If you’ve ever made a charitable donation via the University of Washington Combined Fund Drive (UWCFD), you likely already know how easy, efficacious, and impactful it is to make that gift. But do you know just how many fun and active ways there are of giving back this fall? Throughout November, the UWCFD is truly [...]

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When Landon Bennett decided to register to be a potential marrow donor with Be The Match, the then-UW sophomore hardly gave it a second thought. He’d donated blood before, so why not stem cells or bone marrow? He knew two relatives who’d come to Washington for marrow and stem cell transplants as treatment for leukemia [...]

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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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This article is part of an ongoing series spotlighting the first-of-its-kind partnership between the University of Washington and Be The Match, the nation’s largest marrow donor registry. Its aim is to encourage people—particularly people of color with mixed-ancestries—to register as potential donors as part of a commitment to grow and diversify the registry, thus increasing the [...]

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For any academic, the moment of holding your first published book is one of accomplishment, elation, and total triumph. But for Alexes Harris, a professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, that moment came on the heels of learning her life hung in the balance. A year earlier, she’d been working out when she [...]

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When you think of what it takes to cure cancer, what comes to mind? Vast, high-tech labs? White-coated technicians? Cutting-edge science happening on the smallest cellular scale? You wouldn’t be wrong, but then again, curing cancer also happens on an individual level—person-to-person and every day. That’s the idea behind the University of Washington’s new partnership [...]

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