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June 2020 issue
Front and center
With compassion, innovation and empathy, public health leader Patty Hayes strives to make life better for all of us.
UW Magazine Online
What does nonstop handwashing do to your hands?
Hot water and soap is keeping us healthy, but it can wear down our skin. We ask a UW Medicine dermatologist for help.
UW Magazine Online
A lifetime of leadership
For his legacy of serving Washington’s community college system for more than four decades as well as his leadership at the University of Washington Alumni Association, Gary Oertli receives the UW Alumni Association’s 2020 Distinguished Service Award.
June 2020 issue
Locked up during lockdown
Professor Dan Berger says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread.
UW Magazine Online
UW-trained lawyer takes on Republic of Turkey for violent attack on peaceful protestors
Josh Colangelo-Bryan filed a personal injury suit against the Republic of Turkey for its involvement in an attack on a peaceful protest in a Washington, D.C., park in 2017 that left 20 people with injuries.
Viewpoint Magazine
Professor offers a vision for weaving Indigenous ideas into UW
Charlotte Coté, this year’s Samuel E. Kelly Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, offers her thoughts on weaving Native understanding into the fabric of the UW.
UW Magazine Online
After Mount St. Helens erupted, 1980 became a lost spring for some
Just as all schools and colleges have closed down this year from late March because of COVID-19, my senior year ended early in 1980.
Viewpoint Magazine
GO-MAP makes underrepresented grad students feel at home at UW
Students from underrepresented communities find funding, social networks and academic support through the Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program.
Viewpoint Magazine
First Native American justice appointed to State Supreme Court
Raquel Montoya-Lewis, '95, '96, is the second Native American to ever serve on any state’s supreme court.
Viewpoint Magazine
Alumna found a perfect fit serving youth in Rainier Vista
After deciding medicine wasn't for her, Yasmin Habib created a nonprofit program to serve refugee, immigrant and marginalized children.
Viewpoint Magazine
Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies wins grant
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation granted $1.8 million to the center to support students and research.
Viewpoint Magazine
Latinx alum’s cultural center paints the way for fellow artists
Jake Prendez, ’00, knows what it's like to feel like an outsider. Now he offers fellow Latinx artists a place to showcase their work.
UW Magazine Online
Julia Sweeney’s next act
After more than a decade away from showbiz, the actress and SNL alum is back and more brilliant than ever.
March 2020 Issue
Pike Place Market’s last newsstand goes out of print as UW alumnus closes shop
Pike Place Market's last newsstand goes out of print as UW alumnus closes shop.
March 2020 Issue
At the UW and across the Puget Sound region, Jim Ellis was the personification of impact
Alum and former UW regent Jim Ellis was driven to serve the public good.
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Architectural historian makes her Paris dream come true for others
Meredith Clausen, an architectural historian, shares her Paris apartments with UW scholars.
March 2020 Issue
Foster School’s Ascend program boosts small business nationwide
A UW program to help Washington small businesses owned by people of color, women and veterans has expanded to 13 cities across the country.
March 2020 Issue
UW researchers create smart speaker that can soothe and monitor sleeping baby
A UW team has used hardware similar to an Amazon Echo to create a smart speaker that detects the breathing motions of an infant’s chest.
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Hummingbirds sing to Burke Museum’s resident expert
What makes hummingbirds so fascinating? We asked UW expert Alejandro Rico-Guevara.
March 2020 Issue
We need to talk about vehicle residency
Criminalizing a form of shelter causes undue and disproportionate harm to vulnerable people.
