A&S
College of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts & Sciences

Past Issues

Winter/Spring 2008
A Curator Shares His "Home" | Professors Sound Off on Political Blog | Undergrads Discover Asteroids | Henry Art Gallery Names New Director | A UW Donor By Age Three | Sage Software | Meet Ana Mari Cauce, Dean of Arts & Sciences | Adopt an Actor | New Life for Aging Labs | Seeing Meany in a New Light | American Sabor | Mary Kollar's Poetry Box | Brian Culhane: First Book Award | Studying Circadian Rhythms | Questioning the Savings in Daylight Savings Time | Alexie Wins National Book Award | Eaton Named Marshall Scholar

Autumn 2007
Classics Course for Husky Basketball Team | American Sign Language Introduced | Bees Join the Farm
Project | Joff Hanauer Endowment Established | Exploring Tolkien | The Inneract Project | Searching for Clues in the Kuril Islands | Journalism Goes Global | Drake Witham: Finding the Funny | Mixing Art and Nature at Willapa Bay |The Escalating Role of Religion in Politics | Sky in Google Earth | Awards for Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Stephen Porter, and Others

Summer 2007
Sociology Students Volunteer in New Orleans | The Dream Project | Science by Kayak | A Life Abroad: Alumni in the Foreign Service | Burke 101 | A Celebration of Undergraduate Research |Salsa Dance: From Kitchens to Congresses | UW Alumni Association's 2006 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2007
Time Capsule to be Opened | Retired Teacher Endows History Chair | Music Students Visit Schools in the Yakima Valley | Long-time Faculty Reflect on their Years at the UW | Andrea Peterson, Washington Teacher of the Year | Tim Egan's National Book Award | Domke Named Professor of the Year | McHugh Selected for Inaugural USA Fellowship | Civil Rights History Comes to Life on the Web | Comet Dust Yields Surprises

Autumn 2006
Finding Hope in Nima | WET Dives Into the Deep End | Thinking Nuclear | A Global Reach for Advisers | Encouraging Students to Go Beyond the Books | Timely Art for Montlake Library | Martial Arts, By the Book | Pioneer Award for Younan Xia | Two Faculty Named Carnegie Scholars

Summer 2006
Surviving the Senior Thesis | Final Thoughts from Dean David Hodge | Driven to Debate | Dance Goes Digital | Bird Flu Findings Spark Controversy | Screening Newborns for Metabolic Diseases | UW Alumni Association's 2006 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2006
A Pow Wow Primer | English Grads, Brilliant Careers | Guatemalan Journey Inspires Giving | Mathematician, Writer, and Rhodes Scholar | Truman Scholar Reaches Out to Her Kenyan Village | An Early American Theater Lost...and Found | Out with Old Sounds, In with New | Cultural Beliefs Impact Pesticide Exposure | Art History Faculty Earn Getty Awards | Three Grammies for Bolcom

Autumn 2005
The Return of Stardust | Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | Cinema Summer | Ed Viesturs: From Lander Hall to Annapurna | A Chance to Study Inuktitut | Lutz Named Teacher of the Year | A Sobering Map of Sexual Liaisons | A Culture of Horses

Summer 2005
Ethics Gets Competitive | Creative Writing Program K-12 Internships | The Quiet Leadership of Don Petersen | Alumnus Award for Jack Lenor Larsen | Seasons of a TA's Life | Human Rights | Dark Energy | UW Alumni Association's 2005 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2005
Plain Talk at the Speech & Hearing Clinic | Texts and Tupac | A Gift with a Twist--for the Arts | Keeping a Promise with a Paycheck | Choosing to Stay: Retaining Talented Faculty | New Tools to Curb Ivory Poaching | New Evidence Against Popular Extinction Theory | Three A&S Scientists Included in Discover Magazine's Top 100

Autumn 2004
Exploring the World through Exploration Seminars | Dance for Everyone--and Every Body (Integrated Dance) | An Interview with UW President Mark Emmert | A&S Alumni, Leaders in Higher Education | The September Project | Dialectical Behavior Therapy | Center for Activation and Transformation of Strong Bonds | Nobel Prize for Alumna Linda Buck | Massive Raindrops | Alumna Honored for Water Rescue

Summer 2004
Wind Ensemble Breezes Through Japan | Dr. Suess, with a Guatemalan Touch | Fund and Award Honor Clowes' Vision | A&S Dean's Medalists | Students, Clients, and Dozens of Rugs | A Family Affair | An Overabundance of Oyster Drills | DXARTS' Whale of an Idea | UW Alumni Association's 2004 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2004
Three Routes Back to A&S | The World According to Nanometers | Trisha Brown, in Stereo | Lessons from the Holocaust | Staging a Tragedy | The Rhythms of Ghana | A Passion for Things Ancient | Searching for Clues at Tel Dor | The History and Future of Salmon | An Award-Winning Film in 48 Hours | Award for Swedish Studies

Autumn 2003
Where Art Meets Technology | Discovery Seminars | A Ridge of One's Own--in Antarctica | Celebrating Death as a Part of Life | Alice McGrath: A Voice for Those Without | A New Approach to Fighting Malaria | A Persian Story, Word by Word | Awards for Daniel Chu, Al Black, and others

Summer 2003
Dean's Medalists Shine | Turrell Skyspace at the Henry Art Gallery | UW Professor, UW Parent | Analyzing "Fingerprints" in Shakespeare's Writing | Inspired to Vote--By Jury Duty | UW Alumni Association's 2003 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

Winter/Spring 2003
Reaching Out with Residencies | Merging Interests | Homage to an Adventurer | With The Outsiders, Students Become Insiders | An Improving Forecast | The End of a Lifelong Journey | Madness and Reason in the Maximum Security Prison | A Bounty of Beethoven | Awards for Rosemary Gibbons, John Young, and others

Autumn 2002
Crafting a New College Identity | Encouraging Questions, Not Answers | Border Crossings | Deciphering an Ancient Buddhist Manuscript | The Amazing Journey | Same Time, Next Year | War Viewed Through the Lens of Children's Art | A Handbook for Families Living with Autism | Awards for George Kakiuchi, Elizabeth Thompson, Adrian Raftery, Ernest Davidson, and others

Summer 2002
Behind the Scenes in Arts and Sciences | Aperture Fever Inspires Astronomy Fellowship | An Insider's View of State Politics | Celebrating the College's Top Graduates | Burma's Enduring Military Regime | Major NSF Award for Information Technology Research | UW Alumni Association's 2002 Awards for Faculty, Teaching Assistants, Staff, and Departments

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Autumn 1996

©1997-2005 A&S Perspectives - Editor: Nancy Joseph
University of Washington, College of Arts and Sciences
Box 353765, Seattle, WA 98195-3765
(206) 543-5340 - nancyj@u.washington.edu