Get ‘Financially Fit’ with The Whole U’s newest pillar
Money may not buy happiness, but studies suggest there is a clear link between one’s financial fitness and overall health. When bills pile up, so does stress—and matters of debt and mental health all too often become easily intertwined. No matter how you define overall wellness, sound finances lie at the heart of your ability [...]
Staff Story: Shondell Reed
Two years into law school at Seattle University, Shondell Reed knew he had to make a change. “I knew I didn’t want to practice law,” says Reed, who today serves as Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of Washington. “But I also knew my law degree would be helpful in another career.” Growing up [...]
Faculty Friday: Charlotte Sanders
Growing up, Charlotte Sanders didn’t know what social work was. She did, however, know “what it felt like.” Her mother, a worker with the Department of Social and Health Services, would participate in donation drives for members of the Toppenish farming community on the Yakama Indian Reservation and Charlotte would help out. “She showed me [...]
Faculty Friday: Michael Berry
If aliens were ever to land, Michael Berry thinks his music theory students would be prepared. “I want my students to be able to figure out what makes their music tick,” Berry says, calling up connotations of the scene in 1977’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in which aliens and humans communicate through a [...]
UW crafts 650+ cards for patients at UWMC
Neither snow, nor sleet, nor slush will keep the Valentine’s Day mail at UW Medical Center. On Thursday, more than 650 Valentine’s will be delivered to inpatients—each card handcrafted by a member of the UW community. Plaza Café staff will be putting a Valentine on every patient’s meal tray on the 14th—what UWMC Art Program [...]
Faculty Friday: Adam Warren
If Adam Warren could time travel, he might head to Mexico City in the 1920s—the period immediately following a decade of revolutionary war that was, in his view, “a moment of radical new ideas and imagining how Mexican society might be transformed.” Then again, Warren says he’d have to consider other areas of his research [...]
Celebrate Black History Month at UW
Black History Month traces its roots to the work of historian Carter G. Woodson, who in 1926 declared that the second week of February should be dedicated to the celebration of African-American contributions that “were overlooked, ignored, and even suppressed by the writers of history textbooks and the teachers who use them.” The timing of [...]
13 Ways to Be Better with a Budget
This week, as part of the ongoing 8-week Dare to Do challenge, we hone in on time management, organization, and financial wellness. Not surprisingly, all three of these concepts are closely related and impact one another. When we focus on being intentional with our time, we are able to better position our lives. Whether that [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Jody Wynn
Crash the boards in support of Huskies Women’s Basketball and Gymnastics with select ticket discounts from UW Athletics! There’s an unforgettable scene in Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life in which a basketball gym floor splits open during a high school dance, sending unsuspecting dancers splashing down into a 25-yard swimming pool below. [...]
Staff Story: Kim Durand
Kim Durand never envisioned that one of the high points in her career in college athletics would come clutching a box full of hats. But that’s just where she found herself late last spring in Fullerton, California: standing well back into foul territory, box of hats in hand, as UW Baseball battled into extra innings [...]
Staff Story: Joyce Yen
In academia, many devote long stretches of their lives to preparing for a career they’ve aspired to since they were young. A few outliers find their way to faculty positions via the confluence of aptitude and happy accident. Fewer still spend years preparing for a future career without ever really realizing it. Dr. Joyce Yen [...]
Look Back to Get Ahead in 2019!
The Whole U’s eight-week Dare to Do challenge to make positive, lasting improvements in all areas of life is set to begin Monday, January 7. Each week of the challenge will focus on a different area of wellness, setting you up for success with a holistic approach for making healthy changes into enduring habits. Register here [...]