Looking ahead to 2018, you might be wondering what it takes to successfully set and achieve goals. For answers, we tapped the faculty and staff we interviewed in 2017 for words of insight, encouragement, and inspiration. These time-tested tips are sure to get you psyched for the 90-day Dare to Do New Year’s challenge and [...]

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With a new year come new opportunities to revamp old eating habits. As you plan to Dare to Do in 2018, rather than setting lofty food goals or worse, starting a diet, why not try something a bit more sustainable—and hopefully more fun: incorporating more whole foods into your meals. Whole food (noun) – a food that [...]

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Next time you walk down a Seattle sidewalk, you’re stepping directly into the work of Anat Caspi. As director of The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology based at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, Caspi leads the development, translation, and deployment of open-source, universally accessible technologies that benefit populations with [...]

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If you love coffee, you’ve come to the right campus! One enterprising former PhD student determined that you’re never more than two minutes away from a hot cuppa joe on campus. With so many espresso bars and cafes dotting campus—including the all-new Starbucks at Suzzallo Library—it’s not a question of whether you’ll be able to [...]

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This winter quarter, throw on your best purple and gold and secure a seat to a few exciting 2018 Husky Athletics events! UW Athletics is offering discounted tickets to UW faculty, staff, and their family and friends to the following events in January and February. Lock in your discounted tickets today! Women’s Basketball vs. Washington State [...]

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Todd Tuetken always loved to lift. Growing up on a cattle farm in eastern Iowa, he watched his father and uncle build their own weight-lifting equipment with parts from an old combine harvester. Together they engineered a leg press, a spot rack, and rigged a lat pulldown machine using a tiller disc and combine chain. [...]

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As a fourth generation Japanese American (Yonsei), I grew up with the flavors and smells of Japanese-Hawaiian food. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, I have always been surrounded by the sounds, smells, and flavors of ethnic cuisine.  From an early age, my mother taught me the meaning of proper table setting and etiquette for [...]

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With a new year approaching, we’re increasingly thinking about parts of our daily lives we could improve—whether that’s our approach to physical and mental health or prioritizing our finances and getting better organized. Last year, Google measured the top five most popular New Year’s resolution search terms: Get Healthy—62,776,640 searches Get Organized—33,230,420 searches Live Life [...]

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What happens when you’re a surgeon who relies on her hands for intricate operations and one day you lose the upper body strength needed to perform them? Ask Barbara Goff. The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Goff serves as professor and division director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Washington and the Seattle [...]

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As a dietitian, people are often curious about my personal eating habits—worrying that they cannot eat treats or high fat foods around me or consider me to be “The Food Police.” However, dietitians aim to promote awareness, balance, and moderation in all things related to nutrition. The same philosophy applies during the holiday season. This [...]

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Last July, Thaïsa Way set out with her daughter to climb Mt. Rainier. Several days and 9,000 vertical feet later, they stood together atop the 14,411-foot summit. Beneath the blisteringly blue sky stretched a vast sheet of cloud into a trackless sea of white, broken only by an occasional archipelago of mountain peaks jutting upwards [...]

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