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3 UW graduate students earn NASA fellowships, continue legacy of success
Three University of Washington graduate students are among this year’s recipients of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and...
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UW books in brief: Tribal sovereignty and the courts, mentoring through fan...
Recent notable books by University of Washington faculty members explore the legal history of Indigenous nations and the mentoring benefits of fan fiction. Plus, a UW anthropologist’s book is honored,...
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Campus colleagues: Special Collections librarian Allee Monheim finds gems for...
So, you’re scrolling through Twitter and it’s: dog video … political rant … cat video … vaudeville handbill from 1893 … 1949 photo of actor in lion suit — wait, what? That’s the sort of historical...
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Book notes: UW architectural historian Tyler Sprague explores the work of...
Tyler Sprague is an assistant professor of architecture who studies and teaches structural design and architectural history. A former structural engineer himself, Sprague is the author of “Sculpture on...
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Campus colleagues: Curtis Takahashi — academic adviser, live radio ‘sound...
Curtis Takahashi cues the audience to applaud in a Seattle Radio Theater production of “The Bishop’s Wife” at Town Hall Seattle, broadcast by KIRO TV. Curtis Takahashi helps UW Bothell students...
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Book notes: Harborview administrator Amy Mower publishes volume of stories,...
It’s one thing to run a marathon for 26.2 miles. But what possesses some people to run 100 miles or more, and do it again and again? “Salvation,” answers Amy Mower in a new book, “or at least a very...
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Charles Johnson muses on ‘the art of living’ in new book ‘GRAND: A...
Charles Johnson has written novels and short stories, screenplays, philosophical meditations and notes on the writing craft itself — but his latest book is something different, and very personal....
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UW book notes: Physician Morhaf Al Achkar publishes memoir ‘Being Authentic’;...
Dr. Morhaf Al Achkar had a compelling reason for writing his latest book, a memoir: “I don’t want to be forgotten,” he says. A family physician with UW Medicine, Al Achkar was diagnosed with stage IV...
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UW books in brief: Mutiny at sea, an anthropologist’s memoir, ‘unsettling’...
Notable new books by University of Washington faculty and staff include a study of rebellion at sea, an emeritus faculty member’s Buddhist-focused memoir, a reconsideration of Northwest Coast Native...
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‘A world of my own’: José Alaniz publishes a life of cartooning — so far — in...
A scene from “The Phantom Zone,” a new book of comics and essays by José Alaniz, UW professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and a lifelong cartoonist. José Alaniz says that comics — especially...
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‘Dancing in the sky’: UW professor Cecilia Aragon tells of beating fear,...
Cecilia Aragon flies her custom-built air show plane, a Sabre 320, over San Francisco bay. Aragon has published a memoir, “Flying Free: My Victory Over Fear to Become to the First Latina Pilot on the...
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‘Performing Flight’: UW drama professor Scott Magelssen’s book studies...
UW drama professor Scott Magelssen floats weightless during a parabolic flight in a converted Boeing 727 as part of his research for his book “Performing Flight.”Al Powers/ Zero Gravity Corporation...
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Dueling pulpits: Book by Jackson School’s Taso Lagos explores rivalry between...
Aimee Semple McPherson was a fiercely charismatic Pentecostal preacher and media dynamo of the 1920s and 1930s. Lonely, driven and often controversial, “Sister Aimee” was dedicated, if rather...
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Undergrad’s first novel, optioned for a movie, features big robots and even...
Zoe Mikuta’s first book, “Gearbreakers,” is set to come out June 29. In his 36 years of teaching, some of the best writing UW English Professor Shawn Wong has seen came out of English 302, his class...
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Vice Provost for Research Mary Lidstrom stepping down after 15 years
In fall of 2005, Mary Lidstrom was just about to wrap up a nine-year run as associate dean of new initiatives in the University of Washington’s College of Engineering as she weighed an unexpected offer...
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John Schaufelberger to receive 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award from national...
John Schaufelberger, UW professor of construction management, is a respected teacher, engineer, administrator and former officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He is dean emeritus of the College...
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Dean Azita Emami’s ‘insider–outsider’ perspective shapes her UW School of...
Azita Emami has been dean of the UW School of Nursing since 2013. The UW School of Nursing announced in February it was launching the Center for Antiracism in Nursing. The first of its kind in the...
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UW astronomer redefines the scientific hero as part of The Great Courses
UW astronomer Emily Levesque delivers her course “Great Heroes and Discoveries of Astronomy” as part of The Great Courses, a popular online learning platform.The Teaching Company If you look on Emily...
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UW’s Shyam Gollakota named 2021 Moore Inventor Fellow
Shyam Gollakota, a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, is being recognized as a Moore Inventor Fellow for his work on the Internet of Biological Things and the...
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From the land of the Reindeer People to Red Square: Teacher brings the...
In 2019, Azjargal Amarsanaa was hosting a tour group in the land of the “Reindeer People” — or Tsaatan, the nomadic reindeer herders who live in northern Mongolia — when she heard her interview to be...
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