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June 2011 issue
Triple alumnus Charles Wick got to the bottom of honeybee ‘plague’
Charles Wick, ’71, ’73, ’79, may not wear the trademark deerstalker hat and smoke a long-stemmed pipe but when it comes to bees, he’s an ace detective.
June 2011 issue
Crossword master has a puzzle for Huskies
Crossword puzzle fanatic Jeff Chen, ’02, doesn’t just fill out crossword puzzles, he writes them, too. He recently had one published by The New York Times. And here he created a special crossword puzzle for Columns readers.
June 2011 issue
Editor’s Eye: Hiring of Michael Young is cause for celebration
Michael Young’s selection as president-designate of the University of Washington (he starts July 1) turned a glum spring into one of celebration.
June 2011 issue
Althea D. Stroum, 1922-2011
Althea Diesenhaus Stroum, one of the UW’s most renowned philanthropists, died March 14 in Santa Barbara, Calif.
June 2011 issue
C. Benjamin Graham Jr., 1931-2011
C. Benjamin Graham Jr., ’58, ’62, was the first student in a wheelchair to graduate from medical school at the University of Washington—and possibly the first in the nation.
June 2011 issue
Researchers calculate athletes’ risk of cardiac arrest
Sudden cardiac death affects about 1 in 43,000 NCAA athletes, according to a new UW study.
June 2011 issue
Karma Hadjimichalakis, 1944-2011
Karma Hadjimichalakis was a principal lecturer in business economics and finance in the UW’s Foster School of Business and one of the University’s most beloved teachers.
June 2011 issue
Modern transit carries risk of hearing loss, UW researcher says
Many people are exposed to health and safety issues in the workplace, but how many think about the risk of the commute? Rick Neitzel, research scientist in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, does.
June 2011 issue
Temple Mathews, ’76, writes his way to the big screen
Temple Mathews, ’76, describes himself as someone who never shies away from a challenge. He credits this attitude for getting him to Hollywood.
June 2011 issue
Author uncloaks the Swedish murder mystery
Books such as "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are part of a crime novel tradition dating back to at least 1965 in Scandinavia—a tradition Andrew Nestingen, associate professor of Scandinavian Studies, has followed for years.
June 2011 issue
Christine Umayam, ’99, works to break the poverty cycle
A year after returning home to Seattle from the Philippines, Christine Umayam couldn’t get those images out of her head, so she created Child United.
June 2011 issue
Researchers study how incarcerated women bond with their babies
A Social Work doctoral candidate assembled a research panel of mothers, corrections officers and early childhood professionals—three groups that wanted a deeper understanding of the mother-child connection in prison..
June 2011 issue
Cultural stereotypes steer girls away from math, researchers say
Parental and educational practices aimed at enhancing girls’ self-concepts for math might be beneficial as early as elementary school, when youngsters are beginning to develop ideas about who does math.
June 2011 issue
UW grad oversees the end of U.S. space shuttle program
For Janet Kavandi, '90, and her colleagues, it’s a bittersweet time to be an American astronaut.
June 2011 issue
New UW President Michael Young takes on the challenge of a lifetime
With an adventurer’s spirit, Michael Young plans to make the UW a leader in solving the public higher education funding model.
June 2011 issue
Kevin McGuff charged with reviving Husky women’s hoops
Kevin McGuff arrived in Seattle this past April with a monumental challenge awaiting him: restoring the Husky women’s basketball team to the elite status it held in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
June 2011 issue
Fukushima poses no radiation threat to UW, physicists say
In the aftermath of the earthquake damage at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant, UW physicists decided to find out if the leaked radiation had traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to Seattle’s UW campus.
June 2011 issue
Leading marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco earns highest alumni award
Jane Lubchenco’s ability to bring real-world approaches to scientific inquiry led her to become the first woman director of NOAA. The 1971 alumna is the recipient of the UW's highest alumni honor.
June 2011 issue
Maestro of music and dance to step down
Matt Krashan, the UW’s maestro of music, dance and more, will retire in September from his position as director of the UW World Series, a program that is recognized nationally for its excellence and innovation in the performing arts.
June 2011 issue
Foster School Lecturer Ali Tarhouni joins Libyan opposition government
Ali Tarhouni, a senior lecturer in the Foster School of Business, told his microeconomics class that despite the death sentence on his head, he would be moving back to Libya, his homeland.
