When ancient walls talk, Sarah Levin-Richardson listens. What she hears are the unheard voices of a distant past—those of slaves and prostitutes, men and women who, in the classical literary tradition, are otherwise left on the outside looking in. An assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Washington, Levin-Richardson specializes in [...]

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If Eric Chudler could design the perfect children’s television show, he would fuse three elements: dinosaurs, outer space, and the brain: “Those are three things almost every kid can get into.” But budgets being what they are—and technology to clone dinosaurs or launch rockets into deep space lagging behind recent advances in the field of [...]

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Last October, a University of Washington research team presented a study at The Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Seattle that simulated 50 different scenarios for a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone—a large rift in the Earth’s crust 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. There, the Pacific sea floor of the Juan [...]

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We all have that song—the piece of music that gets us moving in the morning. The one that taps a hidden reserve of energy during a workout in pursuit of a personal best or which settles the nerves at the end of a stressful day. It’s the one that really takes you back, spurs you [...]

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Growing up in the small borough of Lewistown in central Pennsylvania, Jack Berryman excelled at athletics. As a freshman in high school, he lettered at shortstop for the varsity baseball team. Each fall, he’d leg it down the soccer field with ease. When the weather turned cold in winter, he was usually one of ten [...]

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In 1999, Megan Ming Francis left home in Seattle to study computer science at Rice University. Her plan was to see the world, then someday return to Washington to work for Microsoft. Fifteen years later—after subsequent stopovers in New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana, and California—she was back, but instead of a career as a computer programmer, [...]

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Next time you walk down a Seattle sidewalk, you’re stepping directly into the work of Anat Caspi. As director of The Taskar Center for Accessible Technology based at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, Caspi leads the development, translation, and deployment of open-source, universally accessible technologies that benefit populations with [...]

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Todd Tuetken always loved to lift. Growing up on a cattle farm in eastern Iowa, he watched his father and uncle build their own weight-lifting equipment with parts from an old combine harvester. Together they engineered a leg press, a spot rack, and rigged a lat pulldown machine using a tiller disc and combine chain. [...]

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What happens when you’re a surgeon who relies on her hands for intricate operations and one day you lose the upper body strength needed to perform them? Ask Barbara Goff. The chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Goff serves as professor and division director of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Washington and the Seattle [...]

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Last July, Thaïsa Way set out with her daughter to climb Mt. Rainier. Several days and 9,000 vertical feet later, they stood together atop the 14,411-foot summit. Beneath the blisteringly blue sky stretched a vast sheet of cloud into a trackless sea of white, broken only by an occasional archipelago of mountain peaks jutting upwards [...]

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When Hassan Guyo stopped running two years ago, it was a strategic move in the race of a lifetime. He’d just started taking classes at the UW School of Law and would soon begin work as a custodial supervisor for the UW Facilities and Building Services Department. With a wife and four children at home [...]

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There is no such thing as a soccer emergency. At least not in the life of Lesle Gallimore. It’s not that the head coach of UW Women’s Soccer isn’t competitive. To the contrary: the California native is the winningest coach in program history and recently earned her 250th UW victory in a 1-0 contest at [...]

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