Each year, hundreds of staff members at the University of Washington come together to nominate and honor their colleagues for the Distinguished Staff Award—the highest staff honor at the University. “The Distinguished Staff Awards celebrate the amazing contributions of staff who work tirelessly to make the UW one of the best public research universities in [...]

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When Jim Gawel looks at a lake, he sees an opportunity to learn—not just for the students he instructs as an associate professor of environmental chemistry and engineering in UW Tacoma’s School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, but for entire populations who rely on and reside by those water bodies. “Especially in urban areas, lakes [...]

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A few minutes into my conversation with Ricardo Garcia and it’s clear he prefers to let his guitar do most of the talking. Perched on a chair in an office in the Music Building, he plucks out series after series of palos, the stylistic and geographic variations of his chosen art form, flamenco. Like Garcia, [...]

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When Amy Lambert first set foot in Washington, she never imagined she’d one day return for a master’s degree—let alone to devote nearly two decades to documenting and conserving one of North America’s rarest butterflies. At the time, Lambert was merely stopping through—a rising junior pursuing a BFA in Sculpture at Florida State University on [...]

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This is the first in a series of weekly spotlights featuring 2018 winners of the Husky Green Award. In support of the University of Washington’s long-standing commitment to sustainability, the Husky Green Awards recognize exemplary achievement of an individual or team from the UW community who have demonstrated leadership, initiative and dedication to campus sustainability. [...]

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Because fitness is about finding what fuels you, The Whole U is partnering with Any Hungry Husky / UW Campus Food Pantry for UW Fitness Day. Register to participate and bring a nonperishable, shelf-stable food item to Husky Stadium on Wednesday, May 2 to help sustain and grow this service vital to community health and wellness. When hunger hits, [...]

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Building Blocks: Storefront Studio on Mainstreet charts the grassroots evolution of a community outreach studio offered by the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Since 2003, Director Jim Nicholls has been leading groups of architecture, landscape, and planning students to partner with local small towns to study their main streets. The exhibit and book documents the [...]

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If you’ve ever felt at a loss for where to find healthy dining options in the U District with its seemingly endless array of quick service sandwich shops and delicious, yet dubiously nutritious dumpling joints, you’re in luck. On Monday, March 26, a wellness-focused dining venue will open just a few blocks from the Ave [...]

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While some may be celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend, there’s another holiday taking center stage at the University of Washington—a celebration more than 3,000 years in the making. Nowruz (meaning New Day and pronounced No-ROOZ) is a non-religious Persian New Year celebration honoring the first day of spring observed by nearly 300 million people [...]

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Sarah Guthrie appreciates a good challenge. Three years ago, she made it her mission to spend 30 minutes a day painting at home in her basement studio—a way of incorporating her lifelong passion for making art into a busy schedule as director of communications for the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. “It seemed like [...]

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When ancient walls talk, Sarah Levin-Richardson listens. What she hears are the unheard voices of a distant past—those of slaves and prostitutes, men and women who, in the classical literary tradition, are otherwise left on the outside looking in. An assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Washington, Levin-Richardson specializes in [...]

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If Eric Chudler could design the perfect children’s television show, he would fuse three elements: dinosaurs, outer space, and the brain: “Those are three things almost every kid can get into.” But budgets being what they are—and technology to clone dinosaurs or launch rockets into deep space lagging behind recent advances in the field of [...]

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