Art students take advantage of a few days of fair weather to do some outdoor sketching.

Mark Campbell, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics

Preparing for a Pelting UW chemical engineering Professor Dan Schwartz (middle photo above), clad in a cap and protective raincoat and armed with a baseball mitt, prepares for a pelting while several of his graduate students (above) operate a catapult loaded with miscellany selected by children from the University Cooperative School (top). The event, held at a park on the corner of 50th Street and Eighth Avenue, concluded an educational unit on medieval technology at the school. Schwartz and his grad students taught the children about devices used in the Middle Ages, including catapults, and planned the launch as a way for the kindergarteners and first- and second-grade students to test what they had learned. Schwartz told the students they could choose what they wanted to launch and he would attempt to catch it. Munitions included water balloons, grapes, orange pieces, an old grapefruit and fruit pies topped with whipped cream.

In this drawing from the Burke Museum’s Scary Fishes exhibit, Hybodus, one of the most common, widespread and long-lived of the ancient sharks, chases shelled squid alongside another primitive shark, Palaeospinax. Hybodus lived 180 million years ago during the time of the dinosaurs.

Roger Serra

Shoulder to shoulder—Dr. Frederick Matsen III, chair of the Department of Orthopaedics, poses with four patients whose shoulder joints he replaced—all on the same day in June. Matsen, who is a leading national expert in shoulder and elbow reconstructive surgery, said it was the first time so many had been done in one day at UW Medical Center. The patients, from left to right, are Sam Pearce, Michael McCullough, Charlene Snow and Kenneth Cook. Photo by Craig Degginger.

Heart transplant patient exhibits artworks—Gerry Conaway, an artist and art professor from Anchorage, Alaska, has mounted an exhibit of his recent works in the 3rd floor barrel vault corridor near the main UW Medical Center Information Desk. Conaway, who received a heart transplant at UWMC in December, had been hospitalized for months before the transplant and many of the art works include materials he encountered in the hospital environment. Before moving to Alaska in the 1960s, he was on the UW School of Art faculty. The exhibit will be up until Aug. 9. Photo by Jordan Rehm.

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