue
“Mountains Beyond Mountains” was named the UW's first-ever "common book." Every member of the incoming freshman class will be reading the book this summer, and thinking, talking and writing about it this fall.
June 2006 issue
A great university has great teachers. This year, the UW honors seven instructors from three campuses who have touched the lives of thousands.
June 2006 issue
Education is not a manufacturing process. It can seem messy and wasteful, but it also transforms lives. The system forgives false starts and changes in direction.
June 2006 issue
Richard Citta, '71, and a team of Zenith Electronics Corp. engineers invented a delivery system that makes HDTV possible.
June 2006 issue
The UW's newest research faciIity brings together two of the 21st century's leading scientific fields in a setting that will spark fresh discoveries.
March 2006 issue
From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to her new topographical installations at the Henry, Maya Lin has permanently altered the landscape—and the way we look at it.
March 2006 issue
After Pearl Harbor, as the U.S. imprisoned thousands of its own citizens in internment camps, more than 400 Japanese American students had to drop out of the UW.
March 2006 issue
The UW Board of Regents approved the creation of a new Department of Global Health that has the potential to change the lives of millions around the world.
March 2006 issue
Scientists have been able to link skillful dancing to established measures of human desirability and attractiveness.
March 2006 issue
Four years after a blaze destroyed Merrill Hall, U.S. Attorney Karin Immergut has charged three members of "the Family," reputedly a secret eco-terrorist group, with conspiracy to commit arson.
March 2006 issue
The UW School of Law received a record $33.3 million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for scholarships that will allow hundreds of talented students to pursue careers in public service law.
March 2006 issue
Grant Alden, '82, knew there was a market for the kind of country music Nashville wasn't producing. To appeal to that audience, he co-founded the magazine No Depression.
March 2006 issue
After traveling 2.88 billion miles over nearly seven years, NASA's Stardust capsule landed in the Utah desert on Jan. 15, bringing back comet samples that could help explain the origins of the solar system.
March 2006 issue
"I don't think the majority of Americans are aware of the internment camps," Ruth Purkaple says. "Some have learned about it in school, but it's still pretty unknown."
March 2006 issue
Basketball players, U.S. presidents, billionaire computer moguls and Boy Scouts: what do these people have in common? All are part of the rich history surrounding one of the UW's most iconic buildings: Hec Edmundson Pavilion.
March 2006 issue
Stepping down after two terms as a UW regent, Dan Evans reflects on his many UW connections.
March 2006 issue
W. Hunter Simpson was a philanthropist, business visionary and former UW regent
March 2006 issue
On May 17, 2004, Mathew Shaw and his wife, Juleen, were wide-awake at 5 a.m., and they were nervous. The Peabody Awards would be announced that morning.