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Dec 31, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
The organization’s associate director, Wes Weddell, ’02, shapes each season’s programming by curating a selection of titles—like “Charlotte’s Web,” “Aesop’s Fables” and “Glory”—from which the musicians draw inspiration for their original pieces.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
We sat down with Chan to learn more about the cultural significance of jade, designing pieces with intuition and how her time at UW informs her work. This conversation has been edited for clarity and length. Jade has been used by many cultures across Asia and Latin America for thousands of years. In China, you’ll find jade carved in many forms from Buddhas to lotuses and dragons. We believe that jade brings prosperity and abundance and protects the person who wears it.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
Hygge season has arrived, so bundle up and read on. From poetry to cooking to a video game that’s all self-expression and no violence, here are some of our favorite cozy media creations by UW alumni for the upcoming rainy days. by Marty Crump, illustrated by Tony AngellUniversity of Chicago Press, 2024Illustrator Tony Angell, ’62, came to Seattle on an athletic scholarship in the late 1950s.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
This October, two East-Coast based alumni from different fields were among the 22 fellows awarded MacArthur Foundation’s “genius grants.”Tempering TechnologyNicola Dell, ’11, ’15, who completed her master’s and Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at the UW, was chosen for her work developing technology interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations like survivors of intimate-partner violence and home health-care workers.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
For two members of the UW’s class of 1975, 2004 was a big year—make that a huge year. On June 14, 2004, Mark Emmert became only the third alum to be named president of the UW. Barely four months later, on Oct. 4, Linda Buck, affiliate professor of physiology and bio-physics at the UW School of Medicine, became the UW’s first woman alum to receive the Nobel Prize (hers was in Medicine or Physiology).
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
Danny Sprinkle was born in Pullman and grew up in Montana. This sort of upbringing doesn’t typically prime a person for affection toward the University of Washington, but Sprinkle’s no typical person.
Sprinkle’s father, Bill, played defensive back for the Husky football team in the late ’60s.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
Last year, the University of Washington generated more than $20.9 billion in economic impact for the state of Washington, up more than $5 billion from the last assessment, in 2018. The UW recently hired a national consulting firm to examine and communicate how the public research university contributed to local and statewide economies.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
Generation Z, one-fifth of the American electorate, made up 40 million eligible voters and about 20 million confirmed voters this election year. But Gen Z represents far more than a ballot: They’re tomorrow’s leaders and changemakers. And, to put it simply, this generation is frazzled.
Adults under the age of 27 grew up during a global recession and attended school remotely through a historic pandemic and national reckoning with racism and police violence.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
Stesha Brandon, ’01, grew up attending the University Temple across the street from the University Book Store, where her grandparents worked as booksellers. “I would sneak out of church to go over to the store and read books,” says Brandon. “I loved the store. It’s been a keystone for community my entire life.”
Today, Brandon is the program manager for a nonprofit that helps manage Seattle’s status as a UNESCO City of Literature.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
magazine.washington.edu | Caitlin Klask
“When I was a kid, I was put in a swim class at a swim and tennis club in Kent. “I was the only kid who couldn’t float, but I liked tennis. Most top-level tennis players skip high school, but I had fun being around the other kids. I was on an amazing team at Kentwood. We won the AAAA championship. When I was a high school freshman, coach Matt Anger invited me to visit the UW. It wasn’t difficult to woo me; my parents are both Huskies. “After college, I went to Indonesia for the Peace Corps.
