About 60 high school students with disabilities visited the University of Washington campus in July and early August to take part in the university’s award-winning DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) program. Top, Cheri Blauwet chats with DO-IT staffer Kathy Cook before taking her custom three-wheel cycle for a spin during a bicycling activity. Above, John Harlow develops his science prowess in a UW lab. The goal of the program, which involved students from around the country, is to teach participants how to be successful in college and in the career world. See story, page 2.

It’s been a great summer for Tom G. Colonnese, assistant vice president for minority affairs and director of American Indian Studies. Not only has his pet project GEAR UP received $32 million from the U.S. Department of Education, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Board of Advisors on Tribal Colleges and Universities, received a $1 million Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Program grant and a $1 million NASA American Indian Science Technology Education Consortium grant.

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Mary Larimer

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Dr. Lawrence K. Altman

Suturing workshop—To launch their new medical student chapter of Operation Smile, a group of UW students organized a suturing workshop for students to practice wound-closure techniques. Pigs’ feet are the traditional practice medium for suturing. Local physicians William Nichols, Mark Brakstad, Alison Perrin and Kent Saltonstall donated their time to work with the students. Operation Smile is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides reconstructive facial surgery to indigent children and young adults in 16 developing countries and the United States. In the photo, Alison Perrin gives suturing tips to Jan Gruber, left, and Joseph Dumba. Both are third-year medical students.

Dr. Alfred O. Berg

Dr. John Wong

Michael Katze

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