While some might look at a scale with a sense of dread, Hilary Law only saw opportunity. When the heart failure transition nurse at the University of Washington Medical Center received an email in late November about The Whole U’s plan to distribute digital scales donated by Pivotal Digital to the first 1000 registrants for its [...]

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Most mornings, Arien Cherones wakes up at 4 a.m. But you won’t find the IT director for UW Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine complaining. Far from it. “I honestly believe I have the coolest job at the University,” he says. “A 40-hour workweek is not something I stringently adhere to.” Cherones’ early hours [...]

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Anaid Yerena’s textbook is out of date. But the assistant professor at University of Washington Tacoma’s School of Urban Studies wouldn’t have it otherwise. Yerena teaches the course “Housing in America” and the text in question, Introduction to Housing, was last published in 2006. “I need you to be reading this book within the context [...]

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Even after 33 seasons as head coach of the University of Washington women’s golf team and a 2016 run to the program’s first national championship, Mary Lou Mulflur is quick to shoot down any notion that she has it all figured out. “The minute I think I have it figured out, I’m done,” she says. “When you [...]

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It’s a simple question with a complicated response. “Who cares?” The search for an answer is at the core of Clara Berridge’s research at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. The assistant professor explores the social and ethical aspects of how healthcare technologies challenge, change, and enhance care relationships—especially for older adults. “There [...]

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Whether she’s meeting faculty at the School of Pharmacy or Fidel Castro in Havana, Penny Evans likes staying a step ahead. It’s a strategy the graduate program advisor for the School of Pharmacy’s Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program has brought to work every day for the past 25 years and the advice she says she’d [...]

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How do you measure a microaggression? That’s just one of the questions at the heart of Jonathan Kanter’s research at the University of Washington’s Center for the Science of Social Connection. Kanter, a research associate professor of psychology who has served as the Center’s director since 2013, believes the answer may prove essential to better [...]

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The study of literature can be wet work. Richard Watts teaches the course that proves it. In Water Crisis in Literature & Cinema, Watts, who serves as associate professor and chair of French and Italian Studies, addresses the cultural significance of water and its changing meaning as societies grow more conscious of risks posed by [...]

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A Story of Fundraising, Gratitude, and Fitness Chris Kirchoff changed Ariadna Santander’s life. Since doctors told Santander she would never run again, she’s completed over 11 half marathons and hiked in the Himalayas – not to mention her plans to hike the Andes this October. Now Santander, along with Kirchoff and a team of determined [...]

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At the University of Washington, a world-renown hub of medical innovation, researchers team up across departments to find answers to some of health care’s most pressing problems. Programmers solve. Engineers build. Physicians treat. Patients win. But buried inside this collaborative approach to medicine are questions that science can’t answer: When does a physical impairment become a “problem”? Do all problems need to be fixed? How much input should patients have?

It's a quiet afternoon in summer quarter, and Gary Hsieh is wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He rode his bike to work this morning — for the first time — and now he's sitting across from a 3-foot-tall package from Amazon. "This is an under-desk elliptical," he says, slapping the top of the bulky box. He’ll pedal it beneath his feet as he types, burning calories with each keystroke. Hsieh, an assistant professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE), is trying to solve a problem. "I’ve gained too much weight,” he says.

It’s the kind of trip you find on bucket lists. In two weeks, Taso Lagos and 29 students will fly to Athens, Greece, where they’ll stroll through ancient streets and watch the sun set over the Mediterranean Sea. "Walking in the same place as Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates is a great thrill," said Lagos, the director of the Greece study abroad program. “Saint Paul and some of the early Christians were there, as well.”