Keeping The Quad beautiful takes considerable behind-the-scenes effort as UW gardener Nate Allen knows. Preserving campus beauty while making foom for more students and more research is the primary goal of the University’s master plan, which will be discussed in two campus meetings Tuesday, April 27.

Inscribed with the motto “Two Worlds, One Sun,” this sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA’s 2001 Mars Surveyor lander.

Jeffrey Ochsner, far right, chair of the UW Department of Architecture, presents an idea to Team Yellow, whcih he co-led with fellow faculty member Ron Kasprisin, also standing, during Charrette ‘99. Four design teams developed concepts for the Seattle Civic Center’s proposed downtown campus during the intensive five-day design marathon.

Tom Hankins

Bob Weisbuch

UW civil engineering design students won a spot in the June national concrete canoe competition with their 105-pound entry. The team, above, waits its turn to run float tests on its entry in the regionals. They not only won race competitions, but also took first place in best design report, best oral presentation, best display and best final product. The competition has been a boon for endowing the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering’s Centennial Fund, which was launched last fall to mark the department’s 100-year anniversary. So far, $100,000 of the $250,000 goal has been raised. The endowment will be used for student projects, including competition’s undergraduate research fellowships and instructional innovation.

Barbara Trask

A “Brain Awareness” program brought students from several different schools to campus last month to see and touch a variety of exhibits in the Health Sciences Lobby. Photo by Gavin Sisk.

One of the early treadmills built in the 1950s by the Scientific Instrument Division.

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