When the stressors of life as a social worker attack, Sandra Kinney jabs back with a two-pronged defense. By day, Kinney provides training and support to thousands of Washington’s child welfare workers, foster parents, and caregivers through more than 125 classes and customized coaching sessions as interim executive director of the Alliance for Child Welfare [...]

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Barbara Bartolatz knows what it means to be from Tacoma. She grew up in the city’s North End, attending Stadium High School where she was an active participant in regional philanthropy efforts such as the second annual Relay for Life. She also knows what it means to be resilient. The first in her family to [...]

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On Friday afternoon, 36 high school students and their families will gather at Intellectual House for a graduation ceremony celebrating their completion of UW Nurse Camp—a program that lasts only five days, but which will likely alter the course of many their lives. Co-founded* in 2009 by Carolyn Chow, director of admissions and student diversity [...]

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Do you create websites, videos, or digital documents such as PDFs or Word? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to access these materials if you’re unable to see, hear, or use a mouse? Expand your notion of “everyone” at an Oct. 22 seminar for learning simple techniques for creating digital content that is accessible to all, co-hosted [...]

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Because fitness is about finding what fuels you, The Whole U is partnering with Any Hungry Husky / UW Campus Food Pantry for UW Fitness Day. Register to participate and bring a nonperishable, shelf-stable food item to Husky Stadium on Wednesday, May 2 to help sustain and grow this service vital to community health and wellness. When hunger hits, [...]

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If you’ve ever felt at a loss for where to find healthy dining options in the U District with its seemingly endless array of quick service sandwich shops and delicious, yet dubiously nutritious dumpling joints, you’re in luck. On Monday, March 26, a wellness-focused dining venue will open just a few blocks from the Ave [...]

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Sarah Guthrie appreciates a good challenge. Three years ago, she made it her mission to spend 30 minutes a day painting at home in her basement studio—a way of incorporating her lifelong passion for making art into a busy schedule as director of communications for the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. “It seemed like [...]

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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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When Dr. Cassie Pasquariello watches from the sidelines of a big game, she does so with the knowledge that whatever the outcome, winning big as a student athlete will take many forms. As UW Athletics’ director of Counseling and Sport Psychology, Pasquariello is as much concerned with athletes’ long term success as a person as [...]

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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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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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