Trashed Maybe you don’t think twice about that little piece of paper you allow to drop to the ground, but campus gardeners think about it a lot. Gardeners find themselves picking up litter that’s in the way when they’re trying to do their real jobs, which is, of course, caring for plants. So the gardeners who work near the northeast residence halls - McMahon, McCarty and Haggett - decided to show student residents just how much litter they generate. Teaming up with residence hall administrators, RAs and a student service group, the gardeners made displays of a week’s worth of litter in front of each hall yesterday. Photo by Steve Hill

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Richard L. McCormick

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Christine Gregoire

Physics by inquiry Ninth-graders from Brian Meza’s physical science class at Seattle Preparatory School visited the UW recently, where they did a lesson on “light and apertures” that was designed by student teachers like junior Maria Topel. Topel and the others are on track to be middle and high school math and science teachers. The lesson was based on Physics by Inquiry (John Wiley), a curriculum developed especially for the preparation of teachers. Physics by Inquiry is part of a class taught by members of the Physics Education Group in the Physics Department. Photo by Kathy Sauber PHOTO: KS20010352_13a

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Illustration courtesy of ERA Care Communities

Turn of the Screw UW opera director Claudia Zahn, left, coaches School of Music student Scott Kendall (on ladder) and guest artist Mick Newell in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, which opened Wednesday and plays May 11 and 13 in Meany Hall. Photo by Cynthia St. Clair

College of Education Dean Pat Wasley is just finishing her eighth month on the job, but she’s no stranger to the UW campus, having earned a doctorate in education policy, governance and administration here in June 1989. Photo by Kathy Sauber

Earl Davie in his lab Photo by Gavin Sisk

‘Finely Tuned Machine’ This artwork, painted in bright colors, has attracted interest from both children and adults. It’s located in the UW Medical Center third floor lobby, not far from the Otolaryngology Clinic entrance. The piece is one of several by UW School of Art students displayed in the medical center this spring. Krista Sanders is the artist. Photo by Gavin Sisk

Tony Pawson

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