Photo by Kathy Sauber

UW custodian Ben Santos is retiring later this month.

Photo by Wendy Marker

Hundreds of high school participants in the Student Voices project flocked to the UW campus last month for a Civics Fair that included videos, displays and other presentations on public issues.

Photo by Mary Levin

Graduate students and Professor Steve Emerson (center) prepare laboratory equipment prior to a 1997 expedition on board the UW’s research vessel Thomas G. Thompson, a University-funded student cruise that contributed to findings of declining oxygen in the North Pacific.

Photo Illustration by Kathy Sauber and Steve Hill

Aaron Hertzmann has created software that will turn photographs into images replicating the painting techniques of master artists. In the above montage, the same photo of Hertzmann is displayed as if painted by Van Gogh, left, and Manet, right.

This snapshot of Ben Santos and his wife, Gloria, was taken during a vacation to China. The couple is dressed in traditional Royal Chinese outfits.

Photo Courtesy of Manuscripts, Special Collections, and Univerity Archives, Neg. #12995

Once upon a time all the tables in Suzzallo's Reading Room looked like this. Then some of them were given to departments when new furniture was purchased. Now the library would like to retrieve the tables to restore the Reading Room to its former glory.

Photo by Jim Clark

Acting Dean James Steiner with student Nicole Serra

Photo by James Steiner

Photographer Jim Clark, right, directs the program and helps students learn proper techniques

Photo by Gavin Sisk

Gathered at a luncheon and reception this fall, the Magnuson Scholars met with Dr. Bruce Ransom, holder of the Magnuson endowed chair, Jermaine Magnuson, wife of the late senator, and her daughter, Juanita Garrison( all seated). Standing, from left, are Krisitn Marciante, Ozlem Yilmaz, Dean of Pharmacy Sidney Nelson, Benjamin Barreras, Rachel Robinson and Pamela Talley. Nelson is chair of the Board of Health Sciences Deans.

Photo by Kathy Sauber

Artist Gary Smoot has a thing for wiener dogs — the kind made out of balloons (note the drawing on his shirt). And he’s bringing his latest piece, “Wiener III,” to the UW to be exhibited in the Ceramics & Metal Arts Building on Mary Gates Memorial Drive. Smoot created more than 200 wiener dogs out of balloons and filled them with water, then froze them. His installation piece consists of the now-melting dogs. “Wiener I,” by the way, consisted of air-filled wiener dogs that were allowed to deflate and “Wiener II” was photographs of the deflating dogs (seen in the background of the photo above). The exhibit will remain in the CMA Building until Feb. 24, meaning Smoot — a UW graduate — has to come by periodically to take care of the puddles.