public affairs
April 2, 2020
Impact personified
Alum and former UW regent Jim Ellis was driven to serve the public good.
June 1, 2015
Career in service
In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy famously said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,” Lloyd Hara took it to heart. It’s why he went to graduate school to study public affairs and spent the past 40 years in public service.
September 1, 2013
Brewster Denny, 1924-2013
Brewster C. Denny, who died June 22 at age 88, held several key roles in the federal government before honoring the call from UW President Charles Odegaard to return home to Seattle to create an academic program in public affairs.
June 1, 2007
Dan Evans, engineer of change
Fate and a fierce independent streak kept him out of the White House. But that may have been for the best, since it kept Dan Evans close to his home state — and his alma mater.
March 1, 2006
Mr. Washington
Stepping down after two terms as a UW regent, Dan Evans reflects on his many UW connections.
December 1, 2005
Masters of disaster
Before Katrina and the South Asia tsunami, departments across the UW had already come together to help professionalize humanitarian relief efforts. Afterwards, they were far too busy to say, “I told you so.”
September 1, 2002
Marc Lindenberg, 1945-2002
Marc Lindenberg was dean of the UW’s Daniel Evans School of Public Affairs and an influential scholar and practitioner in humanitarian relief and international development.
June 1, 1996
Why don’t Americans trust their government?
Distrust in government today is rated by some experts to be second only to pre-Civil War times.