faculty
March 1, 2014
Hope after heartache
Jennifer Stuber lost her husband to suicide. Now she's working to remove the stigma of mental illness.
December 1, 2013
Healthy tech
Julie Kientz's sense of discovery spawned a career predicated on using technology to help others and improve their health.
March 1, 2013
Power of storytelling
A W.B. Yeats quote greets soldiers as they enter the classroom of Shawn Wong at Joint Base Lewis-McChord on a frosty, fall morning: “Write about yourself when you are most like yourself.”
September 1, 2012
Stat star
Awards and honors aren’t what it’s about for the School of Public Health’s Daniela Witten, assistant professor in the nation’s No. 1 rated Biostatistics Department. She’s in it for the work.
June 1, 2011
Off to Libya
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.
September 1, 2009
Reaching out
“Where can you make the biggest difference?” It’s a question Annie Lam, ’97, senior lecturer in the University of Washington Department of Pharmacy, asks rhetorically, but her answer has been demonstrated clearly over the course of her UW career.
June 1, 2009
Teachers of the year, 2009
The seven recipients of this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards represent the broadest range of disciplines, from English to maxillofacial surgery. But they all have one thing in common: the ability to hold their students spellbound.
Professor of innocence
Since 1997, when Professor Jackie McMurtrie established the Innocence Project Northwest Clinic at the UW School of Law, she and her students have helped exonerate 13 wrongfully convicted people.
March 1, 2009
Just call her a scholar
Ellen Dissanayake is working in a field she invented: evolutionary aesthetics, the study of art-making as an innate human behavior that helps us survive.
September 1, 2008
Teachers of the year, 2008
The seven winners of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award talk about what happens in their celebrated classrooms.
December 1, 2007
Strong medicine
Some governments may shun his straight talk, but Chris Murray's prescriptions for global health could ultimately help all of us live better and longer.
Who stays, who goes?
If you think that job satisfaction is the only reason you haven't left your workplace, think again, say two UW business professors.
UW ceramic arts program is in good hands with Patti Warashina
The UW’s ceramic arts program is ranked among the top five in the nation. Ceramic artist Patti Warashina, ’62, ’64, is one of the reasons why.
September 1, 2007
Statistical advantage
The skills UW Bothell Professor Clark Olson honed during his five years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are the same ones he has used to conquer the stats-heavy world of fantasy sports.
June 1, 2007
Extra credit
A great university has great teachers. This year, the UW honors seven instructors from three campuses who have touched the lives of thousands.
March 1, 2007
Mark McDermott, 1930-2006
Mark McDermott, a UW physics professor for 43 years, passed away Nov. 4 from complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
December 1, 2006
The black TV book
Kathleen Fearn-Banks once worked in TV, and now has written the dictionary on an important part of its history.
Daniel Lev, 1933-2006
A professor of political science at the UW and a renowned scholar of Indonesia, Daniel Lev, who died of lung cancer at the age of 72, was well loved and influential on both sides of the Pacific.
September 1, 2005
Peter Hobbs, 1936-2005
Atmospheric Sciences Professor Peter Hobbs died July 25 after 42 years at the University leading the Cloud and Aerosol Research Group.
Henry Maier, 1918-2005
Henry Maier, a professor emeritus in the School of Social Work known for his unique approaches to teaching, died in April. He was 86.