Issue Archive

April 2013
Saving Lives, By Design | Physicists for a Day | Making Music and Memories in Beijing | Through Museum Partnership, Theory Meets Practice | Remembrance Photography's Role in Grieving | A Leader in Physics Education

March 2013
Plastics Reconsidered | Movers and Shakers and History Makers: Gary and Carver Gayton | Tibet to Trinidad: Ethnomusicology's Global Reach | BlackPast.org: African American History on the Web | Before You Swat That Fruit Fly: Michael Dickinson's TEDx talk | A&S Student Martha Gonzalez Wins Grammy Award | Alum Jim Riswold Honored for Groundbreaking Ads

January 2013
CineMedia: Filmmaking Pilot Program Embraces the Liberal Arts | UWTV Celebrates Independent Film | The Flick List: Recommended Viewing | Film Buffs, Join the Club | Peter Chiarelli: From Producer to Screenwriter | Lynn Shelton: Passionate About Filmmaking—and the Northwest | Behind the Scenes in Film | A Love-Hate Relationship with Documentary Films | A&S Students Honored as President's Medalists | Six A&S Faculty Named AAAS Fellows

December 2012
Three Dances, Three Collaborations | Computing with Hyak: The Power of Sharing | Championing Seattle's Invisible Homeless | A Hot Gift for Glassblowing | Misleading Mosquitoes, One Scent at a Time | World's "Oldest Old" to Increase Dramatically | A Century of the Mighty Rite | The Middle East Crisis: Its Beginnings, Its Future | Be an Arts Dawg!

October 2012
A Tradition of Engaged Citizenship | A Unique "Eye" on the Election | Living Voters Guide: A Resource for Discussion, Civic and Civil | Latino Voters and the 2012 Election | Two Decades of Bridges | The Tea Party, Still Brewing | Race Bias in the Presidential Election | Advancing Science and Improving Lives Through Mass Spectrometry | From the Studio to the Smithsonian

September 2012
Huskies Share Dirty Story | Exploring Identity in Cuba | A Bridge to College Writing | Election Insights: Upcoming Lectures | Northwest Census Research Data Center | An Elusive Particle Makes its Debut | A&S Faculty Elected Phi Beta Kappa Senators | President Obama Honors UW BIologist

June 2012
A Passion for Australian Aboriginal Art | The Timeless Quiz: Celebrating Arts and Sciences' Exceptional Alumni | Guiding Teen Girls Toward College | "Awesome" Mutants and Fossilized Poop | The Rise of Megachurches | A&S Student Medalists Selected

April 2012
Lifted Up by the UW Community | Conservation Goes to the Dogs | Designing a Faster Mousetrap | Whose Patriotism is This, Anyway? | LSJ Encouraging Connections Through Service | Then and Now: MFA Program in Dance | A&S Dean's Showcase at HuskyFest | Hearing Aids: The Brain Connection | Word Sleuth for a Dictionary Revision

January 2012
Huskies' Dramatic NYC Trip | A Rhodes for A&S Triple Major | Exploring the Henry with Student Guides | Robert Stacey Named Interim Dean | Running 'Circles' Around Math | Seattle Deaf Film Festival Comes to UW | Dow Constantine: Stepping Up to the High Dive | 'Timeless Discoveries' Celebrated in A&S Documentary | Castalia Reading Series | Renaissance Books Reexamined

November 2011
Yang Celebrates "W Day" in Style | David Horsey on the Liberal Arts | Online Video Tours Celebrate UW's Colorful History | Bringing Melville to Monroe | Stuller Gets Her Geek On | Wading into the Art World | Observing in Tunisia | UW Team Takes Top Honors in iGEM World Championships | Dalton Receives Linus Pauling Award | Thanks to Skype, a Long-Distance Graduation Ceremony

September 2011
Herbarium Foray: Collecting Plants and Friendships | Crossing the Digital Divide:SDLI Summer Institute | Archaeology Field School in Thailand | Herb Blau Autobiography | Master's in Computational Science and Risk Management | JSIS's Summer Seminar for Educators | Harp Song Inspired by Everyday Heroes | Bacteria's Version of Rock-Paper-Scissors | Keiko Torii Recognized for Innovative Plant Science

June 2011
Witness to Change | 2011 Dean's Medalists, Graduate Medalists Honored | Science on Video, Inspired by YouTube | UW Designer Channels Avatar for Exhibit | Humanists Explore the Environment | UW Geographers Pen Book about Seattle | A Philosopher Addresses Climate Change | 2011 UW Recognition Awards, NAS Membership

March 2011
UW Planetarium Goes Digital | Partnering for Science | Embracing the Arctic | Finding Answers in Nyssa | Science Inspires Art in New Course | Women Studies Takes New Name | The Plant Detective | Startdust Reaches NExT Rendezvous

January 2011
27 Dresses? More Like 58 | Crafting the Story Behind the Science | Examining Religion, Earbuds Optional | Dance with a Twist: An Online Course | JSIS's Eight Reasons to Celebrate | Drama Design Studio's Big Splash | Another Reason to Embrace Jury Duty | UW Expert on Stuttering Weights In on The King's Speech | Undergrads Win Prize for Anthrax-killing Protein

November 2010
Before the Performance | A Boatload of Stories | Now Urbanism: A Year-long Exploration of Cities | Fourth Grade Philosophers Hit the Airwaves | Germanics, the Frye, and the Occult | I-LABS Offers Play with a Purpose in Central Park | Condos for Peguins | Learning Self-Regulation: A Family Affair | Hosein Among the Region's "Most Influential"

September 2010
Obama Adviser's Roller Coaster Ride for Heathcare Reform | A Whole Lot of Bloggin' Going On | List of Alumni Blogs | Sharing an Ocean, Traditions, and a Canoe | Caldwell Fund Honors Alum's Memory | Celebrating a Century of Women's "Firsts" | A Chemistry Milestone: Creating Artificial Enzymes | Analyzing Electronic Texts in Google Books | Leopold Recognized for Stewardship of Natural Landscapes |

July 2010
Down on the (UW) Farm | A&S Dean's Medalists | Study Abroad in Italy | Geography Students Research Bus Routes | A Royal Dedication for UW's New Center in León, Spain | Sweden's Princess Visits UW | Life on Other Planets? Creating Virtual Planets to Search for Answers | Mental Illness as a Social Construct | UW Recognition Awards for A&S Faculty, Staff, and Students

May 2010
Dancing Lessons in Yakima | Math Day | A UW-Inspired Shakespearean Romp | Anthropology Students Collaborate with Pike Market Seniors | Tribal Museum Lauches with UW Involvement | The Greenhouse Goes Greener | Women's Center Moves to A&S | Banishment as City Policy | Innovative Teaching in Biology Classes, Large and Small | Sherman Alexie Receives PEN/Faulkner Award | Prestigious Putnam Fellowship for Math Undergrad | Jentery Sayers Named "Future Leader"

February 2010
Report from the Front Lines in Haiti's Relief Effort | Undgrads Design Prosthetic Arms | Emeritus and Energized: A&S's Mellon Fellows |Cultural History, One Stiletto at a Time | UW Center for Human Rights Gears Up | Academic Learning Links: Introducing Freshmen to Academia | Despite China's Modernization, the Inequitable Hukou System Remains| Black Veterans' Vital Role in the Civil Rights Fight | UW's Freshmen, Sophomore, and Junior Medalists All Hail from A&S

December 2009
From A&S to NGO | Anthropologist's School of Rock | Biology Book Club |Former Biotech CEO Leads A&S Board | A Course for Celebrating Writers and Writing | The Great Depression—On the Web, On the Stage | Improving AIDS Projections | A Chirp-less Guam Becomes a Living Laboratory | Heather McHugh Named a MacArthur Fellow | Student Receives Scholarship from NASA's Finest

September 2009
Act III for the Jones Playhouse | "Camp Spanglish" Unites Spanish and American Teens | Archaeology Field School's a Gem—Literally |Dance as Social Commentary | 100 Years, 8 Trees, and Thousands of Meatballs | Extreme Makeover for Savery Hall | Revisiting Helen of Troy | Humanities in the Digital Age | Heinz Award for Dee Boersma | Bender Honored for Online and Distance Learning Programs

Summer 2009
Mapping the Community with GIS Technology | The Dean's Picks: A&S Dean's Medalists for 2009 | Burkemobile Hits the Road |Jackson School's Centennial Celebration | Students Create Course About Mixed Identities | A&S is a-Twitter on Social Networking Sites | Robert Heilman Through Letters | DNA Sequencing Method Shows Promise | UW Recognition Awards for A&S Faculty, Staff, and Students | Fulbright-Hays Success

Winter/Spring 2009
Obama's Ear: What A&S Faculty Would Tell Obama If They Had His "Ear" for a Few Minutes | Coffee Exhibit at the Burke Museum | Noah Purcell's ('02) Supreme Job |Richard Gray's Book, Money Matters | Michael Brown: Mapping Seattle's Gay and Lesbian History | UW's Palatial Home in Leon | Open Doors to Explore University District Activism | Global Justice Conference | Finnish Gets a Degree | American Indian Studies Gains Department Status | Award to Study Malaria Parasites | Gates Cambridge Scholar is a Triple Threat

Autumn 2008
A&S Advisers | Summer Institute for Mathematics | Athena's Computing Power | Communication Camp | Dave Montgomery's MacArthur Fellowship | Josh Johnston ('03) and The Washington Bus | UW Joins University of the Arctic | JSIS's Summer Seminar for Educators | Algae's Role in Developing Environmentally Friendly Fuels | New Telescope Pinpoints Gamma Rays | New Mineral Named for Brownlee | Sommers Awarded Regents Medal

Summer 2008
Students Become Consultants for Helping Link | Get Set for Emerald City Search | Designing a Fake Quake | Studying Fair Labor, with a Husky Twist | Task Force Program Goes Silver | A&S Dean's Medalists: An Academic Dream Team | Northwest African American Museum Fueled by A&S Alumni |Studying Film at UW | Greek Mythology on the Big Screen | Native Voices | I-LABS Prepares for MEG's Arrival | UW Alumni Association's 2008 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2008
A Curator Shares His "Home" | Professors Sound Off on Political Blog | Undergrads Discover Asteroids | Henry Art Gallery Names New Director | A UW Donor By Age Three | Sage Software | Meet Ana Mari Cauce, Dean of Arts & Sciences | Adopt an Actor | New Life for Aging Labs | Seeing Meany in a New Light | American Sabor | Mary Kollar's Poetry Box | Brian Culhane: First Book Award | Studying Circadian Rhythms | Questioning the Savings in Daylight Savings Time | Alexie Wins National Book Award | Eaton Named Marshall Scholar

Autumn 2007
Classics Course for Husky Basketball Team | American Sign Language Introduced | Bees Join the Farm Project | Joff Hanauer Endowment Established | Exploring Tolkien | The Inneract Project | Searching for Clues in the Kuril Islands | Journalism Goes Global | Drake Witham: Finding the Funny | Mixing Art and Nature at Willapa Bay |The Escalating Role of Religion in Politics | Sky in Google Earth | Awards for Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Stephen Porter, and Others

Summer 2007
Sociology Students Volunteer in New Orleans | The Dream Project | Science by Kayak | A Life Abroad: Alumni in the Foreign Service | Burke 101 | A Celebration of Undergraduate Research |Salsa Dance: From Kitchens to Congresses | UW Alumni Association's 2007 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2007
Time Capsule to be Opened | Retired Teacher Endows History Chair | Music Students Visit Schools in the Yakima Valley | Long-time Faculty Reflect on their Years at the UW | Andrea Peterson, Washington Teacher of the Year | Tim Egan's National Book Award | Domke Named Professor of the Year | McHugh Selected for Inaugural USA Fellowship | Civil Rights History Comes to Life on the Web | Comet Dust Yields Surprises

Autumn 2006
Finding Hope in Nima | WET Dives Into the Deep End | Thinking Nuclear | A Global Reach for Advisers | Encouraging Students to Go Beyond the Books | Timely Art for Montlake Library | Martial Arts, By the Book | Pioneer Award for Younan Xia | Two Faculty Named Carnegie Scholars

Summer 2006
Surviving the Senior Thesis | Final Thoughts from Dean David Hodge | Driven to Debate | Dance Goes Digital | Bird Flu Findings Spark Controversy | Screening Newborns for Metabolic Diseases | UW Alumni Association's 2006 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2006
A Pow Wow Primer | English Grads, Brilliant Careers | Guatemalan Journey Inspires Giving | Mathematician, Writer, and Rhodes Scholar | Truman Scholar Reaches Out to Her Kenyan Village | An Early American Theater Lost...and Found | Out with Old Sounds, In with New | Cultural Beliefs Impact Pesticide Exposure | Art History Faculty Earn Getty Awards | Three Grammies for Bolcom

Autumn 2005
The Return of Stardust | Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Cinema Summer | Ed Viesturs: From Lander Hall to Annapurna | A Chance to Study Inuktitut | Lutz Named Teacher of the Year | A Sobering Map of Sexual Liaisons | A Culture of Horses

Summer 2005
Ethics Gets Competitive | Creative Writing Program K-12 Internships | The Quiet Leadership of Don Petersen | Alumnus Award for Jack Lenor Larsen | Seasons of a TA's Life | Human Rights | Dark Energy | UW Alumni Association's 2005 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2005
Plain Talk at the Speech & Hearing Clinic | Texts and Tupac | A Gift with a Twist--for the Arts | Keeping a Promise with a Paycheck | Choosing to Stay: Retaining Talented Faculty | New Tools to Curb Ivory Poaching | New Evidence Against Popular Extinction Theory | Three A&S Scientists Included in Discover Magazine's Top 100

Autumn 2004
Exploring the World through Exploration Seminars | Dance for Everyone--and Every Body (Integrated Dance) | An Interview with UW President Mark Emmert | A&S Alumni, Leaders in Higher Education | The September Project | Dialectical Behavior Therapy | Center for Activation and Transformation of Strong Bonds | Nobel Prize for Alumna Linda Buck | Massive Raindrops | Alumna Honored for Water Rescue

Summer 2004
Wind Ensemble Breezes Through Japan | Dr. Suess, with a Guatemalan Touch | Fund and Award Honor Clowes' Vision | A&S Dean's Medalists | Students, Clients, and Dozens of Rugs | A Family Affair | An Overabundance of Oyster Drills | DXARTS' Whale of an Idea | UW Alumni Association's 2004 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2004
Three Routes Back to A&S | The World According to Nanometers | Trisha Brown, in Stereo | Lessons from the Holocaust | Staging a Tragedy | The Rhythms of Ghana | A Passion for Things Ancient | Searching for Clues at Tel Dor | The History and Future of Salmon | An Award-Winning Film in 48 Hours | Award for Swedish Studies

Autumn 2003
Where Art Meets Technology | Discovery Seminars | A Ridge of One's Own--in Antarctica | Celebrating Death as a Part of Life | Alice McGrath: A Voice for Those Without | A New Approach to Fighting Malaria | A Persian Story, Word by Word | Awards for Daniel Chu, Al Black, and others

Summer 2003
Dean's Medalists Shine | Turrell Skyspace at the Henry Art Gallery | UW Professor, UW Parent | Analyzing "Fingerprints" in Shakespeare's Writing | Inspired to Vote--By Jury Duty | UW Alumni Association's 2003 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2003
Reaching Out with Residencies | Merging Interests | Homage to an Adventurer | With The Outsiders, Students Become Insiders | An Improving Forecast | The End of a Lifelong Journey | Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison | A Bounty of Beethoven | Awards for Rosemary Gibbons, John Young, and others

Autumn 2002
Crafting a New College Identity | Encouraging Questions, Not Answers | Border Crossings | Deciphering an Ancient Buddhist Manuscript | The Amazing Journey | Same Time, Next Year | War Viewed Through the Lens of Children's Art | A Handbook for Families Living with Autism | Awards for George Kakiuchi, Elizabeth Thompson, Adrian Raftery, Ernest Davidson, and others

Summer 2002
Behind the Scenes in Arts and Sciences | Aperture Fever Inspires Astronomy Fellowship | An Insider's View of State Politics | Celebrating the College's Top Graduates | Burma's Enduring Military Regime | Major NSF Award for Information Technology Research | UW Alumni Association's 2002 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

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