As a playwright, Holly Arsenault writes mostly comedies, but she takes her work as director of engagement for the UW School of Drama very seriously. “For me, next season has already started,” she says, referring to all the public shows the UW School of Drama will present in the 2019 and 2020 academic year. In [...]

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When you think about the tools of police work, handheld radios, flashlights, and firearms might spring to mind. But two officers with the University of Washington Police Department have found success utilizing a different device—handling their duties as part of the UW Seattle campus constabulary not with handcuffs, but with a healthy dose of humor. [...]

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It’s the University District’s best dance party—and it happens in broad daylight. Twice a week for the past six years, a group of University of Washington faculty, staff, and students have gathered to move, groove, and otherwise get down at a lunch hour dance class from noon to 1pm in a studio space at the [...]

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What will UW Medicine look like in 2025? How can the health system expand and expedite access for patients? What more can be done to help the Northwest’s largest network of hospitals and clinics find firmer financial footing in order to better serve the region? Those are a few of the big-picture questions Lisa Brandenburg [...]

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Pictured above—Front row, left to right—Joya Clark, Thongnee Foosaeng, Leilani Uehara; Back row, left to right: Julius Ordonez, Ken Sawicki, Angelina Quintero; not pictured: Keith Sterling, Kong Yeung Every morning before five o’clock, a surfer, a mother, a gardener, and a rugby referee arrive on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. Along with four other [...]

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Established in 1997 to honor outstanding University of Washington staff, the Distinguished Staff Award is presented at the UW Awards of Excellence ceremony each June. Of the many nominations drawn from the diverse and indispensable contributions of its 24,000 classified and professional staff, five individuals or teams are selected as award recipients based on their [...]

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The No. 15 Washington women’s tennis team is off to the best start in program history and hosts a pair of key Pac-12 matches this weekend, welcoming No. 13 USC on Friday at 1:30 p.m. and closing out the home portion of its 2019 schedule against No. 10 UCLA on Sunday at noon. Both USC [...]

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Richard Cordova recalls asking himself in eighth grade, “What am I going to do with my life?” Decades later, Cordova, who is now the executive director of UW’s Internal Audit, is helping other eighth graders do the same, only with an even greater sense of direction and purpose. For the last twelve years, Cordova has [...]

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Over the course of his career, Joe Grojean has navigated some dangerous situations and extreme conditions. There was that time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burundi when he had to be airlifted home with a broken leg after an errant taxi swiped him off his motorcycle. Or that job at a military base on [...]

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Two years into law school at Seattle University, Shondell Reed knew he had to make a change. “I knew I didn’t want to practice law,” says Reed, who today serves as Senior Associate Athletic Director at the University of Washington. “But I also knew my law degree would be helpful in another career.” Growing up [...]

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Crash the boards in support of Huskies Women’s Basketball and Gymnastics with select ticket discounts from UW Athletics! There’s an unforgettable scene in Frank Capra’s 1946 film It’s a Wonderful Life in which a basketball gym floor splits open during a high school dance, sending unsuspecting dancers splashing down into a 25-yard swimming pool below. [...]

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Kim Durand never envisioned that one of the high points in her career in college athletics would come clutching a box full of hats. But that’s just where she found herself late last spring in Fullerton, California: standing well back into foul territory, box of hats in hand, as UW Baseball battled into extra innings [...]

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