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With cell as muse, art fuels scientist’s quest

April 28, 2008

For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight. Read More

Professor blends ecology, history

April 21, 2008

As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people. Read More

Professor strengthens math, science education

March 26, 2008

For well over a decade, mathematics professor Terry Millar has worked to improve math and science instruction for students at all levels by bringing together the knowledge of university mathematicians and scientists with the teaching and curricular expertise of educators. Read More

Professor finds the modern in the medieval

September 19, 2007

Chris Kleinhenz retired from the Department of French and Italian after nearly 40 years of leading students through Dante’s “Divine Comedy” — including Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise — and showing them why the medieval text matters. Read More

Orchestras director begins new chapter

April 25, 2007

James Smith, the newly appointed director of orchestras at the School of Music, did not begin his musical career with an eye on conducting. Read More