The late October rain arrived this week, but soon Seattle will be hit with a deluge of a different sort. For three days during the first week of November, comics scholars from across the world will descend on the University of Washington for The International Comic Arts Forum, the largest gathering of its kind in [...]

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If you’ve ever helped a parent or family member use the internet to research health symptoms or decipher a prescription, you’ve participated in what Carmen Gonzalez and her research team call a brokering interaction—helping someone bridge a language or skills gap in order to access information and resources. Gonzalez, an assistant professor in the Department of [...]

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It’s time to meet the 14 acts taking center stage at Ovations 2017, The Whole U’s fourth annual performance showcase for staff, students, and faculty. Hosted by The Collective, UW’s foremost (and only) improv troupe, the afternoon promises to be as unexpected as it is entertaining. So what talent will tread the boards at Meany [...]

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Most enter graduate school with a clear vision of their intended path of research. William Streitberger decided to follow his nose. “I loved the look, the feel, the smell—everything,” Streitberger, a professor of English at the University of Washington, says of time spent among sixteenth and seventeenth century tomes as a graduate student at the University of [...]

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The slump of a shoulder; the twitch of a lip; a certain gaze. Some actions say it all without the need for words. But when so much daily human connection and communication occurs on this substratum of silence, what can we learn from what’s left unsaid? It’s a question for Valerie Manusov, a professor in [...]

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Hey hey, my my / Rock and roll can never die / My my, hey hey / Rock and roll is here to stay Any seasoned musician will tell you that it’s one thing to say the lyrics, but another thing to make them ring true. If Neil Young’s famous lines are to be recognized as rock [...]

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The universe is unraveling, but Danny Arguetty is hardly concerned. To the contrary: when Arguetty is asked about strategies for overcoming challenges on the path to self-improvement in his capacity as manager of UW Recreation’s Mindfulness Program, he replies that first acknowledging, then embracing the universe’s disposition towards disarray can be a key step in [...]

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For the second day in a row, Julie Kientz blacked out at the sight of blood. When she came to, lifted from the floor of the veterinarian’s office where she was participating in a job-shadowing program, the eleventh grader from Ohio decided it might be time for a change of career plans. “I love computers,” [...]

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Amy Ko’s interest in coding and computer programming started early—six o’clock in the morning early. Growing up in the Portland suburb of West Linn, Oregon, Ko would set her alarm in order to make a 7 a.m. computer science class offered at her high school during “zero period.” While most of her crack-of-dawn classmates used [...]

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On May 17, 1999, nine members of the Makah tribal nation paddled a canoe into the waters off Cape Alava on the Olympic Peninsula in pursuit of a 30-foot gray whale. From the first harpoon strike to a finishing shot delivered by a specialized rifle, the hunt lasted no more than ten minutes, but kicked [...]

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When Katie Gallagher moved to Seattle from Rhode Island three years ago, she didn’t know what the future would hold, so she decided to activate a connection from her past. Near the end of her studies as an undergraduate at the University of Rhode Island, Gallagher had attended a feminist camp in New York City [...]

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As humans, we leave little room for tragedy in our lives. When tragic events do occur—invading the idyll of the everyday and shattering our confidence in common bonds—we all too often attempt to cope by burying associated memories deep beyond reach: suffering stifled, pain pent up, and the confusion sown by death, disease, and mental [...]

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