A concrete shear wall for the new addition to Mary Gates Hall has been going skyward this month. Concrete shear walls are a seismic safety feature. Steel construction on the addition—which is scheduled for occupancy in winter quarter 2000— is expected to begin in September. KS980519-23

Lake Forest Park students, teachers and parents participated along with three other area schools in a UW landscape architecture workshop spring quarter that helped schools develop plans to turn their playgrounds into learning environments. Scott Hanes, a fourth grader at Lake Forest Park Elementary School, draws his ideas for upgrading an overgrown and unused portion of the school’s playground. Meanwhile his teacher, Jeanine Langerud, left, discusses her ideas with UW landscape architecture students Nhon Truong, center, and Kim Holloway, right. Julie M. Johnson, assistant professor of landscape architecture, who organized and led the workshop, said representatives from each school took home several alternative designs for changing their outdoor environments. KS980333-8

Dennis Schatz, associate director of the Pacific Science Center and trainer at Project Astro, uses two hoops to demonstrate the paths of the sun and the moon and how an eclipse occurs where their paths cross. KS980532-24

Daniel Winterbottom poses near the edible garden he and his students created. KS980540-2

Making Connections—About 45 high school science teachers were on campus from July 6 to 17 for the sixth annual Making Connections Summer Institute, where the 1998 theme was "The Neurobiology of Learning." In the photo above, two participants, with electrodes attached, learned about studies done in the UW Medical Center EEG Lab. Photo by Jordan Rehm

Al Jonsen with his two new books. Photo by Jordan Rehm

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