The door of each office in Mackenzie Hall is adorned with a little metal placard, meant to display name plates, business cards, or office hours. For L.A. Smith, this 3×2-inch rectangle has been the frame for nearly a thousand pieces of art. Every day, Smith displays a new finger-length canvas on her office door. These [...]

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Don’t let the desk job fool you. Daren Wade is a man on the move. After work on four days a week, he leaves his office in the Harris Hydraulics Lab and drives to Zumba class, where he shows a group of eager dancers how to hop and bop to the beat. On Wednesdays, he [...]

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Kim Martini likes to throw expensive stuff into the ocean. That might sound crazy, but to Kim, it’s science. She’s a physical oceanographer, and the things she tosses overboard measure energy pathways through waves and turbulence. That helps us understand the state of sea. “I grew up around the ocean,” Kim said. “I was pretty [...]

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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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