Faculty Friday: Charity Urbanski
Most people spend summer enjoying the bright, warm weather. Charity Urbanski spent hers hunting monsters. “Mostly my summer has been devoted to monsters—dragons, revenants, werewolves, that sort of thing,” says Urbanski, a senior lecturer in the University of Washington Department of History specializing in France and England in the 12th century. As she prepares to [...]
Challenge Accepted: Raise the Bar in Review
As summer soon shifts into autumn, the UW community begins to look ahead to the new academic year. In addition to the excitement of a campus bustling with students and the spirited competition of fall athletics, there’s a lot to look forward to! From UW Yoga Month and the UW Medicine Heart Walk in October [...]
Faculty Friday: Kristi Morgansen
Growing up, Kristi Morgansen dreamed of becoming an astronaut—of unknown worlds and the engineering feats that would allow her to explore them. Today, as chair of the UW Department of Astronautics and Aeronautics, she does all that and more. She didn’t become an astronaut, but she does have her own school of robotic fish, so [...]
Staff Story: Holly Arsenault
As a playwright, Holly Arsenault writes mostly comedies, but she takes her work as director of engagement for the UW School of Drama very seriously. “For me, next season has already started,” she says, referring to all the public shows the UW School of Drama will present in the 2019 and 2020 academic year. In [...]
Staff Story: Dahmar Smiles and Gabriel Golden
When you think about the tools of police work, handheld radios, flashlights, and firearms might spring to mind. But two officers with the University of Washington Police Department have found success utilizing a different device—handling their duties as part of the UW Seattle campus constabulary not with handcuffs, but with a healthy dose of humor. [...]
Staff Story: Dalya’s Dance Crew
It’s the University District’s best dance party—and it happens in broad daylight. Twice a week for the past six years, a group of University of Washington faculty, staff, and students have gathered to move, groove, and otherwise get down at a lunch hour dance class from noon to 1pm in a studio space at the [...]
Staff Story: Lisa Brandenburg
What will UW Medicine look like in 2025? How can the health system expand and expedite access for patients? What more can be done to help the Northwest’s largest network of hospitals and clinics find firmer financial footing in order to better serve the region? Those are a few of the big-picture questions Lisa Brandenburg [...]
Summer Resource Guide 2019
No matter your summer goals, The Whole U likely has recurrent resources to help you reach them! From training plans to kitchen quick reference guides, the following resources are organized into three sections—being active, improving mental health, and eating well—to serve as a one-stop springboard to help you stay active, feel better, and grow stronger. [...]
Staff Story: The MC-1 Team
Pictured above—Front row, left to right—Joya Clark, Thongnee Foosaeng, Leilani Uehara; Back row, left to right: Julius Ordonez, Ken Sawicki, Angelina Quintero; not pictured: Keith Sterling, Kong Yeung Every morning before five o’clock, a surfer, a mother, a gardener, and a rugby referee arrive on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Along with four other [...]
Faculty Friday: Karen Fredriksen Goldsen
For social work professor Karen Fredriksen Goldsen, the celebration of LGBTQ Pride is a matter of public health. “Invisibility creates vulnerability and tends to lead to very poor health outcomes,” says Fredriksen Goldsen, professor and director of Healthy Generations Hartford Center of Excellence at the University of Washington. She’d know, having served as lead on [...]
Spotlight: Distinguished Staff Award Recipients
Established in 1997 to honor outstanding University of Washington staff, the Distinguished Staff Award is presented at the UW Awards of Excellence ceremony each June. Of the many nominations drawn from the diverse and indispensable contributions of its 24,000 classified and professional staff, five individuals or teams are selected as award recipients based on their [...]
UW staff share how to start running to work
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 [...]