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Emeritus and Energized
“Yes, there is life after retirement, though sometimes I think it will be the death of me,” jokes Dan Waugh, who continues to travel to far-flung locations for his research. Waugh is one of four emeritus faculty, all from the College of Arts and Sciences, selected as Mellon Emeritus Fellows.
February 2010 Perspectives -
Humanities in the Digital Age
With support from a major Challenge Grant, the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities is planning a Digital Humanities Commons to create and evaluate the next generation of digital humanities scholarship.
September 2009 Perspectives -
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An Academic Dream Team
The College has selected five top graduating seniors as Dean's Medalists for 2008.
July 2008 Perspectives -
Egan Wins National Book Award
Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl.
March 2007 Perspectives -
Making Music Matter
"[The students] make me laugh every day. And they will try anything," says Monte Cristo Elementary School teacher Andrea Peterson ('96), recently named Washington Teacher of the Year.
March 2007 Perspectives -
Mathematician, Writer, and Rhodes Scholar
Eliana Hechter, who enrolled at the UW at age 14, is now graduating--with a Rhodes Scholarship.
March 2006 Perspectives -
Truman Scholar Reaches Out to Her Kenyan Village
Geography major Loyce Mbewa founded the Rabour Village Project to support ongoing sustainable community health projects in her Kenyan village.
August 2006 Perspectives -
Ethics Gets Competitive
A UW team participating in the National Ethics Bowl, a competition of ethical analysis, finished in first place.
June 2005 Perspectives -
Clowes' Vision Honored Through Fund and Award
Although Jim Clowes' life was cut short, his work and his spirit will live on through two new funds created in his honor.
July 2004 Perspectives