Features

Casting a line to Guatemala

June 6, 2013 | LaVendrick Smith

Red ink from a dry-erase marker covered the white board as Justin Brown and a group of engineering students planned their upcoming trip to Guatemala. The to-do list grew from a few items to 21 as the group brainstormed ways to improve one village’s fish hatchery.

A generation indebted

June 4, 2013 | Sohrab Andaz

Growing up under the burden of student loans

Researching the rules

May 28, 2013 | Garrett Black

It was not long after UW alumna Sarah Timmons undertook a project for the Undergraduate Research Symposium that she realized it would not be an easy journey. Studying medical anthropology and global health, Timmons decided to conduct her research on the lived female experience of urinary tract infections among women ages 18 to 26.

Lights, camera, medicine

May 21, 2013 | Amy Busch

UW alumnus works in the operating room and on the set

Yer a wizarding school, UW

May 14, 2013 | Hillary Kirby

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.