Faculty Friday: Lotta Gavel Adams
To understand trolls is to understand oneself—and professor Lotta Gavel Adams knows them better than most. But Gavel Adams, professor emerita and Barbro Osher Endowed Chair of Swedish Studies at the University of Washington, insists she’s neither troll scholar nor folklorist. “I am an historian of literature and culture who looks at what trolls look like [...]
Faculty Friday: Annie Nguyen
“The pursuit of happiness.” It’s a phrase that helped form our basis as a nation, but could it be that the pursuit of “happiness” is leaving us less happy than ever before? What is happiness, anyway? Those are questions Annie Nguyen explores in the writing classes she teaches as a lecturer at the University of Washington Tacoma; [...]
A November to remember at UW
As fall quarter kicked into high gear this November, so did The Whole U! Two month-long challenges got faculty and staff on the move. UW Transportation dared bikers to Ride in the Rain for an active commute, while the community on the Whole U Being Active page undertook a Holiday Strength Challenge. Energy boosted from short bursts [...]
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The plash of a paddle on the lake in the stillness of early morning. The soft rustle and bounce of pine needles underfoot as you enter a sunlit grove. The inquisitive humor of a child experiencing a new part of the world for the first time. The wisdom in helping them uncover an answer. The wonder at wondering yourself. The joy [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Kenny Dow
Harry the Husky is about to hit the big time for the first time. For most of the year, the UW Spirit cheer and dance program follows the schedule of other UW teams, performing at football, volleyball, and men’s and women’s basketball games. But this January, the team of 16 dancers, 24 coed stunters and [...]
Faculty Friday: Steve Herbert
Step into Steve Herbert’s office in Smith Hall at the University of Washington and it’s the art that immediately catches your eye. On a back wall above his desk hang two large pen-and-ink drawings of labyrinthine detail, imbued with a spinning sense of motion through thousands of short hatch marks made by a ballpoint pen. [...]
Staff Story: Leonora Clarke
Leonora Clarke isn’t a doctor, but she does work hard to provide healthcare to the underserved. As manager of service learning at UW Medical Center, Clarke works to support 50 healthcare projects staffed by more than 500 medical students serving thousands across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho. “Service learning is about getting out, using [...]
Faculty Friday: Sonal Khullar
For some, traveling the world conveys a sense of freedom. For Sonal Khullar, associate professor of art history at the University of Washington, however, the act of crossing borders all too often illustrates the strictures and stumbling blocks of globalism in the twenty-first century. “One of the things I’ve noted is that we usually think [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Jamie Clark
It’s a best-in-the-West showdown you won’t want to miss. This Sunday at 3 pm, UW Men’s Soccer takes on reigning three-peat national champion Stanford at Husky Soccer Stadium. “This is a huge weekend because Stanford is the three-time conference champion in a row and three-time national champion in a row,” says head coach Jamie Clark. [...]
Faculty Friday: Jennifer Bean
Deep in a cavernous concrete basement, Jennifer Bean sits stooped over a Steenbeck machine. The large, flatbed editor helps her hand-control the frame-by-frame movement of a filmstrip nobody has seen in eighty years. Like all filmstrips produced before the mid-century introduction of acetate safety stock, it is made of nitrocellulose, a highly flammable material prone [...]
Coaches’ Corner: Amy Griffin
When UW Women’s Soccer associate head coach Amy Griffin thinks about winning a national championship, she thinks about everything that has to go right. Not in terms of lucky bounces or fortuitous footwork, but in terms of the ways a championship team will prepare and support one another—both during games and in times in between. [...]
Faculty Friday: Shannon Dudley
It’s an instrument unlike any you’ve ever seen or heard. Tracing its origins to early 20th century Trinidad, the steel pan is constructed by hammering notes into the sunken bottom of an oil drum and played using small, rubber-tipped mallets. But the instrument’s outward simplicity belies complex origins. “For the people of Trinidad, the steel pan represents [...]