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UW Illustration

An artist’s rendition of the Translife Mars Gravity Biosatellite, a spacecraft capable of carrying mice in space for up to two months under simulated Martian gravity.

Nancy Krieger

Photo by Kathy Sauber photo #: KS200204_15

A Turner Construction worker labors high above Red Square on the face of Suzzallo Library repairing finials and other terra cotta that was damaged in last year’s earthquake. According to Assistant Director of Libraries Paula Walker, the California company that made the terra cotta for the library back in the 1920s is still in business and made the replacement pieces, which were shipped to campus for installation.

Photo by Lilly Warner photo#: LW20020225

Boffo swordplay on Red Square? Not exactly. Members of the Sparring Club practice “boffing” using weapons made of pipe insulation and duct tape. The group is associated with the Society for Creative Anachronism.

Photo Courtesy of On the Boards

Most of the actor/dancers in Peter Kyle’s “Skippy-o’s Dream” are playing “the tinies,” characters who are much smaller than normal humans and who don’t speak. Kyle, a former student of Drama Professor Robyn Hunt, now teaches dance at the University.

Center for Urban Horticulture Photo

Lorraine Brooks waters flats filled with wildflowers grown in the Center for Urban Horticulture greenhouse. Her advisor Sarah Reichard said it was the most beautiful-looking experiment ever done there.

Photo by Kathy Sauber

David Silver stands by a shelf full of cyberculture books in his office in the communications building. Silver’s Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies is an important part of the emerging discipline.