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UW geography students extensively researched neighborhoods along three new RapidRide bus routes in King County, then created a website to share their information with artists creating work for those routes. 

Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofiá participated in the May dedication of a new UW center housed in León, Spain, along with UW leaders, supporters, and students.

In Making Minds and Madness, Professor Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen argues that many mental health conditions are as much a social construct as medical diagnosis, with doctors or therapists and their patients creating them together.

The growing trend of allowing police to "banish" citizens from certain neighborhoods is explored in Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America, by UW Professors Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert.

As part of a Dance Program course on teaching methods, UW undergraduates traveled to Yakima to teach dance to high school teens involved in the GEAR UP Program. 

When 1,200 high school students descend on the UW campus for Math Day each year, they discover that math explains many things—including card tricks and a boomerang's flight path. 

Athletes, ROTC students, young scholars, and returning students join with drama students to perform A U-Dubber Night's Dream, a Shakespeare adaptation that incorporates the experiences of UW students. 

Working in teams with seniors from the Pike Market Senior Center, students in a course on qualitative research methods learned to embrace the "organized chaos" that is field research.