Staff Story: Anat Caspi
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 [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Todd Tuetken
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. [...]
Faculty Friday: Thaïsa Way
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 [...]
Staff Story: Hassan Guyo
When Hassan Guyo stopped running two years ago, it was a strategic move in the race of a lifetime. He’d just started taking classes at the UW School of Law and would soon begin work as a custodial supervisor for the UW Facilities and Building Services Department. With a wife and four children at home [...]
Help Make Dreams a Reality at Training Day
What makes an Olympian? It’s more than just a medal or having the fastest time on the clock. At Special Olympics Washington, being an Olympian about having the opportunity to lead—both on the field and in the world; as an athlete competing to test one’s own limits and as a volunteer to help others attain [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Lesle Gallimore
There is no such thing as a soccer emergency. At least not in the life of Lesle Gallimore. It’s not that the head coach of UW Women’s Soccer isn’t competitive. To the contrary: the California native is the winningest coach in program history and recently earned her 250th UW victory in a 1-0 contest at [...]
Support Washington’s Special Olympics Athletes
From June 30 to July 6, 2018, Seattle will host the 50th annual Special Olympics USA Games with the University of Washington set to serve as the primary venue. UW residence halls will house thousands of athletes and coaches from across the country during the weeklong stretch of games with campus facilities serving as the [...]
Staff Story: Pamella Guntrum
Take a walk through Harborview Medical Center at lunchtime and you’re likely to hear Pamella Guntrum before you see her. As manager of Program Operations in Clinical Development & Patient Education, Guntrum keeps a busy schedule. But at least once a month, she sets work aside and devotes her lunch hour to practicing a different [...]
#UWTimeOff Photo Contest Finalists
Summer passes into autumn and, with that, our second iteration of the #UWTimeOff photo contest comes to a close. Your response to our call for photographs telling the stories of how you spend time away from the UW was even greater than it was during the contest’s inaugural run. From historic haunts and weekend hikes [...]
Faculty Friday: José Alaniz
The late October rain arrived this week, but soon Seattle will be hit with a deluge of a different sort. For three days during the first week of November, comics scholars from across the world will descend on the University of Washington for The International Comic Arts Forum, the largest gathering of its kind in [...]
Faculty Friday: Carmen Gonzalez
If you’ve ever helped a parent or family member use the internet to research health symptoms or decipher a prescription, you’ve participated in what Carmen Gonzalez and her research team call a brokering interaction—helping someone bridge a language or skills gap in order to access information and resources. Gonzalez, an assistant professor in the Department of [...]
Ovations: Meet the Performers
It’s time to meet the 14 acts taking center stage at Ovations 2017, The Whole U’s fourth annual performance showcase for staff, students, and faculty. Hosted by The Collective, UW’s foremost (and only) improv troupe, the afternoon promises to be as unexpected as it is entertaining. So what talent will tread the boards at Meany [...]