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Suite named new VP for Student Life

After a six-month search, the UW has found its new vice president for student life.

Graduate students use design to combat human trafficking

Five UW graduate students in the school of art’s division of design have used the innovation of design to turn such an idea into reality and combat human trafficking.

SPD investigates fires on Brooklyn Avenue Northeast

Arson detectives from the Seattle Police Department (SPD) are investigating after the U-District became the site of a group of arson fires and attempted arson fires on May 17.


Sports

Goethals advances to Eugene, four women make quarterfinals

Highlighted by junior Megan Goethals’ third-place finish in the 10,000-meter heat, 14 Huskies took to the track Thursday on the first day of the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds. Four women advanced to the quarterfinals in their respective competitions, with Goethals advancing to the NCAA finals in Eugene, Ore., after she posted a time of 34 minutes, 58.86 seconds.

One more

Huskies battle back in extras to take Super Regional lead

Sweet round of 16

McMorrow solidifies first career All-American honor


Opinion

Unnecessary animal testing on already unnecessary products

An excessive number of cosmetic products line my shower and bathroom counter. I tend to collect half-used bottles, getting sick of a product before it’s truly depleted or stumbling upon an appealing new product at the grocery store before I’m ever in actual need of it. These products may just seem like wasted counter space, but their real impact reaches far beyond that.

Going green can be good for your health

I’m young enough to have difficulty remembering a time before green was good. In fact, all my life I’ve seen the message that green is best. And that’s all well and good — I want to save the planet, stop poisoning the environment, and so on. But a couple questions come to mind: What’s in it for me, and how much is it going to cost?

Avoid the academic burnout: Make plans to take a vacation, for your health’s sake

We all know the feeling: rising muscular tension, chronic headaches, complete dependence upon caffeine, etc. It has been a damned long academic year. The end is just within sight, but your eyeballs still feel like they’re going to just pop right out of their sockets. Getting up in the morning only gets harder and harder, and the future is no longer existent — it is entirely obfuscated by the bleak present.


Arts & Leisure

Ear to the Streets: 'Sunday School II: When Church Lets Out,' Tree

There’s an air of simplicity that surrounds Tree.

Film review: 'Fast & Furious 6'

Big, bold, overdone

This, not that

Mee Sum Pastry vs. Shinka Tea Company


Features

Lights, camera, medicine

UW alumnus works in the operating room and on the set

Yer a wizarding school, UW

On Thursday nights, while most students are scrambling to finish their homework before the weekend, UW junior Emily Slezak is heading to Savery 164 to depart from the Muggle domain and enter the magical world of Harry Potter. Slezak is the current headmistress of the recently reestablished Harry Potter Club.

The route to recovery

Rock-climbing accident leaves student with prosthetic leg


Science

Modeling neutron stars

UW physicists study the astronomic to grasp the subatomic

UW scientists speed up DNA extraction with new device

At the UW Engineering Discovery Days in April, UW mechanical engineering professor Jae-Hyun Chung introduced his new handheld DNA extraction device to middle school and high school students.

Campus pulse

News from the UW medical community


Double Shot

new advice columns

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