David Masiello is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and an adjunct assistant professor of Applied Mathematics. He runs a team of chemistry, physics, and applied math graduate students and postdocs called the Masiello Group. “We’re theorists, and we do simulations as well,” Masiello said. “We have no laboratories. Everything we do is paper and pencil, and white boards, and writing computer codes.”

Olga Levaniouk is an associate professor in the Department of Classics. She refers to herself as a Homerist, meaning she specializes in the work attributed to the epic poet Homer. “When I first encountered Homer as a student, it was a big day for me,” Levaniouk recalled. “We spent the whole class on one line of The Iliad, in original Greek, and every word had such amazing depth, there were interesting things to say about every word. We went on for an hour, and I felt we still hadn’t finished everything there was to know about that line.”

Shi Chen is an assistant professor in the Foster School of Business. His research deals with the interface of project management and supply chain management — or, in other words, how to make businesses better. “You can always improve a business,” Shi said. “There is no best outcome. You can always identify some potential problem. You can develop a model that nobody has seen before, and you can analyze this model and present a meaningful result.”

If you’ve ever been to a Whole U event, chances are you’ve seen Sabahat Hussain. He’s taken full advantage of our program since coming to UW from a tech company in 2014. “I came from a corporate culture that was rewarding, but there was less focus on individual employee development,” said Sabahat, who is now [...]

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Eric Ames is a professor in Germanics and Comparative Literature who specializes in cinema. Much of his research explores the enigmatic work of German filmmaker Werner Herzog, known by mainstream moviegoers for documentaries like “Grizzly Man” and “Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” Last quarter Ames taught a class on film noir, the genre of dark and moody thrillers that Hollywood churned out after World War II. “I can’t get enough of film noir,” he said. “The first thing I say to my students is, ‘This stuff is candy.'”

Caley Cook is a lecturer in Communications, a multimedia journalist, and a documentary filmmaker. Since joining the UW in 2013, she has primarily taught classes about newsgathering and reporting.