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Ruff Work OF  Julianne Ubigau, an animal technician with the UW Center for Conservation Biology, explores the foothills of Mount Rainier with Jasper and Casey from the Conservation Canine program. Rescue dogs like Jasper are trained to find wildlife scat and other fragrant objects. Samples allow researchers to learn genetic, toxi-

cological and dietary information about the animals that produced it. The scat also PACK FOREST provides details about certain species’ abundance, health and distribution. While traditional wildlife detection requires radio collars, remote cameras and trapping, the dogs make it faster and less invasive. “I feel privileged to work with dogs that can show me what I am unable to see on my own,” Ubigau says. The canine program was started in 1997 by Biology Professor Samuel Wasser, ’81. During the University's Be Boundless— For Washington, For the World campaign, the conservation center received funding from several donors including the Dawkins Charitable Trust. Conservation Canine-trained dogs have worked around the world helping monitor threatened and endangered species in- cluding orcas, bears and jaguars. Photo by Mark Stone WHAT YOU CARE ABOUT When the launched Be Boundless—For Washington, For the World, our most ambitious fundraising campaign IS CHANGING ever, more than half a million donors answered the call. Every single one of you made a difference. You invested through the UW in big ideas that matter: shaping the next generation of leaders, improving health THE WORLD and unlocking cures, building stronger communities—and altering the trajectory of people’s lives, both at home and around the globe.

The campaign may be closed, but our work moves ever forward. We are grateful for your support as we continue this journey. A decade ago, we set our sights Thank you for your generosity and your vision. on changing the world. And together, we already are. A special thanks to our Be Boundless campaign chairs:

GENERAL CHAIRS HONORARY CHAIRS IN MEMORIAM Susan Brotman Mimi Gates Jeff Brotman Bob Flowers William H. Gates Sr. Orin Smith Micki Flowers Jodi Green Mike Halperin Janet Smith

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MOVING MOVIES A new short film written and FORWARD Gorgeous artwork directed by LaChris 24 Grand Stand adorns the cover Jordan, ’11, tells the One century ago, Husky Stadium rose on the shore of Lake 6 Unbreakable Bonds 8 Community of the program for heartbreaking and Washington and became America’s best venue for 10 Roar From the Crowd Washington’s all-too-common By Jim Caple Homecoming game story of an African THE HUB against Stanford on American victim of 30 13 State of the Art Nov. 9, 1929 at Husky police violence. Population Health 20 Expert Stadium, then known Here in Washington, around the country and throughout the world, 22 Scorecard as Washington Field. UW experts work across disciplines to improve lives everywhere 23 Athletics �he game was ugly: By Jake Ellison �he Washington COLUMNS Sun Dodgers, as 47 Sketches they were known 38 Homework then, lost 6-0.

51 Media CURTIS DICKIE Taking online classes from home during a pandemic may not be 65 Tribute a normal experience, but it sure doesn’t stifle the creative process 66 Memorial By Quinn Russell Brown IMPACT HERE’S TO THE 58 Campaign Success CLASS OF 2024  42 Rome Home A father of an A group of UW-educated architects honor the colorful Astra UDUB incoming fresh- Thank you to the Aragons — Zarina, a beloved professor and creator of the UW Rome Center 68 Campus Glory man imagines the By Hannelore Sudermann journey. three generations of Huskies and superfans! 4 UW MAGAZINE OPINION AND THOUGHT FROM THE UW FAMILY

them, and where economic and educational opportunity is available to all. The pandemic has revealed how vulner- able all of us are to a highly communicable disease, but it has also cast a bright light on the ways in which economic inequity and health disparities make this disease even more lethal to some. For the low-wage worker who is deemed “essential” or the immunocompromised person whose health is already undermined by lack of resources, COVID-19 looms larger. Your philanthropic support has been key to the work we are doing to minimize these kinds of health disparities. This year we mark the successful con- clusion of Be Boundless—For Washington, For the World, a campaign in which hun- dreds of thousands of supporters have given through the UW to support the causes they care about. Your vision and generosity have improved countless lives and created untold opportunity for our students and our community of learning, discovery and service. Support for the Population Health Initiative is just one example of how phil- anthropic support for cutting-edge teaching, research and innovation can develop and amplify our existing resources to advance the greatest possible good. MESSAGE FROM THE UW PRESIDENT From UW Medicine’s leadership on the front lines to test and treat COVID-19 patients, to the groundbreaking work on a vaccine and antibody tests, to the dozens Unbreakable Bonds of grants issued to researchers to help build a healthier, more equitable and more pros- Your generosity helps us create change and build a safer and more equitable world perous “new normal,” our University is attacking the virus from all angles, including its economic and social repercussions. The world is smaller than we realize. As coffee with a co-worker or classmate. Across the UW, philanthropic support has each day shows us in new ways, our health, In the face of all this loss, we have also advanced learning and discovery in so well-being and opportunities are all deeply gained something: a united and unwav- many ways that contribute to a better world connected to the lives of those both near ering resolve to defeat this pandemic. for all. Your generosity speaks volumes: and far. Across our great public University, re- We can create change and build a world These complex linkages make up the searchers, teachers, clinicians and that is safer, healthier and fairer for all. We communities that define us and enrich our caregivers are seeking solutions. This can invest in science, research, public lives, vital ties that have been ravaged by multidimensional, interdisciplinary col- health education and preventive measures the COVID-19 pandemic. Grandparents laboration is at the heart of our University’s to try to ensure that future generations will are separated from their children and Population Health Initiative. never have to suffer the effects of a pan- grandchildren, a generation has sacrificed Population health is grounded in the demic like this one. its rites of passage, communities have lost understanding that the health of an indi- Through your extraordinary generosity, jobs and businesses, and more than 172,000 vidual is inextricable from the health of you have shown that giving through the Americans have died, with many more their community, and that healthy com- University of Washington is an investment suffering from the ravages of this disease— munities not only have preventive care in impact. Your gifts are a reflection of the and we still don’t fully understand the and medical treatment, but also access to character and spirit that unites us. Our potential long-term effects. Even the luck- clean water, healthy food, green spaces community is strong, much stronger than iest of us have paid a price: We have lost and high-quality schools. Healthy commu- the virus that is keeping us physically apart neighborhood block parties and birthday nities also have safe streets, where Black, right now. Our bonds remain unbreakable. celebrations, rooting with thousands of Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) For that, I am profoundly grateful. fellow fans at a game or just getting are not victimized by those sworn to protect —Ana Mari Cauce

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Preventing a pandemic with experts hired by the city of Seattle with his dad. As a result, he would arrive HUSKY PICKS Dr. William Foege (“The Smallpox Slayer,” increased focus on the subject to about 1956, for the two-a-day football preseason high Summer 2020) and I share some back- when biological/ecological and social/po- school practices in better shape than most For remote meetings, virtual hangouts — ground. I am a 99-year-old retired physician litical forces converged. I would advocate of us were at the end of the season. In my and any surprise guests. who also worked a summer fighting forest an article detailing the contributions of UW opinion, Jim was the best defensive coor- fires and was a clinical associate professor Zoology Professor W. Thomas Edmondson, dinator of his day, but he probably was not at the UW School of Medicine. In 1945, I UW civil engineer Robert O. Sylvester and best suited as head coach. He often stayed was an intern at Harborview when we others who documented Lake Washington’s late and slept all night in his office on the were hugely overworked because of the decline and provided the social/political couch. As a result, he would have bloodshot side with the evidence needed to support eyes for TV appearances, quite a difference shortage of civilian doctors during World Husky Funko POP! War II. I was working in a large ward of and make the case for Metro. from Don James’ TV exposure. In the 70 dickssportinggoods.com , ’63, Fernley, Nev. years that I knew him, I always had the Football medical patients when an experienced Kenneth Roberson target.com U.S. Public Health Service doctor who had highest level of respect for him. served in Asia appeared in the doorway. He Evidence for Evictions Larry Iversen, ’66, ’70, ’77, Tacoma I read the article “Exploring Evictions” quickly scanned the patients and saw a (Summer 2020) by Kim Eckart with interest. man I hadn’t even gotten to yet. He de- Praising Patty Hayes As a professional property manager with David Volk’s article about Patty Hayes manded in a loud voice, “Who is that? He more than 50 years’ experience in (“Patty Hayes: Front and Center,” Summer has smallpox! Don’t let anyone in or out 2020) was simply outstanding! Patty Hayes of this ward until I get back,” and rushed Washington, I find a glaring omission in has certainly been the epitome of a medical Neck gaiter off to the director’s office. This patient had the article or the research. Nowhere does foco.com professional ideally suited to lead the gen- arrived in Seattle on a tramp steamer, feel- the article state the reasons for evictions, eral public through such a daunting public ing sick with an undiagnosed illness, just who is evicted. In my experience, which Fleece throw health challenge. Yet the article contained target.com reminiscent of the first COVID-19 patient includes low-income housing, convention- a digitally enhanced image that is certain who arrived in the U.S. by plane. We had ally financed multifamily housing, urban, to catch the eye of medical historians. In to switch our duties to giving as many suburban, new and old properties through- it, Patty Hayes is shown with a shield that vaccinations as we could. Because of this out Washington, the overwhelming reason displays the familiar caduceus (a winged remarkable coincidence (or was it a mira- for eviction is failure to pay rent. The fail- ure-to-pay-rent eviction action is rod encircled by two snakes). Purists will Light switch plate glassybaby cle?), we succeeded in preventing a fanatics.com glassybaby.com readily note that the Rod of Asclepius (a pandemic that could have been worse than color-blind, gender-blind, location-blind, Baseball hat single non-venomous snake around an huskyhats.com the novel coronavirus. That doctor was one age-blind, and the reason is that it is an un-winged rod) would be more appropri- of the few who would have recog- accounting function. When a renter doesn’t ately associated with healing and health nized smallpox that early, and he arrived pay rent by a certain date, an exception care. Such nitpicking, however, should not at just the right time. notice is generated that they have a certain Gold necklace detract from the greatly appreciated works allisonclaire.com Larry Turnbull, ’50, Redmond number of days to bring rent current and probably a late fee as well. That notice nor- of Patty Hayes, which make me extremely mally includes a reference to the proud to be a Husky! Welcome to University of Washington Magazine consequences of such failure—eviction. Brian E. Harrington, ’86, Billings, Mont. Fall is for all! That is, the Fall issue of University of Washington Property managers are well aware of the Relishing Re-reading Magazine is sent to a larger UW population every year. If you enjoy consequences of discrimination against all I was delighted to see Jane Brown’s article our content and would like to ensure receiving print issues each protected classes. Agencies, trade and pro- (“The Joy of Re-Reading,” Summer 2020). quarter, please consider supporting the magazine by joining the fessional organizations, symposia, seminars, I have been an inveterate rereader most UWAA. Visit UWalum.com/reasons-to-be-a-member lectures, company training are manifest and of my life for the very reasons she describes, few, if any, choose consciously to violate but have never before had my thinking Jim Ellis’ Impact those laws. The penalties are profound and validated. Thank you, Professor Brown! I appreciated the article on Mr. Jim Ellis rigidly enforced. So, either the researchers Jerri Adler, ’52, Eugene, Ore. (“The Personification of Impact,” Spring or the reporting have neglected to address 2020) and his contributions to the Seattle the causal issue. Try to do a better job. John Wooden memory , ’63, Edmonds Craig Heyamoto (“Keeper of the Stats,” area. I, in no way, want to reduce his con- John W. Magnuson Summer 2020) mentions that his favorite tribution to the Metro Project and the issues Love for Lambright game was when the Husky men’s basketball encompassed in it; however, there is more Although I have never met ’s team beat UCLA in 1975. I was at that to the story, which, given the opportunity, daughter, Kris, I enjoyed her tribute to her game and I agree. Before the tipoff, the I am sure Mr. Ellis would have agreed with. dad (“My Dad’s Legacy,” Summer 2020). Husky cheerleaders cajoled retiring UCLA Seattle and Lake Washington’s issues with I went Everett High School with Jim and coach John Wooden into addressing the pollution started long ago with the first or- his sister, Sue, as well as the same sellout crowd at Hec Ed, and he was greeted ganized response in 1865. From 1891 to church. His parents, Jack and Eloise, were with a 10-minute standing ovation. 1956, the system of pipes grew from 15 miles close friends with my parents. When our Jim Rumpeltes, ’75, Surprise, Ariz. to 1,060 miles and by 1922, there were 30 dads passed away, our mothers would travel outfalls into Lake Washington in addition to away UW football games together. Jim Correction to the many going into Puget Sound. A system would arrange for Eloise and my mom’s The June 2020 UW Magazine listed Charles was started in 1936 and by 1956, 70 million car to drive into the Upper left: METAL STREET SIGN authenticstreetsigns.com; ADIDAS FOOTBALL JERSEY Widger, ’65, in our In Memoriam section huskyteamstore.com; WALL DECAL fathead.com Upper right: LIGHT SWITCH PLATE gallons of sewage was being delivered to stadium right behind the team bus to pro- when, in fact, he is doing just fine. “My friends fanatics.com Bottom right: FLEECE BLANKET ubookstore.com Inset: CELLPHONE CASE surface waters of Puget Sound. That situation tect them from the unfriendly fans that reminded me of Mark Twain being in a similar walmart.com; ADIDAS HOODIE adidas.com Bottom left: RETRO TEE ubookstore.com; lasted until 1966. UW limnologists, biolo- existed at that time. Jim spent his high fix,” he wrote. 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research and innovation, says Jodi Green, one of the campaign's volunteer chairs. “The work done on campus told the story

enough,” she says. “We realized it was just a matter of sharing it, and the rest of the WANGECHI MUTU world would jump in with us.” Since then, more than 500,000 donors have done just that. They’re funding re- Future Facing search into autism and cancer and supporting causes like saving Puget Sound “The NewOnes, will free Us,” “The Seated orcas and protecting human rights. Many IV,” is a sculpture in a series created by are giving simply because they believe in Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu. the power of a good public education. “You It will move to its new home at the UW in can’t get away from the fact that you’re front of the plaza of the Hans Rosling Center supporting students,” Green says. “Seventy- for Population Health this winter. five percent of UW alumni live within 100 Known for her powerful and distinctive

miles of the University, and look at their use of the female form to explore gender, disciplines: We’re training our next gov- identity, cultural trauma and environmental ernors, attorney generals, doctors, business degradation, Mutu created four 7-foot leaders and fisheries biologists. The region bronze statues to occupy the empty niches runs on the power of the University.” of the façade of the Metropolitan Museum The campaign brought significant single of Art in New York for an exhibit. She gifts like $20 million for the School of references the caryatid—a sculpture where Social Work and $3.6 million for under- a woman’s body is used as structural or represented students. And thousands of architectural support—a theme in many

MARK STONE people made smaller donations, sometimes African traditions of classical status objects, of $50 to $100, to enrich UW Libraries’ like royal stools and staffs, as well as in collections and support public radio. More Greek architecture. “I love the idea of a than $350 million came from people who classical figure that one adores and is drawn are including the UW in their wills. to and one has no idea why,” she says. The campaign has broadened the UW Mutu blended these different traditions community, drawing in 296,683 new do- and redefined the concept of the caryatid A Brilliant Conclusion nors and hundreds of volunteers who are to be an independent and powerful woman mentoring students and bringing their who can “lead us into the future. Take us As the UW wraps up its most ambitious campaign—bringing in more than expertise to advisory boards for programs, to where we haven’t been before.” The $6.3 billion—it deepens its service and connection to the community around it schools and colleges. circular plates are reminiscent of futuristic Today, as the campaign comes to a close, crowns or halos, or magical orbs that em- By Hannelore Sudermann the UW has changed. Students have new phasize composure and wisdom. They are research opportunities, state-of-the-art inspired by traditional lip adornments classrooms and equipment, and even more worn by women of status from certain Kiana Rahni, ’20, was a hope-filled programs and facilities. During the cam- teachers who are leaders in their fields. African traditions sixth-grader when the UW started work on paign, Rahni explored everything on Buildings like the new Burke Museum have The 900-pound bronze statue was fab- its most recent campaign, Be Boundless— campus from art studio to protein design transformed campus. And capital projects ricated at the Walla Walla Foundry in For Washington, For the World. The first laboratory. “What I saw made me feel like the new home for the KEXP radio southeastern Washington and brought to In 2016, the UW in her family to attend college, Rahni came really good about being a student here,” station and Othello Commons, a commu- the UW through a gift of the Bill & Melinda launched the public to Seattle from Vancouver, Wash., as a Husky she says. nity-UW space in South Seattle, have Gates Foundation. phase of its Be Promise student in 2016, just as the cam- At the start of Be Boundless, campaign extended the University farther into the Boundless campaign paign entered its public phase. The volunteers met with the UW's leaders to region. The UW will always be a leading by painting campus scholarship, partially funded by donors, explore how private support could amplify public research university, but it’s the and the region in provided Rahni the freedom to explore all research and teaching. Deans and depart- deepened community connections and purple. Since then, the that the UW had to offer. She joined student ment chairs spelled out visions of more the value brought by philanthropy that campaign effort has clubs, mentored classmates and studied scholarships, new and renovated buildings, opens new horizons. expanded community abroad in Uganda, all while pursuing degrees and endowments to attract and retain the “The UW does so much more than an connections and in- in economics and political science. best faculty. They also talked about how I ever imagined," Rahni says, adding that vestment in the work For the past two years, Rahni has served their fields are changing, and how the she was swept up in the energy for UW of the University does. alongside about 80 alumni and commu- University must change too. her fellow directors. “Some of the people nity members on the board of directors The process gave the volunteers a look I met were fifth-generation Huskies. Some for the UW Foundation. The public non- into every corner of campus and helped were the only person of color in their class. profit's mission is to facilitate private them recognize that the UW had every And they all really cared about stewarding contributions to benefit students, faculty, right to be confident in its teaching, the school.”

12 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 13 ub Our Lives, Disrupted I’ve always been interested in equity, par- We asked three UW experts—a historian, a leader in education and an expert in WE MUST ticularly racial justice. But I started intensely infectious disease—how we might use this time of challenge and change to plan BE ACCOUNTABLE studying it and wanting to do more for for a better future. Here’s what they said. As told to Delia Ward men of color after the killing. I also thought “We need to get to the point about my own mortality, because I had two where we see each other as young sons. I wanted to provide a road map to life for them in case I had an un- they launch droplets through the air, re- brothers or sisters. You fortunate encounter with the police. spiratory viruses like the flu and the wouldn’t want to see a The Brotherhood Initiative is part of my coronavirus are much more contagious brother or sister in pain.” road map. Young Black men and other than blood-borne contagion. students of color explore their identities, The second sign of trouble is consis- When 17-year-old Trayvon Martin learn how to lead, and attend events and tency. When evolutionary biologists test was murdered in February 2012, workshops. Just as important, it’s a way to the genomes of multiple disease samples, Associate Professor JOE LOTT, the make friends, to have some companionship they might find very different genomes, founder of the UW’s Brotherhood at the University of Washington. It’s iso- or they might find very similar, consistent lating when you’re in an environment where ones. Consistency indicates that the virus Initiative, did some hard thinking. you don’t see people who look like you. is jumping, very effectively, from person When you have a community of people to person. who share similar experiences, and who When you find both these signs—as we are there to support you and cheer you on, did with COVID-19—then you worry. that makes a difference. It gives you con- to underwriting security operations, the We also need to get much better at ad- fidence that you do belong at the UW. WE SHOULD military and tax breaks. dressing viruses. A lack of testing was the We need that confidence, because other PAY ATTENTION Rather than resisting the concept of major barrier in controlling the pandemic people think that we don’t belong. I re- big government, then, we need to pay early on. The regulatory issues that continue member a recent class where a young Black “Polarization has always attention to it. What do we, as citizens, to plague the testing environment are part student informed me that he didn’t believe been with us; it isn’t this voters and taxpayers, want our government of the reason the U.S. is behind in managing in affirmative action. I asked him why. He new thing that we’ve to do? Whom should it benefit? the spread of COVID-19. told me that affirmative action meant one Over the past few months, millions of That said, I feel optimistic about a vac- thing: that people would assume he was cooked up in the 21st citizens have been asking that question. cine. There are a couple of promising accepted at the UW because he was Black, century.” Calls to halt racism and to defund police candidates in development that are now not because he was capable. departments are the most recent examples, History is a slow process, a series heading into phase 3 testing. I think the We all know that people make assump- of course, but you could say that Americans choice of antigens—the piece of the virus tions about people of color, on campus of gradual accretions. Except were agitating for social and economic that they put into the vaccine to generate and far beyond it. This kind of thinking, when it’s not. Over the past year, change four years ago: Just think about the WE CAN immune response—is the right one. and the inequity and violence that travel American society has endured an wildly different candidacies of Donald It’s not enough, though, to figure out with it, permeates our lives. epidemic, grappled with inequal- Trump and Bernie Sanders. this virus. We also need to prepare for the Americans, in fact, have been agitating BE PREPARED For a little while, my wife and I were able ity, and worried about the future. next one. to keep the news of George Floyd’s death since the country’s founding, and while “I feel strongly that having First, we should close down the wet away from our kids—and I was relieved. I It’s a good time, says historian history doesn’t repeat itself, there are a health care system where markets in China and in other places where didn’t want to talk to them about the police. MARGARET O’MARA, to think patterns that appear repeatedly. We do anybody can access care— diseases at the human-animal interface When you’re 8 and 10 years old, you should about what we want from our see comparable moments of disruption, emerge. be allowed, you know, to be boys. government. unrest and rules-changing in the 1850s, and get equal care—is the Then we should take on a much bigger But then they saw posters of Charleena 1920s and 1960s. Both the 1850s and the best path forward.” problem: the American health-care system. Lyles and George Floyd, and it was hard for 1920s, for instance, saw viciously racist It’s clear that systemic racism and the lack us to explain how things like that could hap- Before speaking their piece, historians usu- and nativist movements in response to HELEN CHU, ’12, is a UW epidemi- of universal health care—these terrible pen. They were afraid, and for the next several ally wait for the dust—or the tear gas—to upswings in new immigration. ologist and an expert in infectious structures that have been in place in the days, they kept asking us if the police were settle. Still, like all of us, I’ve been thinking Underneath the crises and protests, disease. She’s also a lab-coat- U.S. for years—are what make pandemics going to hurt them. It was just a heartbreaking about racism and activism, about the gov- however, there are often quieter years of ernment and the pandemic. We have a wearing hero. Chu and her take off. conversation to have with your kids. preparation. Decades of activism around When you don’t have good universal global-health disruption, an economic dis- government reform made the New Deal colleagues at the Seattle Flu I want us to create a better world for my health care, and when you don’t have sys- children and my students, one where Black ruption and political disruption, and all of possible. Years of Black activism led to civil Study found one of the earliest tems in place to control chronic conditions, people aren’t treated with disdain, or as the anger and concern and energy people rights victories in the 1960s. cases of community-transmitted then you get into a situation where care is subhuman. To make that world, we need have for change is starting to become a path. We’re in an unpredictable political mo- COVID-19 in the U.S., sounding a piecemeal, and nothing is managed. education, and we need love. We need As we’re thinking about protests and ment. However, history shows us paths, I’d suggest we also consider how nationwide warning that likely I also have a third suggestion. The Seattle leadership—people willing to challenge that—with publicity and broad-based Flu Study—the early alert system that de- we view big government. It’s worth noting buy-in—movements can create real saved thousands of lives. racist systems and policies. tected one of the first cases of COVID-19 Above all, we need accountability. Back that the U.S. has always had a big gov- change at the highest levels. And I know community spread in the U.S.—should be in June, many UW leaders came out with MICHAEL MORGENSTERN (3) ernment; it just shifts its spending that, whatever the issue, Americans have I think we need to get better at identifying replicated in cities around the world. These statements supporting Black students and priorities. Between the middle of the a tradition of protest. We express ourselves viruses with pandemic potential. The first systems are expensive to set up. But they’re Black lives. We have to come back around 20th century and today, for instance, collectively by going to the street. This is sign of trouble is the type of virus, whether not expensive compared to the economic and ask our leaders: “What have you done? government priorities moved from sup- an indication of the strength of democracy, it’s respiratory or blood borne. Because cost of containing a pandemic. What are you doing?” We need to hold porting social services and infrastructure and it does move the needle. them accountable.

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Stuck at Home? Trouble Here’s a Fine Way Why we don’t want the flu and the coronavirus at the same time

to Find Fish By Hannelore Sudermann citizens, while in other years, more profoundly affecting pregnant women and young adults. If both viruses are circulating at the Between 85% and 90% of all seafood is same time and flu is at its normal level, it will overload hospitals consumed in restaurants or purchased and clinics,” says Lynch. In 2019-2020, the Centers for Disease from retail stores. So when COVID-19 �he CDC recommends With flu season coming, doctors and public health officials worry Control reported that an estimated 39 million people suffered struck in March, the seafood industry went the flu shot for every- that an outbreak of influenza in the midst of the COVID-19 from the flu; 18 million of them sought medical treatment. into shock. one over 6 months of pandemic could wipe out our health care system. They warn of Still, there may be some good news. Because of COVID-19, Gone were the restaurants that bought age. In the 2018-2019 a scenario in which both illnesses are circulating at the same many people have changed their behaviors and now practice millions of pounds of seafood, including flu season, about 45% time and even more people need medical care. social distancing, wear masks and frequently wash their hands. our beloved salmon, a mainstay of Pacific of U.S. adults got a flu “It could be tricky,” says John Lynch, ’02, ’07, ’11, a UW Medicine Those safeguards are effective in limitng flu, COVID-19 and Northwest good eating. In 2017, for in- vaccination. physician at Harborview. “We don’t know a lot of times if people other respiratory-tract infections, Lynch says. As a result of stance, Washington state’s total commercial have flu or COVID-19.” The two infectious diseases present similar those extra steps, the flu might not be as pronounced as it has catch was 666 million pounds—and that’s symptoms, including cough, aches, fever and fatigue. But been in past years. just one state’s catch. COVID-19 requires a higher level of care because it is more Over the summer, the Southern Hemisphere was in full flu Into this desperate situation stepped virulent and harmful. “It is going to create a level of complexity season yet did not see flu cases at their typical levels, Lynch says. Max Mossler, ’16, managing editor and that we haven’t faced before,” he adds. The results are speculative, but COVID-19 measures may play a developer of Sustainable Fisheries, an entity According to the World Health Organization, the latest data part in preventing people from coming down with the flu. of the UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries suggest that 80% of COVID-19 infections are mild, 15% are Lynch’s best advice: wear a mask when out in public, practice Sciences that explains the science of sus- severe and require oxygen, and 5% are critical and require handwashing and other hygiene, and socially distance … and tainable seafood. Mossler developed a Fish ventilators. The number of severe and critical infections is don’t forget your flu shot. The CDC recommends a flu shot Map from information he collated from significantly higher than what is typical for the flu. for all people over 6 months of age. “It has a clear and mea- hundreds of commercial fishing lists. The COURTESY RUSSELL MARX “But we can’t discount the flu or forget that flu is actually very surable impact in terms of infection rate and level of illness,” map, located at http://www.sustainable- dangerous,” says Lynch. “Flu affects every age group, and it can Lynch says. “We have to do our very best to keep people home, fisheries-uw.org, is a way for commercial change from year to year, sometimes causing more harm to senior healthy and out of the hospitals and clinics.” fishing companies to sell their products directly to consumers. Want some fresh fish? Visit the website and tap one of the balloons on the map to see the name of the fishing enterprise and the type of fish on the “menu.” For example, tap a balloon on the Oregon Algae’s Many Faces coast and you’ll see “CS Fishery.” It is a small-boat operation bringing fresh fish To most of us, algae is the green squishy stuff that occasionally “blooms.” But Russell and seafood directly to your home in the Marx, a UW neuroscience doctoral student, found that algae has a creative side. way that Community Supported Agriculture works. But instead of buying fresh fruits By Julie Garner and vegetables from a farmer, you buy your choice of fish. When we checked CS Fishery About a year ago, UW neuroscience re- creating a living photographic exhibit. in June, it was advertising Oregon albacore searcher Russell Marx became interested Before Marx entered the doctoral pro- tuna, which makes supermarket tuna taste in photography as a creative outlet to gram in neuroscience, they worked in like, well, catfood. counter the rigors of graduate school. “I the lab of Professor John Neumaier, ’89, Mossler, who holds a Master of Marine work in science right now, and I was look- ’90, ’93, at UW Medicine Harborview Affairs from the UW School of Marine and Using a regular color ing for a place where I could apply science Medical Center. Neumaier is a professor Environmental Affairs, functioned almost MAKE ROOM IN YOR LIFE enlarger, Russell Marx outside of being a graduate student,” they of psychiatry and behavioral science. In like an investigative reporter in putting For More printed a photograph say. Marx looked at photos that photog- his lab, Marx and Kevin Coffey, another together the Fish Map, ferreting out lists Lasting Connections Enriching Hobbies Intellectual Pursuits from a black-and- raphers had projected onto leaves, and researcher, developed a software program of commercial fishing concerns. “A couple white film negative got the idea to grow some algae and project called DeepSqueak to analyze the 20 of places have lists, like National Fisherman, onto Chlorella Vulgaris light onto it using an LED bulb and an kinds of ultrasonic calls made by rats and a magazine that fishermen read. I used At UWRA-affiliated University House retirement communities, algae in a petri dish. enlarger. It takes about a week for the mice. The program takes an audio signal pinpoints from Local Catch, which rep- Because the algae, algae to grow enough for surprisingly and transforms it into an image or sono- resents community fisheries, and Ocean active seniors are making room for more stimulating community which doesn’t move sharp images to form. gram. The two young scientists took Wise, a conservation program that pro- because it sits at the Marx takes a petri dish and pours water advantage of machine-vision algorithms motes sustainable seafood. This has been and memorable moments in their retirement years. bottom of the petri with algae mixed in. “When it starts out, developed for self-driving cars. Ultimately, our most-visited web page this year. I built dish, is a photosyn- you can’t even see the algae,” he explains. the research will be used to develop a map for consumers. Actually, I built it for isit eraliving.com to learn more. thesizer, the algae “I like the idea of a picture that’s still alive treatments for those addicted to alcohol my dad,” he says of his non-tech-savvy exposed to brighter in a state of animation. When it runs out or opioids. Just like their human coun- parent, with whom he has experienced the light grew more, thus of nutrients, it will stop growing.” Marx terparts, rodents make happy sounds COVID-19 lockdown in Los Angeles. Locations in Wallingford and Issaquah. Ask about special benefits for members. growing the image in envisions putting a petri dish on a board when anticipating sugar as a reward for the petri dish. and displaying the board on a wall, thus playing with their pals.

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and opened its doors to work with Seattle- King County Public Health. “We know a Census Consensus lot of our students and their families don’t ECC outreach effort educates minority communities have access to affordable health care,” says why filling out the census is vital Fonseca, who has worked at the ECC for the past 21 years. Health department staff By Julie Garner made students aware of cash-assistance UW PHOTO programs, options to access health care, and even help with utilities. It’s not difficult to understand why un- low-income/minority students. Between Deciding to apply for help with utilities HOW ABOUT THEM APPLE(S) derrepresented minority communities 3,000 and 4,000 students use the ECC or to file for an earned income tax credit Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies were suspicious when they were asked every week. could benefit a person who has a low in- hire the most graduates from what uni- to complete the 2020 U.S. Census. Many staff and students didn’t realize come and minority status. Yet not everyone versity? If you said MIT or Stanford, you’d Providing personal information to the that there are no citizenship questions on who could pursue those benefits actually be wrong. The University of Washington federal government, which includes such the Census form. In addition, no personal decides to. Crystal Hall, associate professor is No. 1 when it comes to the number of agencies as Immigration and Customs information is ever shared with ICE or the in the Evans School of Public Policy & alumni working at the nation’s 17 largest Enforcement and the Department of Governance, is an expert on how people tech firms, including Apple, Microsoft, COURTESY MOHAI Justice, might seem counterintuitive, living in poverty make decisions. “There Amazon, Google, and Facebook. The especially in today’s political climate. are assumptions that they make poor de- University of California, Berkeley came Underrepresented But failing to comply with the census cisions and that’s what keeps them in in second. The talent company SHL minority communities could harm those communities by lead- poverty,” she says. “Actually, it is the reverse. also found that Amazon hires more UW often view govern- We wanted ing to fewer federal resources for schools It is living in poverty with a scarcity of graduates than alumni from any other ment with mistrust. and valuable programs like Head Start, resources and the stigma of race and pov- university. The survey findings show the But not filling out our staff and neighborhood improvement projects erty that affect decision-making.” impact created by the hundreds of thou- the U.S. census could An Issue of Gravity and public health. Census information Think about it: If you don’t have enough sands of donors who contributed to the deprive communities could even affect democratic represen- students to time, or money, or food, and you’re wonder- Be Boundless—For Washington, For the New map shows the areas around Seattle most prone to landslides of essential resources. tation by determining how voting ing how you are going to make rent or get World comprehensive capital campaign �he ECC is working districts are drawn. see the value some badly needed health care, most of your to support the Paul G. Allen School of By Brooke Fisher with those commu- That’s why Maggie Fonseca, ’98, ’11, mental activity is engaged in survival. Computer Science & Engineering as well nities to build trust director of the UW’s Samuel E. Kelly in trusting “As we look at the current situation (of as the entire UW. With in-state tuition in some government Ethnic Cultural Center, decided to do COVID-19), the racial and health disparities and fees of $11,745 for 2020-21, the UW Landslides have With all of its hills and cliffs and dunes— Pollock. “Is essential to do so since this is programs. something about it. She met with a rep- these entities. are as enormous as the economic dispar- once again shows what an incredible been a problem in and rain—Seattle is a city of slides. In fact, the best way to assess the likely conse- resentative from the Census Bureau last ities,” Hall says. “We also know that the value it provides to society. Washington for as long 8.4% of the city’s surface is landslide prone, quences of landslides, not just their fall to explore how it could educate un- Internal Revenue Service. “We wanted our folks at the lowest income levels are the as humans have lived according to a recent city of Seattle assess- occurrence.” derrepresented minority communities staff and students to see the value in trusting slowest to bounce back.” here. �his 1934 news- ment. Even so, detailed analyses of the Washingtonians have had a heightened about the benefits of participating. The these entities,” Fonseca says. Reaching students while they are at the paper photo shows a riskiest areas are few. landslide awareness, especially after the ECC was a natural fit as a place for students The ECC outreach efforts did not stop ECC is a simple and effective way to pro- Seattle home sliding So UW engineers are developing a new deadly Oso landslide in 2014. The M9 to stand up and be counted, given how with the Census. It also partnered with vide information that will benefit students downhill. mapping system to quantify landslide risk project, a recent research collaboration the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity United Way of King County to promote from underrepresented minority commu- in the prone areas of the city. The hope is across several UW departments, explored

works with 5,700 first-generation or the agency’s free tax-preparation program nities and their families. COURTESYEMILY THUMA that the new map can offer the city and how a Cascadia Subduction Zone earth- the public a more complete look at different quake may trigger landslides throughout areas to estimate potential costs of damage the area. “The Oso landslide and the M9 MEET THE ARTIST and loss of life, says William Pollock, the Project both highlighted the urgency of Kenny A. Nguyen, ’20, was Civil and Environmental Engineering doc- understanding the landslide hazards and— delighted to get the assign- toral student who has been working on the especially—risks in the ,” ment to create the illustration BOOK RECEIVES LGBT STUDIES HONOR mapping platform for the past four years. Pollock says. for this story. A former work- A book by Emily Thuma (above) is the The map—when it is released this fall—will In Seattle, the majority of landslides are study student who commuted winner of a 2020 Lambda Literary be one of the first in the country to look either large and slow-moving or small and to the Seattle campus from Award for LGBT Studies. Her 2019 book, at risk on a regional scale and to more rapid. Many are activated during the rainy �acoma, he graduated in “All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the clearly quantify that risk. “This will help season of winter and spring. It’s not un- June with a bachelor’s degree Feminist Fight to End Violence,” traces city planners know how to prioritize re- common for landslides to travel long in art. �he story he worked the history of anti-carceral feminism. sources,” Pollock says. The city’s mitigation distances and reach areas that are not on holds particular meaning The movement against gender violence can include preventing development, in- generally considered landslide prone. to him. “Growing up as a and incarceration was forged by grass- stalling retaining walls and horizontal The landslide risk map will be part of a first-generation student roots women activists in and outside drains, and public outreach. suite of maps to provide the public with around many more like me of prisons in the 1970s. Activist Angela Today’s landslide maps for Seattle only comprehensive information about land- meant that our parents get- Davis praised the book, saying it “offers identify the location of landslide-prone slides—from estimated recurrence to how ting deported was something us a robust history of late 20th-century areas. “A unique part of this work is that they are triggered. to be wary of,” he explains. radical feminist anti-violence organiz- we are not looking at just one type of land- As Pollock refines his risk map, he is “�he language barrier that ing,” adding: “Thuma reminds us that slide, but different types,” Pollock says. visiting hotspots such as West Seattle and exists also made it difficult the activism of the present is built upon Different slides have different effects on Magnolia to verify his data. As he and for my parents to deal with KENNY NGUYEN a legacy of work that traversed move- roads and structures. Wartman publish their findings in coming government documents.” ments and prison walls.” Thuma is assis- Also, traditional landslide maps do not months, they will also present their results tant professor in UW Tacoma's School of explicitly consider risk, says Joseph to city officials and seek community Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. Wartman, the CEE professor working with engagement.

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Taking a minute to think about who in your life is a caregiver and how you can support Being There that person is critical, she says. If your neighbor’s husband has dementia, knock UW aging expert Wendy Lustbader details the need for on her door and spend some in-person kindness for older community members during COVID-19 time chatting with her from a safe distance. “To have somebody else to talk to lightens By Julie Davidow the load, releases stress and reduces iso- lation, which helps with patience,” Lustbader says.

With the world upended by COVID-19, “We all have to be thinking about who in RECENTLY BEREAVED many of us are just trying to get through our lives needs a phone call so they can Losing a loved one during the pandemic each day. Shopping lists, home schooling vent their frustrations, maybe laugh and is especially difficult, Lustbader says. and Zoom meetings fill the hours and propel think about something else for 10 Without the opportunity to gather for us forward, even in quarantine. minutes.” funerals and memorials, the recently be- For many older Americans, however, Three groups of older people are espe- reaved are forced to bear much of the the rhythms of every day have not just cially vulnerable right now, Lustbader says. burden of their grief alone. Reaching out changed, they have stopped. At higher risk to someone who is grieving can seem of complications and death from the virus, FAMILY CAREGIVERS fraught. But this is not the time to avoid people who once joined their friends for that difficult phone call, she says. Saying a weekly coffee date, cared for grandchil- In the U.S,, spouses and partners provide just the right thing is not what matters. dren or volunteered at food banks and most of the care for aging people with “It’s your presence” that makes all the hospitals are increasingly isolated. dementia and other conditions that require difference, she says. Bearing witness to “There are people in this pandemic who assistance. Before the pandemic, adult day their suffering is the important step. are overlooked. They’ve kind of vanished centers and part-time helpers offered those “We’re just not sure how to handle grief,” behind closed doors,” says Wendy family caregivers a break. “To be cooped she says. “We don’t realize that to be pres- Lustbader, ’82, an expert in aging who up without the normal ways to refresh Seniors never had it so good. ent and to receive somebody’s feelings is lectures in the UW School of Social Work. yourself is really difficult,” Lustbader says. an enormous help.” ELDERS WHO LIVE ALONE For the latest offers on the Even before the pandemic, researchers FALL linked loneliness and social isolation in Now more than elders with higher rates of depression and nation’s fastest wireless network* declines in overall physical and mental ever, household health. Older people who found ways to assuage their loneliness and stay connect- options are better ed through volunteering, going to the gym for seniors. or visiting senior centers no longer have those outlets. “All of this was lost,” Lustbader says. “We have to think as a society about elders who struggle with isolation and are now more alone than ever.” Lustbader, who lives on Vashon Island, says her local senior center changed their practice for delivering food to house- bound elders. The volunteers are now trained to knock on the door, leave their delivery and back away to a safe distance FOUNDED BY UW GRADS IN 2009 TO SUPPORT SENIORS for a 15-minute chat. “It’s not the food IN HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENTS delivery that’s medicine for the soul,” HSC providesHSC was in-home founded caregivers, by UW telehealth, grads and in nursing2009 to services serve for the seniors Lustbader says. “It’s the hanging out.” As the pandemic drags on without a at home. Longhouse provides vibrant adult family homes for seniors with Lorem ipsum alumni of all colleges and universi�es. We �rovide clear end point, people need to think cre- dementia or other chronic conditions who cannot stay at home. atively about how to connect, Lustbader a aliquam erat volutpat. Ut wisi enim ad minim refined in‐homeCall care to learn for more!seniors. Call today! says. Know which of your elder neighbors veniam,Visit quis nostrud att.com exerci tation ullamcorper or your suscipit lobortislocal nisl utAT&T aliquip ex ea retail commodo consequat. location Duis autem vel lives alone. Knock on their door. Offer to pick up a treat for them at the store. Leave eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero a pie and a note. “One good outcome of eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla Seattle: 206.599.9990 the pandemic is we’re realizing how much for back to school offers we need each other,” she says. “Kindnesses Bellevue: 425.241.4900 206-366-1771 facilisi. we considered old-fashioned are new fash- www.HuskySeniorCare.com www.Longhouse.com ioned now.” *Fastest based on analysis by Ookla® of Speedtest Intelligence® data median download speeds for Q1 2020. Ookla trademarks used under license and reprinted with permission. 20 UW MAGAZINE www.HuskySeniorCare.com

SCORECARD JEN COHEN SPORTS REPORT ub TINA FRIMPONG ELLERTSON JOINS STAFF Fans of Husky women’s soccer may do a double take this season if they look at the sideline and see one of the best players in school history working as an assistant coach. That would be Tina Frimpong El- lertson, who is part of coach Nicole Van Dyke’s staff. Ellertson, who played for the Huskies from 2001 to 2004, still holds the school record for most goals and total points. A two-time All-American and Pac- ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS (5) 10 Player of the Year, she helped the Hus- kies reach their first Elite Eight. “My four years at the UW are probably my favorite,” she recalls. “When I think about that time,

I found my confidence and was able to be- come the player I wanted to be.” Ellertson played on the U.S. National Team in the 2007 World Cup as well as in women’s pro soccer leagues. After her playing career, she Values and Victories worked as a coach, including time guiding Remembering a Gentle Giant the U.S. youth teams before rejoining the Huskies this year. “I’m excited to go back Paying tribute to big Rod Stanley, a beloved teammate from the early 1970s and be at my alma mater,” she says. “My Jennifer Cohen started working at the UW What did you want to accomplish when goal is to make sure somebody beats [my] By Jim Caple athletic department in 1998 and was pro- you took the AD job? moted to athletic director in 2016. Interview records.” “I was in a unique position because I’ve by Jim Caple. Offensive lineman Rod Stanley stood He later worked with Sixkiller when both Offensive lineman been at the University for so long. I under- about 6 feet 4 inches and weighed 280 were employed by another distributor, Rod Stanley was What has kept you working at the UW stood some of the strengths and weakness lbs., and he had an important job: pro- Sydney “Sid” Eland, Inc. known for his sense for so many years? of the athletic department. College athletics tecting Husky Sonny “He was a great teammate,” Bonwell of humor, caring are fascinating because you have a lot of “It goes back to the people and the values Sixkiller, ’74. “He was a gentle giant,” recalls. Stanley is survived by two sons, nature and soft heart, stakeholders and they’re often times in of the people associated with our University, Sixkiller recalls. “He wouldn’t annihilate Connor (a Marine currently stationed at recalls former team- conflict with one another. I wanted to get our city and our region. There is a passion his opponent. He’d just get in the way. Camp Pendleton) and Jordan. mate Tony Bonwell. all of our stakeholders aligned around our for developing people and for constant im- It just was not Rod’s mentality.” purpose, and that is to develop students so provement. I have been so lucky to be around Stanley, a Federal Way High School they can go on and do extraordinary things many amazing people that have taught me, graduate who was a beloved member of in our community.” developed me and cared for me.” the Huskies football teams of the early What’s it like running UW athletics? Will more women and people of color 1970s, died June 30, 2018. Professional Caregiving have opportunities to work in sports A two-year letterman whose career was “It’s an honor. Husky athletics has a long administration? hampered by a knee injury, Stanley was a At Its Finest history and tradition in the city. It’s a point great drive blocker and protected Sixkiller’s of pride. Having the opportunity to serve “I sure hope so. I think we’ve seen progress blind side on pass plays, says another team- a school that is so beloved and respected for underrepresented minorities. One of mate, defensive back Tony Bonwell, ’73. is a powerful experience.” the things I’m proud of is that the Pac-12 has the most diverse athletic-directors’ “He had a great sense of humor, he cared During a normal time, how many Husky room: We have three Black athletic direc- about everyone and had a soft heart,” sporting events do you attend a week? tors and the first ever Asian-American Sixkiller says. Bonwell recalls a story about “That’s a great question. It’s not just sport- athletic director, Patrick Chun, my buddy Stanley from the 1971 Huskies-Purdue ing events, it’s fundraising, it’s community at WSU. I’m the only woman. I want to game at Husky Stadium. The Boilermakers events and engagements. Obviously, we’re see more women and more diversity in were a formidable foe, featuring future in a non-traditional time. I’m used to a our industry.” NFL quarterback Gary Danielson and fu- pace where we work seven days a week LEGEND FOUNDED UW WOMEN’S GOLF ture NFL defensive tackle Dave Butz, all Should women’s sports get more Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt started the UW 6 foot 8 inches and 295 lbs. of him. That and have activities, games, contests, events, attention? engagements, pretty much every day of women’s golf team in 1974-75, coached game featured eight lead changes, with the week and in the evenings.” “One of the great things about the it for eight years, and during that time the Huskies—behind Sixkiller’s school-re- University of Washington is that our wom- donated her school salary to the golf pro- cord passing performance—scoring last Favorite Husky sports memory? en’s programs are beloved. You look at gram. Though Ihlanfeldt won five Pacif- to pull out a 38-35 victory. “I got that question the other day when I what Heather Tarr has built with women’s ic Northwest titles and four Washington “Rod was lined up opposite Butz,” was on a panel. I had such a hard time and the real love affair this com- state championships, her biggest legacy is Bonwell recalls. “On the first play, Rod answering that because I have so many. munity has with our softball program. … the one she created at the UW. “Edean’s sprang out of his stance to block Butz only They usually are centered around some We have really strong numbers and viewers impact on UW women’s golf cannot be to have Butz knock him backward, rip off incredibly competitive moments, like watch- for women’s gymnastics. Our women’s measured in wins and losses,” says UW golf his helmet and break his chin strap. Rod PROUDLY SERVING THE HUSKY COMMUNITY FOR 15 YEARS ing Kelsey Plum break the NCAA scoring volleyball, women’s rowing and women’s coach Mary Lou Mulflur, ’80, who played staggered off the field, tossed his helmet We provide our professionally-trained caregivers with career advancement record. I had tears streaming down my face basketball programs have a lot of commu- for Ihlanfeldt. “It will forever be measured to the equipment manager and said some- watching this woman take over a game. And nity support. The student-athletes in the by the number of girls and women who thing to the effect of, “Don’t bother fixing opportunities, scholarships, and the best benefits in the industry. You can rest at [softball pitcher] on the women’s programs work just as hard as have been impacted by the kindness and it, I’m not going back out there!” ease, knowing that your loved ones are well taken care of at home. mound, she was like a dragon when she the men’s programs, and they equally de- empathy of an extraordinary woman.” Ih- After the UW, Stanley worked at John won the national championship.” serve to be admired for the work they do.” lanfeldt died April 27 at the age of 90. Meyer’s, Inc., a beer distribution company. Call (206) 362-2366 or visit FedeltaHomeCare.com/uw

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, Husky Stadium rose along the shore of Lake Washington and became the best place in America for college football. By Jim Caple

Its grand placement PHOTO BY KATHERINE TURNER at the edge of Lake Washington makes Husky Stadium uniquely accessible to thousands of fans arriving by boat to share “sailgating” as a game-day ritual.

24 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 25 purple-and-gold-decorated Husky fans the football staff and student-athletes were arriving via boat. But no matter how you added to the west end. Many bathrooms arrive, once you make your way inside the were added as well. Perhaps the most sig- stadium, you not only get to watch the nificant change was that the track game but the views are gorgeous—of Lake surrounding the gridiron was removed. The Stadium’s south Washington and the Cascade Mountains That allowed the football field to be lowered upper deck, with its (including Mount Rainier) to the east, the by about four feet to accommodate seating signature cantilevered and Olympic Mountains to closer to the field of play. Due to the addition roof canopy, was add- the west. How many other college stadiums of box seats, the stadium capacity decreased ed in 1950 for about $1.7 million; 15,000 have a mountain range to view from each slightly from 72,500. (While the renovation seats were added, end zone, plus a large, beautiful lake right was underway, the Huskies played the 2011 increasing Stadium off shore? (Although you can’t always see and their 2012 home games at capacity to 55,000. the mountains when the skies are cloudy.) CenturyLink Field.) Originally built by Puget Sound Bridge “The new Husky Stadium is pretty cool,” and Dredging Co. in 1920, the stadium Huard says. “Before Don James passed capacity was roughly 30,000 and cost away (in 2013), I got to give him a tour of about $565,000, which would be close to the new stadium. It was a special moment $8 million today. A good chunk of the showing him around.” money came from small bronze plaques The Don James Center, which is under sold by students, who wanted the stadium the north side’s upper deck, seats more than built. It did not have upper decks back 600 fans and features an outdoor deck. The then, just seats all around the field except Huskies still enter the field from the tunnel for the open east end. That inspired The on the northwest end of the field, though LONG, LONG AGO, the UW football team Daily to call it a Horseshoe. played its home games on it is a shorter distance than when the locker In 1936, 10,000 seats were added atop near the northern edge of campus, over by rooms were inside Hec Edmundson the rim of the stadium. Another 15,000 Hutchinson and Hansee halls. It began Pavilion. The opposing team now enters seats were added on the south side in 1950 playing there back in 1895 and continued when the upper deck was built. The stadium for a quarter of a century, going undefeated was called “Cassill’s Castle” after Harvey (59-0-4) under coach from 1907 Cassill, then the UW athletic director. That to 1917. The team also played the first four IT’S THE BEST-LOCATED addition cost about $1.7 million and upped games of the 1920 season at Denny Field, the stadium capacity to 55,000. Fans en- concluding its run of games there with a STADIUM IN THE WORLD. joyed sitting in that upper section, which 3-0 loss to Stanford. Attendance averaged they accessed via a series of outside ramps. less than 6,000 fans per game. THE SCENERY, THE LAKE— In 1965, more student seating was added Then, on Nov. 27, 1920, UW football to the north side of the stadium (from experienced its first big change when the IT IS WHAT A NORTHWEST roughly the eastside end zone to the 40- Sun Dodgers (as they were known back yard line). It was great sitting there and the then) hosted Dartmouth College in a new ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS (3) STADIUM SHOULD BE. ticket prices for students were low (I sat venue at the southern edge of campus —, ’96, former Husky All-American who there many times in the early to mid-1980s). adjacent to Lake Washington. The new Another 13,000 seats were added to that played three years under Coach Jim Lambright home was called Washington Field. It would north side with an upper deck in 1987, later be known as Husky Stadium. though that side collapsed during construc- As Gilbert Foster, ’21, editor of The Daily, tion and had to be redone that same year. wrote the day before that game: “There The field changed as well. Originally it was are many stadiums but we doubt if there grass but was switched to AstroTurf in 1968 is one that will compare with ours. One of Now one of the oldest college stadiums The opening of and to FieldTurf in 2000. the greatest in the world and half-com- in the country, Husky Stadium has a ca- Husky Stadium in Husky Stadium’s latest renovation was pleted in six months—it stands a tribute pacity of 70,183, making it the largest 1920 coincided with the new wave of mass done from 2011 to 2013 and cost $261 to engineering skill. When completed, it college stadium in the Pacific Northwest. production of the Ford million. Thanks to the generosity of donors will be a monument worthy of a great in- For many years, it also was where Husky Model T automobile, and sponsors who contributed to the re- stitution—an impressive memorial. student-athletes competed in track and which brought more cently completed Be Boundless—For Imagine yourself seated in this massive field as well as soccer. fans to campus. Washington, For the World $6 billion fund- affair, gazing out across Lake Washington “The way the stadium is configured, raising campaign, major improvements and to the hills and blue sky beyond—surely with the upper decks in the old days, the Legions of Husky foot- ball players have en- were made. Offices and locker rooms for freshness and strength of the view is sym- fans were on top of you,” says former Husky tered the Stadium via bolic of the youthful West!” quarterback , ’95, who set the tunnel, a tradition Around 24,500 fans attended that first the school’s since-broken passing record still going strong 100 game, which UW lost 28-7 en route to a with 5,886 yards and has been a broadcaster years later in today’s Husky Stadium. 1-5 record. But since then, UW football has for Husky games. “It’s certainly an iconic, enjoyed many great seasons in that stadium, special place. I have been to many stadiums such as 1991, when the team captured the around the country, and it’s one of a kind. national championship. Along the way, the I love the old pictures from the old games team name was changed in 1923 from Sun in there, the old field. There is so much Dodgers to Huskies (the name Vikings was history and tradition. It’s a special place.” also considered but rejected), though the It’s also one of the few college stadiums stadium’s name did not change to Husky alongside a lake or river. That created Stadium until decades later. the great tradition of thousands of

26 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 27 from the east end of the stadium. A large who loves purple and gold knows that Husky that gave the Huskies a share of the Pac-10 video board stands guard on the east end Stadium is where “The Wave” was born, title—“was an awesome memory, leaving and 700 flat-screen TVs throughout the thanks to Husky cheerleader Robb Weller, Husky Stadium for the last time,” Huard stadium entertain and inform fans who visit ’71, and former Husky Marching Band di- says of his final home game. “Winning that the expanded range of concession stands. rector Bill Bissell. Apple Cup was pretty special.” “I like that we were able to modernize As for the student-athletes who used to My most memorable game at Husky without losing the feel of it, the upper deck compete in track and field, and soccer, Stadium was against USC on Nov. 14, and the roofs and the view of Lake inside Husky Stadium? They now have 1981. Harsh rain and wind forced the Washington,” says Chip Lydum, ’84, the their own facilities north of the stadium. closure of the 520 bridge across Lake UW’s associate athletic director in charge In addition to the Huskies, NFL teams Washington. Nonetheless, the Huskies of Operations and Capital Projects. played a dozen preseason games at Husky knocked off USC (featuring Heisman “Anytime you can see the lake from any of Stadium from 1955 to 1975. The Seattle Trophy winner ), capping the vantage points, there is a lot of satis- Seahawks played five regular-season games the 13-3 victory with Fred Small’s recovery faction. Also, the stands are closer to the there in 1994, when the Kingdome was of a fumbled kickoff for a . That field. I like that a lot.” being repaired, as well as their 2000 and sparked the sellout crowd to send their Another big and appreciated upgrade 2001 regular-season schedules when the plastic bags-turned-impromptu-raincoats happened to the press box. Before reno- Kingdome was torn down to accommodate sailing into the wind in celebration. vation, the press box was hanging below the construction of CenturyLink Field. Then-UW president Bill Gerberding the roof of the south side upper deck with Husky Stadium has hosted many other ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS(4) even wrote me a letter a few years later, a not-very-fun catwalk to get there. “There events besides football track and soccer. saying that game was one of his most mem- orable moments as well. “It was a great game and Fred Small’s quick reflexes added a trimphant coda that I enjoyed more than is good for my soul,” he wrote. I LOVE THE PICTURES As memorable as that game was, many others stand out, including UW’s stunning FROM THE OLD have played in the stadium: Hugh McElhenny, Hamilton Greene, a law 16-13 victory over No. 3 USC in 2009. , , , student from Seattle, Husky Stadium remains one of my absolute GAMES IN THERE, was the UW’s first , Joe Steele, Chuck Nelson, Black football player. favorite places; I even have a tea/coffee , Damon Huard, , He played in the very cup that features a photo of the stadium. THE OLD FIELD. and Myles Gaskin. And first game at Washing- “From a recruit to a player to an analyst, don’t forget 2016 Olympic decathlete Jeremy ton Field, which today I’ve seen this whole stadium through and IT’S A SPECIAL PLACE. is known as Husky Taiwo, among many, many others. Stadium. He also through and I’ve been blessed,” Huard were times when Husky Stadium was really For instance, in 1923, then-U.S. President Many notable football games have taken was a member of says. “Seeing it change over the years, but rocking and the press box was shaking,” Warren G. Harding spoke inside the sta- place inside Husky Stadium, too, includ- Washington’s 1924 also the beauty of the new Husky Stadium recalls Sonny Sixkiller, ’74, the former dium to a crowd of nearly 25,000 people. ing victories over USC, Oregon and Rose Bowl team. and how much it resembles the old. The Husky quarterback who later broadcast In 1990, Husky Stadium played host to the Michigan. Naturally, Husky fans can recall roofs are still there, the tunnel. It looks and games on TV from there. The new press Goodwill Games, which featured addresses just about every Apple Cup against WSU, Big W Alumni members feels like the Husky Stadium of old, just greet and show their box is larger, much enjoyable to work in, by former President Ronald Reagan and especially in 1975, when Moon and Spider support for the players updated and better for fans.” and it is not subject to the unsettling feeling movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Gaines teamed up to help the Huskies as they run onto the As The Daily editor Gilbert Foster wrote of the box swaying in the wind. stadium also hosted some events of the overcome a 27-14 deficit with three min- Husky Stadium field in that 1920 column the day before the first Of course, Husky Stadium is known for 2018 Special Olympics, the first time those utes left to pull out a thrilling 28-27 victory. as part of the Annual game played there: “Give your best and Blanket Parade. more than the play on the field. The beloved Games were held in Seattle. And since And how about the 1991 Apple Cup, when your all tomorrow and baptize the Stadium Husky Marching Band has entertained fans 1998, Husky Stadium has become the venue the Huskies trounced the Cougars, 56-21, in the fire of Washington spirit!”—Jim for decades with renditions of songs from for one of the University’s most treasured to win the Pac-10 title on the way to a Caple, ’97, is a frequent contributor to UW “” to “Celebration” traditions: Commencement. national championship. Magazine who bleeds purple and gold to “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” And everyone So many great Husky student-athletes The 1995 Apple Cup—a 33-30 victory

Development of the south grandstand was spearheaded by Ath- HUSKY FANS FEEL GOOSE BUMPS come alive on their arms when the siren sounds and the Dawgs letic Director Harvey Scholarships stream out of the tunnel and onto Alaska Airlines Field in Husky Stadium every Saturday in fall. But the fans Cassill. The new struc- ture, dubbed “Cassill’s deserve a hand, too, because their generous support during the recent Be Boundless—For Washington, For the Castle,” made Husky Fuel World capital campaign helped inspire excellence in the classroom. football the biggest Scholastic In May, the Husky football team received a four-year NCAA Academic Progress Rate score of 999, one point draw in town. shy of a perfect mark. That was the highest NCAA score ever for a football team—and it was the third year in a row the Huskies topped the Pac-12, which is home to some of the nation's best public and private institutions. The south upper deck Achievements featured iconic circular “I could not be more proud of our football program,” says Athletic Director Jen Cohen. “To post the high- acccess ramps familiar est-ever recorded four-year mark among FBS programs speaks volumes about our students’, football coaches’ and staff’s commitment to generations of to continued excellence in the classroom.” Husky fans. The south “Three years ago,” adds Kim Durand, UW’s senior associate athletic director for student development, “we beat Stanford and led the grandstand stood from 1950 through 2011; conference—no one had ever done that. The following year, we repeated as No. 1 in the conference and were in the top 5 in the nation. the new grandstand Then we were No. 1 in the conference, in the nation, and set the all-time record.” In the 2018-2019 academic year, UW programs in opened in 2013. football, men’s basketball, women’s beach volleyball and women’s tennis received public recognition awards. But keeping such high standards requires a lot of support. The UW Department of Intercollegiate Athletics supports more than 650 student-athletes, and scholarship assistance is key to their overall success. The athletic department currently funds the maximum scholarships allowed by the NCAA and Tyee contributions have long provided scholarship funds for all 23 UW sports programs. But with the cost of tuition rising, it means increasing scholarship support is critical so the Huskies an remain competitive on a national level.

28 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 29 HUMAN HEALTH is at the center of the UW’s population health work, whether it involves extending medical resources to a South Seattle community or providing data to inform a global response to a pandemic.

HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE This is the time and the UW is the place for doing the collaborative work of population health and making life better for people the world over.

By Jake Ellison

Art by Alex Williamson

30 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 31 ENVIRONMENTAL RESILIENCE, a core element of the UW’s Population Health Initiative, understands that a person’s well-being is tied to where they live. Factors like clean drinking water, a safe and abundant food supply and renewable energy all contribute to a community’s health. an expensive and ineffective healthcare system—all dispropor- tionally harm vulnerable people and all work against building and supporting healthy populations. In 2016, President Ana Mari Cauce decided to magnify the work the University does in these spaces of health, equity and the environment with a Population Health Initiative. She placed interdisciplinary collaborations right at the heart of the initiative. Today, core funding from the University and from private philan- thropy promotes these collaborations and fosters population health research and community outreach here in the Pacific Northwest, across the country and throughout in the world. “Oceans can’t divide us, and walls and borders offer no defense against diseases that travel the globe,” Cauce says. The UW’s Population Health Initiative helps bring to campus faculty with a population health focus and an interest in collab- oration across a variety of fields. It funds student fellowships and provides grants to a number of projects each year. Because of what it is and because of its location in the Puget Sound region, the UW is at the of education, science, medicine, innovation and philanthropy, ideally placed to do the work of population s scores of laboratories health. While the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation leads the around the world race to find a vaccine for world in addressing global health challenges, more than 260 other Washington-based nonprofits, organizations and businesses COVID-19, a few—including two at the also focus on global health in all 195 countries. They’re helping A define and perform the profound work necessary to improve the University of Washington—are thinking human condition worldwide. further into the future. One is reporting “Population health is a broader perspective than we often think positive results for their vaccine candidate, about when we think about health and medicine,” says Chris Elias, ’90, president of the Gates Foundation’s Global Development and the second is joining in to help figure Program. “It’s about bringing in the understanding of populations, out how to rapidly develop vaccines for what makes them healthy, what puts them at risk and then taking steps, some of which happen in the clinic but many of which future pandemics. happen outside a clinic setting.” The University has always been The critical vaccine work is funded in part by a Rapid a leader in public health and community medicine and an important Response Grant from the UW’s Population Health Initiative. influencer in the broader global health around the world, he says. It’s one of 20 such grants funding COVID-19 response research “What I really like about the Population Health Initiative is the across the University. It’s also a component of the University’s interdisciplinary nature of harnessing the entire University for greater effort to marry its resources and expertise with those some of the most critical problems facing our society today.” of partners in Seattle and around the world to improve health While a vaccine is key to combating this pandemic, for instance, and quality of life for people everywhere. The work of popu- the effect of the outbreak has been far more profound than the lation health requires complex and cross-disciplinary health consequences of infection and the increased demands on efforts—from policy and law to scientific research and the health care systems. It has exposed massive and longstanding practice of medicine—focused not only on the here and now health and economic disparities. People from racial and ethnic but on the challenges ahead. minority groups are at an increased risk of getting sick and dying In July, microbiologist Deborah Fuller’s lab reported developing from COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control. a vaccine that produced robust immune responses after just a The CDC cites the reason as “inequities in the social determinants single dose. Her team is partnering with the lab of fellow UW of health, such as poverty and health care access.” School of Medicine scientist James Mullins to rapidly develop “As humans, we all share a yearning for a better life, and we alternative vaccines to stop future pandemics that might emerge now have the opportunity and responsibility to contribute to from current and mutated strains of the coronavirus. healthy, productive lives for everyone,” says Cauce. “Our students, “I’m hoping that the lessons we learn now are going to be whether they study business or social work, international relations important for us for when the next pandemic strikes,” Fuller says. or medicine, will have a tremendous impact on the world. This “As long as there are people and animals living in the world is the right time and the right place.” together there will be pandemics.” Shortly after launching the initiative, Cauce invited Ali Mokdad, Researchers from across the University have been worried about a professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation globe-spanning pandemics for decades. They have also understood (IHME) at the UW School of Medicine, to lead the initiative. that social and health inequities, like those being exposed by the Mokdad, came to the UW in 2009 after more than a decade pandemic, are systemic problems throughout the world and affect working as a senior epidemiologist and branch chief at the lives for generations. Disease outbreaks, climate change, clean CDC. He is an expert in health metrics sciences and is known drinking water, gun violence, a flawed criminal justice system and worldwide for his work on disease trends. “All of the issues we

“We have the opportunity to contribute to healthy and productive lives for everyone.”

32 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 33 are facing start at home, start in our own communities,” Mokdad building on the success of the local Mama Amaan program with says. “And they are not health-related only. They are food-related, a second project involving health workers in Puntland, Somalia. job-related, housing-related, and unless we deal with them, we In the years after the launch of the Population Health Initiative, are not going to be a better society. annual calls for proposals for $50,000 research grants have “If you look at the conditions that we face right now when it brought together faculty-led teams from fields across the comes to population health, there is no one magic solution for campus. They study challenges that range from how fisheries it,” he adds. “We have to acknowledge that and accept the fact can feed vulnerable populations, how to improve sanitation that no one can do it alone. We have to bring all of our disciplines for a floating settlement in the Peruvian Amazon and how to together to face it and come up with great ideas to be a leader in address adolescent stress in the face of reduced school re- solving these problems.” sources and rising reports of depression. In line with this broad approach, the University established The specifically focused research and outreach projects are an executive council of about 30 faculty and students from all one end of the population health work. Big data is another. The three campuses to help define the Population Health Initiative. UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation uses real While the UW is a leader in global and public health, the uni- numbers and rigorous analysis to capture the big picture of health, versity-wide approach allows “faculty and students in other disease and death the world over. The IHME, which since 2007 It is where students disciplines see how they can play a role in the health of a popu- has grown to a staff of more than 300, identifies the world’s major lation, even though that may not have been part of their original health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address research trajectory,” says India Ornelas, an associate professor in them. The institute’s Global Burden of Disease project, the largest the School of Public Health. She is an expert in ethnic health publishing collaboration in science, helps governments, health disparities and, as part of that executive council, helped shape leaders, policymakers and others understand a community’s can work with research- the early concepts of the initiative. needs. Using data from the GBD project, they can determine The work ahead is not only about helping to improve health, where to put resources to maximize health improvements. Now, environmental and social conditions, but also about defining who during the pandemic, the IHME is using its research and data can contribute, Ornelas says. Who are we training to go back into visualization engines to help policymakers and health-care pro- ers and global partners their communities? How is the UW doing that work in ethical, viders in every state in the country understand the potential meaningful and equitable ways? “Students here must have an progression of infections and deaths as well as the looming de- opportunity to work in the communities they came from so that mands on health care systems from COVID-19. they see themselves in those careers,” she says. It is key “that they Because directing the right resources to the right places can are getting the training they need to go do this important work, save millions of lives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has can meet and collab- that they get a chance to work with the faculty of color who are committed to invest $279 million to the IHME to expand its going to inspire them, and that the faculty of color are supported work over the next decade. to do this important community-engaged work.” To further refine the initiative, the University focused on three areas: human health, environmental resilience and social orate to address the and economic equity. The intersection of these areas—par- ticularly where human health is affected by environmental problems and by social and economic inequity—is where the SOCIAL AND University intends to be working. ECONOMIC EQUITY most persistent and About 4.5 million Latinx children are U.S. citizens in mixed-im- migration-status families. Studies show that this status is tied not only with poor health and development, but can also correlate to limited access to social services. To help change HUMAN HEALTH this outcome in Washington, a UW pediatrician, a psychology emerging challenges to The immigrant and refugee community in South Seattle is med- professor and a director of community partnerships are working ically underserved and has some of the most negative health together to reach Latinx families and bolster healthy starts for outcomes for women and infants, according to King County data. their children. The project involves reaching out to Latinx So last year, six faculty from across campus with expertise in parents and offering resources to celebrate parenting strengths, anthropology, social work, pediatrics and global health developed human health, environ- address parenting stress and provide access to immigration a research and outreach project to address gaps in services, law resources. language barriers, discrimination and lack of culturally appropriate The team’s in-person work has been hampered by the care-provider services in the community. pandemic, says co-lead investigator Elizabeth Dawson-Hahn, Partnering with the Somali Health Board of Tukwila and with an assistant professor in pediatrics. But it’s even more important mental resilience and funding from the Population Health Initiative, the UW team than ever. COVID-19 has disproportionately affected Latinx explored a culturally sensitive healthcare outreach. Mama Amaan communities. In Washington, for example, roughly 44% of all (Somali for “safe motherhood”) now brings together women at coronavirus cases are in the Latinx community, which makes five locations around South King County for monthly sessions up just 13% of the state’s population. on the physical, mental and emotional issues of pregnancy, “All families warrant additional support at this time, and the social and economic childbirth and postpartum life. Now, a year later, the team is Latinx community deserves increased support and resources,” equity across the globe. “All of the issues we are facing start in our own communities. They are not health-related only. They are food-related, job-related, housing-related.”

34 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 35 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY is an approach that recognizes that factors like income, education, access to resources like parks and health care, and cultural sensitivity affect quality of life and life expectancy. says Dawson-Hahn. “The challenges of being concerned about sampling without us,” Wood says. “We’re hoping to be able to becoming sick with COVID, having family members become join them on the ground soon. Ultimately, we aim to evolve these sick with COVID, managing the risk of engaging in the work- initial efforts into a large, multiyear, multi-institutional project, force—potentially without adequate job protections—and and we would not have been able to take the first steps toward navigating childcare and school closures are formidable. Our that goal without support from the Population Health Initiative project is seeking to ensure that community partners and parents and EarthLab [a UW environmental institute].” from the Latinx community define what the strengths and Closer to home, scientists and students in the Department of stressors are for their community, and what immigration law Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences are working resources may be helpful.” with neighborhood and governmental organizations to study air Social and economic inequities and human well-being are pollution at SeaTac Airport. The UW’s Mobile ObserVations of intertwined. Another component of population health research Ultrafine Particles study focused on several neighborhoods. “We looks at climate change, which disproportionately affects people found that communities under the flight paths near the airport of color. Large-scale tropical deforestation, for example, has are exposed to higher proportions of smaller-sized, ‘ultra-ultrafine’ driven global warming, affecting countries on the equator and pollution particles and over a larger area compared to pollution in the Southern Hemisphere, home to mostly Black, Indigenous, particles associated with roadways,” says Associate Professor Latinx and Asian people. But now climate change is dispropor- Edmund Seto. tionately harming people of color in the Northern Hemisphere, But the study, the results of which can be applied to airport as well. According to one recent UW study, agricultural workers neighborhoods around the world, isn’t just about the environment. in the U.S. are exposed to more days of extreme heat than they Other research has linked exposure to ultrafine particles to breast were just a few years ago. Since nearly 65 percent of American cancer, heart disease, prostate cancer and a variety of lung condi- farmworkers are Hispanic, according to Department of Agriculture tions. “We can now study the specific health effects of aircraft-related counts, this community is most affected. pollution, how different neighborhoods may be affected by it and “The climate science community has long been pointing to specific interventions that could reduce human exposure to these the global South, the developing countries, as places that will be pollutants,” says Professor Michael Yost, who collaborated on the disproportionately affected by climate change,” says David Battisti, project. “We hope to work with state and local policymakers as professor of atmospheric sciences. “This work shows that you well as affected communities to pursue these questions.” don’t have to go to the global South to find people who will be hurt with even modest amounts of global warming—you just have to look in our own backyard.” HERE AT HOME Next month, with a small celebration and a series of online lectures, the University will dedicate the new Hans Rosling ENVIRONMENTAL Center for Population Health. The 290,000-square-foot building sits on the west side of campus. Funded, in part, with a $210 RESILIENCE million gift from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the The marbled crayfish first appeared in Madagascar’s lakes, center is designed for the mission of the Population Health ponds and streams in 2005. Since then, the crustacean’s range Initiative. It’s a new home for the Institute for Health Metrics has spread across an area of 100,000 kilometers and now poses and Evaluation, the UW’s Global Health Department and the a serious threat to the environment as well as to agricultural School of Public Health. While those organizations have begun production in the region. moving into the building, a full move-in depends on progress But the news isn’t all bad for the people of Madagascar. The against the pandemic. crayfish consumes snails that transmit schistosomiasis, a disease The center will be a place for students to collaborate with that infects human digestive systems. The crustacean could also researchers and other experts from across campus. Public health become a renewable protein source for the country, where over and service organizations from around the world will be able to half the children are malnourished. meet there and address the most persistent and emerging chal- To help the country make evidence-based action plans, a UW lenges to human health, environmental resilience and social and team funded by a Population Health grant is working with economic equity worldwide. Madagascar’s Ministry of Health and an international organization “I think the building, and particularly how the building has that helps alleviate the spread of diseases like schistosomiasis. been designed, creates a crossroads for students and faculty of The Malagasy government can use the results of the study to many different disciplines to interact around an important health decide how to manage the marbled crayfish to minimize impacts problem,” Elias of the Gates Foundation says. “There was a tre- on local biodiversity while maximizing benefits to public health. mendous amount of interest in the initiative (around the Seattle Assistant Professor Chelsea Wood says her lab in the School health ecosystem) when Ana Mari announced it. And there will of Aquatic and Fishery Science is forging ahead with the research, be more interest as the building comes online.” despite not being able to travel to the country because of the pandemic. “We’ve been working with our Malagasy partners and *Kim Eckart, Hannah Hickey and Hannelore Sudermann con- are now providing full support for them to run the first phase of tributed to this story.

“You don’t have to go to the global South to find people who will be hurt with even modest amounts of global warming—you just have to look in your own backyard.”

36 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 37 THE CHAIR OF UW’s Printmaking Program taught students how to make fine art from his kitchen, stamping out doubt about how effective and enriching remote learning can be

By Quinn Russell Brown home– work Class officially starts at 9:10 a.m., but the Zoom lobby opens These are the kind of odd and at times exasperating mo- ART FROM HOME at 9. A lot can happen in those 10 minutes. “Oh, gosh,” a student ments that can make remote learning seem inferior or even The visage of Professor whispers this morning. Her webcam is turned off, but she ac- impossible. But listening to students who took Labitzke’s Curt Labitzke is carved cidentally left her microphone on. “I need to put on pants,” she monthlong summer class, “Printmaking Without a Press,” it’s into a thin film of ink, says to herself—and to the whole class. Professor Curt Labitzke clear that something special took place. “I learned more tech- center, and then manu- can only laugh. He’s gotten used to the little moments of ab- nique in this quarter than every other quarter combined,” art ally printed onto sheets surdity that can happen when a group of people gather virtually. major Hongjun Jack Wu, ’21, tells the group on the final day of paper to the left and “You should do that,” he tells the scrambling student. of class. (If you’re counting, that means Wu has had nine right. Labitzke taught students this technique, quarters of art education.) “Between work and stress, I was Labitzke, who has taught art at the UW School of Art + Art called a monotype, History + Design for 36 years, has never experienced anything burned out,” added Amy Hemmons, ’20. “I feel like I’ve de- along with many others like that before. He takes it in stride, just as he will when his veloped a momentum, and after this class is over, I’m going in his online summer WiFi cuts out during the first 20 minutes of final presentations, to continue doing art.” course “Printmaking or when a cat jumps on a student’s laptop during a lecture. “That Labitzke is a gallery-represented artist and the longtime chair Without a Press.” was a big cat,” Labitzke pauses to say. “I have a big cat, too.” of UW’s Printmaking Program. He had never taught a class (It’s not the last time that cat will come to class: In week three, online until the pandemic , and the subject he teaches is his paws will find their way onto the student’s workspace and inherently based on students and teachers interacting with drag ink onto a sheet of paper. It looked great.) physical objects together. So how did he pull it off?

38 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 39 A world without art would be just as scary as a world without a vaccine.

says. “Things happen by chance: Something spills on something and you think, ‘What a good idea!’” (Remember the cat?) “Printmaking Without a Press” focused on four techniques over four weeks, a less-is-more structure welcomed by students who were swamped with mental, physical and economic chal- lenges. All of the techniques can be done by a young child, and they were all used by masters of modern and classical art. The first technique is a rubbing: Put a piece of paper over an object or textured surface, such as a coin or a leaf, and rub it with a pencil or a crayon until the pattern of the object is copied onto the paper. The second is a stamping: Take that leaf and ink up one side of it, then press it onto a piece of paper. The third is a clay print: Flatten a handful of oil-based clay, available at any art store, and then carve a design into it with a pointed object. Roll ink onto the clay, and then press a piece of slightly damp paper on top of it to ink the design onto the paper. The fourth is a monotype: Roll ink out onto a plastic sheet, put a piece of paper down on it, and then use a pencil to draw on the side of the paper that faces you. When you pull the paper up, the design you drew will appear in ink on the other side. This class is about letting art into your life, Printmakers combine these four simple techniques to create infinitely complex images, but Labitzke’s students typically focused about putting a little bit of who you are on one technique at a time, stamping rocks and flowers to make landscapes and drawing self-portraits with sticks and string. It’s less about making masterpieces and more about simply making. onto a piece of paper. “This is a process-driven experience,” Labitzke explains. He compares it to the science that happens in other parts of campus: Sometimes researchers are trying to solve a specific problem, like finding a vaccine, but often they gather data and do experi- ments without an end goal in mind. “I don’t think you wake up STUDENT ART Each morning, after a few announcements, Labitzke picks up in the morning and say, ‘I’m going to invent something new.’ It’s from what you love, and who you are, and what you do. And that’s DIY FINE ART his laptop and walks to “the studio.” On campus, this would be what art is. Everybody sees the world differently, and you get to Clockwise from left: just working and seeing what comes out of that.” Wish you were a Leigh Stone, Paola a lab with five printing presses. Now, it’s Labitzke’s kitchen Still, this process—and this class—isn’t necessarily about be- experience that through their work.” student in Professor Sanchez, Jaime Dahl counter. There is a long and rich history of at-home printmaking. ing an artist. It’s about letting art into your life, about putting At another point in the final presentations, senior Leigh Stone, Labitzke’s class? and Schawnery Lin. Before the invention of the printing press in the 15th century, a little bit of who you are onto a piece of paper. It’s about the ’21, reveals that she had driven her van over her print after seeing You’re already Schawnery’s name, people made prints by stenciling, stamping and rubbing their idea that a world without art would be just as scary as a world a YouTube video about different ways to print without a press. enrolled! Go to he told the class on thoughts and emotions onto all sorts of surfaces. Before any of without a vaccine. It’s art as hope. “That’s what you do,” Labitzke says. “You take the heaviest thing magazine.uw.edu to the first day, is a com- that, they pressed their paint-dipped hands on cave walls. “Most of the people who take art classes are not going to be you own and put it on top of the paper.” see pictures and bination of Sean and The basic tools of this class are a water source, a countertop artists, but art can be a part of their life,” Labitzke says. This came Not to be upstaged, drama major Jaime Dahl, ’21, explains that videos that teach you Connery. “My parents and a $30 bag of art supplies that was shipped to each student up when Aakash Kurse, ’21, a mechanical engineering major, he had not only pressed his own inked hand onto the canvas, but all of the techniques just took his first and in this story, many that it was 2 a.m. when he decided to rub ink on his own face, last name and put (ink, a roller, some clay and a thin sheet of plastic). Labitzke has presented his final project: a series of diagrammatic patterns that are done with them together. People a professional home studio, but he does the demos in his kitchen inspired by microchips and wrenches. “They’re technical draw- stamping it onto the canvas to create a self-portrait. “It really everyday household don’t believe me.” to make the process accessible. “It makes me appreciate the living ings,” he says, downplaying the pictures. “I think they look cool, burned my skin,” Dahl tells the class with amused satisfaction. materials. spaces you all live in, and the messes you have to clean up.” but it’s definitely not artistic.” “I had to put olive oil on it.” Many students are confined to tiny apartments, and often have Labitzke disagreed. “I know that you’re not an art student, and Labitzke looks on with pride, separated from his students by roommates who aren’t happy to see shared spaces littered with at times I sense you’ve struggled with knowing what to make,” a computer screen but connected, as closely as ever, by art. “You art supplies. “I think good things happen in a mess,” Labitzke he says. “But these images are perfect for you, because they come are a printmaker,” he says.

40 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 41 Astra Zarina was the type of teacher who would sweep into her architecture classroom at the UW Center in Rome and toss her wrap in one direction and her camera in another. Some of her students were dazzled. Others, wary. “In one of the letters I sent back to my mom and dad, I said this lady is so demanding and so egotistical, I don’t think I can ever be alone with her,” recalls Steven Holl, ’71, a now-famous New York- based architect. “She was a really forceful person.” Zarina insisted that her students speak Italian. She dressed elegantly, had kohl-lined eyes and bobbed hair in the style of women in Rome in the 1960s, and she always seemed to be re- arranging the objects around her. Fluent in English, French, German, Latvian and Italian, she was unlike anyone her students had ever met. Her design approach was human-centered and mindful of the natural environment. She emphasized preserving and reusing historic buildings. “She was ahead of her time,” says Holl, who was ultimately won over. Nearly all of Zarina’s students in Rome fell in her thrall. “She was so enmeshed in architecture, art and culture, history and philosophy and poetry,” says Stephen Day, who was Zarina’s

student and later her assistant in the early 1980s. “She was really COURTESY THE CIVITA INSTITUTE (2) a citizen of the world, perhaps more than anyone I had ever met.” Zarina, a World War II refugee, became an asylum seeker, then a promising UW architecture student, then a talented architect and ultimately a teacher and visionary with the kind of magic Under the spell of that changes the people around her. Today, 12 years after her [ ] death, several new projects recognize this woman whose personal life and professional journey were dazzling and cinematic. Many women architects of her generation have been lost to history. But Zarina’s students—some widely recognized in their own right—are determined not to let that happen to her. who grew up in Seattle, was designing modernist buildings and Left: Just a few years developing an international reputation. His firm designed the after graduating, Astra Zarina was born into an upper middle-class family in Riga, World Trade Center in New York in the early 1960s and the Zarina became the Latvia, in 1929. She and her three siblings enjoyed comfortable Pacific Science Center in Seattle in 1962. A 2017 biography of first woman to win childhoods in a beautiful, cultured city. But the Russian and him describes Zarina as “perhaps the most talented artist to ever German occupations of Latvia in the early 1940s upended their work for Yamasaki.” the Rome Prize for world. The family fled to Salzburg, Austria, to stay with relatives But Zarina wanted more. In 1960, she won both a Fulbright Architecture. Her ex- before ultimately taking refuge in the Austrian Alps near the and the American Academy’s Rome Prize for Architecture. Those plorations of Rome and Italian border. After several years at a refugee camp in Germany, fellowships afforded Zarina two years of study in Italy. She arrived ASTRA the countryside during the family sought political asylum in the U.S. and settled on a in Rome a modernist. But in the process of exploring and doc- the fellowship changed farm near Seattle—mistaking Washington state for the nation’s umenting Rome’s buildings and neighborhoods, her approach IN ROME her approach of archi- capital. They made the best of it, though, first trying farming and to architecture grew to include historical preservation and ded- tecture and historical then with Zarina’s father working as a janitor at the UW. icated public spaces. After her studies ended in 1963, she returned preservation. In 1951, Zarina enrolled in the UW School of Architecture. to work, joining the design team of an innovative housing project She flourished under the guidance of professors Wendell Lovett, A Latvian refugee from World War II, the colorful Astra Zarina had a vision to bring on the outskirts of West Berlin. A couple of years later, she added Right: Zarina’s biggest ’47, and Lionel Pries. Victor Steinbrueck, ’40—who later led the teaching to her portfolio and traveled back to Seattle—where her preservations of Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market—was family remained—to lecture at the UW College of Built project was protecting her mentor. She won a faculty award for excellence in design Environments. Zarina loved her life in both cities but thought UW architecture students to Rome. Today, her students are making sure she is not forgotten. Civita di Bagnoregio, before graduating and starting work as a draftswoman at the she could do more with her students if she could teach them in a hilltop village in cen- prestigious Seattle firm of Paul Hayden Kirk & Associates. Rome. She lobbied the department leadership for the opportunity. tral Italy. She brought Zarina was on her way. By the following year, she had enrolled Tom Bosworth, who became department chair in 1969, shared her students there to at MIT for graduate school, where she graduated at the top of the vision of sending architecture students abroad and helped BY HANNELORE SUDERMANN study the community her class, the first woman to do so. She landed a job as a project her design a study-abroad project in Rome. and its buildings. designer with Minoru Yamasaki’s firm in Detroit. Yamasaki, ’34, The program launched in spring 1970, bringing five students

42 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 43 to study the urban and environmental aspects of the city. Among dinner or a meeting. We called it finishing school.” them were Ed Weinstein, ’71—who now claims dozens of After the Rome program and graduation from the UW, Kimura projects throughout the Northwest—and Holl, the internationally and Roth followed Zarina’s path to MIT for graduate school. known, New York-based architect. Holl was just two years into They embedded some of Zarina’s approach into their practice. his studies at the UW and debating whether to continue with They even have it on their business cards: “Architecture from architecture. “I wanted to drop out and be a painter,” he said the city to the spoon,” which means design at different scales during a recent Zoom interview from his home in Rhinebeck, from urban planning down to tableware, says Kimura. New York. But his teachers urged him to stay the course. Professor In addition to feeding their stomachs, Zarina was feeding Hermann Pundt even left him a note in his mail cubby, saying: her students’ intellects. Holl’s small class accompanied their “You must go to Rome.” professor to the American Academy for lectures and to dinner “I had never been out of the Pacific Northwest,” says Holl, who with her famous friends at a favorite fish restaurant in the is today, as The New York Times describes him, “widely considered Trastevere neighborhood. She introduced them to luminaries one of the most original talents of his era.” like writer Gore Vidal, architectural historian Colin Rowe and Zarina opened the world to him, says Holl. “She taught us all artist Giorgio de Chirico. “She was a really interesting figure these things that were central to being an architect. But then there in Roman life,” says Holl. was another dimension of learning—the cultural dimension.” When Stephen Day, ’84, ’97, was her teaching assistant in Zarina’s studio was in the center of the city, her apartment and a 1983, he escorted Zarina to a soiree at the American Academy. roof garden on the floors above. She required her students to join “I was just this kid from Lake City,” he recalls. Nonetheless, he her in the kitchen and help prepare special meals. One day, she was treated to a mind-bending evening. In addition to intro- handed Holl a spoon, a wooden bowl, eggs and olive oil and put ducing him to architect and designer Michael Graves, Zarina him to work making mayonnaise. It took hours, he says. At the shared her experience as a Rome Prize fellow. She described time, food wasn’t important to him. “I was the kind of guy who how it opened up her frame of reference for architecture and would eat a bologna sandwich and draw at the same time,” he says. made her question her own assumptions as well as what she “But she said, ‘If you’re going to be an architect, the first thing you had been taught at MIT and the UW. need to do is learn how to cook.’” She taught students about meal “She started as a very staunch kind of modernist, but having planning, texture, presentation, utensils, eating and hosting. gone to Rome, she became more and more intensely engaged in Food and language became key parts of the program. The practice cultural and historical preservation,” says Day, who does preser- From the time she of cooking and entertaining—dubbed by Zarina as “didactic din- vation work at his own Seattle firm. “The experience (of the Rome graduated, Zarina was ners”—started with scouring the markets for locally raised food Prize fellowship) was pivotal for her and led to her wanting to on the move. Right out and flowers and included setting the table and serving an array of establish the Rome program,” so that more students could explore of college, she landed a appetizers and cocktails to the guests who were often a who’s who the city in the ways she had. job helping draft plans of Roman society. “And you were expected to make polite conver- A decade after starting the Rome program—which was sup- for midcentury modern sation,” says Kari Kimura, ’90, who today has an architecture practice posed to happen only once but continued and grew because of homes at the firm of with her husband Shaun Roth, ’90, in Hawaii. “Astra Zarina took overwhelmingly positive student response—Zarina found a site famed Seattle architect a bunch of public-school kids, most of us were pretty rough, and to house a permanent UW center in Rome: a derelict 15th-century Paul Hayden Kirk, ’37. gave us the experience to go into any situation and have a client building off the lively Campo de Fiori plaza that could be reha- bilitated into classrooms, offices and apartments for faculty. After campaigning for and winning the University’s investment in the project, Zarina led the renovation, completing it with the help of students and her husband, architect Anthony Costa Heywood. That she was able to negotiate for the space in the heart of Rome, persuade the University to do the project and oversee the renovation of the three stories that house the UW speaks to her in Civita featuring Zarina, captur- many talents, says Nancy Josephson, a Rome program alumna ing her personal history as well from 1983 who watched the project unfold. “She was very excited Winner of the Rome Prize for architecture, ASTRA ZARINA was ahead as her restoration work. and proud that she could secure this home for the UW.” As the Just by luck, another, unrelated, Rome Center expanded, Zarina welcomed students and colleagues of her time in pursuing historical preservation and teaching urban renewal. project to celebrate Zarina broke from programs across the University to join in the exploration ground in Civita last spring. The and study of the city. In addition to teaching, she ran the cen- “Astra Zarina Belvedere,” a bronze ter—living in an apartment upstairs—until 1994. and stone sculpture designed by Another thread of Zarina’s life and work started during her Food, conversation, In the 1980s, Zarina and her hill towns students co-founded Holl includes four intersecting spheres—representing different own explorations of Italy in the 1960s. She discovered the Civita history, design and the nonprofit Northwest Institute for Architecture and Urban areas of Zarina’s influence as architect, scholar and world citizen. di Bagnoregio, an ancient settlement rising out of a hillside about teaching were all Studies in Italy, today known as the Civita Institute. The Seattle- Also, Holl has curated an exhibit about Zarina which opened last 75 miles north of Rome. “The Dying City” had been built 2,600 ingredients for la dolce based organization offers fellowships, educational programs and summer at his T-space gallery in Rhinebeck, New York. “Rome years ago by the Etruscans on top of a mass of soft volcanic rock. vita for Professor Astra exchanges between the U.S. and Italy. After Zarina retired from and the Teacher, Astra Zarina,” highlights another of Zarina’s Unstable yet stunning, the tufa stone and tile-roofed community Zarina. Beyond offering the UW in 1999, she and her husband focused their energies on projects, “I Tetti de Roma,” a 1976 book in Italian about the of medieval buildings has long been a tourist favorite. Tour guide up the city of Rome Civita. In 2006, Zarina helped nominate the site for the World rooftops of Rome. The volume pairs her written descriptions of Rick Steves, ’78, calls it his favorite hill town in the world. to her students, she Monuments Watch to raise awareness of its vulnerability and human spaces in Rome with spectacular black and white pho- At Civita, Zarina found a new calling—repairing and protecting taught them to look need of preservation. The site is now a candidate for a UNESCO tography of Balthazar Korab. Zarina's former students are

COURTESY THE CIVITA INSTITUTE (2) the village. On a whim, in 1961, she bought her first house at life and their work World Heritage designation. In 2007, the year before she died, endeavoring to republish the book in English. there—a one-room building with a massive fireplace—and set from thoughtful and Zarina and Heywood donated the properties they had restored Holl’s exhibit about Zarina was scheduled to arrive at the ar- about restoring it. Eventually, over decades, she laid plans for worldly points of view. to the Civita Institute. “It was definitely her intent to keep going chitecture school on the UW campus this fall, but it has been protecting the town as a whole. The Civita endeavor was the with her kind of values and pedagogy through the institute,” says delayed because of the pandemic. Meanwhile, Holl currently has genesis of the UW Italian Hilltowns program, which Zarina Josephson, who is now board president of the nonprofit. “This an exhibit of his own work, “Making Architecture” at the Bellevue started in 1976. The summer study-abroad program paired local is her living legacy.” Arts Museum. He designed the Bellevue museum in 2001, and families with UW students who would spend their months Today the institute's board includes a number of University of the exhibit features his body of work. The final dates of the show exploring and documenting Civita. Washington alumni. And it has developed a permanent exhibit are pending based on the museum's Phase 3 reopening.

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SKETCHES ALICE LEE ) formed the Blue Blue the formed ) Geologic MC “That record changed my life,” says Abe, ’04. “The things things “The ’04. Abe, says life,” my changed record “That the 1980s, but in the early is a legend, Mix-A-Lot Sir Today went scene hip-hop Seattle’s school, high reached Abe As hip-hop multicultural and lively the city’s the rise of Witness to Seattle’s national fame, rise to the city’s following years In the In his book, Abe also explores the broader themes of race and race of themes broader the explores also Abe book, his In Washington of the University published by Street,” “Emerald pool/Which is really on the wall/I got a color TV/so I can see/ TV/so a color got wall/I on the pool/Which is really basketball.” play The Knicks years Forty-one me in.” drew talking about just really were they in his latest the hip-hop art form to homage Abe pays later, The in Seattle.” Hip Hop of History A Street: “Emerald book, Seattle’s Abe for Hill single primed that Sugar of discovery up as he just heating was which hip-hop scene, burgeoning became a teenager. in South & Girls Clubs Boys the gyms of in performing was artist took performances Mix-A-Lot’s District. Seattle and the Central says doing everything, was because he proportions on mythical Central at Seattle and humanities professor a historian Abe, he had computers—he a rapper, was he DJ, a was “He College. (KFOX, station KKFX on radio FreshTracks had a full-on show.” on radio show all-rap the first was nights on Sunday AM) 1250 Dance “Square with songs like Coast and Mix-a-Lot, West the artist. became the most requested quickly Rap,” with DJ music and, his own producing was Mix-A-Lot national. as Ed then known the DJ and Jones Greg Rodriguez, Nes Nasty a blueprint was “It in 1985. Records Nastymix he started Locke, with local music label can produce rap a minority-owned how of Seattle the music, Mix-A-Lot’s With Abe. says appeal,” global in 1989, ‘Seminar,’ and in 1988, ‘Swass,’ “ mark. label made its head,” on its industry music rap the turned and platinum went hip-hop could come that great world the showed It Abe. says York New of people outside to sent a message “It anywhere. from conflicts.” with legitimacy struggling were who and L.A. Northwest influenced the the movement how Abe explores scene, in the late Boys Street like with groups its start from the region’s of many of interviews With the help of today. to 1970s performers, famous most Seattle’s of stories the captures he artists, record groundbreaking artists, graffiti including Macklemore, world-champion the Monkees, and the Massive producers, artists license to isolation gave regional “Our crew. breakdancing Abe says. anybody,” copy to have didn’t and musicians so they be themselves.” could just “They its Northwest true to but stayed grow, continued to hip-hop culture doctorate on his UW working was Abe while In 2002, approach. Sabzi) (DJ ’03, Saba Mohajerjasbi, undergraduates in education, ( ’13, Quibuyen, George and Scholars. Rooting their points of view in their own experiences experiences own their in view of points their Rooting Scholars. racism topics like the duo tackled Northwest, and in the Pacific perspective. a multicultural American imperialism from and epidemic, crack ’80s the hip-hop: to relate as they diversity Black people of years the telling details like and gentrification, 23rd of selling marijuana at the intersection for arrested getting cannabis shop. white-owned a is now there where and Union, local aspect of hip-hop is an underappreciated of “The story his driving one of was Capturing that story Abe. says culture,” he not just about music history,” “It’s the book. for motivations “it is about Seattle history.” says, is due out in November. Press,

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Continued on p. 54 Continued on p. After Johnson completed high school high school completed Johnson After history. more for at UW enrolled He The UW experience made him want want made him experience The UW government federal the years, many For military missing 82,000 Some in Ohio, he spent four years in the Air Air in the years he spent four in Ohio, and in Colorado and then lived Force, in acting years, 10 about for Washington he While in Seattle, productions. theater course college a community signed up for woke “I American presidency. about the been they have ‘Where up and asked, life?’” my all education higher hiding says. Johnson than was older I years, couple of first “My nearly was “I he recalls. professors,” my stu call a nontraditional they what 40, Accounting POW/MIA the Defense members service missing find to Agency those buried as unknowns and identify II. War World to conflicts dating from 600 peo- around employs DPAA Today, civilians and half military are ple—half forensic Johnson, like including historians and archaeologists, anthropologists linguists and ex mountaineers, divers, dent; the UW was a perfect venue for for venue a perfect was dent; the UW campus—the by inspired was He that.” —and of Gothic grandeur Ellison, Herbert like historians faculty Wilton Pyle, Kenneth Bridgman, Jon O’Neil. and Mary Fowler at a Ph.D. pursue decided to so he more focused He Maryland. of the University and American cultural on 20th-century with some emphasis on political history, he school, graduate After history. military - re doing historical fellowship landed a Defense of Department a for search missing soldiers. trace to contractor missing per locate had been trying to remains unknown sonnel and identify In explains. Johnson basis, on an ad-hoc up its ramp to started DOD the 2010, forming eventually work, investigative experts. plosives in Italy. After 75 years, 75 years, After a missing II War World pilot was found in a cemetary -

COURTESY DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING AGENCY Three years later, a team from the the from team a later, years Three astonishingly, that, a story So began an American fighter-pilot who waswho shot American an fighter-pilot 1944. 6, on March down Service Registration Graves Army’s American mil- an to remains the moved Rome. side of on the other cemetery itary iden- of means other With no dog tag or and reburied was the body tification, un- of roster the military’s onto entered X-977. identified dead as its conclu reach to years 75 take would sion. It did so with the help of Stephen Stephen with the help of did so It sion. with the a historian ’99, Johnson, Defense. Department of German soldiers occupying the villa villa the occupying soldiers German buried Mattes—with scraps of his flight his flight of scraps buried Mattes—with They the house. from yards jacket—just with a grave the makeshift marked wooden as sign identifying the remains On the morning of March 6, 1944, 1st 1st 1944, 6, March On the morning of 22-year-old a Mattes, H. Herschel Lt. his flew Pittsburgh, from pilot Army bomb- attack/dive ground Apache A-36A targets. looking for Italy, central in er “Stelloola” called he which plane, The his kid a nickname he had given after from gunfire by hit was Estelle, sister, a of on the grounds crashed It below. Rome. of villa 25 miles northwest -

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By Dan Carlinsky By No Longer Lost Longer No and a villa in Italy internet the archives, scours Johnson Stephen II pilot War World a missing of the fate discover to With the help of histori the help of With an ’99, Stephen Johnson, Herschel WWII pilot lost was returned Mattes H. burial. home for UWAA TRUSTEES

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52 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 53 A program of the UW Alumni Association Continued from p. 50 Lucherini, who, as a teenager in Manziana, had heard local war tales. He later took up the idea of bringing closure to the families of those who lost their lives trying to free his town. “Third-party researchers YOUR BACHELOR’S like Vincenzo are incredibly important to the work we do,” says Johnson. “They DEGREE IS funnel information to us, and they aren’t looking for payment or glory. It’s com- WITHIN REACH pletely altruistic.” In 2011, Lucherini visited the villa and swept the site with a metal detector, says Johnson. He found a piece of aluminum Finish your degree online no bigger than the palm of his hand. It at the UW in our A piece of the A-36A carried the partial number from an aircraft Apache downed by part with a prefix unique to the A-36A. Integrated Social Sciences Germans in Italy “That confirmed what we’d both already B.A. Program. during World War II. personnel are on the agency’s master list, to the country, which makes a guarantee concluded from the documentary evi- It helped the U.S. more than 72,000 of them from World to anyone who serves that we will not dence: X-977 was Mattes,” Johnson says. Department of Defense War II. Less than half—about 30,000—are leave you behind.” The following year, Johnson and a col- discover the fate of considered possibly recoverable. Johnson Johnson began working on case X-977 league visited the villa. In anticipation, the A flexible interdisciplinary major the missing pilot. and his colleagues are charged by Congress in May 2010. “I looked at the reported air pilot’s sister, Estelle Sherry, provided a DNA with no commute, designed to with identifying at least 200 previously losses in that part of Italy, and I came to sample, as did next-generation family mem- support your goals. Learn more at missing personnel or those buried as un- believe that X-977 was Lt. Mattes. But it bers. But Johnson still had to make the case Higher Education knowns each year. For the past few years, took a while to marshal all the evidence to dig up the remains and send them to the Needs Your Voice socialsciencesonline.uw.edu. they’ve met or exceeded the goal. “We necessary to justify disinterment.” Armed Forces DNA Identification Become an advocate today owe it to the missing, who served,” Johnson Johnson contacted the current owner Laboratory in Delaware. It took until 2015 says. “We owe it to the families, who have of the villa where the plane crashed. The to get the disinterment order. UWimpact.org been mourning their loss. And we owe it owner put him in touch with Vincenzo “You get passionate,” Johnson says. It’s hard to be patient because the evi- ADVOCATE dence is so compelling. Four more years passed before the lab could provide an answer. “At first, they couldn’t get a re- UW ALUMNI portable DNA sequence because before the remains were buried in 1947, they If you have a passion were treated with a preservative, a hard- BOOK CLUB ening compound, and that locks the DNA for the purple and gold, Read. Question. Discuss. Learn. within the bones,” Johnson explains. But An online forum for the curious reader. DNA science improves every year. “The you belong with us. folks at the DNA lab would not give up,” Johnson says. “Last year, finally, they could extract what they needed and make a match with the family’s samples.” On a sunny fall day in Connecticut, family and friends gathered for the funeral of a person only Estelle had ever known. The graveside service—a blend of military and Jewish tradition—had an American flag and six white-gloved military pall bearers. A bugler played “Taps.” Both Johnson and Lucherini were seated in the front row, next to Sherry. “You’re family,” they were told. Sherry, a 93-year-old retired commu- nity college professor, recalls the day. She was grateful for the efforts of UWALUM.COM/BOOKCLUB Lucherini and Johnson and still in some shock that they had discovered her broth- Presented by: er’s fate and were able to bring him home. “Hershey was my big brother, six years older. He’s the one who taught me to UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES ride a bicycle, and I spent my whole life UWALUM.COM/ missing him,” she says. “I never expected JOINUWAA this to happen.”

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A decade ago, the University of Washington Engineering—and through construction had the powerful idea that what you care of the Bill & Melinda Gates Center for about can change the world. With that Computer Science & Engineering—the idea, the UW launched its most ambitious UW expands its reach and greatly increases fundraising campaign: Be Boundless— student opportunity in the field. For Washington, For the World. At the end of June, the University closed the A UNIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC books on this historic campaign, in which As a leading global public university, the more than half a million donors gave a UW has a mission of service, and the combined $6.3 billion. Be Boundless campaign has helped deepen Though this milestone isn’t a finish that mission with contributions support- line—there is always important work still ing a wide variety of programs advancing to be done—it is a moment to pause, both the greater good, including those that in gratitude to donors and in recognition promote equity, social mobility, and the of what’s been achieved so far. The chang- health and well-being of all. The Making es brought about by the Be Boundless Connections program at the UW Women’s campaign are already evident—in the lives Center, for example, provides college and of UW students and faculty, and in com- career preparation for high school stu- munities throughout our state and around dents from underrepresented minorities the world. and supports young women interested in STEM fields. Forefront Suicide Prevention, THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE, based in the UW School of Social Work, TRANSFORMED has saved lives through suicide-prevention First and foremost, the UW’s public training, legislative advocacy, outreach

mission promises all students both access events and more. STONE MARK BY PHOTOGRAPH and excellence. Through the campaign, the University has increased opportuni- RESEARCH THAT MAKES UW Medicine, The Fred Hutchinson Complex and the Molecular Engineering testing and treatment; to rapid-response led to monumental achievements: creating In 2016, Jayna Bean ties for scholarships and support services A DIFFERENCE Cancer Research Center and Seattle & Sciences Institute are already powering grants to help interdisciplinary teams study convening spaces like the new Husky Doll came to the UW that make it possible for students from From medicine to climate change, literacy Children’s co-founded the institute with cutting-edge teaching and research across and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic Stadium and the new Burke Museum; bol- College of Engineering’s diverse racial, ethnic and socioeconomic to human rights, the UW’s faculty and the help of philanthropy—and BBI is disciplines. As change creators, the UW’s and other global health crises; to the soon- stering UW Impact, an ever-expanding Ability & Innovation backgrounds to attend and thrive at the students are tackling every major issue already working to accelerate the basic faculty, students and partners have made to-be-opened Hans Rosling Center for network of UW advocates; creating strong Lab, where she worked UW. In 2015, wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ–Intellectual facing society today, and the Be Boundless sciences of precision medicine and bring the Puget Sound one of the world’s thriving Population Health, a collaborative hub for legislative partnerships; elevating the with mechanical House opened, to support the success campaign supports their scholarship and scientists closer to cures. innovation ecosystems. innovative research, teaching and learn- UW’s reputation and recruiting promising engineering students of Native American students, faculty life-changing research. ing—the UW will improve lives and drive students and faculty; and increasing pub- to design 3D-printed and staff. In 2019, the Office of Minority In the midst of an epidemic of misin- COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION HEALTHIER POPULATIONS transformative change far into the future. lic understanding of the University orthoses for herself and Affairs & Diversity received a transfor- formation, philanthropy helped launch the The UW’s innovation mindset influences The UW believes improving population of Washington as a national and global others. Today she’s a mational gift to fund full scholarship UW’s Center for an Informed Public, students and scholars across disciplines. health worldwide is a moral imperative. BUILDING COMMUNITY leader in public higher education. happy, active 14-year- packages for students from underrepre- bringing together leading academics and Campaign support for the Buerk Center With the support of donors and advocates, A strong community and continued phil- As a public university, the UW’s role is old who plays drums in sented minorities. researchers from the Information School, for Entrepreneurship helps budding UW experts have long worked at the inter- anthropic support are essential for the more important than ever. This historic her school band—years A game-changing estate gift to UW Human Centered Design & Engineering entrepreneurs develop world-changing section of human health, environmental UW’s critical initiatives and ongoing campaign means the University can after UW researchers Law, establishing the Jack MacDonald and the School of Law to strengthen ideas, from products that accelerate drug resilience, and social and economic equity, excellence. The Be Boundless campaign continue to face the many challenges of first helped her hold a Endowed Chair, strength ens the school’s democratic discourse. In a new era where development to systems that efficiently examining all the factors that affect people’s has nearly doubled the UW’s average an- today—and prepare for whatever chal- drumstick. Read more ability to educate the best and brightest precision medicine, genomics and data treat contaminated water. The Global health. The importance of that expertise nual private support—from $350 million lenges await tomorrow. about Jayna and how leaders in the legal field. And thanks to a science have great potential to transform Innovation Exchange is a public-private has never been clearer as the University to roughly $700 million, given by more philanthropy and flexible endowment that can fund a variety health care, a landmark gift to establish partnership that has ushered in a new era continues to provide leadership, care and than 500,000 individuals and organizations innovation helped of programs and equipment at the Paul G. the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision of global teaching, learning and innovating. guidance for our state and country in over 10 years. The campaign sparked a change her life at Allen School of Computer Science & Medicine (BBI) is helping do just that. And new facilities like the Life Sciences response to COVID-19. From lifesaving groundswell of community support that uw.edu/boundless.

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nine principal investigators for the study. became the state’s largest test provider, largest depositors of coronavirus genomes “It happened in year two.” able to handle 8,500 tests a day. For the in the U.S. first few months of the pandemic, the lab “The sprint of our COVID-19 response SWIFT ACTION provided over 50% of the state’s testing. is clearly going to become a marathon,” AND COLLABORATION And while the department’s reserves are says Baird. “The entire UW Medicine The BBI team responded immediately. depleted, Baird hopes that most will be health system faces a financial crisis, as Investigators worked with the Washington replenished by federal, state and philan- do many health systems, and indeed the State Department of Health, Centers for thropic dollars. whole country. So it will continue to be a Disease Control and Prevention, and Public Baird had the full support of his col- challenge to fund our COVID-19 response Health–Seattle & King County to translate leagues, including Jerome. “This kind of in the coming months.” their research and resources into effective pandemic requires a shift in thinking,” Despite the obstacles, Jerome notes that public-health action. On March 23, with Jerome says. “We will deal with the costs in retrospect, Seattle was actually a good funding from Gates Ventures, the Seattle later. Right now, our first obligation is to place for the virus to land first. The expertise Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) the health of the people of Washington.” of the BBI and the UW Virology Lab, along was launched. with UW Medicine’s deep strengths in Using the swab-and-send home test A SPRINT, THEN A MARATHON research and patient care, continue to be developed for the Seattle Flu Study, SCAN While the Virology Lab continues powerful weapons in the fight to stop the has sent more than 17,500 free testing kits COVID-19 testing, it’s also working on spread of COVID-19. “Between our pro- to people in the region who are symptom- large-scale serologic tests—blood tests gram getting ready for testing just in case atic and asymptomatic. that show whether someone has had the it came here, and groups like Seattle Flu If there’s a silver lining to this pandemic, virus. The lab is also supporting vaccine Study looking at the population in a broad it may be that it has spurred unprecedented development and operating a robust way, we were incredibly well prepared,” he levels of collaboration—across health sys- genetic sequencing program. In fact, says. “We are built perfectly to respond to tems, government entities and private Jerome notes, UW Medicine is one of the something like this.” foundations. “People are going out of their way to pull down barriers so things can get done,” Shendure says.

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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DENNIS WISE DENNIS BY PHOTOGRAPHS Meanwhile, in early January, Dr. Keith Jerome, head of the UW Medicine Virology to cutting-edge hospitals and research and UW Medicine, the BBI launched the Division and director of the UW Virology engines, the Pacific Northwest is known Seattle Flu Study. Laboratory, doubted that the virus they Racing as a medical powerhouse. Jeff Brotman, The new initiative would focus on in- were tracking in China would come to the ’64, ’67, the late co-founder of Costco, en- fluenza, in part because many in the field U.S.—but he knew it was better to be pre- visioned creating an entity that would unite saw respiratory viruses as a likely source pared. He and his team began working on Against a our region’s research strengths. of the next pandemic. Sooner than anyone their own COVID-19 test. In order to get Brotman’s friend Dan Baty, ’65, shared thought, they’d be proved right. emergency use authorization from the that vision. In 2017, thanks to the philan- FDA, they needed a sample of the virus. Pandemic thropic leadership of Jeff and Susan THE VIRUS ARRIVES But before they could have one shipped to Brotman and Dan and Pam Baty, the The Seattle Flu Study began to pay off their lab, the virus found them. Thanks to years of foresight, Brotman Baty Institute for Precision immediately. Researchers discovered that In late February, amid their own inter- funding and preparation, two Medicine (BBI) was launched. It would the physical distancing forced by Seattle’s nal testing for respiratory viruses, the lab UW labs have been on the combine the expertise of UW Medicine, massive snowstorm in early 2019 led to team uncovered the second reported case forefront of COVID-19 testing Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center a dip in transmission of nearly all respi- of community-spread COVID-19 in and Seattle Children’s. ratory pathogens. Washington state—just days after the By Eleanor Licata Soon after, another local visionary, Bill Soon, a more efficient, convenient ap- Seattle Flu Study had found the first one. Gates, stepped up to help the region pre- proach to testing—“swab-and-send”—was “It was clear that the pandemic was pare for the possibility of a pandemic. developed by Dr. Helen Chu, assistant going to be significant, and our testing February 2020 might seem a lifetime ago, Fortunately, a few key investigators were professor of medicine in UW Medicine’s capacity would be instrumental in helping but that’s when UW Medicine researchers already laying the groundwork. Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. the state weather the storm,” says Dr. were the first to report community spread At the Institute for Disease Modeling, When a novel coronavirus emerged in Geoffrey Baird, professor and interim chair Opposite: The UW of the novel coronavirus in the United principal research scientist Mike Famulare China, the Seattle Flu Study added it to of the UW Department of Laboratory Virology Lab became States. They knew the discovery had and colleagues suggested a way to monitor the pathogens the study was testing for. Medicine. “I also realized how much it was the state’s largest massive implications, even if the general the seasonal transmission of respiratory No one expected what happened next: going to cost.” test provider, able to public couldn’t yet fathom them. But viruses and help prepare for a pandemic. On Feb. 27 of this year, the Seattle Flu Because Baird’s department is a prom- handle 8,500 tests what happened next was months, even And researcher Trevor Bedford, with the Study team discovered that the novel coro- inent reference laboratory, it has a relatively per day. years, in the making. Hutch and Nextstrain, was discussing how navirus was already circulating in our large reserve, which is invested back into to speed up genomic sequencing of patho- community. It was the first report of com- faculty, staff, instruments, education and Left: Jiseon Leah Kim, AN INVESTMENT IN gens and better map their spread. munity spread in the U.S. “The Seattle Flu test development. Baird decided to spend a nurse at UW Medical PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS The teams eventually joined forces. In Study was meant to help us prepare for down the reserve in order to ramp up Center–Northwest, Long before the current pandemic arrived, 2018, with funding from Gates Ventures a possible pandemic, but we assumed COVID-19 testing. checks a swab sample preparation for one was happening behind (Gates’s private office) and in partnership that would be years from now,” says Jay It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was the taken at the hospital’s the scenes—especially in Seattle. Home with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Shendure, director of the BBI and one of right one. The UW Virology Lab quickly drive-thru testing site.

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She was ready for more challenges. After graduating in 2012, Hassan accepted a job at Boeing—where she’d interned the year A Twist of Fate before—as an industrial engineer on the 777 program. She earned a UW master’s degree in supply chain transportation Ayan Hassan’s life was changed by the Making and logistics while working full time, then was hired as a process Connections program—and then unexpectedly engineer at Amazon. saved by one of the program’s founders But just a month later, at age 28 and with a career on the rise, Hassan faced the biggest challenge of her life: She was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. By Chelsea Yates CANCER AND COMMUNITY “Someone Dr. Patricia Dawson, a breast cancer specialist, surgeon and UW Ayan Hassan, ’12, ’16, is laughing with a group of 20 young women clinical assistant professor, led Hassan’s care team. “I loved her eager to talk with her about science and engineering. Which the moment I met her,” Hassan says. “We just clicked. I felt has always classes should they take? What are the job options down the grateful that she was on my side, and I didn’t even know her.” road? Should they start thinking about internships? They have a Hassan wasn’t yet aware of an amazing coincidence: Dawson million questions, and the room is charged with energy and the was a founding mother of Making Connections. been there buzz of many voices. “I couldn’t believe it,” recalls Hassan, who learned about the It’s a scene Hassan is used to. When she’s not managing new twist of fate from Making Connections Program Manager Senait market expansion initiatives for Amazon, the University Habte. “This woman helped establish the program that shaped for me; I of Washington alumna volunteers with K–12 outreach pro- the course of my life, and now she was helping me navigate a grams, encouraging girls and all young people of color to see way through cancer.” want to be themselves as tomorrow’s engineers, doctors, scientists and Hassan assembled a rigorous treatment plan with her care computer programmers. team, including family, friends and the Cierra Sisters—a support “When they think of engineers, they don’t think of someone group for African American breast cancer survivors. “The engineer there for like me,” she says, giving the group a warm smile. “I want them in me couldn’t be still,” she says. “I put all of my project manage- to see that there are Black women engineers.” ment, research and communications skills to work for my health.” It was the UW’s Making Connections program that filled that She went through aggressive chemotherapy, a lumpectomy and others. role for Hassan as a teen, showing her what was possible for her 35 rounds of radiation therapy. own future. But it was a future that was nearly derailed. “I’d been fighting hard, and my body, my spirit, my mental I want to state—I was exhausted,” Hassan recalls. “I asked Dr. Dawson, A MEANINGFUL CONNECTION ‘When will I ever be able to say I’m cancer-free?’ She looked at Born in Somalia, Hassan emigrated to the U.S. as a child with me and said, ‘You can say it right now.’” show up.” her parents and five siblings. As a student at Seattle’s Garfield The surgery and treatments had successfully removed High School, she learned about Making Connections, a college the cancer. readiness program offered through the UW Alene Moris “Everything inside me just let go,” Hassan reflects. “As soon Women’s Center. It turned out to be life-changing. as she said those words, I broke down in tears. I praised God “Though supportive, my parents weren’t familiar with the and hugged Dr. Dawson and my sister Anisa.” American higher education system,” she remembers. “Making Connections opened the door to college for me.” ‘I WANT TO SHOW UP’ The program—supported in part by philanthropy, including Though Hassan was excited to return to work after her 10-month contributions to the recent Be Boundless campaign—helps leave of absence, something had shifted. “I reflected a lot while students from underrepresented communities in Seattle pursue going through treatment,” she says. “Academics, career and science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) fields. Since it community had been my guideposts through life, and I began began in 2007, 100% of its students have been accepted to asking myself how I could help build them for others.” college. Making Connections was established by a group of Hassan moved into a new project-management role at Amazon local STEM professionals—dynamic, dedicated “founding and got involved with Amazon’s Future Engineer program, which mothers” determined to make STEM education and careers helps establish robotics clubs in K–12 schools serving underrep- accessible to girls from low-income families without college- resented communities; Hassan helped launch one at Seattle’s graduate role models. Rising Star Elementary. She also returned to Making Connections, Back then, Hassan didn’t know that one of those founding encouraging girls and young women to pursue STEM. mothers would be instrumental not only in getting her to college, Last year, the Women’s Center honored Hassan with its but in saving her life. Alumna of the Year Award. Dawson, who became UW Medicine’s medical director for healthcare equity in 2018 and has served on SWITCHING GEARS the Center’s advisory board since 1993, presented it to her. Hassan came to the UW to study medicine. But after meeting “I felt like I should’ve been the one giving her an award,” Hassan students from the UW chapter of the National Society of Black recalls. “She saved my life. She was the reason I was able to be Engineers, she switched gears. “Learning what the organization there at that moment and the reason I’m doing what I do today.” stood for—increasing culturally responsible Black engineers who Inspired by her experiences and by women like Dawson and excel academically, succeed professionally and positively impact the Cierra Sisters—whom she still visits at the group’s meet- the community—changed my point of view. Engineering became ups—Hassan realized her passion for paying it forward. an option I wanted to explore.” “I often ask myself, ‘What more can I do?’ and the answer is She decided to major in industrial and systems engineering, ‘Lots,’” she says. “Someone has always been there for me; I want and she stayed involved with Making Connections as a volunteer. to be there for others. I want to show up.”

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He Made OMA&D His Family RECOGNITION A New Way to Connect Gabe Gallardo’s leadership, innovation and caring nature brought success When LYNN SHELTON, to scores of underrepresented minority students BARBARA KINNEY ’87, died on May 16 at the UWAA recently launched Huskies everywhere are facing new profes- Alumni, friends and students from all cam- age of 54, Seattle lost one UW Husky Landing, a new sional challenges. Businesses are pivoting, hiring puses are invited to join UW Husky Landing of its brightest artists. The looks different, and home office has taken on as well as enjoy the unique benefits of their It was hard to find a bigger Husky than for student programs meant “we could world lost a great filmmak- career network and mentoring a whole new meaning. The future may be un- own communities in the Bothell and Tacoma Gabriel Gallardo. He earned three UW expand college opportunities and success er, and cinema fans are platform, open to all alumni, certain, but a constant remains: UW alumni hubs. The site currently fea- degrees and devoted his career to under- for underrepresented students,” Wiles says. mourning the films we will never see. She students and friends of UW. are looking for ways to connect. tures a hub exclusively for privileged students, working for 27 years Teri Ward, director of the Health Sciences was known for directing films like “Hump- Responding to that demand, the UW Alumni the Bothell community, and in the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity. Center Minority Students Program, knew day” (2014) and “Sword of Trust” (2019), Association recently launched UW Husky plans are underway for a Our alumni are He married Veronica, a UW classmate, Gallardo for 26 years and reported to him and episodes of hit TV shows like “Mad Landing, a new career network and mentoring Tacoma hub in the future. and they started a family while living in in her current role. The two met when he Men” and “Little Fires Everywhere.” Even platform. Open to all alumni, students and UWAA Executive Director motivated, engaged graduate student housing. “For my dad, filled in for her as an admissions specialist with her success, Lynn always centered friends, this online community is a trusted, Paul Rucker encourages and informed. We’re being a Husky was not just about being a when she took maternity leave. Later, when gratitude, kindness, and joy in her daily exclusive space for Huskies of all ages to share alumni to register and visit student or an educator, it was an entire he was director of the Early Identification life.—Producer-writer Lacey Leavitt, ’03 experiences, advice and opportunities. often to learn more about the excited to share family experience,” says Stephanie Gallardo, Program, which helps students apply to Most importantly, the platform opens doors expanding suite of profes- Husky Landing with a Tukwila high school teacher. “He was a graduate school, the first personal statement GEORGE BAKAN served Husky to his absolute core.” he read was Ward’s. “He provided support as a Mormon missionary

for Huskies to connect with one another by sional development programs NATE GOWDY removing common barriers to networking in and partnerships the Alumni the UW community The irreplaceable Dr. Gabe, ’89, ’93, when I went on maternity leave,” Ward and in the Navy, but his real life. Creating a profile takes only a few Association is developing for and grow it together. ’00, died in May. Gallardo worked for says, “and he supported me when I went greatest act of service minutes, and intuitive tools help set up all the future. “Our alumni are OMA&D since 1993, most recently serv- to graduate school.” was to Seattle’s gay participants for success. Expand your Husky motivated, engaged and informed. We’re excited ing as associate vice president for student Gallardo, a Chilean refugee, authored community. The UW grad success, but he held a number of admin- many grants including one that brought was editor of the Seattle Gay News since

network based on career, field or interests. Seek to share Husky Landing with the UW commu- COURTESY EMILE PITRE professional advice from industry insiders, nity and grow it together.” istrative and leadership positions over the College Assistance Migrant Program 1982, advocating for equality through while exploring professional development re- To learn more about Husky Landing and to the years. “You can’t tell the story of to campus. “As a student, he didn’t have the darkest days of the 1980s. On June 7, sources. Find a mentor or become one to create a profile, visit: OMA&D without Dr. Gabe,” says Kristian all the resources that OMA&D now has Bakan died at his Capitol Hill desk doing someone else. UWalum.com/huskylanding Wiles, a close friend and colleague. for students,” his daughter says. “Being what he was called to do: working for gay Gallardo’s ability to obtain outside funding part of that process, it filled his heart.” rights. He was 78.

64 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 65 BEVERLY J. PREGENT CAREY VIRGINIA GLERUP REVERE GAIL CYNTHIA LARSON NICHOLAS PAUL MIHALOW LAURA D. CASTELO-TOLEDO the Burke’s curator of North football game!” She died April ’51, Rancho Mirage, California, ’57, Seattle, age 85, May 23 ’64, Tulalip, age 77, May 25 ’72, Palmer, Alaska, age 75, worked as a certified medical American anthropology and 3 at the age of 85. age 90, June 2 April 3 2000 and legal Spanish interpreter UW associate professor of an- DONNA LEE STOCKING WEBBER MICHAEL C. MCBETH FRANK SHIGEO TANAGI serving the Latinx communi- thropology. James died June 1 NOLA MAE MOORE was a phy- In Memory JEAN CUMMINS ’57, Seattle, age 84, April 30 ’64, ’72, Redmond, age 78, April 29 ANDREW J. RENGGLI ’08, Seattle, age 97, June 18 ty at various local hospitals at the age of 75. sician who served on the Ad- ’51, Kent, age 89, May 10 ’73, ’79, Seattle, age 68, May 29 including UW Medicine Har- missions Committee for the NANCY ELLWOOD DAVID BRUCE NEELY ANGELA ROSE-COWAN BYRD borview and Seattle Chil- DARRYLL RAY JOHNSON start- UW School of Medicine. She ROBERT S. HALE ’58, Seattle, age 83, June 15 ’64, Clyde Hill, age 80, April 24 THOMAS CHRISTOPHER ABBOTT ’16, Tukwila, age 52, April 19 dren’s. She died June 1 at the ed working as a graduate as- died April 17 at the age of 88. ’51, Carlsbad, California, ’74, Seattle, age 69, April 8 age of 67. sistant in the College of Forest age 89, Sept. 16, 1999 BEVERLY ANN FALK KENNETH BRETTMANN Resources and was recruit- BETH B. PETERSON, ’97, ’58, Edmonds, age 86, Jan. 23 ’65, Coupeville, age 80, March 15 HELEN I. CARTER FACULTY AND WILLIAM HENRY DAHLBERG, ed to work for the National worked as a research scientist LESLIE FARRINGTON SNAPP ’74, ’77, Seattle, age 91, Nov. 3 FRIENDS ’64, served on the faculty of Park Service Cooperative at the UW, focusing on vision ’51, Bellevue, age 91, April 2 RICHARD ALVIN FLATEN ROGER TRUMAN CHESS the UW School of Dentistry Park Studies Unit that was and the retina. She left the UW ’58, Seattle, age 88, April 25 ’65, Kirkland, age 77, May 15 GINGER KNUTSEN ROBERT W. ALBRECHT, the and worked for the U.S. Public headquartered at the UW. in 2015. She died May 9 at the STUDENTS JAMES R. APPEL ’76, Seattle, age 78, June 4 first in his family to attend col- Health Service. He died March There, he led studies in Alas- age of 69. ’52, Seattle, age 91, April 23 JEWELYN CARVALHO IMPETT DONALD GUNN lege, enjoyed a 40-year career 12 at the age of 86. ka, Washington, Oregon and CONNER DASSA-HOLLAND ’58, Seattle, age 85, June 8 ’65, Humble, Texas, age 83, ELISE ELLIOTT KROGSTAD as a professor of nuclear and California during his 30-year MADHAVI K. RAJGURU, ’90, Seattle, age 18, May 10 DAVID W. GOSSARD JR. June 5 ’77, ’80, Seattle, age 89, May 12 electrical engineering at the EARL W. DAVIE, ’50, ’54, was career. A memorial has been earned a bachelor’s degree in ’52, ’58, Seattle, age 90, June 7 PERRY GRANT KEITHLEY II UW. In addition to teaching a pioneer in blood-clotting established in his name at the Asian Languages and Litera- ALUMNI ’58, Lacey, age 83, April 4, 2019 RICHARD HARWOOD OSCAR E. GASTIABURU classes and mentoring gradu- research. In 1981, he joined School of Environmental and ture while working full time as ROBERT KEITH JAEDICKE ’65, Edmonds, age 79, April 4 ’78, Seattle, age 68, Aug. 5, 2019 ate students, he consulted at former UW professor and col- Forest Sciences Fund. He died a member of the administrative ’52, ’53, Cody, Wyoming, age 91, ROBERT J. LEVITIN nuclear plants and research league Benjamin Hall to co- April 8 at the age of 77. staff at the UW Institute for May 24 ’58, Seattle, age 89, Feb. 8 FREDERICK HIRAI MARILYN SHOPE PETERSON facilities around the world. He found Zymogenetics, one of Nuclear Theory. She died April 1940 ’65, ’69, Newcastle, age 91, ’78, Anacortes, age 84, June 3 also created an autonomous the first biotech companies in C. PATRICK MAHONEY, ’60, 17 at the age of 83. NANCY SUE PETERSEN PAUL RAUCH MEYER April 13 robotics lab to do early work the country. He died on June 6 ’63, spent four years on the LOUIS MESSMER ’52, Seattle, age 90, June 16 ’58, ’61, Seattle, age 83, April 19 MICHAEL JAMES HUDDLESTON on sensors and mobility. He at the age of 92. UW School of Medicine fac- LEO SREEBNY helped establish ’42, ’52, Hoquiam, age 99, PAUL BRESLIN MILAN ’79, Kirkland, age 64, May 23 died June 6 at the age of 85. ulty as associate professor of the oral pathology department April 28 HELEN CAROL EASTERBROOK KAREN ANN CUTTING ’66, ’72, Seattle, age 78, May 30 DANIEL DESIGA, ’75, grew up pediatrics and endocrinology. and a dental research center ’54, Bellevue, age 87, April 12 ’59, Tucson, Arizona, age 83, JANE MCCORMMACH WALTER G. ANDREWS spent in a family of farmworkers He conducted research into at the UW. He also created a MARY SHIMODA MORIO March 29 JERRY CLARK PACKARD ’79, Mercer Island, age 77, May 13 his entire career at the UW in Walla Walla. As a UW art thyroid disease and genetic scholarship in his wife’s name ’42, Bellevue, age 99, June 15 LESLIE CLARE ERICKSON ’66, Seattle, age 76, April 1 and was a founding member student, he took part in the disorders. He died April 24 at at the Stroum Center for Jew- ’54, ’58, Seattle, age 92, Feb. 13 RICHARD STROBACH GRILLO LISA ELLEN SCHUCHMAN of the Near East Language and peaceful takeover of Beacon the age of 90. ish Studies. He died April 5 at MARGARET DORA MORRISON ’59, Allyn, age 88, May 21 DENNIS W. PATRICK ’79, Seattle, age 68, May 5 Culture Department. A leading Hill School in the 1970s that led the age of 98. ’45, Seattle, age 96, April 10 ROBERT R. KELLEY ’66, Redmond, age 76, Nov. 3 scholar in the field of Ottoman to the creation of a multicultur- PETER BICKNELL MANSFIELD ’54, ’59, Shoreline, age 90, May 16 DOUGLAS M. FRYER Turkish Literature, he was cred- al resource center that is still in served on the faculty of the MARY SORENSON worked PATRICIA LOU ABSHER ROSS ’59, Anacortes, age 86, April 17 LESLIE DAVID ROSENBERG ited with reintroducing Otto- use today. He died April 15 in UW School of Medicine and as a nurse for 30 years at the ’47, Kihei, Hawaii, age 95, JEAN LINK KRAFT ’66, Seattle, age 79, April 5 man Turkish poetry into the New Mexico at the age of 71. became chief of surgery at Se- UW’s Hall Health Center and March 19 ’54, Port Ludlow, age 87, March 24 SHIRLEY JEAN KIMBALL 1980 fields of literature and history. attle Children’s. He died June six years at Seattle Children’s ’59, Des Moines, age 89, June 10 RALPH R. WINTERS DANIEL THEODORE GEBALLE He received the Middle Eastern TIMOTHY DAVID FEETHAM, 23 at the age of 83. Hospital. She died April 21. HOWARD CARLEY DONELSON RICHARD ERSKINE SCROGGS ’66, ’74, Peoria, Arizona, age 77, ’80, Kirkland, age 71, May 23 Studies Association Mentoring ’72, ’81, created a certificate ’48, Bellevue, age 99, May 9 ’54, Union, age 87, May 16 April 4 Award in 2008 and the UW’s program at the UW in data MARILYN M. MATTOCKS, ’52, PATRICIA M. POCOCK VAN MICHAEL WENDELL WRIGHT Undergraduate Research Men- warehousing and taught class- served as an administrative MASON, ’73, daughter of row- WAYNE M. SANDSTROM DONN WEAVER FRANK MORRIS HANSEN ’80, ’82, Renton, age 62, May 29 tor Award in 2018. He died May es for many years. He also assistant for several UW de- ing legend George Pocock, ’48, ’53, Seattle, age 93, June 15 ’54, Seattle, age 87, May 11 1960 ’67, Anacortes, age 82, April 11 31 at the age of 81. worked for United Airlines Res- partments after working at worked at the UW Marian MARY SUE (MURRAY) MCMAHON CHARLOTTE HENKE ervations, Seafirst Bank, Rainier Frederick & Nelson in the Gould Gallagher Law Library IMOGENE BRYANT WILLIAMS DANIEL ALBERT BUEHLER ’60, Yakima, age 82, April 19 IRENE ANNA OLSON ’81, Langley, age 82, May 15 MICHAEL WARREN ARTHUR Bank, Information Builders and 1950s. She died April 7 at the after earning her degree in li- ’48, Seattle, age 88, May 24 ’55, Olympia, age 87, May 21 ’67, ’73, Seattle, age 76, April 14 worked for the UW’s Social De- the Data Warehousing Insti- age of 90. brary science. She died June 13 VERNON L. OGDEN SARA A. KAWAMURA velopment Research Group af- tute. He died April 10 at the age at the age of 94. JAMES D. EERNISSE ALAN LANE WEBSTER GUNSUL ’60, Guthrie, , age 83, DIMITRIOS A. PAPPAS ’82, McKinney, Texas, age 74, ter completing his postdoctoral of 76. RICHARD P. MILLS, ’72, ’99, ’49, Des Moines, age 95, May 12 ’55, Burien, age 93, March 28 May 27, 2019 ’67, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 15 fellowship at Yale. He earned served as a volunteer clinical PATRICIA MARY WAY was born age 82, June 4 his Ph.D. in psychology from MARTHA AMELIA FELDMAN faculty member at the UW in Vancouver, B.C., was raised FRANK C. FICKEISEN EVELYN L. KERLEE FREDERICK S. RICHARD MARGARET T. KIRK the University of Virginia. He was an affiliate associate pro- School of Medicine, teaching in Seattle and attended the ’49, ’51, Seattle, age 93, March 22 ’55, Lynden, age 87, April 28 ’60, Seattle, age 85, April 28 HUGH (HUGO) WIESE ’82, Poulsbo, age 95, March 31 died March 17 at the age of 60. fessor of bioengineering in neuro-ophthalmology to UW UW, where she majored in ’68, Kenmore, age 89, May 23 the UW’s Master’s of Medical medical students before join- English. Her UW education MARY COUROUNES GEORGE GERALDINE CARLSON LAUBER SETH H. SEABLOM MARILYN N. REED PATRICIA MARIE BAILLARGEON Engineering program. She was ing the faculty full time and was interrupted by World War ’49, Seattle, age 93, April 26 ’55, Shoreline, age 86, April 28 ’61, Eastsound, age 82, June 13 MARY LOU BLOCK ’85, Riverview, Florida, age 73, served as a consultant for the instrumental in founding the rising to acting chair of the De- II, as she was selected by the ’69, Edmonds, age 80, April 3 May 18 UW’s program for Non-Western Organization of Regulatory partment of Ophthalmology. Navy to attend the Japanese GRACE REINDEL MARGOT C. METZDORF MCKEE JANNA GOLLIHUR HAMILTON Studies. She also served on the and Clinical Associates, which He died May 9 at the age of 76. Language Training School in ’49, ’51, Seattle, age 92, April 7 ’55, Gig Harbor, age 87, June 3 ’62, Seattle, age 79, May 27 DONAVON WAYNE STANGLE JUDITH ANN BAKER board of the Burke Museum. provides a regional forum for Colorado. Commissioned as a ’69, Seattle, age 75, April 18 ’87, Edmonds, age 79, April 29 She died June 13 at the age of 91. education and facilitates com- ARBIE GLENN MILLER, ’56, Navy Ensign, she was one of LEIGH WHITFIELD RABEL JAMES P. “CASEY” THOMPSON munication, networking and served on the faculty of the the 69 WAVES who served in ’55, Seattle, age 86, April 22 ’62, Bellingham, age 79, April 22 SHEILA RAE FRIEND GRAY RICHARD W. CAMERON pro- support for regulatory, quality UW School of Dentistry, which the Washington, D.C., offices 1950 ’88, Seattle, age 54, March 17 duced the UW’s football and clinical professionals. She truly appreciated his teaching of Naval Intelligence and Naval ROBERT NELSON WITTER DOROTHEA WIDGER BROOKS 1970 coaching and recruiting films died June 10 at the age of 75. and mentoring skills. He died Communications until the end DOUGLAS S. LEACH ’55, Tacoma, age 87, March 17 ’63, Amherst, New York, age 79, JOAN PATRICIA ADKISSON throughout the May 7 at the age of 88. of the war. A big supporter of ’50, Bothell, age 92, April 9 Feb. 21 ALAN LUND ’89, Bellevue, age 55, May 19 and Don James eras. He did BILL JAMES was heredity chief UW programs, she died March ANN (DIETZEN) GAMON ’70, Edmonds, age 81, March 19 the same job for the Seattle of the Lummi people. He fre- HELEN ANTONETTE MOLINA 23 at the age of 96. DALE RICHARD MEERS ’56, Yakima, age 86, May 8 MARCIA ELIZABETH HOOVER BLAKE MARCUS HARRISON Supersonics. He died April 30 quently taught weaving tech- held several administrative ’50, Bethesda, Maryland, ’63, Renton, age 79, May 7 RONALD G. MCCOMB ’89, Bremerton, age 65, June 5 at the age of 94. niques at the Burke Museum positions at the UW, first as a DOUGLAS DER YUEN, ’69, age 92, March 22 EDWARD MAHER ’70, ’72, Seattle, age 78, May 21 of History and Culture. When secretary in the Romance Lan- served on the faculty of UW ’56, Seattle, June 9 GERALD RODNEY SWANSON AUSTIN MCCLAIN CASE, ’54, the cultural gallery at the new guages Department and then Medicine’s Department of Ob- MELVIN PINCUS ’63, Rancho Mirage, California, HELEN SMITH MORROW ’62, was a professor in the Burke Museum was to be de- in the Department of Psychol- stetrics and Gynecology in the ’50, San Mateo, California, KERIN L. MCALLISTER ARRIVEY age 82, April 26 ’70, ’71, Seattle, age 86, May 2 UW Department of Psychi- signed, the museum’s curators ogy. She later moved to the 1970s before going on to serve age 92, Jan. 28 ’57, Woodinville, age 84, March 28 1990 atry while serving as a staff sought Chief James to provide Athletics Department, where as chief of OB-GYN at Virginia DIANNA LOUISE CLOSE PEGGY LOU STANLEY JAMES ROY OSBORN psychiatrist for the Veterans the words over the entrance she worked alongside Athletic Mason and Swedish hospi- SANDY PRATT CAROL ANN NEISESS D’ONOFRIO ’64, Seattle, age 77, March 12 ’70, Seattle, age 87, April 2 ’96, Shoreline, age 81, May 26 Administration. He also served to the exhibit. In addition, a Director for several tals. A native of Hong Kong, ’50, Bellevue, age 92, March 26 ’57, Piedmont, California, age on the board of directors of blanket woven out of moun- years. According to her obitu- he earned his medical de- 84, April 14 WILLIAM HENRY DAHLBERG MARY LOIS STANTON DAVID A. DE BRUYNE the UW Nursing and Child tain goat wool by James and ary in The Seattle Times, “She gree at UC San Francisco and CAROL TRENT ’64, Mukilteo, age 87, March 12 ’71, ’73, Bellevue, age 96, April 13 ’98, Chehalis, age 69, Feb. 27 Development Program and on his mother, Fran, hangs in the enjoyed jogging in full makeup, completed his training at UW ’50, Edmonds, age 94, April 2 CLIFFORD F. MALM the board of the UW Certifi- museum, displayed floor-to- volunteering at Lynndale El- Medicine Harborview Medical ’57, Seattle, age 89, June 7 GARY K. GUNSTROM GEORGE CLINTON TEXTOR JR. cate Program in Infant Mental ceiling. “He stood for inclu- ementary, where three of her Center and UW Medical Cen- DOROTHY SHIEL CAPELOTO ’64, ’67, Klamath Falls, Oregon, ’71, Seattle, age 75, May 10 Health. He died May 26 at the sivity and respecting every- grandchildren went, and being ter Montlake. He died April 7 at ’51, Seattle, age 91, April 28 BRUCE WILLIAM MECKLENBURG age 79, June 3 age of 90. body,” says Sven Haakanson, the loudest fan at every Husky the age of 81. ’57, Des Moines, age 89, May 20

66 UW MAGAZINE FALL 2020 67 Beauty by THINGS THAT DEFINE THE UW All Accounts REAL DAWGS To experience the true beauty of the University of Washington’s Seattle cam- pus, look no further than the photographs WEAR PURPLE of Loyd Heath. A longtime accounting professor and associate dean of the Foster School of Business, Heath also document- ed the campus for decades with a camera and a keen eye. His accounting accom- plishments span from global to local: His research and activism pressured public companies to report their cash flows, and he steered the UW’s grading scale from letter grades to the decimal system (“2.8” still doesn’t have the same ring as “B-minus”). After 36 years on the job, Heath retired in 1998 to focus full time on photography, which he did until he died in March. Defying stereotypes of both the scatterbrained artist and the boring bookkeeper, Heath used his insider lens to capture the intricacies of our com- plex campus down to the decimal point. See more at loydheath.com.

Danny Herrera mentors high school freshmen, helping to set them on a path toward college. He wants students to see themselves in his story, a journey from Yakima to the UW and beyond — and he wears purple to show his Husky pride. “As a first-generation college graduate,” he says, “I think it’s important to give back to my community and show students that no matter what situation they’re in, they can make their dreams possible.”

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