Profiles

Ed Viesturs’ (’81) first climbs were in the Northwest, during his years as a UW undergraduate. Now he has become the first American to successfully summit all 14 of the world's 8,000+ meter peaks without supplemental oxygen. 

Don Petersen, former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company, has been an inspirational chair of the College of Arts and Sciences' board for the past six years. 

Three alumni describe how they have reconnected with the College, decades after graduating. 

Astronaut Michael Anderson, who perished in the space shuttle Columbia, earned his B.S. from the UW College of Arts and Sciences in physics and astronomy. 

Although Yehuda Hayuth (Ph.D., '77) is president of the University of Haifa in Israel, he still makes time to teach at the University of Washington each summer.

A childhood interest in astronomy, renewed in adulthood, led David Brooks to support postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Astronomy. 

Many A&S staff have specialized skills that are valuable to their department but not highly visible to the larger community. Meet four staff with unusual and specialized jobs. 

Art Levinson (1972), head of biotech firm Genentech, got his start working in a faculty lab as a UW student.

Connie Eggers loves seeing families come through the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. Eggers is a visitor services specialist at the Burke, part of a rotating team that works at the museum’s front desk.