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August 29, 2023
Everyone belongs here
As the first UW graduate not from the Seattle campus to serve as president of the UWAA Board of Trustees, Joe Davis took a path less traveled.
October 23, 2019
From war to law
An owner of three Bronze Stars, the Hon. Ronald E. Cox is UWAA’s 2019 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient.
November 30, 2017
Thinking positive
An undiagnosed traumatic brain injury rocked her life. By thinking positive, Shanda Taylor Boyd, '94, took back control.
December 15, 2016
Man of honor
Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, ’80, receives the 2016 UW Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award.
December 1, 2011
Soldier's story
As I reflect on the road that led me from the UW to the Udari Desert, it is easy for me to identify ways that my time at the UW earning a B.S. in Construction Management prepared me to lead troops.
September 1, 2011
Hidden cost of war
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, a Seattle native and Evans School alum, was in town as part of a national effort “to begin a conversation about veterans and what we can do to connect communities to veterans.”
June 1, 2005
To Baghdad and back
Conducting elections in Iraq was deadly business, says the UW alumnus in charge of Baghdad security, but its outcome is changing the U.S. military, Iraq and the Middle East.
Bronze Star finally comes
When Emanuel “Sonny” Marks saw a recent article announcing that certain combat veterans were still eligible for the Bronze Star, he figured there was no harm in inquiring. And that’s how he came to receive the medal in the mail on Jan. 10, more than 60 years after he earned it.
September 1, 1993
In 1943, a much more serious game came to Husky Stadium
The UW campus sustained a full-fledged amphibious landing in October 1943 as part of a war exercise.