Progress through Summer quarter with improved mental and physical well-being by signing up for any of these yoga and meditation series with The Whole U and UW Recreation. Each series offers a unique path to wellness. To learn more about each and register click the title! Yoga Series at the UW Tower Starting June 25  [...]

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In his 2007 memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, novelist Haruki Murakami writes, “most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.” It’s in that spirit that The Whole U and the University of Washington are celebrating Global Running Day [...]

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At the University of Washington, we are committed to ensuring equality for all of our faculty, staff, and students on campus and for all people who visit our medical centers regardless of sexual and gender orientation. In fact, UW consistently ranks in the top 25 list of LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges and Universities by the nonprofit organization [...]

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The Harborview Resilience and Well-being Committee and The Whole U are pleased to offer weekly guided meditation sessions to build your capacity to return to an inner calm, even when encountering situations that cause stress. Sessions will be offered Wednesday’s and Thursday’s! For more information and to let us know if you plan on joining, [...]

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Summer’s almost here, which means it’s time to ‘Raise the Bar’ with The Whole U’s 6-week summer wellness challenge! By participating, you or you and your teammates will have fun discovering and implementing improvements to your overall wellbeing by helping create a workspace that supports and encourages healthier work habits! Here’s how it works: If [...]

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If UW biology professor Greg Wilson had a time machine, he’d dial it back 66 million years to the last days of the late Cretaceous—a period when Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops still thundered across the Montana badlands and small mammals—none larger than a modern raccoon—scurried along the ground. The area he’d visit is known as [...]

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Twice annually, the Vice President for Minority Affairs & Diversity and the University Diversity Officer award Diversity and Inclusion Seed Grants to support projects for institution transformation across UW’s tri-campus community. These seed grants fund university projects that align with the goals of the 2019-2021 UW Diversity Blueprint. The UW Diversity Blueprint was developed to [...]

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From our Dare to Do New Year’s Wellness Challenge to UW Fitness Day, the first five months of 2019 have provided plenty of exciting opportunities for the UW community to get moving and motivated to improve their health and wellness. But besides our events, activities, seminars, workshops, and weekly web content, the Whole U also [...]

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Selim Kuru’s love of literature all started with his mother, Nihal. “She was an avid reader and had a library under lock and key and would release books for me according to my age,” Kuru recalls of his youth growing up in Samsun, a city on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. For Kuru, “reading turned into [...]

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Where could you find a World Cup champion goalkeeper, an Olympic gymnast, two reigning Pac-12 conference champion head coaches on field at the same time? Where else but at The Whole U’s third annual UW Fitness Day, where coaches from UW Athletics, UW Recreation, and the wider Washington community joined hundreds of Huskies for an [...]

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The Lancet Commission identified climate change as the greatest threat to public health. The health care sector in the United States alone contributes almost 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change which is harmful to human health. The health impacts of our changing climate include increased respiratory and cardiovascular disease, injuries [...]

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June will be here before we know it—meaning LGBTQIA Pride Month is just around the corner. To celebrate the rich spectrum of genders, sexualities, and most important of all—people—University Book Store highlights 7 fantastic titles about queer people. From non-fiction, memoir, and enthralling novels, each of these books presents aspects of queer life. Real Queer [...]

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