Dec. 2000 issue
In its heyday, the UW campus observatory was a magical place. Now the future of the cute little building, sitting just east of Memorial Way, is up in the air.
Dec. 2000 issue
Hermann Pundt was a professor of architecture and art history at the University of Washington for 32 years.
Dec. 2000 issue
Almost a century after snubbing Takuji Yamashita, the state's legal establishment is taking steps to honor the first Japanese graduate of the UW Law School.
Dec. 2000 issue
Mary Dreher Tift's vision of taking family objects—cut glass bowls, cigar boxes, carafes—and turning them into works of art will be on display in an exhibit.
Dec. 2000 issue
In what UW officials believe is the largest private gift ever made to the University for a specific disorder, Richard and Susan Fade have donated $5 million to endow a new center for the treatment of autism.
Dec. 2000 issue
One month after announcing she would drop the UW men's and women's varsity swimming program, UW Athletics Director Barbara Hedges declared the program would continue after all.
Dec. 2000 issue
Since the core funding for the UW comes from the state, decisions made in Olympia will have a long-lasting impact.
Dec. 2000 issue
Researchers studying the state of American marriages now can predict not only which couples will divorce but also when they will divorce.
Dec. 2000 issue
Once just a theory, Lawrence Loeb's mutation breakthrough could lead to new cancer treatments and even an unconventional way to stop AIDS.
Dec. 2000 issue
President Richard L. McCormick is challenging the members of the UW community to create a "culture of possibilities" that would help build a better university—and a better world.
Dec. 2000 issue
The entering class this fall is one for the record books, say UW officials, as 4,983 new freshmen broke previous enrollment levels and set academic highs as well.
Dec. 2000 issue
The saga of Kennewick Man is a volatile mix of race, religion, politics and science, and the UW is right in the middle of it.
Dec. 2000 issue
It isn't just her personality that makes Hannah Wiley ideally suited to run the UW's summer arts festival. It's her choices in the earlier chapters of her life.