At lunchtime on Tuesday, President Richard L. McCormick addressed members of the UW community gathered on the steps of the main entrance to the Husky Union Building to celebrate the HUB’s 50th anniversary in a rededication ceremony titled “50 Years of Service to the University Community.”

Karen Kavanagh

Josephine Ensign, UW assistant professor of nursing, reads to her son Jonathan Bowdler and Margaret Kahn at the University Book Store. UW researchers have compared learning to read and do math to mastering how to drive a car, tasks made even more difficult for those with learning disabilities.

Sperm whale

Teaching the teachers — Steve Gygi, right, a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Ruedi Aebersold, professor of molecular biotechnology, spent a week this summer mentoring high school science teachers Don Foster from Tacoma, left, and Susan Hauenstein from Stanwood, center. The teachers were working on protein analysis as part of their participation in the Science Education Partnership (SEP), based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The SEP, which receives substantial funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, relies on the involvement of several mentoring sites, including molecular biotechnology and genetics labs at the UW, Immunex and ZymoGenetics, as well as the Hutchinson Center.

Eisenberg

Hans Neurath

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