Faculty Friday: Will DePaolo
Will DePaolo studies bacteria, but his science goes viral. The associate professor of medicine’s videos exploring the bacterial science behind everyday objects have amassed millions of hits on BuzzFeed and led to appearances on The Today Show, but DePaolo, the director of the University of Washington’s new Center for Microbiome Sciences and Therapeutics (CMiST), says he [...]
Kneadful Things: The Benefits of Massage
On February 21 and 22, The Whole U surprised doctors, nurses, and staff with free chair massages at pop-up locations at Harborview and UW Medical Centers. In four sessions across two days at eight separate locations, 12 licensed massage therapists volunteered their time and mastery of the musculoskeletal system to provide more than 400 staff members with [...]
Staff Story: Linda Di Biase
All librarians like a good challenge—Linda Di Biase perhaps more than most. Three days a week, Di Biase serves as the eBook and collaborative collection strategy librarian in the University of Washington’s Collection Analysis and Strategy Department. When she’s not building and analyzing library collections or helping PhD students access hard-to-find documents half-way around the [...]
Faculty Friday: Kathryn Topper
Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Kathryn Topper thought she wanted to be an astronaut or astrophysicist. That was until tenth grade, when she fell in with a different crowd. This group made a habit of gathering late into the night to talk, sing, and drink—sometimes making a competition of flinging dregs of wine [...]
Staff Story: Iisaaksiichaa Braine
When the University of Washington Husky football team victoriously stormed the field at the 1991 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, thousands of dreams were fulfilled. In the same moment, more than 1000 miles away in a garage in Montana, another was born. Basked in the glow of his parents’ television set, reveling in the Huskies’ newly-minted [...]
Faculty Friday: Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Naomi Macalalad Bragin teaches dance. But you won’t find her teaching only steps. She’s more interested in what’s happening off-stage—underground and in the street. The assistant professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell is a performance ethnographer whose work places her at the convergence of dance, pop [...]
Faculty Friday: Tim Essington
To deliver the perfect presentation, prepare to embrace your mistakes. That’s the philosophy Tim Essington brings to Applied Improvisation for Science Communication, a course the professor of aquatic and fishery sciences developed to help scientists more confidently and effectively communicate their research. “Giving a good talk isn’t just what you put on your slides, it’s [...]
Faculty Friday: Michelle Martin
For Michelle Martin, the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services at the University of Washington’s Information School, reading’s best lessons aren’t found in the book, but in the binding. “Sharing books is as much about relationship building as it is about skill development,” she says of literature’s connective quality. “There’s a difference between [...]
Staff Story: Hilary Law
While some might look at a scale with a sense of dread, Hilary Law only saw opportunity. When the heart failure transition nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center received an email in late November about The Whole U’s plan to distribute digital scales donated by Pivotal Digital to the first 1000 registrants for its [...]
Staff Story: Arien Cherones
Most mornings, Arien Cherones wakes up at 4 a.m. But you won’t find the IT director for UW Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine complaining. Far from it. “I honestly believe I have the coolest job at the University,” he says. “A 40-hour workweek is not something I stringently adhere to.” Cherones’ early hours [...]
Faculty Friday: Anaid Yerena
Anaid Yerena’s textbook is out of date. But the assistant professor at University of Washington Tacoma’s School of Urban Studies wouldn’t have it otherwise. Yerena teaches the course “Housing in America” and the text in question, Introduction to Housing, was last published in 2006. “I need you to be reading this book within the context [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Mary Lou Mulflur
Even after 33 seasons as head coach of the University of Washington women’s golf team and a 2016 run to the program’s first national championship, Mary Lou Mulflur is quick to shoot down any notion that she has it all figured out. “The minute I think I have it figured out, I’m done,” she says. “When you [...]