Faculty Friday: Jane Compson
Call her a professor. Call her a Buddhist chaplain. But before anything else, call Jane Compson what she calls herself: a curator. “I’m not a psychologist; I’m not a neuroscientist; but one of the things I think I am quite good at is explaining concepts to laypeople, because I am one myself,” says Compson, an [...]
Faculty Friday: Doug Jeck
Doug Jeck teaches students to think on their feet—by asking them to painstakingly create life-size human forms that can stand on theirs. The associate professor of 3D4M: ceramics + glass + sculpture meets me in the Ceramics Building right before his ART 353: Intermediate Ceramic Art final. Arrayed about one of the building’s studios spaces [...]
Explore the UW Bothell Campus Garden
Looking to get your hands dirty with a fun team bonding activity for this summer’s Raise the Bar challenge? Look no farther than UW Bothell’s campus garden. Located in the space adjacent to the sports fields and immediately south of the north parking garage, the UW Bothell campus garden provides an outdoor learning space designed to [...]
Spotlight: Distinguished Staff Award Winners
Each year, hundreds of staff members at the University of Washington come together to nominate and honor their colleagues for the Distinguished Staff Award—the highest staff honor at the University. “The Distinguished Staff Awards celebrate the amazing contributions of staff who work tirelessly to make the UW one of the best public research universities in [...]
Faculty Friday: Jim Gawel
When Jim Gawel looks at a lake, he sees an opportunity to learn—not just for the students he instructs as an associate professor of environmental chemistry and engineering in UW Tacoma’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, but for entire populations who rely on and reside by those water bodies. “Especially in urban areas, lakes [...]
The energy and ecstasy of Flamenco comes to UW
A few minutes into my conversation with Ricardo Garcia and it’s clear he prefers to let his guitar do most of the talking. Perched on a chair in an office in the Music Building, he plucks out series after series of palos, the stylistic and geographic variations of his chosen art form, flamenco. Like Garcia, [...]
Faculty Friday: Amy Lambert
When Amy Lambert first set foot in Washington, she never imagined she’d one day return for a master’s degree—let alone to devote nearly two decades to documenting and conserving one of North America’s rarest butterflies. At the time, Lambert was merely stopping through—a rising junior pursuing a BFA in Sculpture at Florida State University on [...]
1,100+ Make History at UW Fitness Day
“Thank your body for giving you this opportunity to move. Savor this joyous event and hold your body in gratitude.” —Bonnie Duran Last Wednesday, the “Greatest Setting in College Football” was setting to something never before witnessed in University of Washington history. Beginning at 11:15 am, more than 1,100 University of Washington faculty, staff, and [...]
The True Meaning of Fitness
This might come as a surprise, but UW Fitness Day is not about breaking a sweat. You can go as hard or as easy as you like during next Wednesday’s 40-station celebration of the many ways we move. More than anything, we define “fitness” as a gateway to what’s possible—a moving more together as one [...]
Faculty Friday: Elizabeth Wheat
This is the first in a series of weekly spotlights featuring 2018 winners of the Husky Green Award. In support of the University of Washington’s long-standing commitment to sustainability, the Husky Green Awards recognize exemplary achievement of an individual or team from the UW community who have demonstrated leadership, initiative and dedication to campus sustainability. [...]
Support UW Campus Food Pantry at UW Fitness Day
Because fitness is about finding what fuels you, The Whole U is partnering with Any Hungry Husky / UW Campus Food Pantry for UW Fitness Day. Register to participate and bring a nonperishable, shelf-stable food item to Husky Stadium on Wednesday, May 2 to help sustain and grow this service vital to community health and wellness. When hunger hits, [...]
Faculty Friday: Jim Nicholls
Building Blocks: Storefront Studio on Mainstreet charts the grassroots evolution of a community outreach studio offered by the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Since 2003, Director Jim Nicholls has been leading groups of architecture, landscape, and planning students to partner with local small towns to study their main streets. The exhibit and book documents the [...]