Growing up, Charlotte Sanders didn’t know what social work was. She did, however, know “what it felt like.” Her mother, a worker with the Department of Social and Health Services, would participate in donation drives for members of the Toppenish farming community on the Yakama Indian Reservation and Charlotte would help out. “She showed me [...]

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The first week of April is UW Walk Week! Join the Whole U as we spend a week focusing on taking time to get out from behind the desk, off of the couch and outside for some movement! Increased time spent walking each day can boost your mood, increase your energy, increase your cardiovascular and [...]

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This February, to celebrate Black History Month, University Book Store highlights speculative fiction, fantasy, and poetry written by Black American authors. Through imagining the future, re-imagining the past, and trying to make sense of the present, these books ask questions about the connections between power and history, and what kind of future we can build [...]

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Can you believe it’s already been 7 full weeks since we embarked on Dare to Do 2019? 7 weeks of pausing, moving, fueling, improving, giving, accepting and reducing. As January and February have quite literally melted by, we dive into our last week of UW’s New Year’s wellness challenge. With so much that pulls at [...]

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Join the Whole U in exploring the power of sound nutrition for National Nutrition Month throughout March. Register and learn more about the individual challenges, team activities, and all else that’s in store here. As February is national Heart Health Month, I’d like to provide information on how to nourish yourself to keep your heart healthy and happy. Heart [...]

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There’s beauty in the basic. When you take care of the basics—the fundamental facets of everyday living—it often goes a long way toward taking care of a good many other things. “If you’re doing the basics, it takes care of 90% of the issues that might come up.” That’s what Todd Tuetken, director of Olympic Strength [...]

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This week we look at how what we carry with us in life affects our demeanor and wellbeing, as well as how we can have a better impact on the world surrounding us. Daring to Reduce means asking meaningful questions such as, “How can I better spend my time?” “How do my actions affect those [...]

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If aliens were ever to land, Michael Berry thinks his music theory students would be prepared. “I want my students to be able to figure out what makes their music tick,” Berry says, calling up connotations of the scene in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which aliens and humans communicate through a [...]

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Neither snow, nor sleet, nor slush will keep the Valentine’s Day mail at UW Medical Center. On Thursday, more than 650 Valentine’s will be delivered to inpatients—each card handcrafted by a member of the UW community. Plaza Café staff will be putting a Valentine on every patient’s meal tray on the 14th—what UWMC Art Program [...]

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March is National Nutrition Month! Join The Whole U as we celebrate a month full of fresh events, ideas, and approaches for eating well. This year’s activities include a department/team healthy potluck competition, a 31 Days of Fruits and Vegetables Challenge, a 31 Day Nutritional Tracker, the opportunity to have your nutrition-related questions answered by one [...]

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This week, as part of our ongoing Dare to Do challenge, we’re focusing on strategies for and benefits of accepting oneself. Danny Arguetty, manager of UW Recreation’s Mindfulness Program, took time to reflect on ways to welcome acceptance into your life and the positive growth and outcomes that come about when you do. Human beings are wonderfully [...]

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If Adam Warren could time travel, he might head to Mexico City in the 1920s—the period immediately following a decade of revolutionary war that was, in his view, “a moment of radical new ideas and imagining how Mexican society might be transformed.” Then again, Warren says he’d have to consider other areas of his research [...]

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