Alumni

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. 

Chia-Hui Huang made a promise to herself to donate her first paycheck to the Linguistics Department after earning her PhD--and she kept her promise. 

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

After Frith Maier retraced adventurer George Kennan's 1870 route through the Caucasus Mountains, the journey became the basis of her UW master's thesis and a new book.

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.

An interview with Rhodes Scholar Elizabeth Angell (BA, History, International Studies, 2001).

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

When A&S alumnus Gordon Hirabayashi refused to go to an internment camp in 1942, he went to prison for his actions. Nearly five decades later, the government finally overturned his conviction.

A&S alumnus David Horsey (BA, Communications, 1976) wins a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Editorial Cartooning.

Five A&S alumni who have been astronauts talk about their experiences.