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June 2014 issue
Coach Chris Petersen era begins for Husky football
After eight remarkable seasons at Boise State, Chris Petersen was finally ready for the next challenge, becoming the head football coach at the University of Washington.
June 2014 issue
Doctor shortage has a Spokane solution
Expanding medical education in Eastern Washington’s largest city will address a key problem: increasing the number of primary care physicians in rural and underserved areas.
June 2014 issue
Character: ‘It’s time to flex our muscle’
Cristobal J. Alex is out to change the political landscape of the United States as the head of the Latino Victory Project.
June 2014 issue
Scientist studies oceans’ changing chemistry
The chemistry of the ocean has changed dramatically over the decades that Terrie Klinger has been studying her beloved West Coast waters.
June 2014 issue
Laura Pavlou, ’06, gives women behind bars a boost
When Laura Pavlou visits Gig Harbor’s Washington Corrections Center for Women, she sees hope and vitality. Behind the steel gates of the maximum-security prison, it is her mission to nurture potential.
June 2014 issue
Editor’s Eye: Let the innovation commence
You have to be bold to be an innovator. You have to have confidence. You have to take a chance. And who better to face that head-on than the thousands of students who will be marching into Husky Stadium on June 14 for Commencement.
June 2014 issue
Eyewitness to a typhoon’s devastation
Lauren Pongan, a graduate student in Southeast Asia Studies, traveled to Tanauan, Leyte, last December, not long after Typhoon Yolanda devastated portions of the Philippines.
June 2014 issue
Life guard: Cancer-fighting alumnus earns UW’s top alumni award
Art Levinson, the driving force behind several cancer-fighting drugs, is the 2014 Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus, the highest award bestowed upon UW alumni.
June 2014 issue
Technology could prevent ‘liquid facelifts’ from going wrong
Millions of people each year remove wrinkles, soften creases and plump up their lips by having a physician inject a gel-like material into their facial tissue. These cosmetic procedures are sometimes called “liquid facelifts” and are said to be minimally invasive. It’s rare, but sometimes things go wrong.
June 2014 issue
UW astronomer part of bonanza of planetary discoveries
University of Washington astronomer Eric Agol played a key role in the discovery of 715 new exoplanets announced by NASA Feb. 26. Agol was on a team that found seven of those worlds, all in orbit around the same star, Kepler-90.
June 2014 issue
Robot observers will staff digital ocean lab
This fall the UW will complete installation of a massive digital ocean observatory. Dozens of instruments will connect to power and Internet cables on the sea floor, but the observatory also includes a new generation of ocean explorers: robots that will zoom up and down through almost two miles of ocean to monitor the water conditions and marine life above.
June 2014 issue
Mobile technology could help solve Africans’ breastfeeding dilemma
A collaboration between UW Computer Science and Engineering and PATH, a Seattle-area non-governmental organization, has led to a simple, ingenious solution to a dilemma facing women in Sub-Saharan Africa who wish to store breast milk. While medical care and safe water are not always available, most Africans today have smartphones.
