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March 2006 issue
Lauridsen gift makes it easier for students to stay in school
With a planned gift to forestry, Morten Lauridsen, 95, hopes to make the path toward graduation easier for future students. Proceeds from a trust he established will provide scholarships to students of forest management.
March 2006 issue
Lawmakers wrap up budget; higher ed may have to wait for relief
Even though the state government is sitting on a $1.5 billion surplus as it nears the end of the 2006 legislative session, alumni should not expect significant new dollars for higher education this year.
March 2006 issue
Unbroken spirits: Spinal injury victims learn to live well
When an accident broke Kirk Hennig's neck, he was sent to one of the best rehabilitation centers in the nation, led by one of its top doctors. Now he's sharing his insights with other injured patients.
Dec. 2005 issue
UW professor takes new approach to preventing suicide
A UW professor’s new therapy is being hailed as a breakthrough in treating self-destructive patients who live their lives on the borderline.
Dec. 2005 issue
UW sees a role for research in humanitarian response to disasters
Before Katrina and the South Asia tsunami, departments across the UW had already come together to help professionalize humanitarian relief efforts. Afterwards, they were far too busy to say, “I told you so.”
Dec. 2005 issue
‘The big one’ could cost $33 billion, professor says
A UW Bothell business professor says that the Puget Sound region could suffer $33 billion in property damage and economic losses following a magnitude 6.7 earthquake along the Seattle Fault.
Dec. 2005 issue
UW student enrollment sets record; freshman SAT scores rise
When the University of Washington opened its doors Sept. 28, it had a record enrollment of 39,251 students on the Seattle campus—beating its previous mark of 39,216 set in 2002.
Dec. 2005 issue
Q&A with Phyllis Wise, UW’s new provost
A graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan, Provost Phyllis Wise took over the UW’s No. 2 leadership position in August 2005.
Dec. 2005 issue
This untold story of World War II internment took some detective work
The assignment was straightforward, but it felt like mission impossible: Find out what happened to more than 400 students forced to leave the University of Washington when the federal government incarcerated Japanese Americans in 1942.
Dec. 2005 issue
The stolen years: UW couldn’t protect hundreds of Japanese American students from internment
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. This is the story of some forced to leave — and the efforts the UW made to protect them.
Dec. 2005 issue
A salute to Medal of Honor recipient
Every time Hiro Nishimura, ’48, passes the William Kenzo Nakamura Federal Courthouse in Seattle, he raises his hand in a salute. The courthouse was renamed four years ago to honor Nakamura, who earned the nation’s highest military award—the Medal of Honor.
Dec. 2005 issue
Anthony Qamar, 1943-2005
When he wasn’t in the classroom teaching applied seismology or on location at the crater of Mount St. Helens tracking seismic activity, Anthony Qamar could often be found on the IMA climbing wall. Even at the age of 62, Qamar, a research professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, made some of the fittest grad students a little jealous.
Dec. 2005 issue
Track star Ja’Warren Hooker is racing to Beijing
Now 27, around the age when most runners peak, Washington’s fastest human is training to qualify again for the U.S. Olympic team and show that he is one of the world’s fastest at the 2008 games in Beijing.
Dec. 2005 issue
‘Quiet leaders’ honored with Gates Volunteer Service Award
Two of the University’s “quiet leaders”—Anne Gittinger, ’55, and Wayne Gittinger, ’55, ’57—took an unaccustomed moment in the spotlight Sept. 9 when they were honored with the 2005 Gates Volunteer Service Award.
Dec. 2005 issue
UW attracts nearly $1 billion in research funding
The UW drew a record-breaking $997 million in research grants and contracts for 2004-05, which is $43 million more than last year, the UW Office of Research announced Sept. 15.
Dec. 2005 issue
Tiny island off Washington coast is a land of discovery
Environmental science took a decisive turn on an obscure island off the northwest corner of Washington. The way we look at — and try to save — our world has never been the same.
Sept. 2005 issue
Lessons from Chernobyl could save victims of future nuclear disasters
The world looks to Scott Davis, chair of the UW epidemiology department, for many of the answers.
Sept. 2005 issue
What began as a protest ends in common ground
The determination of two exceptional students brings a monument to diversity to the UW campus.
Sept. 2005 issue
Donors raise more than $7 million for diversity scholars
Costco Wholesale, Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery and Safeco Insurance have partnered with the UW in support of the Diversity Scholars Program, which was created in 2000 to recruit and support high-achieving underrepresented minority students.
Sept. 2005 issue
Billing report urges more oversight at UW Medicine
After a 10-month review of billing problems in physician groups attached to UW Medicine, a panel has recommended appointing a compliance officer who answers only to the vice president for medicine affairs.
