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Sept. 1997 issue
Dollars shouldn’t define divorced dads, professor says
Social Work Professor Pauline Erera says that it's time to understand dads beyond the issue of dollars.
Sept. 1997 issue
Women’s and men’s teams capture crew championships
In a stunning sweep, both the UW men's and women's crews won national collegiate championships.
Sept. 1997 issue
UW research in mice could be a weight-loss breakthrough
UW researchers created a mouse that can eat fat and still lose weight, but can the results be transferred to humans?
June 1997 issue
‘Imagination inflation’ makes childhood events seem real, study finds
The power of human imagination may be stronger than previously suspected, blurring the line between memory and imagination.
June 1997 issue
Do pro sports pay off? Economists don’t find much reason to cheer
Pro sports' impact on the economy is closer to a bunt than a home run, but there may be other reasons to use public funding on teams.
June 1997 issue
Columns wins 13 awards in writing, editing, design, photography
Columns Magazine won 10 of the awards in the 1996 Washington Press Association's Communicator of Excellence Competition.
June 1997 issue
Kincaid blaze destroys lab, burns evolution research
A zoologist's research went up in flames March 24 as a two-alarm fire caused more than $225,000 in structural damage to a fifth-floor laboratory in Kincaid Hall.
June 1997 issue
Tuition, faculty salaries to rise under state budget
The new two-year state budget has UW officials cautious about the future of the University.
Sept. 1997 issue
Alumnus Chuck Close shows the art of determination
Chuck Close's life is a compelling tale of determination in the face of disability.
June 1997 issue
At research center, patients take on risk for the sake of a cure
From bone marrow transplants to cancer vaccines, patients in the Clinical Research Center opt for experiments that could save lives, maybe even their own.
Sept. 1997 issue
UW honors the best of 1997
The UW honors the best teachers, TAs and public servants of the year.
June 1997 issue
Chuck Close overcame struggles to become a renowned artist
The 1997 UW Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus and pioneer in photorealism survived a spinal blood clot to paint again.
June 1997 issue
The day the UW campus went ‘Bully’ for Roosevelt
“Teddy" Roosevelt had been out of office for two years, yet his popularity was never higher when he visited the UW in 1911.
June 1997 issue
Gregory Falls, 1922-1997
Gregory A. Falls was a former chair of the UW School of Drama who is credited with creating Seattle's vibrant theater scene.
June 1997 issue
Victor Mills, ’26, is the man who invented Pampers
Through his ingenuity, Victor Mills, '26, touched the lives—or at least the behinds—of just about every American born in the past generation.
June 1997 issue
Drugs, surgery show equal results for heart-attack patients in study
Heart attack patients show nearly identical survival rates, whether treated with powerful anti-clotting drugs or with balloon angioplasty, say UW researchers.
June 1997 issue
Hormones may place women at greater risk for facial pain
One reason why many more women than men suffer from problems with their jaws may be related to the role of female reproductive hormones.
June 1997 issue
Reverse discrimination suit aimed at UW law school
Katuria E. Smith, '94, filed a lawsuit against the UW law school, claiming that she was a victim of racial discrimination when she was denied admission.
June 1997 issue
18 UW programs get top ranking in U.S. News survey
The University of Washington School of Medicine claimed three No. 1 rankings in the U.S. News & World Report annual survey of graduate programs and professional schools.
June 1997 issue
Gift will carry Padelford family’s legacy into the next century
Philip Padelford made a million-dollar gift that will carry his family's legacy into the next century and beyond.
