When the University of Washington Husky football team victoriously stormed the field at the 1991 Rose Bowl in Pasadena, thousands of dreams were fulfilled. In the same moment, more than 1000 miles away in a garage in Montana, another was born. Basked in the glow of his parents’ television set, reveling in the Huskies’ newly-minted [...]

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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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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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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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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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You know that moment when you can't think of anything to say? Jed Thompson doesn't.

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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