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U In this time of economic uncertainty when people are looking for W free things S value, the University of is a great place to turn. 40e a t In addition to providing world-class education to our students, tl e the UW enriches our region with jobs, medical care, research Ca mpus breakthroughs and the creation of a more skilled workforce. Data from the Department of Education and the U.S. Census Bureau show that college graduates are more engaged citizens, produce The UW is also a great value for students. In a recent Kiplinger higher tax revenues and contribute to a stronger democracy. report on the “100 Best Values in Public Colleges,” the UW ranked 7th. One out of four in-state UW undergraduates pays no tuition under the UW’s Husky Promise program, and 63 percent receive some sort of financial aid. For more than three years, the Husky Promise has covered the cost of tuition for academically qualified students who otherwise could not afford to attend.

At this moment when value is top of mind, we are pleased to present an issue highlighting a long list of free things you can do on the campus, a reminder of the value that the University brings not only to our students and our state, but also to our neighborhood.

LEFT: SOME OF THE MANY UW STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE FREE TUITION UNDER THE HUSKY PROMISE.

Di d You Know? The UW offers numerous free ways to expand your knowledge without leaving home: learn CPR (depts.washington.edu/learncpr); find free legal information on Washington state law(lib.law.washington.edu/ref/legalinfo.html); take a free online course (outreach.washington.edu/openuw); or get online boating information (http://bis_portal.apl.washington.edu/bis_portal_app.php). Also be sure to watch the UW home page for an exciting new look! uw.edu t o Do o n t h e

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u 7 Join Husky football fans Friday, April 30, 11 Launch your hand-carried boat or kayak s Sports Memorial Way. At the north end, two plaques for a free nighttime spring game at Husky from the public boat launch at the UW’s list the 58 UW alumni, faculty and students E xpand your Stadium. (uw.edu/alumni/events) recently refurbished Boat Street Marina, who lost their lives in World War I. At the just east of Sakuma Viewpoint. Notice the south end, the campus flagpole bears the 8 Watch some of the best rowing teams salmon-friendly dock materials and new native names of faculty, staff, students and alumni challenge the defending national champion plant life along the naturally sloping shoreline. who died in World War II and, around it, 26 Find your ancestral home in the Suzzallo Discuss leading-edge research with Huskies starting 9 a.m., Saturday, May 1, along mind sheared rock sculptures honor eight UW Library basement map room, which 31 the . (huskycrew.com) 12 Take a jog through campus using trail maps uw undergraduates at the Annual alumni who are Medal of Honor recipients. contains 270,000 map sheets, 86,000 developed by UW Recreational Sports. undergraduate Research Symposium, (depts.washington.edu/memorial) aerial photographs, and 2,000 atlases. 9 Go climb a rock (the UW’s climbing rock is (depts.washington.edu/ima/IMA_trailMaps.php) Friday, May 21, in Mary Gates Hall. located next to the Waterfront Activities Center). 24 Take a walk back in time and visit some of 27 Take a guided or self-guided tour of the (uw.edu/research/urp/symp) 13 Pack a Frisbee and enjoy the shady green lawn the campus’s oldest buildings: Suzzallo and Allen Libraries. (lib.washington. and Culture 10 Grab your bike or athletic shoes and and pathway along the Ship 32 Root on student finalists as they compete for (1895); Parrington Hall (1902); and the newly edu/about/guidedtours.html and explore the 15-mile Burke-Gilman Trail Canal. You might catch the UW crew team a $25,000 grand prize in the final oundr of relocated Cunningham Hall, once the Women’s lib.washington.edu/Suzzallo/Suzztour) 1 Visit the Burke Museum of Natural History as it winds through campus. at practice. the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Atr Building at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific & Culture or the Henry Art Gallery the Read a book or magazine in the Business Plan Competition on Thursday, Exposition. Continue your walk to Rainier Vista 28 first Thursday of every month. The Jacob May 27, in the HUB. (www.foster.washington. which was designed by the renowned Olmstead second floor Reading Lawrence Gallery in the Art Building is edu/centers/cie/businessplancompetition/Pages/ Brothers, and also built for the Exposition. room, with its vaulted ceiling, carved always free. bookcases and leaded glass windows. BPC.aspx) 25 Imagine yourself in medieval Europe as you 2 Discover the UW’s extensive and unique public 33 Discover free health education at UW Medicine, stroll among the Collegiate Gothic buildings in 29 Attend lectures by some of the world’s leading art, including Broken Obelisk in Red Square and including a wide variety of support groups and the “Quad,” just northeast of Red Square. researchers and luminaries. The Graduate Stronghold, just east of the William H. Foege lectures. (uwmedicine.washington.edu, then Find the gargoyle at the top of Savery Hall. School’s renowned lecture series runs from Building. Pick up a brochure at the visitors search “support groups” or “lectures”) Listen to music coming from the Music Building. early fall to early spring (grad.washington. center, or view an online campus art map at edu/lectures); others can be found on the 34 Increase your understanding of the causes artsuw.org. Explore more art in the UW Medical 14 Tour the Department of Biology’s Botany University’s events calendar. N ature and consequences of poverty by attending the Center lobby; you can pick up a brochure at the Greenhouse and Medicinal Herb Garden with West Coast Poverty Center’s Seminar Series. information desk. your garden club or other group, or walk 30 Watch an engineering demonstration or go (wcpc.washington.edu) through the 2½ acre Medicinal Herb Garden for a lab tour at Engineering Discovery Days, 3 Enjoy a variety of musical experiences at the on your own, viewing nearly 1,000 species April 23-24. (engr.washington.edu/alumcomm/ School of Music – student recitals, a Master from all over the world. (www.biology. openhouse.html) Class where acclaimed musicians work with washington.edu/greenhouse) music students, and more. (music.washington. 18 Exercise your dog or chase your kids in edu/events) 15 Find inspiration for your own gardening the 55-acre Natural Area, project at the five-year-old U Farm, located managed by the Center for Urban 4 Add music to your evening with a UW Choir hidden along the Burke-Gilman Trail just east of the Horticulture as an outdoor laboratory recital at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 4, in Brechemin Botany Greenhouse. (students.washington. for research, teaching and public service. Auditorium on the first floor of the Music edu/uwfarm) it is also a premier bird-watching spot. Building. (music.washington.edu/events) 16 View the Burke Museum’s free “Field Guides 19 Observe young salmon in the Salmon Homing 5 Attend an exhibit by graduating Bachelor of Fine of WA State” and then see how many native Pond. The salmon are released to Portage Arts students in Sculpture, Ceramics and Glass plants, birds and other natural features you Bay each May to begin their seaward at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery in the Art Building Take a breakT in the Microsoftr Atriumeasures 37 Stargaze with experts from the Astronomy 39 View the world’s biggest book, Bhutan: can find on campus. (uw.edu/burkemuseum/ migration, returning to the pond each fall. 35 April 21 through May 1. (art.washington. in the Paul Allen Center for Computer Department, using telescopes at the A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan fieldguide) (fish.washington.edu/hatchery/education) edu/63_Jacob-Lawrence-Gallery) Science & Engineering, where you 150-year-old Jacobsen Observatory or Kingdom, located just outside the Suzzallo 17 Enjoy a waterfront picnic and stellar views 20 Don’t miss the annual “pink snow.” Check out new UW Planetarium. (www.astro. Library Reading Room. 6 View the contemporary Native American art can watch the six-story LED art of at Sakuma Viewpoint, named the Japanese cherry blossoms in bloom in the washington.edu/groups/outreach/tjo) collection in the M.G. Gallagher Law Library installation, N octurnal Flow. 40 Check out the bronze bust of Norwegian in memory of Landscape Architecture Liberal Arts Quad, along Rainier Vista south of located in William H. Gates Hall. Look for a shady path just southeast of composer Edvard Grieg among flowering Professor Donald Sakuma. Stevens Way or from the broad steps behind 36 Identify the thinkers and artists displayed on 38 rhododendrons and azaleas in Grieg Garden, The Rotunda on south campus. the exterior of Suzzallo Library. They include Drumheller Fountain that leads to a quiet oasis behind Allen Library. Moses, Louis Pasteur, Shakespeare, Benjamin sylvan Grove Theater, once used for For a full listing of campus events, visit the UW Campus Events Calendar (uw.edu/visit/ 21 Enjoy 50 new trees on campus, a gift from Franklin, Justinian I, Isaac Newton, Leonardo commencement ceremonies. The four E-mail [email protected] with more of events.html). To help find your way, use our interactive online campus map (uw.edu/maps). Tree Campus USA in recognition of the da Vinci, Galileo, Johann Wolfgang von white columns behind the stage are all UW’s sound campus forestry practices. your favorite free things to do on the And for more information, stop by the UW Information and Visitors Center (uw.edu/visit), Goethe, Herodotus, Adam Smith, Homer, that remain of the original Territorial Trees were planted in November 2009 near UW campus. located just west of Red Square near the statue of George Washington. Open weekdays Johannes Gutenberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, university, founded downtown in 1861. the Burke Museum, on Parrington Lawn 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (206-543-9198). Charles Darwin and Hugo Grotius. and in the area bordered by Lake Washington, Union Bay and . a community newsletter for our neighbors

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Joe Gruber: University District Food Bank Director

Joe Gruber was working as a management consultant in the “Everyone has the right to healthy, nutritious food, and everyone 1990s when the opportunity to volunteer with low-income benefits when people build the kind of community that they individuals and families in Moldova changed his life. “It was an would imagine for themselves,” Gruber says. Donations from area eye-opening experience,” he explains, “helping people start businesses and community gardens provide 85 percent of the food their own small businesses to move out of situations of extreme distributed. Other items are purchased with donated funds. He poverty. It showed me first-hand the difference it makes when notes that UW employees organized extra food drives last year to you empower individuals.” help add food to the Food Bank shelves.

Gruber returned from Eastern Europe with a strong desire to work “Together, we are slowly building the will to reduce hunger in our in the nonprofit community. After moving to Wallingford, he began community,” says Gruber, who says the biggest need right now is helping out at the University District Food Bank, joining the board in for more space to serve the rising numbers of customers from the 2000 and becoming executive director in 2003, when the previous Northeast Seattle service area. director retired. He now walks the Burke-Gilman Trail every day to For more information, visit udistrictfoodbank.org. University Christian Church on NE 50th Street, where the food bank occupies part of the basement.

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