Growing up in the small borough of Lewistown in central Pennsylvania, Jack Berryman excelled at athletics. As a freshman in high school, he lettered at shortstop for the varsity baseball team. Each fall, he’d leg it down the soccer field with ease. When the weather turned cold in winter, he was usually one of ten [...]

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In 1999, Megan Ming Francis left home in Seattle to study computer science at Rice University. Her plan was to see the world, then someday return to Washington to work for Microsoft. Fifteen years later—after subsequent stopovers in New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, and California—she was back, but instead of a career as a computer programmer, [...]

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When Dr. Cassie Pasquariello watches from the sidelines of a big game, she does so with the knowledge that whatever the outcome, winning big as a student athlete will take many forms. As UW Athletics’ director of Counseling and Sport Psychology, Pasquariello is as much concerned with athletes’ long term success as a person as [...]

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Looking ahead to 2018, you might be wondering what it takes to successfully set and achieve goals. For answers, we tapped the faculty and staff we interviewed in 2017 for words of insight, encouragement, and inspiration. These time-tested tips are sure to get you psyched for the 90-day Dare to Do New Year’s challenge and [...]

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Next time you walk down a Seattle sidewalk, you’re stepping directly into the work of Anat Caspi. As director of The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology based at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, Caspi leads the development, translation, and deployment of open-source, universally accessible technologies that benefit populations with [...]

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Todd Tuetken always loved to lift. Growing up on a cattle farm in eastern Iowa, he watched his father and uncle build their own weight-lifting equipment with parts from an old combine harvester. Together they engineered a leg press, a spot rack, and rigged a lat pulldown machine using a tiller disc and combine chain. [...]

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What happens when you’re a surgeon who relies on her hands for intricate operations and one day you lose the upper body strength needed to perform them? Ask Barbara Goff. The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Goff serves as professor and division director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Washington and the Seattle [...]

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Last July, Thaïsa Way set out with her daughter to climb Mt. Rainier. Several days and 9,000 vertical feet later, they stood together atop the 14,411-foot summit. Beneath the blisteringly blue sky stretched a vast sheet of cloud into a trackless sea of white, broken only by an occasional archipelago of mountain peaks jutting upwards [...]

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When Hassan Guyo stopped running two years ago, it was a strategic move in the race of a lifetime. He’d just started taking classes at the UW School of Law and would soon begin work as a custodial supervisor for the UW Facilities and Building Services Department. With a wife and four children at home [...]

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What makes an Olympian? It’s more than just a medal or having the fastest time on the clock. At Special Olympics Washington, being an Olympian about having the opportunity to lead—both on the field and in the world; as an athlete competing to test one’s own limits and as a volunteer to help others attain [...]

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There is no such thing as a soccer emergency. At least not in the life of Lesle Gallimore. It’s not that the head coach of UW Women’s Soccer isn’t competitive. To the contrary: the California native is the winningest coach in program history and recently earned her 250th UW victory in a 1-0 contest at [...]

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From June 30 to July 6, 2018, Seattle will host the 50th annual Special Olympics USA Games with the University of Washington set to serve as the primary venue. UW residence halls will house thousands of athletes and coaches from across the country during the weeklong stretch of games with campus facilities serving as the [...]

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