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Since their arrival, they have faced Vietnam War demonstrations, major budget cuts, and the introduction of email and the web. Four faculty discuss the changes they've seen since arriving at the UW in the 1960s. Related story: Willis Konick's Six Decades on Campus. 

Tim Egan ('81) has received the National Book Award for nonfiction for a book about the Great American dust bowl. 

"[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. 

Immediately after graduating from the UW School of Drama, 11 alumni founded Washington Ensemble Theatre, or WET. As they begin their third season, WET's members remain true to their original vision for the theatre. 

Photography professor Rebecca Cummins’ artwork at the Montlake branch of the Seattle Public Library is an aperture sundial that beams colorful circles of light into the building.

UW Professor Jonathan Mayer is "just short of obsessed" with improving health in Nima, a desperately poor neighborhood in Accra, the largest city in Ghana, Africa. 

For 16 years, the Institute for Nuclear Theory has been bringing together scientists from around the world to explore questions in nuclear physics and related fields. 

Eighteen UW advisers joined students for Explorations Seminars in far-flung locations like China, Costa Rica, and New Zealand, to experience the seminars firsthand. 

Just before graduating last spring, Julia Parker created a community service award for future philosophy students, raising the funds for the award herself.