PHOTO: treesSH20000557_17a Margaret Nailen (above) aids from below as her co-worker, Paul Sisson works to tie back branches on the trees near Suzzallo Library. Their work will save the trees from damage during the seismic retrofitting project at Suzzallo. Nailen said the other option was to cut back branches, which could have caused severe damage to the trees. The Suzzallo project will begin in earnest later this summer.
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Sandwich boards, like these on Stevens Way, must now be approved by the Grounds Improvement Advisory Committee before they can be posted on campus. PHOTO: sandwichboardSH20000557_5a |
During a recent training run Lynne Werner battled 118-degree heat in the same area where she will participate in the Badwater Ultra-Marathon July 27-29. Werner, a UW professor in speech and hearing sciences, will be trying to complete the 30th ultra of her career. |
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A group of UW employeeshad a “mooving” experience at the recent Milk Carton Derby on Green Lake. Led by Mary Ellen Flanagan of Environmental Health and Safety, the team made a replica of the Experience Music Project, dubbing it the “Udder Experience Moosic Project.” Dressed as Jimi Hendrix and wielding guitar shaped paddles are, from left, Darren Linker, Jay Herzmark, Harriet Fuji, Andre Flanagan and Brian Darley. Sheri Lockwood stood in for the Space Needle. Not pictured is Diana Sartorius. The boat, floated by 300 milk cartons, wasn’t too speedy, although Flanagan says, “We weren’t last.” But it looked good enough to win the “Showboat” category at the annual event. |
An aerial view of a stream with 50-foot buffers of trees in a 100-acre clearcut. Such buffers appear to provide adequate habitat for amphibians, birds and small mammals in the first years following harvest. |
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Campus Haunts
I give campus tours to people occasionally, and one place I always point out is the bus stop on Stevens Way, just west of Anderson Hall. It’s an unremarkable gray wooden structure, until you notice the huge tree growing out of it. There’s a newspaper box there too, but it doesn’t sell newspapers. It sells copies of the campus tree tour guide. The tree and the bus shelter seem whimsical, but they also are symbols for me of an environmental consciousness that I’m always happy to see. Antoinette Wills,
Send University Week a note telling us about your favorite campus haunt and why you like it. We’ll take some of our letter writers to their favorite places and photograph them this summer, then publish their thoughts. Send your ideas to uweek@u.washington.edu. Photo: ks20000541, #3 |
Edgar O’Hara holds a collage containing some pages from the notebooks of the late poet Luis Hernandez, together with a Paul Klee artwork that Hernandez was fond of. O’Hara recently completed a project to preserve the poet’s notebooks. Photo: ks20000544, #8 |
Copyright Art Wolfe, http://www.artwolfe.com Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, attracts far more climbers than K2 and most Everest climbers use supplemental oxygen, opposite the pattern for K2. |
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David Hawkins |
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Carl Root, the new manager of parking services, says the many transportation options available to UW faculty and staff are crucial to managing a tight parking situation. Root joined the UW staff after a long stint at his alma mater, Western Washington University. PHOTO: CarlRootKS20000519_7 |
UW creative writing student Dan Newman helps junior Ray Gordulan with his writing at Chief Sealth High School. PHOTO: NewmanML20000422_21a |
Making Connections - High school science and health teachers from around the Northwest have been at the Health Sciences Center the past two weeks for a program focused on neuroscience. “Making Connections: Expanding Our Web” has offered workshops, curriculum development and lab sessions for about 30 teachers. Above, two participants toss balls across the “Neurotransmitter Crossing” illustrating a synapse linking neurons in the brain. The games were part of the “Brain Power” demonstrations on the first day. PHOTO: makingconnML20000542_35a |
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