“Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn’t know they were going to get.” —WILLIAM FOEGE

Smallpox and COVID-19: One pandemic public health leader’s story translates to a new generation Virology Central Within weeks of news of the outbreak in China, the UW Medicine Virology Laboratory was readying itself to deal with the novel coronavirus. And then on Jan. 21, Washington state recorded the first known case in the U.S., and a month later, the first known death. On March 2, the lab—then at the U.S. center of the outbreak—received FDA approval to perform testing and started with about 100 swabbed samples. Over the next two weeks, as the demand ramped up exponentially, the lab raced to increase its capacity—and was soon running about 1,800 tests and finding about 150 infections a day. The staff worked long days, sometimes 18 to 24 hours per shift, to help community leaders and public health officials make sound decisions about how to deal with this health crisis. During the spring, the lab often ran more tests than any other in the country. Only a few laboratories na- tionwide have the people, tools and resources to do this essential work. Until a treatment or therapy is found, testing and containment are at the heart of our nation’s response to the pandemic. Photo by Dennis Wise

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Fifty years ago, when FORWARD HANDS OFF THE SOAP—BRIEFLY 24 Front and Center smallpox was ravaging 6 Geoff Baird Using hot water and Call for a tour today. With compassion, innovation and empathy, public health leader the developing world, 8 Hope and Resilience soap is keeping you Patty Hayes is always striving to make life safer for us. epidemiologist William 10 Roar of the Crowd By David Volk Foege, ’61, a UW School healthy, but it could 206-254-1441 of Medicine alum, set be hurting your skin. aside the convention- THE HUB A UW Medicine dermatologist gives mirabellaliving.com/seattle 28 al wisdom of mass 13 State of the Art Protein Power us some advice. Professor David Baker’s audacious idea to create new proteins vaccination. Instead, 14 Expert may be the answer to stopping disease—including COVID-19. he predicted where the 18 Infographic By Sally James virus would spread and 20 Research inoculated people where 21 From Washington it made sense instead of 22 Scorecard 30 Unearthed and Retooled vaccinating everyone. 22 Athletics The result? The virus A canoe buried long ago in the mud along the banks of the Green JOHN T. BARR / HULTON ARCHIVE River teaches us a lot about life before non-native settlement. was stopped cold. By Hannelore Sudermann COLUMNS 45 Sketches 46 Media 36 Smallpox Slayer 58 Tribute Before the novel coronavirus, smallpox infected the planet. Then 60 Memorials William Foege, ’61, devised the way to eradicate it from the Earth. THE LAST TIME By Julie Garner WE LOST SPRING UDUB Schools nearby 64 U Book Store closed early after 38 Screen Gems May 1980’s eruption Be it in person or on a screen, this year’s Distinguished Teaching of Mount St. Helens. Award recipients showed exemplary commitment to students. Those seniors never By Quinn Russell Brown got to say goodbye.

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so early in its course. Our testing and as- sociated scientific efforts have also meant that we are genome-sequencing all of the viruses we detect to track transmission, supporting clinical trials for treatments and vaccines, and contributing to essen- tially every conceivable type of COVID-19-related research that is hap- pening right now on Earth. The faculty responsible for the clinical virology laboratory’s testing—Division Head Dr. Keith Jerome, Assistant Director Dr. Alex Greninger, and laboratory manager Greg Pepper—deserve special recognition for their heroic efforts. However, everyone involved in our effort has been heroic. Every test that comes

A rapid and accu- rate test would be the cornerstone of our approach

through UW Medicine has a dedicated clinical faculty or staff member who dons protective equipment to collect a specimen, a specimen-processing technologist who accepts the sample and ensures it is ap- propriately labeled, a courier who takes it to our central virology laboratory, additional processing technologists who prepare the specimen for testing, testing technologists who perform the test, biomedical infor- MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF THE VIROLOGY LAB matics staff who ensure that the results are transmitted promptly, and clinical fac- ulty and staff who accept the results and As Fast as We Can act on them. Dozens of faculty and hun- dreds of staff in Laboratory Medicine, and A UW lab is put to the test thousands more faculty, staff, volunteers and donors associated with UW Medicine By Geoff Baird make this happen. Today, if you are a patient at a UW If you’re like me, you hadn’t spent much test would be the cornerstone of our clinical Medicine hospital site, you can get the time in your life worrying about the threat approach to this threat. Our test was ready best SARS-CoV-2 test result on the planet, of a global pandemic. Thankfully, though, to go the day that the FDA allowed us to on average in less than six hours from the Department of Laboratory Medicine’s test, and since then, we have run more when you have your nose swabbed (in Virology Division at the University of than 116,000 SARS-CoV-2 tests and iden- certain cases, in two hours), and you will Washington School of Medicine has wor- tified more than 9,200 positive patients. have a world-leading care team using those ried about this for a long time. In January, Social distancing, plus our testing that results to help you and protect those around when news came out of China about the started ahead of essentially all other similar you. The reasons for this are many, but virus we now know as SARS-CoV-2, which labs in the country, have meant that our most of those reasons are the people who causes the disease known as COVID-19, “curve” in Washington has been flatter and work here.—Geoff Baird is professor and our lab got to work making a test for this our patients have been safer, despite the interim chair of the UW School of Medicine’s virus, knowing that a rapid and accurate fact that we were hit so hard by the virus Department of Laboratory Medicine

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However, the article failed Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co., I have worked with Allison and Lois for to mention the important role that UW TO THE UW’S LICENSING made a significant impact on my financial many years. The letter in the spring issue scientists played in both monitoring the ability to attend the University of from Ben Yormark as a follow-up to that seismic activity of the region and assessing PARTNERS FOR RISING TO Washington and earn a bachelor’s degree article caught my eye. I vaguely remember ecological responses to the eruption. For within four years. I am honored and proud his shop from a few visits with my dad. example, several of us were on that first THE OCCASION DURING THE to be the recipient of a Thomas McCurdy I’m 70 now so Ben must be in his 90s. helicopter ride of ecologists into the dev- Since 2017, adidas and its partner Blue 84, a wholesale supplier of Scholarship awarded to me as a senior Scott Soules, ’71, Shoreline astated zone described in the article. COVID-19 PANDEMIC Carbon have used open-source custom-designed apparel, is using graduating from Franklin High School in Furthermore, UW ecologists took the lead Seattle, June 1959. I graduated from UW in investigations of areas close to Mount collaboration to create high- their embroidery machines to in June 1963 with a B.S. in civil engineering. Patti has it I was in a couple of ceramics classes with St. Helens, where few organisms survived performance 3D-printed footwear. make masks for hospitals, clinics As a lifetime member of the UW Alumni the cataclysmic eruption. While I have Association, I am an avid supporter of the Patti Warashina in the early ’60s (“The They’re now redirecting their and nursing homes. Following Wonder of Warashina,” Spring 2020). I now moved from Seattle back to my home “Whenever you get, give back” mentoring state of Tennessee, I continue monitoring efforts toward 3D-printed face CDC guidance with a much smaller advice of Jim McCurdy and his family. remember having a terrible time centering clay on the wheel. The instructor, Robert plant reestablishment at Mount St. Helens shields for first responders and crew, they’re producing 20,000 Although I have not lived in the state of and am working to turn over my research Washington since I graduated from UW, Sperry, tried to help me. Finally, he sat health-care professionals. masks per day — while still serving back and said, “Miss Turner, some of us to assistant professors at UW. the education I received was the foundation Virginia H. Dale, ’80, Seattle customers and filling orders. for a very successful career as a professional have it and some of us don’t!” Patti already engineer, so I continue to give back to the “had it.” She became a world-renowned College of Engineering and UW ceramic artist. I became a medical Vehicle residency Foundation. illustrator. The cause of social justice will be better Terry J. Hartman, ’63, Newport Beach, Marjorie Turner Domenowske, ’62, served not with a change of paradigm but California Seattle with a cause of reconciliation (“We Need to Talk About Vehicle Residency,” Spring 2020). Criminalizing a shelter’s location is not punishing a choice of shelter. Please consider the opportunity for Dr. Pruss to talk about reconciliation of the unsettled with the neighborhoods. Functionally ef- ficient, warm, safe and welcoming is a housing system of care. Ancillary concerns, both social and environmental, are a part of a nuanced discussion. William Speir, ’69, Tacoma Great design I’m not an alum, but my better half Diane is, along with her entire extended family. Diane’s mom was actually the very first AT&T is proud to support the UW Food Pantry Homecoming Queen at UW. She has great Fanatics, official manufacturer Logo Brands has sourced and is L2 Brands is using extra fabric and as they continue to assist students pictures, some of which the family donated of MLB player jerseys, has halted producing masks, gowns and face obsolete T-shirts to make masks to the UW archives. My background is in jersey production and pivoted shields from factories in China, for businesses and health-care during these challenging times. We hope our NYC-based advertising and publishing. 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From the stunning York and New Jersey. which supports Philadelphia’s cover to the article on Jim Ellis’ legacy, and homeless population. all of the art, it was a feast for the eyes. Thank you all to staff and contributors. Keep up the good work. Rev. Thomas J. Allsopp, ’73, Chaplain, Seattle Children’s Hospital

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�echnician Derrick Van Kirk helps students make medical

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this tool already created, we were able to quickly respond to the pandemic to deploy skills and be creative.” Every quarter for the past five years, roughly 20 public health students go through training and then volunteer for assignments when state and local health agencies ask for help in outbreak inves- tigations. But the field assignments now are on a whole new level: helping agen- cies rapidly respond to the greatest infectious disease threat in at least a gen- eration. “SEAL students are trained to provide surge support to our public health practice partners,” says Baseman. “The fact that their skills can be applied now to a global pandemic as it’s unfolding is pretty amazing.” Students from across campus have vol- unteered their time and expertise to a variety of support efforts. In one instance

DENNIS WISE undergraduate and graduate students manned about 70 3-D printers across three campuses to create needed face shields for health care workers at UW Medicine. The shield was designed by a local engineer and tested by experts at Harborview. More than 1,000 shields were made and distrib- Students Step Up uted in the first few weeks of production. Hundreds from across campus join the fight against coronavirus In another instance, students and staff used the makerspace in McCarty Hall to sew Artful Alternatives By Jake Ellison cloth face masks for custodial staff. In April, more than 45 nursing students Every spring, graduating Master of Fine Arts and Master of joined the front lines of the fight against Design students show their thesis work at the Henry Art Gallery. A little after 10 p.m. on March 19, graduate demic response since early February. the virus in Seattle and King County. But not this year. Because of the “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” orders, students Anne Massey and David Coomes Here was a chance for Massey, who Graduating seniors worked at Seattle & the museum has temporarily closed its doors, giving the students received an email that would put them into leads the SEAL Team, and Coomes to put King County COVID-19 call centers, using and the UW School of Art + Art History + Design a chance to do the mix of Washington’s rapidly evolving their emerging expertise to use to help a their nursing education to provide callers things differently. response to the outbreak of the novel coro- pop-up testing facility at the Tacoma Dome. with information about topics like where Within a few days of the stay-at-home order, second-year MFA navirus. It was the night the World Health They were needed to train health care to get tested or where to quarantine. student Andy Romero had created a studio in his back yard. “I Organization had declared the spread of workers to use special software to register Meanwhile, doctor of nursing students are do not have access to the tools and equipment to make the work the virus a pandemic and the state of people for testing, explains SEAL Team conducting telehealth visits with patients, I originally had planned for the Henry,” he says, “but I wasn’t Washington had climbed from having the faculty director Janet Baseman. and licensed graduate nursing students ready to give up on the project.” Instead, he bought a small welder country’s first positive test to having the The next day, the pair headed for are working with patients in recovery. and organized the space behind his home. “I almost prefer working nation’s first death from COVID-19. Tacoma. On the way, they studied how “This is an extraordinary partnership here,” he says. “It has provided a greater sense of freedom to just The two students in the School of Public the computer program would work for for extraordinary times,” says Patty Hayes, make what I need to make.” His meetings with his faculty advisers Health’s Department of Epidemiology this particular need before setting up Seattle & King County public health di- have shifted online, but “at the end of each visit I feel like I can volunteer with a team that supports epi- in backstage dressing rooms to train nurses rector. “We are deeply grateful to the School go out and accomplish anything.” demic response. They and roughly 20 and others on the registration program. of Nursing and their students for rising to Romero has made plants his latest subject. “I have always loved other members of the Student Epidemic “It was all very exciting,” Massey says. the occasion for our community’s COVID-19 enveloping myself in nature, and I experienced a significant Action Leaders (SEAL) Team had already “We had worked with that software ap- needs, and so pleased to be able to con- awakening to the bizarre and wonderful world of flora in Micronesia been working with Seattle & King County plication before, but this was an expedited tribute to their growth in this unique at a young age that continues to permeate the best of my dreams.” Public Health, the State Department of use of the program. And because we had way.”—Brian Donohue, Jackson Holtz and To see the work of Romero and his classmates, visit tinyurl. Health and other agencies in their pan- the relationships with state officials and Kiyomi Taguchi contributed to this story. com/uwmfa. Photo by Andy Romero.

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state, should be moving to let as many a chief judge in several tribal courts in the Pacific Northwest Gov. Jay Inslee swears-

people out of prison as quickly as possible. in UW Law alum DAN BERGER Justice Comes to Campus helped her realize she belonged on the bench. The prison population has gotten older “I cannot tell you how inspirational it is for our students to be Raquel Montoya-Lewis over the past three decades of mass incar- State Supreme Court visits the UW School of Law seeing you,” UW President Ana Mari Cauce told Montoya-Lewis to the State Supreme ceration as sentences have grown longer. at an event the night before cases were heard on campus. “We’re Court in January. Washington also abolished parole in the By Hannelore Sudermann at a moment when this profession is most important. Our de- late 1980s, creating a bottleneck that keeps mocracy is under stress. … We look to you to lead the way, to people in prison for much longer than they The nine black-robed justices of the Washington State Supreme help us figure out how to use the laws of this country to hold were 30 years ago. About 38% of the state’s Court descended on the UW Seattle campus in February to ourselves and our government more accountable.” prison population is in a high-risk group provide UW law students and the community a chance to see Holding court in the Toni C. Rembe Appellate Courtroom in

for developing serious complications from them in action. Over two days, the justices attended a celebration William H. Gates Hall, the justices heard arguments in three the virus just by virtue of their age and to honor their newest member—Raquel Montoya-Lewis, ’95, cases. The first involved a person held at the US-Canada border sentence length. Incarceration also creates ’96—visited with students and faculty, and heard oral arguments and whether he was in custody and or worsens a variety of health conditions in three very different cases. should have been Mirandized. The that put people of all age groups at risk. The court travels to various parts of the state up to three times second case focused on a nurse In April, Inslee announced plans to a year to hear oral arguments. “It’s part of our outreach and part filing a class-action suit against her release some 950 incarcerated people of the civic association that we do,” Justice Steven González employer for insufficient rest and convicted of non-violent offenses from explained. This was the first time the court had been at the UW meal breaks. The hospital claimed state prisons. The decision came in re- since 2009. the issue should be determined sponse to a Washington State Supreme More than 300 people came to visit with the justices and through the collective bargaining Court ruling requiring the governor to welcome Montoya-Lewis, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of agreement with the nurses union, take “all necessary steps” to prevent the Isleta and a descendant of the Laguna Indian Tribe. She is the not by state law. The third case spread of COVID-19 among incarcerated first Native American to serve on the state’s highest court, and centered on a woman who fell from people. Does this move go far enough? the second Native state Supreme Court justice in the country. the balcony of an apartment when The order sounds better than it is. The Montoya-Lewis said she was a little stunned to be back at the the railing gave way. The question

governor’s resolution explicitly identifies law school in her newest role. “It is not something that I ever was whether the woman’s intoxi- SHUTTERSTOCK “elderly people and those with underlying imagined for myself,” she said. “I never imagined myself being cation was more to blame for her conditions” as particularly vulnerable. But on a Supreme Court bench. I certainly didn’t imagine it in law injuries than the rotten rail. All it only provides relief to people convicted school.” She had intended to become a professor, but servingSeniors as three cases are pending.never had it so good. of non-violent drug and alcohol offenses and those who have release dates of June BRIAN STAUFFER 30 or earlier—people who should not have been in prison to begin with. It is an ex- NEWS ceedingly narrow group that t­he resolution OERTLI RECEIVES UWAA’S itself acknowledges is not responding to DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD those most at risk. Now more than Why have you and other activists ar- gued that refusing to release incarcerated ever, household A Blight Behind Bars people is essentially sentencing them options are better UW Bothell professor says incarcerated people must be freed to halt virus spread to death for being poor? On any given day, a combined 2.3 million for seniors. By Julie Davidow people are incarcerated in this country. Those in jail mostly haven’t been convicted of anything but are there because they When the coronavirus pandemic hit prisons be at the forefront of the re- can’t afford to pay bail. If we were to look COURTESY GARY OERTLI Washington state, Dan Berger thought sponse to COVID-19? at jails alone throughout the year, we would immediately of prisons. As co-curator of The physical conditions themselves are see about 10 million people coming in and the Washington Prison History Project, conducive to the spread of illness. You out mostly because they can’t afford to not the UW Bothell associate professor joined have cramped quarters with, in many cases, be in jail. Because of the way race and class a chorus of activists and scholars calling two to three people in a cell. In some fa- intersect in this country, we are also talking for Gov. Jay Inslee to release many of the cilities, there are dorms instead of cells, about a (prison and jail) population that is Gary Oertli, ’70, ’72, ’85, a longtime community 19,000 people incarcerated in the state’s with people sleeping next to each other disproportionately black, brown and college leader and former president of the FOUNDED BY UW GRADS IN 2009 TO SUPPORT SENIORS prisons and jails. on cots. At jails and detention centers, Indigenous. UW Alumni Association, is the 2020 recipient IN HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENTS The health and safety of both incarcer- there’s a constant churn of people—the Is it safe to release incarcerated people of the UWAA’s Distinguished Service Award. HSC providesHSC was in-home founded caregivers, by UW telehealth, grads and in nursing2009 to services serve for the seniors vast majority of whom come from com- ated people and the broader community who have been convicted of sometimes Oertli, president emeritus of South Seattle at home. Longhouse provides vibrant adult family homes for seniors with required quick action, they argued. munities that are already underserved by violent offenses? College, helped build out the 13th Year Promise alumni of all colleges and universi�es. We �rovide dementia or other chronic conditions who cannot stay at home. Crowded and unsanitary conditions could society. These are already people that tend Study after study has shown that people Scholarship, which provides one year of tui- lead to large numbers of inmate deaths not to have health insurance or ready access age out of crime. People who are over 50 tion-free college and critical support services refined in‐homeCall care to learn for more!seniors. Call today! and pose a high risk of spreading the virus to medical care. When you add a commu- and have served more than 10 years of their to Seattle public school students. “Gary saw beyond prison walls. The virus also reveals nicable disease to this equation, you have sentence are the group with the lowest the transformational impact of higher educa- in the starkest terms, Berger says, the in- the potential to exacerbate a major public risk of re-offending. Yet they remain in- tion,” says UWAA Executive Director Paul justice of America’s system of mass health problem. carcerated simply for the government to Rucker, ’95, ’02. “He built his career and legacy Seattle: 206.599.9990 What should political leaders be incarceration. get its pound of flesh. We have an incredibly in the community colleges, he’s been deeply Bellevue: 425.241.4900 206-366-1771 doing? You have written that “prisons are a vicious pandemic, and prisons will only committed to our public university, and he’s www.HuskySeniorCare.com www.Longhouse.com blight upon public health.” Why should The state of Washington, like every other magnify its spread. tireless in his dedication to give back.”

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this daunting task. Traditionally, effective students, and anticipate potential COVID-19 I’m disappointed to have to do all my up my medical school requirements. pedagogy requires the physical presence infections as well. Flexibility does not mean classes online. It’s hard to focus, and I So it’s OK. I’ll get that graduation photo of students and professors and their en- easy, but rather allows the students to en- usually love getting to know my teachers in the mid-June sunshine raining down gaged interactions. Given the COVID-19 gage with the class at their own pace. and classmates in a way that’s just not in front of Husky Stadium whenever I crisis, we had a mere two weeks between Professors are the engines of knowledge possible over Zoom. finish up my graduate studies in medicine winter and spring quarters to rethink, re- production and dissemination: the faculty But somehow, I’m not surprised. All some years down the line. align, repackage, and design online courses of higher education. The role played by along, my peers and I have shared a sense I’ve had one realization between Zoom to deliver knowledge in impactful ways. the faculty is integral to students’ lifelong of uncertaintly about the years ahead. classes, “Call of Duty” missions and night Transforming knowledge from one medi- learning journey. Professors open eyes to The political chaos that has unfolded shifts at the youth shelter on the Ave: A um into another is by no means an easy questions never thought of before. They during our time in college didn’t pair lot of what we planned doesn’t really matter task, especially if done on such a large spark curiosity that leads creative and well with our leaders and decision-makers anymore. But what we do in the next few scale and with so little time to plan. critically engaged thinkers to produce ignoring climate change and an ev- years—for our health, for one another and Most professors will tell you that class- transformative understandings of different er-growing wealth gap. for the planet—matters more than any- room interactions are everything! They kinds of knowledge. Professors perform I knew graduating and figuring out what thing. We are the last generation that can build rapport between students and their a complete balancing act. They create and follows would be difficult, but I still didn’t make a change. —Manisha Jha, ’20, ma- he unprecedented urgency of the professors, create connections among recreate approaches of knowledge dis- y undergraduate experience has been see myself making decisions about my jored in Public Health and International COVID-19T pandemic and health crisis has students, and more significantly advance semination allowing for new modes of bookendedM by two profoundly defining career based on who I want to be at a time Studies. In addition to working at The led to major adjustments in everyday life. how individual students see themselves thinking to emerge, sharpen analytical moments: the presidential election one that feels like the end of the world. It felt Daily, she has been a frequent contributor Society will continue to transform in ways in relation to others. Reflection is central skills, encourage the drive to learn more month into my freshman year and the like a crisis was inevitable, but not so soon. to this and Viewpoint Magazine. yet to be fully understood as the list of coronavirus outbreak the last half of my coronavirus victims continues to grow. It senior year. is during crises like these that we need What came in the middle was beautiful to come up with the most effective solu- in all the ways college can be: I met the tions. The faculty and staff of the University We had two weeks between winter most brilliant people I’ve ever known, I What a way to graduate! of Washington have been able to switch wrote my heart out for The Daily, I spent to an entirely online teaching platform for and spring quarters to rethink, realign, spring breaks chasing sunsets down the Everyone’s a little terrified to be the three campuses. In fact, UW was the Oregon coast and—within it all—I even first institution in the US to switch the repackage and design online courses. went to class. finishing school at a time like this. mode of teaching away from face-to-face This was my last quarter at the UW. instruction as a result of the sobering What a way to graduate! I’m grateful to recognition that doing so would save thou- in a student-centered pedagogy where and find answers and solutions beyond be healthy, safe and privileged, though. I’ve been privileged enough to have always sands of lives. Although online education discoveries of self-awareness and posi- what already exists. That’s mostly what I’m hearing from other known that I would go to college and that and distance learning have been proven tionality in relation to privilege and power As a professor, this experience has students who are still here around campus. it would probably be at the UW. I’ve been to be effective, not all classes can easily take place. taught me that the UW faculty are im- Those who had to go home seem signifi- waiting for the day my graduation photo be switched into an online mode. We cannot conceive of education with- pactful even when they find themselves cantly more bummed out. would go up next to my brother’s that my Moreover, online courses require peda- out acknowledging its transformative having to venture into uncomfortable Everyone’s a little terrified to be fin- mom framed eight years ago. gogical depth, an engaged process of nature and definitive impact. Impactful territory. They “flatten the curve” while ishing school at a time like this. My I spent years planning to work in health- extensive planning, thoughtful reflection education requires adapting to unantici- still producing and disseminating knowl- roommates, who are sports journalists, care policy and equity. My hope had been on the best approach to present course pated situations. At every academic edge. It might not be perfect or ideal, but are out of work for the foreseeable fu- to do population health research before materials, student engagement, participa- institution, faculty are at the forefront of desperate times call for desperate measures ture. They’ve already graduated, so they’re graduate school. But a few days into quar- tion and evaluation. interaction with students and they under- … and fortunately our reactive measures playing “Animal Crossing” and drinking antine, while watching the HBO series The shift to an entirely online platform stand that not all are privileged or have ended up far from desperate. UW faculty cocktails on the patio. Another friend “Chernobyl” in some attempt to learn how is intimidating and potentially overwhelm- financial security or safe homes. have exceeded all expectations!—Karam graduated early, planning on working on others have lived through what felt like ing to those who had never taught an online Recognizing that quarantining can be a Dana, ’02, ’03, ’09, is Associate Professor a political campaign. But few campaigns the end of the world, I realized there’s course before, but UW faculty were able privilege, like many of my faculty col- of Middle East and Islamic Studies at are responding to emails these days, so only one place for me during a time like to collectively make this transition. The leagues, I designed my courses with UW Bothell and the recipient of a 2019 he got himself a puppy. this: the emergency room. Whenever University provided resources to help with flexibility in mind to accommodate all Distinguished Teaching Award. 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03.06 7,000courses the three campuses UW announces it is moving to remote learning typically offer spring quarter intersection with race and social class.” makes evictions a civil rights issue, requir- Exploring Evictions The team turned first to eviction filings ing new laws to intervene.” A UW study reveals gender and in Washington State Superior Court to The disparities are significant because racial disparities across the state obtain eviction counts. To put the numbers they relate to historic patterns of discrim- 03.09 6,800 in context and analyze other potential ination, Thomas says. “Most of King remote learning goes into effect classes offered spring quarter 2020 By Kim Eckart contributing factors, they used population, County’s eviction filings occur in South rental, income and housing market data King County, where households of color from the U.S. Census Bureau as well as A recent study of evictions in Washington information from the U.S. Department of shows that more women are evicted than Housing and Urban Development and the men, and in the state’s two most populous annual regional Point-in-Time counts of IN THE NEWS INSTRUCTION “This severe racial dis- counties—King and Pierce—eviction rates homelessness. among black and Latinx adults are almost Armed with the most detail from King, parity makes evictions seven times higher than they are for white Pierce, Snohomish and Whatcom counties, adults. the researchers produced interactive maps. a civil-rights issue.” 800 Users can filter by race and geography times UW experts and faculty 41/42 A team of UW researchers, led by Tim art classes held spring quarter— were cited by major news Thomas, ’17, now an urban sociologist at (census tract, municipality or county) to have been displaced from Seattle. In Pierce only one had to be canceled sources in the first weeks of Among the University of California, Berkeley, based see a variety of data sets, including the County, some of the highest risks of eviction (Advanced Glass Blowing, the outbreak major the Evictions Study on filings from percentage of renters, median household occur in formerly redlined neighborhoods,” for obvious reasons) Washington’s 39 counties. “By collecting income and eviction counts. he explains. “This link between evictions, universities, all this data, we wanted to provide the “The most concerning finding is the the legacy of segregation, and gentrification the UW public with an in-depth look at eviction severe over-representation of black adults can’t be ignored and requires further trends at a geographical level in the region,” in the Western Washington eviction filing investigation. was the first says Jose Hernandez, ’15, the data scientist process,” says Thomas. “In Pierce County, Last year, as the study was underway, HARDWARE to move REGISTRATION leading the UW work. “The hope is that one in six black adults were named in a Thomas worked with housing advocates the information sheds light on a problem filing between 2013 and 2017, and one in and legislators to promote eviction reform. to remote happening in people’s backyards, and that 11 in King County during that same time. Senate Bill 5600 extended the “pay-or- learning in folks begin having a discussion about solu- For whites, it’s one in 55 and one in 100, vacate” deadline for tenants to pay rent, tions while not ignoring evictions and their respectively. This severe racial disparity from three to 14 days. laptops799 and tablets made response to 52,845 available to Seattle campus students registered for students for remote learning COVID-19. spring quarter

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are frequently updated. They have dis- cussed the exponential spread of the disease without social distancing measures and the dangers of trying to return to normal life and business too soon. The IHME was founded in 2007 with a $279 million investment by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Growing from three staff members to 500—with collab-

orations around the globe—the mission JANE BROWN remains the same: to provide sound infor- mation to policy-makers and donors to KIDS AND CORONAVIRUS help improve the human condition. Difficult questions may be surfacing as By taking in data—in this case including children experience the realities of fear, social-distancing measures and closures illness and isolation as a result of the glob- of businesses and schools, as well as health al pandemic. Now the Center for Philoso- spending—the institute creates scenarios phy for Children is offering free materials and project outcomes. In mid-April, the as well as a reading list to help families COURTESYMOKDAD ALI institute expanded its work to consider respond. The new guide—at philosophyfor anonymized mobile phone data to get a children.org—suggests books and short better picture of how social distancing is videos to explore. “I have been inspired in working across locations. What they found my conversations with children over the was that social distancing—even in places last month to see how deeply and honest- like Florida, which was late to take action— ly they are contemplating questions about was occurring earlier and to a greater degree loneliness and isolation, illness and death, Measure by Measure than originally estimated. With a nearly and the uncertainties in life,” says Jana nationwide effort to slow the spread of the Mohr Lone, the center’s director. Some of The UW’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation disease, the picture started improving. her favorites from the reading list include is a global resource for COVID-19 response But then in early May, the IHME pro- the books “Black Dog,” by Levi Pinfold, jections changed again. The new data “Duck, Death and the Tulip,” by Wolf Erl- considers that some states have eased up bruch, “Hug Me,” by Simona Ciraolo, and Ali Mokdad, professor At the end of March, Ali Mokdad, a UW on social-distancing measures and that “Let’s Do Nothing,” by Tony Fucile. of epidemiology, steps epidemiologist, reached out to Florida there will be changes in mobility during The Joy of Rereading outside his home health officials to encourage the state to the summer months. Now the estimated in April to talk to a adopt a blanket stay-at-home order to slow infection rates and death toll have in- By Jane Brown national TV station the spread of COVID-19. Up to that point, creased—rising from the prior prediction about forecasting the the governor was not considering such an of about 70,000 deaths across the country With so many wonderful books coming in succession to let its patterns and ideas Prayer at weekly assembly, and in social spread of the virus. action. But Mokdad’s call, and that the by mid-August to 147,000. “The trajectory out every year, and so many wonderful emerge clearly. My son, inspired by the studies we memorized bits of the Newspapers and news White House was citing the UW’s Institute of the pandemic will change—and dra- books written over the last 3,000 or so example of the archeologist Heinrich Declaration of Independence and the programs around the for Health Metrics and Evaluation projec- matically for the worse—if people ease up years that I have not yet read, why would Schliemann, improved his fluency and vo- Constitution. Other countries have literary country are turning to tions for the spread and death toll of the on social distancing or relax with other I read any book again? cabulary in unfamiliar languages by reading texts that are reread or reenacted regularly; UW health experts and virus, helped persuade state leaders to Easy, if you love reading. As a professor, translations of his then-favorite book, “The not to have read them in school is (or used those in other fields change their thinking. I was paid to reread books. I could never Lord of the Rings.” Not all reading requires to be) somehow scandalous–“Faust” in to find insight into The IHME had been working since teach a book I had not reread within a that kind of retention, and there are special Germany, “The Divine Comedy” in Italy, COVID-19. February on projecting the evolution of The trajectory of the week of teaching it. In childhood I con- compensations for not having reread a book or, in the English-speaking world, the COVID-19 pandemic so that hospitals, stantly reread the contents of my own in a long time. You discover so much that Shakespeare, who also has been declared including UW Medicine, could know if pandemic will change SWEET NEWS bookcase, and there were books I took you have forgotten, and so much you had the national poet by a variety of cultures. and when to open up beds, ramp up staffing One year after Seattle’s tax on sweetened out of the library annually, if not monthly. been unable to see before, so many things Many of these works claim international and equipment, and prepare for the worst. if people ease up on beverages took effect, low-income families They drew me because they seemed to you were not mature enough to recognize status as what we used to call “great books,” As the pandemic expanded across the social distancing. were consuming significantly fewer sugary mean something, even if I couldn’t artic- and value. As Goethe once said, “the devil so that to reread them and even commit country, more and more local, regional and drinks, according to a new study from the ulate quite what, or because they were so is old, grow old yourself in order to under- parts to memory is to declare membership national leaders considered to the projec- —Christopher Murray School of Public Health. “The decreases much fun. Books are like people. Some stand him.” The same is true of books. in a richer world than one’s physical tions as they made their own plans for were large—a 36% drop in taxed beverage you meet once and that’s enough. Some Rereading uncovers not only new things community. preparations and closures. precautions,” says Murray. “We encourage consumption for children and a 33% drop in you want to get to know better, and when- about what you have read before, but also Of course, not all books are as satisfying Thanks to the IHME and the readiness everyone to adhere to those precautions consumption for adults,” says Jessica Jones- ever you are with them you discover more new things about yourself. to reread as others, and which books stim- of the region’s providers to react, “The UW to help save lives.” Smith, the associate professor of health about them. Some are old friends you Rereading is central to the coherence of ulate or comfort us on rereading will vary. was way ahead of everybody,” says Mokdad. Estimates like the IHME’s and the use services and epidemiology co-leading a haven’t seen in years but to meet them a culture. Societies have a body of texts, But does anyone worry about listening to “We prepared our hospitals and canceled of them by national or regional governments study of the effects of the tax. Researchers again is a joy. Many of my books are old not always written, in common. Religions the same albums or songs over and over? elective surgeries … and whenever we may not halt the disease, but they buy found that children decreased their con- friends, familiar, comforting voices in have texts that are reread ritually on a regular Or the same operas? Or rewatching movies asked for volunteers (health care profes- everyone time to find better methods for sumption of soda pop the most—3.3 ounces times of stress and, even more, inspiring basis and sometimes even memorized, such or reruns of TV series? Repetition can sionals) we had more than we asked for.” containment and treatment. “There is no a day—and the percentage of children who reminders of how very well it is possible as the Bible or the Koran. National com- enrich, reward, give us a better perspective Mokdad and IHME director Dr. geography here, there are no boundaries,” drank at least 8 ounces a day fell from 30% to understand and represent our often munities have their own texts: in American on the new books we encounter as well, Christopher Murray have since stepped says Mokdad. “It will impact all of us. It to 20%. Meanwhile, Seattle has been using bewildering world. public schools in the 1950s we recited the and just plain satisfy. What’s in your own in front of the cameras to further share does not matter what our race is or what its soda tax revenue to fund healthful-eating Rereading enriches. I still can’t enjoy a Pledge of Allegiance, sang “The Star bookcase?—Jane Brown is a professor and explain the IHME projections, which our age is.” and education initiatives. Shakespeare play without reading it twice Spangled Banner,” and recited the Lord’s emerita of comparative literature.

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SCORECARD CRAIG HEYAMOTO SPORTS REPORT

Jim Lambright | 1943-2020 RED BOX PICTURES

ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS My Dad’s Legacy POLE POSITION Husky senior Olivia Gruver was named Na- By Kris Lambright tional Women’s Field Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Editor’s note: Jim Lambright, ’65, who died always understand why he couldn’t be on Coaches Association after setting the NCAA March 29 at the age of 77, spent 40 years the sidelines at practice or drop in to record in the pole vault last year with a leap on the Husky football coaching staff. His coaches’ meetings. All of those players, of 15 feet, 6¼ inches. That broke the UW re- daughter Kris, ’86, recalls her father. coaches and athletic department staff are cord by a foot and the Pac-12 mark by 5 inch- part of my Husky family. Keeper of the Stats es. “It means a lot,” she said. “Especially after I took my first steps in Pasadena where In recent years, Dad loved to go to Husky everything that has happened this year with my dad, Jim Lambright, and the Huskies games via boat. He usually went with his

Craig Heyamoto, ’75, ’78, has served as What do you enjoy about doing stats? the coronavirus and canceling the NCAAs, it were about to play in the 1964 Rose Bowl. good friend Clayton Olson, whom he met ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS

Boeing’s legal counsel since the early 1980s. One of the things I love about doing stats makes it a little sweeter.” She has her sights That was a memorable first as part of the over 50 years ago when Clayton offered But since the 1970s, he has compiled stats is the people you come across and work set on the Olympics, whenever they happen. Husky family. to help with UW recruiting. They were for UW football and basketball. Today, he with. Especially students. We’re committed Being a Husky has been a family affair. warmly welcomed on several boats, in- is in charge of the UW stats crew. to using students on our stat crew because My dad, mom (Beryl Simpson), brother cluding the Big Dawg, owned by the

it’s part of the university experience to ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Eric and I all attended UW. Both of my Miles-Kittilsby family. The Mileses have How did you get started? give students a chance to do some things. mom’s parents were Huskies. And my been family friends for decades. My grand- I started doing stats with the Little League mom went back to the University to get father Jack was a skipper on Frank and I so appreciate the support of my Husky team my dad coached. Then I did basketball Tell us about your stat crew. her law degree when Eric and I were there Jeanie Miles’ boat after he retired from family. We decided to donate my dad’s stats in junior high. In 1971, when I was We are probably the most diverse crew as undergrads. commercial fishing. And my grandmother brain to the UW Medicine Brain Repository graduating high school, they were trying that I have seen in terms of age, gender But my Husky family is much more Eloise rode the Big Dawg to Husky games and Integrated Research Laboratory and to get some people to work the NCAA and ethnicity. I think we’re a better crew than just my biological family. for years when Dad was coaching. Clayton, his other organs to the UW autopsy center track meet, which was held at the UW. I because of that diversity. WELCOME, COACH VAN DYKE My husband, Tim Hevly, didn’t attend the Miles family and many other sail-gating for education. My brother Eric said it best: saw Steve Prefontaine run. I also worked When women’s soccer coach Lesle Gallimore UW but was an intern in the UW Sports families are all part of my Husky family. It gave purpose to his passing. NCAA wrestling in 1973, my second year What teams have you done stats for? retired last season after 26 years, the Huskies Information department. We met through in college. I wanted to work at football I started working for the Seahawks in 1977, looked east to hire former Penn coach Nicole mutual UW connections in a van headed games, so I asked Mark Lookabaugh, the and I became crew chief in the middle of Van Dyke to replace the winningest coach to see the Huskies play at Cal. Tim’s parents sports information director, and he hired the ’82 season. I did stats for the Sonics, in program history. The Southern California were Huskies. His dad spent most of his me for game days. and I have been working for the Storm native and former Stanford assistant brings career on the staff at UW, and two of his Professional Caregiving from the start. I’ve been doing the Sounders’ an impressive record as a head coach to siblings work there now. The Hevly family At Its Finest What was it like back then? stats since Year 1 as well. I work maybe Montlake, leading Penn to an Ivy League title is a special part of my Husky family. In those days, we did everything by hand. 100 events a year; it averages out to two a during her five years. Says Van Dyke, the third I played piccolo in the Husky Marching In basketball, we had to compute percent- week. coach in UW history: “I was always impressed Band, and I met many of my closest friends ages and we didn’t even have calculators. by the fans and the environment, the soccer in band. My dad appreciated the band and In 1975, my senior year, I took a business Do you have a favorite game? community and the culture here in Seattle was very close to director Bill Bissell. Dad computing class. We had to come up with It’s the 1975 men’s basketball game when that is just such a soccer hotbed.” would always stop and shake Bissell’s hand a business program and I convinced my Washington ended a really long losing as he ran across the field on his way up to professor that keeping track of shots, re- streak to UCLA. We just blew their doors the coaches’ box before every game. The bounds and assists was kind of like an off. I was basically helping the people who band alums and the Bissell family are part inventory system. So I wrote a basketball were using my computer. After the game, ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS of my Husky family. speculative program. We tried it out and sports information director Donn Bernstein Dad was very proud of my brother Eric, it worked. said, “I want you to meet someone.” He who was a walk-on defensive back and took me behind the stands and he said, two-year letter winner. And Eric did some- How has compiling stats changed? “Craig, I want you to meet John Wooden.” thing Dad never did at UW: he scored a At the 1982 UW-Stanford football game, I shook John Wooden’s hand, and he signed touchdown! In 1984, Eric recovered a UW sports public relations director Mike my program. fumbled kickoff against Miami of Ohio. I Wilson pulled me aside and said, “I want FAREWELL, NESBY GLASGOW will always remember Eric holding the you to look at what Stanford is doing.” They Do you have a favorite Husky player? Sad news: Former Husky defensive back ball, pointing at Dad up in the coaches’ were compiling their stats on a computer. I would say Kelsey Plum. There are so many Nesby Glasgow, ’98, died Feb. 25 of stomach box as he ran off the field. They explained, “We have this company players in football and basketball, but she cancer at the age of 62. Famous for his key Hearing the impact my dad had on the up the road that is developing small desktop was special. And with basketball, it is a interception late in the Huskies’ victory over lives of the hundreds of young men he PROUDLY SERVING THE HUSKY COMMUNITY FOR 15 YEARS computers, a company called Apple, and little bit easier to feel like you know the Michigan in the 1978 Rose Bowl, Glasgow, coached has been amazing. Knowing that we’re developing the stats on the comput- players more because you’re closer to the who played under defensive coordinator Jim so many others benefited from his coaching We provide our professionally-trained caregivers with career advancement er.” Mike asked if I could do something action and they’re not wearing helmets Lambright (right), holds the UW record for and teaching helps make up for the time opportunities, scholarships, and the best benefits in the industry. You can rest at like that. I spent that offseason running a and you see them. There are a lot of great punt returns (98). He played 14 NFL seasons, we missed with him. Dad also worked computer program to do football stats. I players, but I think she’s my favorite. starting with the Colts and finishing with the with many other dedicated coaches and ease, knowing that your loved ones are well taken care of at home. wrote a football program that we used up Seahawks in 1992. Glasgow was inducted athletic department staff during his tenure. until we switched over to the one we’re into the Husky Hall of Fame in 2001 and was The current coaches and staff welcomed Call (206) 362-2366 or visit FedeltaHomeCare.com/uw using now. named to Washington’s All-Century Team. him the past few years when Dad didn’t

22 UW MAGAZINE WINTER 2019 23 PATTY HAYES FRONT AND CENT ER

With compassion, innovation and empathy, public health leader Patty Hayes strives to make life better for all of us By David Volk Illustration by René Milot

PATTY HAYES became a household name for her role in She has gotten so good at breaking potentially bad news that Western Washington’s response to the novel coronavirus, but Seattle Met magazine praised her in an article called “A Guide until then she did her work as director of Public Health—Seattle to Recognizing Your Coronavirus Briefing Saints: Who are all & King County (an organization most people refer to as the those people on the podium?” Writer James Gardner says Hayes Health Department) mostly under the radar. That meant the is “often the coolest customer at the podium.” Although she incredible impact she made during her career was not widely hadn’t heard the praise until it was read to her, she was quick recognized. to acknowledge its significance. Then came the new year. As state and regional governments “It’s really important to have somebody at the podium that raced to respond to the first reported case of COVID-19 in not only says the truth but also acknowledges the difficulty and Washington on Jan. 21 and the first reported U.S. death in Kirkland is compassionate,” she says. “I believe people need that. They on Feb. 24, the 2020 recipient of the UW’s Alumna Summa need somebody they can trust. They need somebody who will Laude Dignata award—the highest honor presented to an alum— spark confidence and also touch the heart. That’s just so important became one of the main people at the podium in a long stream in times like this.” of news briefings about this devastating new virus. It was probably Hayes’ leadership undoubtedly had a major impact on Western one of the last things Hayes imagined when she was a nursing Washington’s effort to flatten the pandemic’s curve of contagion. student in the 1970s. But everything in her career had prepared It might not be a coincidence that the UW is honoring her during her for this moment. the World Health Organization’s “Year of the Nurse and Midwife” As Hayes, ’76, ’80, puts it, “I step into some really hard places.” in honor of Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. And running a metropolitan health department in the middle of Of Hayes’ long record of impact, Azita Emami, executive dean a pandemic could be one of the hardest. Fortunately, Hayes says of the UW School of Nursing, says: “For decades, Seattle has she has been able to rely on some key skills developed along the been known nationally and internationally as one of the healthiest way. Her experience running a professional organization in a and most health-centric cities in the U.S. Patty Hayes has played time of crisis gave her the administrative acumen needed to a leading role in creating that highly visible and extremely oversee all of the pieces that have to come together to deal with successful culture of health. the pandemic. Her experience lobbying taught her the importance “She’s the kind of unsung leader that does her job in a fabulous of building the relationships she’s now relying on to persuade way, and she serves a very large amount of people. She leads all politicians to make difficult, potentially unpopular decisions to these unique projects. She deserves more recognition for her protect the public. At the same time, her experience as a nurse visionary approach to public health.” has made her adept at explaining unpleasant realities while Hayes brought a new focus on the impact that trauma has on keeping people calm. treatment outcomes, which has prompted the Health Department “I go in front of the camera to talk about the implications of to be sensitive to the issue as a possible determining factor in an the pandemic, what we need to do to support each other and individual’s health. She also played a big role in Best Starts for where we’re at in the nation,” she explains. Kids, a program designed to make people healthier by “fostering

24 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 25 PROUD TO BE PURPLE I’m pretty feisty about continuing TOGETHER. to push on something I believe is right Huskies all over Washington state are coming together

a culture of health starting at birth and into adulthood.” to push on something that I believe is right,” Hayes says. to support student The funny thing is, Hayes never planned to spend her career She has been helping nonprofits, state, local and federal govern- scholarships — and show focusing on innovative health-care initiatives. Instead, she got ments find ways to figure things out ever since. That work includes her start as a candy striper in the 1960s after she watched a sitcom serving as a government relations consultant for health care-related off their Purple Pride. called “The Patty Duke Show” at 14 and saw one of the main organizations; developing a curriculum for evening students at characters performing volunteer nursing. She attributed part of Saint Martin’s University interested in nursing-related master’s Join the effort by getting her interest in caretaking to her experience helping her mother, degrees focused on leadership and public policy; working with a UW license plate. who had been severely injured in an automobile accident. The Congress on health-policy issues; and helping lead the rollout of other part was her interest in science. the Affordable Care Act exchanges in Washington state. She also “It was an age when a lot of women didn’t always have a lot of served as executive director of WithinReach, a nonprofit helping uw.edu/huskyplates choices on what to do for careers. I was a super-achiever in school underprivileged families access health care and food. and I loved science. [Nursing] was the perfect track for me in Hayes stepped into another difficult place in 2012 when she terms of being able to be around people and help people out,” was hired as director of King County’s Community Health Services she recalls. “When I took a look back at all of the opportunities Division. It is the largest division in the King County Health in the health field, nursing was the most interesting to me because Department which provides maternal/parent-child health pro- it was working with families.” grams, medical/dental clinics, health care for homeless and Although she started her career as a bedside nurse at West school-based health centers. In 2014, she was appointed director Seattle Hospital, it didn’t take her long to realize she was interested of the Health Department. It was $12 million in debt. She not in going further. “I wasn’t satisfied with bedside nursing, which only helped the agency return to sound financial footing while is an honorable career. It just didn’t fit my personality. I realized maintaining its position as one of the country’s top health de- I was interested in the whole circumstance of my patients, what partments, she also has been leading initiatives to change the is going to make them successful when they go home.” way it does business. For example, she leads an effort to reinvent She found a path that suited her better after returning to the maternal child health-care services. King County Executive Dow UW and earning her master’s degree in stress management and Constantine, ’85, ’88, ’92, also asked her to work on an innovative psychosocial nursing, which focuses on a more holistic approach approach to eliminating youth detention. “I’m always on the edge to health care. After graduation, she became a community nurse of something new,” she says. with the Washington Department of Social and Health Services Emami says the UW discovered Hayes’ passion for innovation and conducted home-care visits to help families find the right when the nursing school became interested in focusing on pop- long-term care placements for severely ill relatives. ulation health and was looking for collaborators. “Patty Hayes was Before she knew it, she was focusing on families with young already creating cutting-edge programs, advocating for those with men who suffered neurological damage and required long-term no other voice, rallying resources and advancing ideas that later care because they weren’t wearing helmets when they were in became standard practice,” Emami says. motorcycle accidents. She helped many parents determine the Hilary Godwin, dean of the School of Public Health, praises best way to care for a son “whose life was decimated when that Hayes for working with the schools of nursing and public health could have been prevented.” to set up an academic health department. “The collaboration “It was the first spark where I really saw the opportunity to do allows our faculty and students to engage in meaningful service public health work in injury prevention,” she says. Seeing the while being exposed to state-of-the-art public-health work, difference the passage of a helmet law could have on the health keeping our research, education and training fresh and relevant,” of motorcycle riders is part of what prompted her to jump when Godwin says. she saw that the Washington State Nurses Association was looking “Whatever the project, our students always find Hayes inspiring for a lobbyist. and visionary. She keeps her agency moving forward in new ways “I think the skills a nurse learns are very transferable into the and is hugely supportive of using the health department as a policy world,” she says. “Think about this: Nurses can come in laboratory for student participation and growth.” and convince a patient that they need to have a nasal gastric tube Despite her long list of achievements, Hayes remains humble or they need to have some sort of invasive procedure, and we are about receiving the most recent honor from the UW. “I think really good with people during those tough times. I think we’re it’s just my long-standing support and tenacity for health care the perfect people to translate policy into development.” She even and public health over all these years,” Hayes says. “Getting an had an edge over most lobbyists because “I could talk from my award of this level from your school means so much to me, heart about what we needed and why we were doing what we especially when I look at the past recipients.” While she might were doing.” question whether her contributions merit such recognition at She eventually became WSNA’s executive director and led the this point in her career, she has no such qualms about the impact organization through a period of upheaval when a union raided the UW has had on her life. its membership, potentially undercutting the professional asso- “It helped me learn to be confident and brave in trying new ciation’s status as a labor organization. She kept the WSNA intact, things, although that was core to my personality. I think the school but downplays claims that she saved the group. She credits the of nursing fostered that, and [I] feel so lucky to have such an whole leadership team. amazing school to continue to be affiliated with.”—David Volk is “It was one of the examples where I step into places that are a Seattle freelance writer and frequent contributor to University of very difficult and figure it out. I’m pretty feisty about continuing Washington Magazine

26 UW MAGAZINE for a Ph.D. In 1993, he came to the UW Design at the UW School of Medicine in advanced medications for chronic pain; determined to solve the puzzle of how 2012. The goal was to design a new world protein nano-containers to carry drugs proteins fold up into their final configu- of proteins to solve 21st-century challenges. already in use to specific cells, potentially rations. Around that time, he conceived The institute now houses five labs, has eliminating side effects; treatments for of Rosetta, a software platform that now alumni working around the world and is neurodegenerative disorders; and self-as- helps with understanding macromolecular tied to collaborative projects in 27 sembling proteins for solar-energy interactions and designing custom mole- countries. capture. cules. According to Discover magazine, Last year, Baker presented at the Baker’s innovative work caught the PROTEIN Rosetta is the single most important tool TED2019 conference in a session focused interest and imagination of philanthropic to discover how proteins are formed. The on big, bold ideas for global change. Almost funders. As part of TED’s Audacious platform is now being used to model the 2 million people since have watched the Project, the Institute for Protein Design Professor David Baker’s audacious approach 3-D structures of important proteins from TED talk where Baker describes his five received a $45 million, five-year grant to creating new proteins could help bring the the novel coronavirus. ambitious goals for man-made proteins: toward expanding the institute and pur- end of disease—including COVID-19 Baker founded the Institute for Protein universal vaccines for flu, HIV and cancer; suing these goals. Today, Baker straddles disciplines, or POWER By Sally James maybe you could say he transcends disci- plines. He has received awards in biochemistry, but also in biophysics and computational biology. When asked what he would see as a career “home run,” Baker declines to settle on a single one of the five goals in his TED approaches—one of which includes en- infection from spreading. The second set talk. “I mean, obviously, if you are going gaging members of the public to use their was about disrupting the dangerous over- to get something out there that is saving home computers to help design new reaction of the body’s immune response millions of people’s lives, that’s amazing,” proteins. to COVID-19—called a cytokine storm— he says. He hesitates and then looks out For more than 25 years, Baker has been that in some people leads to death. the window. “We are always going on to laser-focused on the structure and folding The researchers are using their knowl- the next thing.”—Sally James is a Seattle- of proteins, which are building blocks and edge of structural biology to create genes based science writer engines of life. These long chains of amino from scratch that encode new proteins. As acids carry out all the essential functions members of an academic lab, the scientists in our bodies. They digest foods, fire neu- can bring a new protein to the point where rons and contract muscles. To do their jobs, it requires an investment of millions of they fold up into specific shapes—following dollars to be tested and approved by reg- a code that scientists haven’t been able to ulators and then turned into a product. crack. And the creation of new proteins to Once it gets to that point, it is sold or spun perform functions inside our bodies opens out into a profit-making drug or process. n the University of Washington’s Seattle up great possibilities, says Baker. The lab has already designed an enzyme campus, in a building just south of Red The idea of including the public in the to help patients with celiac disease. The Square, hundreds of scientists fill an insti- research developed during a hike in 2006, product, which had been known as tute solely devoted to engineering when Baker and David Salesin, an affiliate KumaMax, targets the parts of gluten that Omolecules. At the core is director David professor of computer science and engi- cause the reaction leading to celiac disease, Baker, a biochemist with the School of neering, came up with the notion of which affects an estimated 2.4 million Medicine who compares the Institute for gamifying portions of Baker’s work so Americans. In February, the UW spinout Protein Design to a giant brain where each that thousands of people around the world developing KumaMax, PvP Biologics, was of the scientists is an individual neuron. could use their computers and their human sold for $330 million to pharmaceutical Late this winter, Baker toured a small brains to design synthetic proteins. Today giant Takeda. The protein is now in the group of visitors through a floor of the it’s a global affair. More than 750,000 first of four phases of clinical trials. institute where his own lab is housed. He players have used a free online video game Another spinout, Neoleukin is an animated presence, always on the called Foldit. The game’s goal is to bring Therapeutics, went public in 2019. move as he greets dozens of people: some human insight and computer power into Neoleukin has several products in devel- are in cubicles, some move between sta- play to find new ways to treat or prevent opment, including cancer and autoimmune tions, some use pipettes at lab benches, diseases. Foldit players are credited in therapies based on designer proteins.. and still others are parked at desks. “I be- the Baker lab’s published papers because Baker wasn’t much into science as a kid, lieve ideas come when you are talking to their “solutions” help fuel the lab’s even though his parents were both UW people,” Baker says. “My view of the lab understanding. science professors. His father, Marshall, is—my metaphor is—of a giant communal “The strength of Foldit is exactly the is a physicist who specializes in string brain. I’m connecting people.” fact that some players can apply some of models and quarks, and his mother, Marcia, This institute of more than 200 scien- their direct reasoning and intuition to is an expert in geophysics and atmospheric A protein structure model, tists and students is aiming some of its Foldit puzzles,” says Brian Koepnick, ’19, sciences. When he started at Harvard as above. David Baker and collective brainpower toward designing a UW research scientist, in a recent Foldit an undergraduate, Baker studied philos- his team in the Institute synthetic proteins that could block the video blog. ophy and social studies. But biology—and for Protein Design engineer novel coronavirus in the human body. In April, the Baker lab posted more than within it the riddle of protein folding— new synthetic proteins Baker, a professor of biochemistry and a 10 different coronavirus-related puzzles ultimately lured him. He switched majors to address human health Howard Hughes Medical Institute on Foldit. The first few let players try to and applied to graduate school, choosing issues like viruses and neu- Investigator, is known for his revolutionary create proteins that might keep the viral the University of California at Berkeley rodegenerative disorders.

28 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 29 UNEARTHED AND RETOOLED

The unlikely story of two carved canoes,

divided by decades, linked in Tribal tradition

By Hannelore Sudermann

MARK STONE Decades ago, the Burke Museum sent three archeology graduate stu- dents to the Green River near Auburn to excavate a pre-contact hunting canoe that had emerged from the mud of the riverbank. BURKE MUSEUM

BURKE MUSEUM MARK STONE

ometimes an amazing mystery will emerge decades earlier, it was in nearly perfect, though waterlogged, new dimension to that world. understanding of his community and culture. In 2000, he became from the mud. In 1963, for example, 10-year- condition, he says. “But once a wooden artifact is removed from “This project allowed us to remember why the river does what the tribe’s historian. Three years later, he joined the Burke’s Native old David Monstad found a treasure tucked the mud and exposed, and you don’t deal with it, it sometimes it does, and why the lake is sitting where it is, and why it’s im- American Advisory Board and has been working with museum into a riverbank on a neighbor’s farm. turns to dust. In 1963, the curators didn’t have the resources or portant to have old-growth cedar for creating a vessel to navigate archeologists ever since. A Washington kid with plenty of nature to knowhow to protect the wood.” After 40 years in dry storage, the water system,” says KingGeorge. “It lets you put yourself in This was in KingGeorge’s awareness for years. While explore, Monstad often ventured to the Green “this one had warped and split into chunks. We lost what the the precontact era. It is a once-in-a-lifetime project.” trolling through newspaper stories for a research project about River, which bordered his family’s farm. One canoe looked like when it was discovered.” How did the get there? “There’s lots of theories,” the Green River, he found a 1963 article about the canoe’s dis- midsummer day, he discovered a long canoe Still, Lape felt he had found something special—something KingGeorge says from across a conference room table at the covery. “I thought it was interesting,” he says. “There were poking out of a muddy embankment. that may have predated white settlement. As he was burdened Muckleshoot tribal headquarters in Auburn, about 25 miles from photographs of the UW students doing the excavation. And when Left: Master canoe Thinking he had come across a free canoe, he tried to dig it with other projects, he filed away the memory of the canoe until where the canoe was found. One theory—suggested by arche- they took it out, it looked in really good condition.” carver George Swa- out. Then, he realized he probably should tell his neighbors he had the time, resources and ability to bring the right people ologists—is that its owner pulled it ashore to go inland and simply Then, a few years later, he came across the boat again—though naset Sr. (Nooksack) about his find. Excited by the news, they started making plans together to care for it. never returned. it took him a while to realize it was the same one. On a visit to studied the ancient to pull the boat free with a tractor. But then another person who “Before contact or precontact,” the time before European KingGeorge has another idea. “There was once in place an Seattle to lecture about vessels to one of Professor Sven canoe before transform- was fishing on the river saw the canoe and recognized it as a explorers sailed and walked their way into the Pacific Northwest— honor system. You could borrow a neighbor’s canoe or a friend’s Haakanson’s classes, KingGeorge made a stunning discovery. ing a log from the Cedar SNative American dugout vessel. And he called the Burke Museum. the Puget Sound was a vibrant, lively place. For thousands of canoe and use it to transport,” he says. “You could leave your canoe The class was visiting the Sand Point storage facility to look at River Watershed into a A museum collections worker reached out to the landowners years, the Salish people depended on water systems for food there or you could moor your canoe on a bank and it would be examples of boats. “I was just talking away to those young new version. and dispatched three graduate students down to the river. In and transport. “Those waterways were instrumental in helping safe.” It was common to see a hunter’s canoe or a family’s canoe students and while I’m talking, I’m staring at this canoe,” shorts and T-shirts, armed with shovels and trowels, the young people connect with their extended family and friends,” says resting on the shore. “My theory is the owner left that canoe and KingGeorge says. “I said, ‘Sven, I need a minute here.’” Haakanson men spent several sunny days extricating the 25-foot bark. They Warren KingGeorge, ’12, a historian with the Muckleshoot Tribe swapped it out for a shovel-nose canoe to continue his journey halted the class while KingGeorge got down on his hands and brought it back to the Burke, where it was recorded, cataloged whose ancestral lands and waterways included the Green River. knees to examine the boat. After looking closely at the prow, Right: �he recreation and then tucked away into storage. “The water is one thing that is always there and something we he proclaimed, “This looks like a hunting canoe. It is not a shovel of the original hunting Four decades later it was discovered again. rely on. Also today, we take it for granted and we abuse it.” It’s the only hunting canoe I’ve seen nose!” The latter has a blunt prow and a flat bottom. The new canoe is now housed in Peter Lape joined the anthropology faculty and the staff at the Many of the elements of pre-contact life have all but disappeared: canoe had a pointed prow, the kind KingGeorge had seen in the ASUW Shell House Burke Museum in 2000. His research focuses on Island Southeast “the Olympia oyster, the Roosevelt elk, the sockeye that were in real life. It blew my mind. old photographs. where scholars and Asia as well as public archeology, practice and resource manage- native to Lake Washington,” he explains. “The Ballard Locks “It’s the only hunting canoe I’ve seen in real life,” he says. “It students can study it ment in the Seattle area. went in and the Black River [a tributary that drained Lake upriver, maybe following the huckleberries or the hunting season.” blew my mind.” Haakanson called the class back together and and even take it out on Three years after arriving at the UW, he discovered the canoe. Washington before the ship canal was built and lowered the He came up with this theory after paddling downriver from the made the whole experience a moment of learning. He said the Union Bay to experi- He was helping move artifacts in a museum storage facility at lake] was essentially erased.” discovery site. “There are lots of depth changes and learning to discovery of what now appears to be an extremely rare canoe ence how it handles in the old Sand Point Naval Air Station. The massive warehouse is Despite the human activity and development, portions of maneuver the canoe in the river—when it is tight and swift—is was exactly why the museum interacts with local tribes when the water. filled with canoes, carvings and cultural artifacts. It’s an easy the wild Pacific Northwest still exist in the rivers and water challenging,” he says. “Poling a shovel-nose canoe would be easier, working on subjects that involve Native people. “He said, ‘This place to get distracted, and an easy place to overlook something systems of today. And a canoe culture persists within Northwest especially going upstream where the river is moving fast.” is what can happen when we do the right thing. This is how good humble. But Lape has a sharp eye. “There was this pile of boards Native communities with canoe carvers, canoe racing and an KingGeorge came to the UW in the early 1990s as an under- things happen,’” KingGeorge says. and the collection manager said, ‘Oh, that’s a canoe,’ ” he says. annual Tribal Canoe Journey that brings out hundreds of boats graduate to study fishery sciences. His academic pursuit translated The canoe came back into KingGeorge’s life one more time. Lape paused for a deeper look. from tribes throughout the West Coast. Finding and studying into a fisheries job with the tribe before his interest in history It was 2014, and Peter Lape called to ask if KingGeorge would When the canoe was first discovered in that muddy bank four this canoe, or in Lushootseed language, the , offered a inspired him to collect stories, perform research and share his be interested in helping build a replica of a boat in the

32 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 33 museum’s archives. “I know the canoe you’re talking about!” canoe-making, but he also has the latest technology. In his shop, KingGeorge shouted. you see stone tools and Makita power planers.” KingGeorge “We schemed together to try to find some money to document facilitated the donation of a cedar tree from the Cedar River what we had and determine what we could do with it,” says Lape, Watershed from Seattle Public Utilities. It was trucked up to who managed to secure a small grant of $2,000 from the Traditional Swanaset’s workshop in Everson where he spent nine months Small Craft Association. It was just enough to pay for radiocarbon studying it and carving it. “At first he thought it was a very dating and measures to preserve what was left of the canoe. Clues odd-looking canoe, and he was not happy about doing it,” says Lape. “But then he got into it, cutting the wood and getting a sense of it. He liked it more and more.” This canoe was an object made and used When the boat was complete, in summer 2017, a small group— two archeologists, a few students and KingGeorge and his before a lot of non-native settlement. family—brought it near the site where the original was discovered and introduced it to the river. KingGeorge’s wife and their grand- indicated that it had been repaired a number of times. Cedar daughter Kalena performed a blessing ceremony. From there, �he replica of the canoes often crack, and this one had a couple of long fissures in they paddled downstream, with two support kayaks alongside. ancient hunting canoe the hull. One crack was repaired with wood—a technique of As it moved down the river, the reasons for its design became was launched in the sewing the craft back together using a cedar thread—which clearer; Its prow and hull shape made it suitable for lower, wider Green River last sum- suggested the repair had taken place prior to white settlement. river areas and estuaries. It could go into rivers, but it could also mer. Kalena Delgado, But another crack was fixed with square, hand-cut iron nails. maneuver, though not quickly, on open water. helps her grandmother, “Those were around here in the 1840s, ’50s and ’60s,” says Lape. Recreating the with members of the tribal community Elizabeth Swanaset “Probably, this canoe was an object made and used before a lot and a tribal historian was a type of project Lape hadn’t done King George (Nooksack/ of non-native settlement.” before. But the collaboration benefitted everyone. “We learned Cowichan/Laq’amel), Radiocarbon dating set the boat in a period between 1820 and how old it is, we learned about its performance on water, how bless the canoe before 1900. “It confirmed what we were guessing,” says Lape. “We many miles a day you can paddle, what does it carry.” He also its first voyage. think it was probably made in the 1830s to 1840s.” found that the project was much more about bringing people A visiting student working on a master’s degree in maritime together and getting a sense of what life here was like 150 years archeology offered to help. He made hundreds of digital images ago. “Even though the region was densely forested and there of the canoe’s pieces and painstakingly assembled them into 3-D were no roads or cars, you would have been able to easily move renderings. The images allowed the team to make measurements around,” he says. “The upper river is beautifully clear. There were and create little models on a 3-D printer. lots of fish and tons of birds. It was magical and beautiful.” WE ARE They then decided to enlist a carver to create a life-size replica: Finally, the project caused Lape to think differently about KingGeorge’s father-in-law, George Swanaset Sr., a member of museum collections—which for so long focused on protecting the Nooksack Tribe who is well-known for carving racing canoes. and storing objects of importance. “The bigger question is what “We needed someone to help us who really understood the shapes do we do with all these objects, and what’s their purpose,” says and hydrodynamics,” says Lape. “George is really into traditional Lape. “I’m always looking for an answer to that question.” BELIEVERS

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34 UW MAGAZINE 37 SUMMER 2020 So Foege and his colleagues decided to look at the outbreak outbreak look at the to and his colleagues decided So Foege in the serious pursuit life spent his entire true Foege While it’s contributed factors other brilliant, was strategy While Foege’s Disease for the Centers as head of serve on to went Foege up racked Foege all his accomplishments, humble man for A confronting are we pandemic, the COVID-19 through live we As everyone—but there wasn’t enough vaccine to go around. around. go to vaccine enough wasn’t there everyone—but viruses bent smallpox were we “If view: of point virus’ the from tree?” family our extend do to we would what on immortality, to which in susceptible person the nearest Find The answer: the vaccinating set about then Foege continue reproducing. couldvirus the before patients smallpox current people closest to and patterns market and his colleagues used Foege them. reach and spread would virus the where predict to patterns family The vaccination. mass of instead it made sense where inoculated strategy? surveillance-and-containment this innovative of result had dug Foege In effect, in its tracks. stopped was The outbreak and that infection smallpox of the blazing fire around a trench believed Public health authorities previously the burning. stopped the population to of 100% 80% to inoculate needed to that they with less accomplish that able to was Foege the disease. stop are in that there COVID-19 from differs (Smallpox than 50%. 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BRIAN SMALE By Julie Garner Julie By �he until William Foege’s innovative strategy stopped it cold stopped strategy innovative William Foege’s until Before the novel coronavirus, smallpox plagued the world world plagued the smallpox coronavirus, the novel Before SMALLPOX SLAYER Xiaosong Li My father passed away on May 1 and I was unable Professor to travel to his funeral and be with my family due to Chemistry, College of quarantine. Going from the enormous sadness Arts and Sciences to teaching in his honor is the biggest adjustment I have to make. I would like to dedicate this honor to my father who paved the way for my success.

Photographs by JACKIE RUSSO Screen Gems Sheltering in place against the novel coronavirus prevented us from photographing our �eachers of the �ear the way we usually do—in person. So we took advantage of seeing their mugs on the screen and captured them the way students saw them spring quarter.

38 UW MAGAZINE Mabel Ezeonwu Alyssa Taylor Associate Professor Lecturer School of Nursing and Bioengineering, Health Studies, UW Bothell College of Engineering

The students have been It was a vital transition adaptable, flexible and for the health of our very understanding of community, but it was this change. Every one of extremely disappoint- us have been impacted ing because it was a by the pandemic. Stu- laboratory class where dents are worried about the student teams were their health and that of planning on developing their loved ones. Many hands-on experiments are frontline workers for their drug delivery including navigators, solution designs. We had first responders, and to pivot to experimental registered nurses. Others design proposals instead. work in different places My students have taken that support essential on this challenging new services to make ends learning environment meet, and many are par- with positivity, creativity, ents. Yet, they complete and have continued to their assignments, show help invent the future up for class, ready to of medicine despite the learn. That is resilience. constraints we’re facing.

Manka M. Varghese Ian Schnee Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Senior Lecturer Graduate Mentor Philosophy, College of Professor, College of Education Arts and Sciences

Although many of us My biggest challenge are always aware of the was figuring out how suffering for those who to run a final exam that are made most vulner- was fair to students and able, I think the biggest still kept the integrity of adjustment has been to the class. I decided to carry that with us at a change the test signifi- much higher degree. I cantly and make it an have been checking in open-book, open-note with students in terms of test and allow them to their mental health and work in groups. It went emotional well-being and very well. Collaborative reassuring them when work like that might have they have felt down or actually led to greater not felt like doing school- long-term learning than work. I think mirroring my traditional exam, and their emotions for them I didn’t have to worry is really helpful rather about policing them. than deflecting or trying to appear superhuman to them. Karin Martin I taught Public Policy Analysis, one of the core Assistant Professor courses in our Master’s of Public Administration Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Evans School of Public program. Our students are perennially resilient, Associate Professor Policy & Governance creative, and committed. So I’m not really surprised Epidemiology, that they continue to be so, but it certainly makes School of Public Health me happy to see.

My biggest learning was the importance of clear communication at times of uncertainty. While I’m not teaching this quarter, purely based on commu- nications with my train- ees, I can tell that they are resilient and striving to find creative ways to continue the process of learning in effective and efficient ways. I have had to work during quite odd hours so I can spend time with my family. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in doing so!

Tanya Velasquez Senior Lecturer School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

I was actively teaching when the University abruptly shifted to online learning in Winter quarter. The hardest thing about shifting to remote learning was not getting to engage with my students those last two weeks. Yet, our Zoom dialogues were rich nonetheless and I was pleased that emo- tional connections to the subject matter and one another were still some- what possible. At the time of the abrupt shift, I learned that my students are incredibly gracious and flexible because under any circumstance they want to learn. And I also learned that being organized really pays off! 45 SUMMER 2020

SKETCHES CRAIG ROMANO - Adding voices and characters to her her to characters and voices Adding studied business. Sweeney the UW, At cinema drew of love her college, After At 25, she joined The Groundlings, The Groundlings, she joined 25, At brother, younger her of The experiences eating a hamburger and a bugle blows and blows bugle a and hamburger a eating know you runs, jumps up and burger your And I thought, laugh. a huge I got horse.’ it’s so was that a drug did just I god, my oh and pleasurable.” powerful funniest girl every voted was she stories, a sign was This eighth grade. through year me to occurred “it never but future, her of funny telling from I could earn a living she says. stories,” says she history,” in major to wanted “I ‘Whatare mom said, my “But wistfully. and read waitress be a do, to going you Sweeney Still, break?’” your on history arts liberal some in sneak to managed time in Richard her She relished classes. Western American on the course Jameson’s women class on and Kathleen Murphy’s She served and the cinematic imagination. worked and vice president ASUW as a term on popcorn “I lived Theatre. Varsity at the she says. movies,” and studied and saw as a film worked she where L.A., to her every imagined She accountant. industry body there would be talking about movies. talking about movies. be would there body just were coworkers turns out that my “It she says. doing accounting,” in interested “Saturday future she met several where discovered was and performers Night Live” 1989. Lorne Michaels in producer “SNL” by Sweeney “SNL,” seasons on four After and Pat” “It’s including movies, to shifted “Pulp Fiction.” own and her lymphoma of dying Michael, in culminated cervical cancer diagnosis of became which “God Said Ha!,” the show Later, book. and a best-selling a movie serials TV small parts on landed Sweeney autobiographical more developing while last is her Wider” and “Older monologues. parts, of She has plenty show. one-person audience fix her get and can still she says, sets for comedy friends’ slipping into by fun.” of “15 minutes her I got a huge laugh. laugh. a huge I got oh my and I thought, I just did a drug god, so powerful was that and pleasurable. - - Sweeney grew up in Spokane in the in the up in Spokane grew Sweeney the life of columnist Lindy West, and then and West, Lindy columnist of life the on the Showtime herself playing a role recently, Most in Progress.” “Work comedy Gods,” “American cast in was Sweeney char a great “It’s a sprite. she plays where she says. talk about,” really that I can’t acter violence and is drama, there “I can say with specific look very a I have magic. clothes.” wacky glasses and children five the oldest of ’70s, 1960s and did How Catholic family. in a tight-knit f*****-up for “Probably she become funny? al- a lot of was “There she says. reasons,” be I had to I knew family. coholism in our outside positive and get dignity of the face in sec big laugh came first Her attention.” during a discussion about a local ond grade are you ‘If “I said, meat. using horse eatery She thought it could take some time to some time to She thought it could take get back into acting. “So I would have this have would “So I acting. back into get pounding the years spend two show, cute get would I then afterward and pavement “But then the opposite she says. some parts,” back in was As soon as she happened.” She landed ringing. phone started her L.A., a series based on “Shrill,” part on a regular When Julia Sweeney, ’82, checked into a into checked ’82, Sweeney, WhenJulia name her Feburary, in hotel District U The street. the across marquee the covered Live” Night “Saturday and Groundlings and “Older perform to in town was veteran She de- Theatre. at the Neptune Wider” to year last show the one-person veloped break. a 10-year acting after back into get shows previous with her As she had done God,” Go of “Letting and “God Said Ha!” material. for life her dug into Sweeney UW MAGAZINE UW 44 By Hannelore Sudermann Hannelore By After more than a decade away from showbiz, showbiz, from than a decade away more After ever as and as brilliant is back Sweeney Julia THE UW COMMUNITY UW THE FROM NEWS QUINN RUSSELL BROWN Julia The Joy of MEDIA

toward a digital strategy, I will publish Eat a Bowl of Tea short pieces of nonfiction and post “live” Louis Chu A New Novel, readings. I will make this work. UW Press, April 2020 Timing is the master factor—when to begin the story, and when to consider it First published in 1961, a New Normal concluded. For examples of resilience, I this early Chinese have the characters of “Subduction,” who American novel tells the A writer faces frustration with the make do with lives they never would have story of a Chinatown’s release of her first work of fiction chosen. Through the example of my fiction, bachelor society in the during a time of pandemic which asks hard questions of characters 1940s—with a plot built for whom there is no easy redemption, I around arranged marriage By Kristen Millares Young question the market’s demand for demon- and infidelity. The book strated transformation. We know damned was reprinted by the UW COURTESY SASQUATCH BOOKS well that some people don’t change. Press in 1979 and is being But we can be made better in community. released again. Scholars praise the work as authentic UW has become part of what author Ada with its representations, rather than stereotypical. In Calhoun called my “redemption sequence,” 1989, Wayne Wang made the book into a film. in which negative experiences become meaningful through retellings. In my life, I have done my best to craft redemption Is, Is Not: Poems sequences for difficult eras like the current Tess Gallagher, ’70 epoch. Maybe they were already there, but Greywolf Press, 2019 writing helped me see them. Happy to A Taste for the Sea Born to a logging family share that The Paris Review selected “Subduction” as a staff pick, I could tell A new cookbook by Alaska-born-and-raised Emma Teal Laukitis, ’18, in Port Angeles, Gallagher you a success story that rose, clean and and her sister will reel you in with recipes and tales of the Pacific made her way to the UW shiny, from my UW workshops in Padelford in 1960s and studied with many of the Northwest’s Hall to The Paris Review. But to leave out They may call it a cookbook, but “Salmon derful poke and lox. great poets including the downbeats of doubt and the interrup- Sisters—Feasting, Fishing, and Living in The sisters also write about halibut, luminary Theodore tions of rejection would excise the value Alaska” is really a love letter to the ocean. Pacific cod and rockfish and include an Roethke. Now herself a and drama of that ascent, which made me The sisters, Emma Teal Laukitis, ’18, and illustrated eight-step guide to filleting— great poet, playwright into the writer I hoped to become by at- Claire Neaton, grew up in western Alaska, including how to find and remove those

JENN FURBER and storyteller, Gallagher tending UW. spending their winters on the family’s pesky pin bones. With recipes for cioppino, has published eleven books of poetry. This most Though striving does not stave off mor- homestead in the Aleutian Islands and beer-battered halibut and octopus salad, recent collection features a kinship with nature, sky tality, we can make meaning from times living much of the rest of the year on their the sisters offer a full sampling of the sea. and water, fish and birds, and it plays with time and that tore our lives from their arcs. The craft father’s fishing vessel. Of their creamy crab-and-artichoke dip, of writing helped me reshape my own mystery. She writes: “I begin to think I am some- As a writer, I know all about plot twists. our orbits around what we want are recur- As children, they helped in the galley, they say bring it to your next potluck and narrative and honor my own responsibility times trying to catch up with what has happened in a So when the editor wrote to me with a rent. Published in April, “Subduction” was where they conjured up meals that paired “prepare to be remembered forever.” to face this country’s uncertain future as time that hasn’t happened yet.” welcome commission—“What’s it like to the very same book I workshopped a decade food from their garden with their catch at In 2016, Laukitis came to the UW for a a collective. If our ambitions curve toward be a debut novelist in the midst of this ago as a grad student at UW, where I arrived sea. One summer, when they were home master of fine arts in design to help her the common good, we will endure. crisis?”—I was bemused. She and I know as a prize-winning journalist and nonprofit from college and back out on the water, further develop her creative work for —Kristen Millares Young is the author You Already each other from our days at the Seattle newsroom co-founder who had no idea they also conjured up a small business— Salmon Sisters. “Claire and I both have a of “Subduction,” a novel released by Red Know Post-Intelligencer, now folded. We had how to write fiction. I only knew that it Salmon Sisters—that celebrated their strong work ethic but have opposite skill Hen Press on April 14. Ted Poor survived socioeconomic cataclysm before. moved me. When in need, I reach for novels lifestyle and supported wild, sustainable sets,” Laukitis says. “My strengths are more New Deal/Impulse, And here we are again, in a pandemic. to remind myself how to live. seafood through the sale of home goods, creative and visual, and Claire is all 2020 The new normal. Connecting with read- How do we reconcile the futures we clothing and smoked and frozen fish. One business.” ers is more complicated at a social distance. wished to enact with the paths available percent of their net profit is donated in Her graduate thesis focused on envi- An assistant professor With a third of my book tour canceled, one to us now? Embracing our own stories is the form of fish to the Food Bank of Alaska. ronmental advocacy, addressing the threat of jazz studies, Ted third deferred and the last third in limbo, part of the answer. We must not forget Now, through their cookbook, Laukitis of the proposed Pebble Mine on Bristol Poor divides his time I have been feeling like a fraction of myself. what this pandemic teaches us. Our chil- and Neaton share their seafaring stories Bay, one of the world’s greatest wild salmon between teaching and I spent a year organizing 35 panels, per- dren need us to remember these and their clean, elegant approach to food. fisheries. Her thesis chair, Karen Cheng, being an in-demand formances, signings and teaching lessons. Recipes from their family recipes and from professor of visual communication, has a drummer in the jazz and indie-rock music scenes. engagements to prepare for fraught con- Last winter, I began teaching a class on their community of Alaskans highlight reputation “for telling it like it is and for He has appeared on dozens of recordings and versations in person. writing and publishing personal essays wild-caught seafood, seasonal vegetables taking her students and their work seri- shared the stage with many world-renowned artists But I know how to create rising action. through UW Continuum College. As a and locally foraged foods like ously,” says Laukitis. “She was an incredible including Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny, Aaron Parks, and Know, too, how to chart the fallout of de- former Graduate Opportunities & Minority huckleberries. partner during my final year.” Associate Ralph Alessi. This is Poor’s debut album and features cisions made under duress and in desperate Achievement Scholar, it felt like coming The book is beautiful as well as instruc- Professor Annabelle Gould taught her about saxophonist Andrew D’Angelo, indie folk-rocker grief. I spent years doing just that while full circle to teach what I had learned as a tive, with descriptions of different types designing publications and sponsored an Andrew Bird, and multi-instrumentalist Rob Moose. writing my debut novel, “Subduction,” graduate of the UW Master of Fine Arts of salmon that highlight flavor and texture. independent study for Laukitis so she could The nine-track album is a “celebration of space,” which follows a Latinx anthropologist who program in creative writing. Writing fiction Silvers, for example, are delicately textured write the proposal for what would become Poor told UW News writer Peter Kelley, “space for violates ethical boundaries and begins an brought me closer to my own story. In my and work well in salmon cakes while high- the Salmon Sisters’ cookbook. the drums to resonate and convey and feeling and affair while conducting field research on own family’s intergenerational history of oil kings are delicious grilled. Red The Salmon Sisters: for the melody to dance around and push up against the Makah Indian Reservation in Neah Bay. bouncing back, I find the forward momen- salmon—or sockeye—with its firm texture, Feasting, Fishing, and Living in Alaska that feeling.” Like the trajectories of celestial bodies, tum I need to launch my book. To pivot vivid color and rich flavor, make for won- Sasquatch Books, April 2020

46 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 47 dents and colleagues. “I had a 6-year-old girl at the time,” she says. “I thought, what if we took Barbie and A Barbie then dressed her in my field clothes, giving her a little helmet and a little crossbow.” (The crossbow is used to shoot climbing in the Woods ropes up into the trees.) “Then Barbie could Forestry alum helps design dolls to spark children’s do ecology instead of going to the prom,” interest in science says Nadkarni. She called Mattel with the idea, and was summarily dismissed. But the forest ecologist could see the ben- By Hannelore Sudermann efit of creating such a doll to teach children about the natural world, especially those Nalini Nadkarni, ’83, might well be the children whose families or schools might opposite of Barbie. While the latter is tra- not take them to a zoo or museum. “So we ditionally tall, blond and known for pink started making them ourselves,” she says. dresses, the former is petite, brunette and “It was me and the students in my lab. We often spends her time in a helmet and bought Barbies at garage sales and made climbing gear, tools she uses to carry out clothes and gear for them.” her work as an ecologist. She took samples of her dolls to confer- But last year, Nadkarni joined a project ences to share with her peers and deliver �o thank Nalini Nadkarni between National Geographic and Mattel the message that they all could do more to for her help designing the to create a new line of Barbie dolls centered engage the public. In 2003, The New York Explorer Barbies line, around science and exploration. This was Times wrote about Nadkarni’s efforts to COURTESY NALINI NADKARNI Mattel crafted a special a partnership long in the making. doll that looks like the The Barbie connection started 15 years UW-trained ecologist, ago when Nadkarni was on the faculty at Nadkarni could see complete with climbing The Evergreen State College. The scientist the benefit of creating helmet, ropes and wondered how she could share her love binoculars. for ecology with people beyond her stu- such a doll to teach children about the natural world

bring science to a wider audience, including A program of the UW Alumni Association her “Treetop Barbie.” When Mattel caught wind of this, the company asked Nadkarni not to sell the modified dolls. She instead agreed to keep the enterprise small. YOUR BACHELOR’S Growing up in Bethesda, Maryland, Nadkarni had a big yard filled with trees that DEGREE IS she loved to climb. “I always thought, I’m going to grow up and protect trees somehow,” WITHIN REACH she says. In a college biology class, she learned about ecology, and knew she wanted to do that type of work, especially with trees. In 1979, Nadkarni enrolled at the College Finish your degree online of Forest Resources to earn her Ph.D. There were only a handful of women on faculty, at the UW in our and very few graduate students. Nonetheless, Integrated Social Sciences she found a few great role models. Forestry professor Linda Brubaker showed her how B.A. Program. to be a scientist, have a family, and take time to care about those around her. “She was really respected for her scholarly work,” says A flexible interdisciplinary major Nadkarni. In her first summer of graduate school, with no commute, designed to Nadkarni took a course at a field station in Higher Education support your goals. Learn more at Monte Verde, Costa Rica. “It’s a cloud forest, Needs Your Voice socialsciencesonline.uw.edu. so there are plants like bromeliads that dwell in the canopy, along with monkeys Become an advocate today and birds,” she says. She was enchanted with what she discovered and was eager UWimpact.org to know more about what was going on 200

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48 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 49 As a young scientist, you are encouraged Since first crafting the Treetop Barbie, to find new areas for discovery, she says. Nadkarni has become a Guggenheim So she tracked down a researcher who was fellow, expanded her public engagement using mountain-climbing equipment to work, including programs with prisoners, get up into the canopy. She spent a month and joined the faculty of the University with him learning his tree-climbing of Utah. technique. Then, out of the blue last year, she re- When she came back wanting to focus ceived a call from National Geographic. her studies on forest canopies, her doc- The organization was partnering with toral advisory committee was skeptical Mattel to create a line of dolls centered of the direction; one professor said it around science, exploration and conser- was Tarzan-and-Jane stuff and that she vation. They wanted her to be an adviser should stick to studying the forest floor. on the project. “Of course I said yes,” says “But I did get a grant and was able to do Nadkarni. “For me it wasn’t so much about my own canopy research,” Nadkarni says. my idea or about a corporation sticking its “I wanted to know what are these canopy neck out. To me, it’s that society has plants that are so abundant, what are changed. Enough children were saying to they doing and how do they play a role their dad or mom or aunt that they would in the ecosystem?” The more she learned, like that kind of Barbie.” the more questions she had. “Soon I was The line includes a wildlife conserva-

spearheading one of the major canopy tionist, an astrophysicist, a polar marine COURTESY NALINI NADKARNI efforts in the world.” biologist and a wildlife photojournalist. She has developed her career on two The dolls all come with playsets. The en- major research sites—the Olympic tomologist, for example, has a lab bench, Rainforest and Costa Rica, where she a tree with insects, a net, binoculars and performed field research for several weeks a microscope. this winter. “We have found so many “That’s what dolls are about, seeing questions for the next generation of people yourself in a different identity,” says Nalini Nadkarni, a UW-trained ecologist who studies forest canopies in studying not just canopies, but forestry Nadkarni. “It’s so important; it allows chil- Costa Rica, provided inspiration for a line of outdoor adventure Barbies as a whole.” dren to play around and explore.” produced by Mattel and National Geographic.

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SUMMER 2020 51 Support the revival of Lushootseed. When you support students in the Department of American Indian Studies, you can help them learn the indigenous language of the Puget Sound— and share it with others. giving.uw.edu/native-language

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The Language of the Land UW Lecturer Tami Hohn is bringing Southern Lushootseed to a new generation across the University and the Puget Sound—where the language has always lived

By Malavika Jagannathan

Voices from the past filter into Tami Hohn’s “There’s a language held in this her DNA—and share what she learned classroom as her students listen to oral University,” says Hohn, a UW lecturer with her students. recordings in Southern Lushootseed. and Puyallup tribal member who has dedi- “I spent a lot of years just building my Punctuated by cracks and hisses, the aging cated much of her life to sharing the lan- knowledge of the grammar,” says Hohn. audio brings to life the words of first- guage. “If I can teach people how to find “It took a long time for me to piece that language speakers captured decades ago— it and use it, it will spread everywhere.” together, and because of those struggles, when there were many more of them. that’s my priority in teaching.” The sounds and stories preserved in BRINGING LUSHOOTSEED BACK those recordings are connecting across Lushootseed, which has distinct South- IMPARTING THE TOOLS time with a new generation of speakers ern and Northern dialects, was once Resources in Southern Lushootseed—from at the University. Guided by Hohn, stu- spoken widely by the Coast Salish peo- oral recordings to anthropological field dents learn to follow a trail of linguistic ples, from the Skagit Valley to the inlets notes to folk tales—are spread through- clues to unlock the indigenous language of the southern Puget Sound. Centuries out the region, requiring students of the

of the Puget Sound. of genocide, disease and forced assimi- language to become linguistic detectives. STONE MARK BY PHOTOS lation policies took their toll on the Hohn’s first-year course is designed to give numbers of first-language speakers. students the tools to decode the language— Toggling between Times New Roman THE JOURNEY AHEAD a $1.8 million grant from the Andrew W. UW lecturer Tami Hohn In the 1960s, a small group of scholars and use those skills to follow the trail, and a special Lushootseed font on a pro- Victor Andy, one of Hohn’s students, grew Mellon Foundation, she’s already created writes the word “alive” and community members started inter- wherever it may lead. jected screen, Hohn asks her students up surrounded by the sounds of the an ongoing independent-study program in Southern Lushootseed. viewing and recording first-language “My goal for these students is that they to dissect the words in a Lushootseed Yakama language in White Swan, a small for her advanced students. “In our hearts, as Native speakers. Many Lushootseed resources become lifelong learners,” Hohn says. phrase that means “Who are you?” The town east of the Cascades in the heart For Hohn, learning and teaching people, we know that our wouldn’t exist today without the work of “They know how to research. If they don’t class is hushed as students thumb of the Yakama Indian Reservation. An Southern Lushootseed is a journey that’s language is not dead,” Upper Skagit Tribe member Vi Hilbert know what the sentence is saying, they through their Lushootseed dictionaries, English major fascinated by linguistics, both intensely personal and bigger than she says. “It’s still alive and UW linguist Thomas Hess, who col- know how to figure it out.” flipping pages written decades ago, to Andy, ’20, discovered an affinity for herself. It’s a journey reflected in a and our mission is to laborated over four decades to document, That journey progresses twice a week find the right root words. Southern Lushootseed right away—a handcrafted blanket she was inspired to strengthen its life.” preserve and standardize Lushootseed in a small classroom, where Hohn’s Beyond giving students a solid founda- connection much deeper than what he’d create, entwined with ribbons bearing as a modern language. Hilbert taught 15 beginner students eagerly set out tion in the grammar, this exercise prepares felt studying Spanish and German. the names of her ancestors, her family Northern Lushootseed at the UW for notebooks and dictionaries on L-shaped them to be language treasure hunters He instantly saw relationships between members and other first-language many years until her retirement in 1988. desks. Eventually they’ll create conversa- who can piece together linguistic clues words shared by Southern Lushootseed speakers of Southern Lushootseed. Victor Andy, ’20, has In 2019, thanks to Hohn’s work and the “The magnitude of work in the past has tions and analyze stories, but they start with cultural context. and his family’s Yakama, links that spoke “I’d love to see as many Native lan- been inspired to learn Department of American Indian Studies, made our work today that much better and with the basics: the 42-character alphabet Asking someone in Southern to the shared experiences of the diverse guages as possible at the UW, but this is his family’s Yakama Southern Lushootseed officially joined the more effective,” says Hohn, adding that and the root words that are Southern Lushootseed who they are, for example, Native peoples in the Northwest. Some the language of the land the University language after taking more than 60 world languages already the documents and recordings from Lushootseed’s backbone. is posing a question that goes beyond the of Southern Lushootseed’s sounds felt sits on,” says Hohn. “Like Chief Sealth Southern Lushootseed. taught at the UW. The full-year course, first-language speakers are invaluable to Every word in Southern Lushootseed, superficial into someone’s family back- familiar and instinctive to his tongue, said, when the Native people die, we still which is on its way to becoming a perma- today’s learners. whether spoken or written, is packed with ground and lineage. while others were new and intriguing. exist because our spirits are here, our nent part of the curriculum, gives students Building on that work, the Puyallup, information. Root words—verbs like “to For Southern Lushootseed to thrive Hohn’s classes inspired him to delve deeper essence is here and our livelihood is still the ability to excavate the language from Muckleshoot and Tulalip tribal schools see” and nouns like “water”—are trans- again in the Puget Sound it needs a di- into Yakama. here. We can’t be wiped away.” the writings, recordings, cultural practices have infused Lushootseed into the daily formed with suffixes and prefixes added verse set of speakers. The course attracts “Because of this class, I come up with and land where it’s been preserved. curriculum. It was at the Puyallup tribe’s to show action, possession, location or both Native and non-Native students my own ideas of how I want to learn,” Southern Lushootseed permeates the Chief Leschi School that Hohn first for- intent, creating an impressive variety of from a variety of disciplines; many bring Andy says. “It provides a basic structure. land around the University of Washington, mally encountered Southern Lushootseed, vocabulary words to unpack. experience with other languages. It showed me aspects of language I’m Hear digitized recordings from the texts and archives held at cam- as a culture teacher in 1993. A summer There’s no conventional textbook. “If we want this to be a world lan- not sure I would have caught.” of first-language speakers pus libraries to the names of geograph- workshop with a respected elder and Instead, Hohn scours many sources—folk guage, we have to set it free,” says Hohn. Hohn hopes Southern Lushootseed will in Southern Lushootseed ical features like the Duwamish River first-language speaker sparked Hohn’s stories, recordings, research—for relevant “We have to allow it to be spoken and become a permanent UW course so it at uw.edu/boundless/ and the Kitsap Peninsula. quest to learn the language embedded in grammar and vocabulary. taught by everybody who’s interested.” can go on without her. With support from teaching-native-languages.

52 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 53 COMPLETELY BE WHERE ICAN JUST ENVIRONMENTS ONE OF THOSE FEW “THE QCENTERIS MYSELF.” EVERY ASPECTOF

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SUMMER 2020 *At thetimeof this and support. and HUBare closed resources, events to provide remote the writing, the writing, COVID-19 pandemic; in response tothe uw.edu/q-center the were crucialinshaping Marsh, left, andSelf Center continues Center. Center 55 Support graduate fellowships. When you support UW graduate students like Emily Rabe, you can help power important research—and unlock energy solutions of tomorrow. giving.uw.edu/chemistry-clean-energy

A Solar Energy Puzzle Thanks to two graduate fellowships, Emily Rabe is making connections in clean-energy research at the UW

By Nancy Joseph HOW YOU CAN HELP

We are moved and inspired by the outpouring of offers to help as we work Emily Rabe loves puzzles. In high school, she and her best CAMARADERIE IN ACTION to slow the spread of COVID-19 and care friend happily spent Friday nights with jigsaw puzzles and After deferring her enrollment to work at Argonne National for those impacted by it. Your individual ice cream. Rabe’s father built her a custom puzzle board to Laboratory, Rabe arrived at the UW and quickly proved that

PHOTO BY NINA STREHL NINA BY PHOTO actions make a significant difference. take to college in Minnesota, and she brought it to Seattle as a she was anything but an impostor. She joined fellow graduate Below are the areas of our most critical UW graduate student. Now, through her chemistry research, student Nick Montoni to create the Mentorship Network, which needs as we continue to serve our Rabe is immersed in a puzzle with higher stakes—one that matches incoming chemistry graduate students with current Together We Will students, patients and communities. could have a significant impact on our planet’s health. ones so that the new students can ask questions long before A fifth-year doctoral student in the UW Department of they arrive. (Montoni has since earned his Ph.D.) Rabe also By Korynne Wright Chair, UW Foundation Board Chemistry, Rabe works in Cody Schlenker’s chemistry lab, serves as co-president of Inclusion in Chemical Sciences at where she can further her interest in clean energy. (Schlenker UW (InCS), a graduate student group that builds community The end of June marks an important mile- tributions and donations of personal pro- is the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Assistant and skills through workshops, guest speakers, science outreach stone: the close of our Be Boundless tective equipment to keep our health-care Professor in Chemistry and Clean Energy.) to K–12 schools and more. campaign. As we cross this mark with workers safe. You’ve given to emer- “Instead of a thousand tangible puzzle pieces, I have hun- The Department of Chemistry funds InCS, which in turn tremendous momentum—deepening the gency support funds to help our students dreds of data files, dozens of journal articles and a few scattered funds the Mentorship Network. Rabe believes that the depart- impact on our University, our state and through this disrupting, scary time. And textbooks,” says Rabe, who studies sunlight as a clean-energy ment’s support of such programs has had a meaningful impact our world—we want to celebrate you. you’ve inspired us all by giving your own source. “But still, I start by making small connections, and on her graduate student experience. More than 450,000 donors have come time to make a difference. piece by piece I get to build up the picture.” “In our department, we really have a strong sense of commu- together over the course of this campaign, A cadre of UW students and staff with The picture she’s helping piece together is an important nity,” she says. “Graduate school is going to be hard no matter contributing more than $6 billion. Over backgrounds in science stepped up one: how to harness solar energy without using expensive where you go, but here it feels like there’s a group of people who 70% of our donors made gifts of $500 to help UW Medicine process an or toxic materials. One focus of Rabe’s work is the use of will celebrate with you when things go well and grab a consola- or less—and every gift matters. The overwhelming number of COVID-19 hydrogen molecules for fuel. The idea isn’t new—there tion beer when they don’t.” cumulative impact of your generosity tests. Julianne Dalcanton, chair of the SUPPORT UW MEDICINE HEALTH-CARE are hydrogen cars on the road—but currently 98% of the They might help piece together the big picture of developing is astounding. Department of Astronomy, helped bring PROFESSIONALS AND RESEARCHERS hydrogen used for fuel is produced using methane or nat- cleaner energy, and they might also help with a jigsaw puzzle. Together, you’ve established scholar- in thousands of masks for health-care When you give to the UW Medicine ural gas, releasing carbon dioxide in the process. Rabe ships to help students, supported workers. UW graphic designer Yadesa Emergency Response Fund, you support and other researchers are exploring a cleaner approach, world-class faculty, improved our facil- Bojia, whose first language is Amharic, UW Medicine’s extensive work—including using energy from sunlight to generate hydrogen mole- ities and helped us provide the very best helped share crucial COVID-19 infor- increasing coronavirus testing, expanding cules from water. patient care. It’s because of you that the mation with Seattle’s Ethiopian American vaccine research, caring for patients, Collaboration is another reason Rabe chose to work in UW is the academic and research power- community. And Melissa Miranda, ’07, and providing equipment and resources the Schlenker lab; she loved its sense of camaraderie. house it is today. And it’s because of you owner and chef of Beacon Hill’s Musang, to protect our health-care providers. “People in the lab were just so excited to be doing science, that we’re in a vital position to serve our responded to the government-mandated giving.uw.edu/covid-19-response it almost didn’t seem like work,” she says. “It was a really community, state and world in the most restaurant shutdown by using the kitchen great atmosphere.” trying of times. to make meals for children who were As the COVID-19 pandemic circled the suddenly without school lunches. SOLAR ENERGY, POWERED BY PHILANTHROPY globe and took root here in Washington, At such a challenging time, you—our Though Rabe conducts most of her research in the Schlenker UW health professionals and researchers health-care workers, faculty, alumni, lab, she also has access to the resources of the UW’s Clean worked tirelessly to develop faster tests, students, staff, community members, Energy Institute (CEI) as a CEI graduate fellow. “As part of research vaccines, care for patients, and friends and family—embody what it the fellowship program, we go to seminars that are not always consult with our state and government means to be a Husky. However you on chemistry or solar energy,” says Rabe. “They might be officials to keep our community safe. support the UW and our greater commu- about how we manage the grid, or how to make batteries And through it all, we’ve seen an unbe- nity, every gift matters. Just as you that last longer. That kind of breadth has helped frame and lievable outpouring of support from demonstrated during the Be Boundless motivate my research. It lets me see what’s actually useful Husky Nation. You’ve bolstered UW campaign, when you unite behind a cause, in the bigger picture.” Medicine’s work through financial con- there is no limit to what you can achieve. Before being named a CEI graduate fellow, Rabe received the Paul H. and Karen S. Gudiksen Endowed Fellowship in SUPPORT STUDENTS IN NEED Chemistry, awarded to encourage a promising applicant to THE HUSKY EXPERIENCE GOES ONLINE When you contribute to an emergency study at the UW. For Rabe, the award did more than provide As COVID-19 took root in our backyard, the UW transitioned to online learning and some student fund for one of our three cam- financial support. As a graduate of a small liberal-arts col- online operations—but the Husky Experience remains a top priority. By adapting lectures puses, you provide essential resources to lege, she had less research experience than other applicants and events for online delivery, sending kits to students for hands-on research and learning, students who have lost the employment, and wondered if she belonged at the UW. “The fact that the Emily Rabe chose the and creating virtual experiences for exploring museums and more, UW instructors and housing or family support that enables department not only accepted me but offered me this fellow- Schlenker lab for its staff continue to innovate and provide the best educational experience possible. their college education. ship helped me feel like I did belong here,” she says. “It focus on clean energy—

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VIRGINIA BLOEDEL WRIGHT, 1929-2020 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LIBRARIES, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, MARY RANDLETT, PHOTOGRAPHER, MPH2355

The Wright Eye RECOGNITION PETER HARDIN JACKSON, Virginia Bloedel Wright brought the Broken Obelisk to the UW son of U.S. Sen. Henry M. and funded countless shows at the Henry Art Gallery Jackson, ’32, was born during the Vietnam War. He grew up to become a gubernatorial UW PHOTO Considered one of the top art collectors Bagley Wright (who died in 2011). As ab- speechwriter and a prominent in America, Virginia Bloedel Wright stract expressionism rippled through the voice in Northwest journalism. He broke with amassed an unparalleled archive of postwar art world, painters sought to convey his father on the Cold War politics of the 20th-century art alongside her husband, emotion with bold, colorful works that past, but followed in his footsteps as a UW Bagley. Thanks to their generosity and could appear as chaotic or confusing at student, environmentalist and advocate for Question: vision, these works will stay in Seattle—and first glance. Wright, who understood this human rights. The younger Jackson lobbied at the UW—for the long haul. new wave before the general public did, the state Legislature to establish the UW Wright, who was born in Seattle in 1929 purchased a canvas by Mark Rothko for Center for Human Rights in 2009, and dedi- If trees bloom and no one is and died Feb. 18 of Hodgkin lymphoma, $1,000. (Rothko’s “multiform” paintings, cated his life and his writing to the plight of came from a timber empire and grew up which are lined with horizontal blocks of the less fortunate and the land we live on. He around to see them, do they fill the drawing and painting in Vancouver, B.C. cloudy color, now sell for millions.) Wright died March 21 at the age of 53. After a spell at the University of British eventually donated that piece—and many Columbia, she went east to study at Barnard, others by towering figures in modern art— MARILYN ANN TRUEBLOOD campus with a flowering canopy? a tight-knit women’s college in Manhattan. to the Seattle Art Museum. spent four decades at the It was there that she learned about a new As for the UW, we have Wright to thank University of Washington Every spring, the University of Washington’s most iconic expe- kind of art. “I loved the Renaissance, and for the eye-catching Broken Obelisk in Red Press working alongside rience unfolds like clockwork: the blooming of the Yoshino cherry I did not like contemporary art,” Wright Square, which her foundation commis- some of the region’s most trees, and the resulting rush of humanity to the Seattle campus recalled in 2014. But a friend persuaded sioned in 1971, along with numerous distinguished authors and to relish and shoot photos of this glorious sight. Except this year, her to study under Meyer Schapiro, an contributions to the Henry Art Gallery, the specializing in the art and culture of North- that is, because the novel coronavirus reared its ugly head in inventive art historian of the day, and that Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center west Coast peoples. When she retired as March. When the campus transitioned to remote learning back changed everything. “The minute that I and the Department of Bioegineering. The managing editor in 2013, Trueblood explored then, it meant there were no crowds, no beaming faces among took those classes,” she said, “I was a total Seattle Art Museum will honor Wright with the coasts of Europe, trekking across England, the students and faculty and staff and families who make it a convert.” its major fall exhibit, “City of Tomorrow: Scotland and Ireland with her husband Pat point to take in one of the most sensuous natural wonders in the After college, she took a job at a New Jinny Wright and the Art that Shaped Soden. She volunteered at a health-care cam- Pacific Northwest. Maybe next year? We hope. York art gallery and met future husband Seattle.” It runs Oct. 15,2020-Jan. 10, 2021. pus until her death Jan. 25 at the age of 74.

58 UW MAGAZINE SUMMER 2020 59 GORDON S. MITCHELL MARGUERITE L. YOUNG CHARLES KAA JR. ed by the courts to advocate BREDA KOGOJ-KAPETANIĆ FRANCES O’ROURKE worked In Memory 1950 ’56, Bowie, Md., age 85, Feb. 16 ’63, Seattle, age 79, Dec. 19 ’73, Everett, age 89, March 7 1990 on behalf of children in com- was an associate professor as a nurse in the UW Medical plex cases. She died March 8 emerita of literature with Center Montlake emergency DONALD RAYMOND DOYLE ILEANA OLIVER WOOD THOMAS FRANKLIN BARRETT MARILYN SUZANNE GIPSON JOHN NORTON WINTON JR. at the age of 73. a specialty in comparative room. She also served as a ’50, Shoreline, age 96, Dec. 11 ’56, Sun City West, Arizona, ’65, Lake Tahoe, California, ’74, Sequim, age 67, Feb. 8 ’91, Seattle, age 89, Jan. 30 literature. Before coming to manager in Boeing Health age 85, March 10 age 76, Dec. 13 MARTIN PAUL GOUTERMAN the UW, she was a professor Services and ran Boeing’s car- WARFIELD ESTILL MUNCE CHARLES HUGH WARREN BEVERLY PAILLETTE joined the UW Department at the Croatia University of diac rehab program. She died ’50, Honolulu, Hawaii, age 93, AMIR H. “HARRY” HEMMAT JOE CLARK ’74, Mill Creek, age 78, Jan. 5 ’92, Puyallup, age 70, Dec. 31 of Chemistry as a professor Zagreb. She died Feb. 8 at the March 23 at the age of 87. Dec. 13 ’57, Kirkland, age 87, March 17 ’65, Seattle, age 78, March 30 in 1966 and taught until he age of 91. LOIS ANNE L. BREWER retired in 1999. His scientific STEPHEN SCHWARTZ, ’68, MILLARD “PETE” PETERSKY LOUIS SMITH STANTON JEROME R. ERNST ’75, ’82, Seattle, age 67, April 6 legacy included mentoring JULIAN CHRISTOPHER LEUBA ’73, was a distinguished ’50, ’54, Seattle, age 101, Feb. 1 ’57, Seattle, age 91, March 12 ’65, ’67, Seattle, Jan. 10 2000 more than 30 Ph.D. students, served on the faculty of the professor in UW Medicine’s KEVIN PATRICK SULLIVAN NOLAN WILLIAM SMITH including Nobel Laureate UW School of Music but his Department of Pathology ’77, Whitefish, Montana, age 64, FRANK WETZEL KATHERINE YOUNG TAVERNITI FELICE RUNE OBTINARIO ’05, Smith’s Ferry, Idaho, age Roald Hoffman. He also reputation was global. He who was “rightly considered Jan. 7 ’50, Seattle, age 93, Jan. 19 ’57, Seattle, age 83, Jan. 27 ’65, Seattle, age 92, Feb. 28 34, May 13, 2018 served as associate chair of played with world-famous a giant amongst investigators the chemistry department’s symphony orchestras and of the biology of smooth OSCAR E. GASTIABURU ALUMNI DANIEL E. PETERSON GLENDON A. GREER JAMES ALAN WEBB LONI KAY (WENDEL) SHORTEN popular undergraduate was considered a guru of muscle cells and the structure ’78, Seattle, age 68, Aug. 5 ’51, ’58, Seattle, age 90, Dec. 19 ’58, ’67, Bellevue, age 85, Jan. 30 ’65, Redmond, age 76, Dec. 14 ’11, Tacoma, age 51, March 24 program, and helped invent a horn players worldwide. He of blood vessels,” according pressure-sensitive paint used was known for holding his to UW Medicine CEO Paul LARRY FISHER GORDON “OLY” WISE CHARLES WIDGER STUART JONES by Boeing to improve airplane students to the highest stan- Ramsey. Schwartz also was 1930 ’52, Bellevue, age 89, Jan. 8 ’58, Seattle, age 85, March 11 ’65, ’70, Amherst, New York, ’78, Enumclaw, age 71, Dec. 24 FACULTY AND wing design and overall per- dards, telling one student, known for expressing strong age 79, Feb. 21 formance. He died Feb. 22 at “When the horn is on your opinions about the way the AAGOT KATE ROSELLINI FRIENDS ROBERT W. MCLENDON KAREN ANN CUTTING THOMAS W. MARTIN the age of 88. face, it’s 100% business.” He UW was run. He died March ’38, Mercer Island, age 106, ’79, Mercer Island, age 66, ’52, Seattle, age 96, Feb. 10 ’59, Seattle, age 83, March 29 CAROL BENGE WALTER L. BERG, ’49, ’57, died Dec. 31 at the age of 90. 17 at the age of 78. Jan. 2 March 4 ’66, age 75 served in the Navy during JANE LOREN HALVER was in- RITAJEAN H. BUTTERWORTH WALTER JOHN TIANEN World War II and later taught volved with the University of WAYNE EVANS MARTIN, ’66, LEO M. SREEBNY was born ’53, Seattle, age 88, Feb. 24 ’59, ’71, Seattle, age 91, Jan. 4 JOHN A. MCCALL American history at Central Washington Faculty Auxiliary, came to the UW in the 1960s in the Bronx to Jewish immi- 1940 ’66, Bellevue, age 83, Jan. 13 1980 Washington University. He including a year as president. to finish his training in anes- grant from Ukraine, served Her husband, John, was a thesiology and rose to be- in the Army and Navy during MARJORIE ANN GATTAVARA LEONARD CHARLES HAWNEY established endowments at EILEEN W. BROOMELL FREDRICK DAVIS HUEBNER UW professor who taught come chief of UW Medicine’s World War II, and came to ’40, Wilsonville, Oregon, ’53, Shoreline, age 92, Jan. 17 1960 UW Libraries in honor of his ’67, Seattle, age 94, Dec. 21 ’82, Santa Fe, New Mexico, fish nutrition. She died Dec. 4 Division of Cardiovascular Seattle in 1957 with his family. age 98, Jan. 30 UW mentors, Professors W. JOHN F. PROCTOR JAMES P. DOUGHERTY age 63, Nov. 21 Stull Holt (Military History at the age of 97. Anesthesiology in 1970. He Here he established the De- ’60, Everett, age 81, Dec. 5 NORRIS EDWARD CARVER was part of the team that per- partment of Oral Pathology ROBERT E. JOHNSON ’53, Seattle, age 88, Jan. 28 Endowment) and Max Savelle ’67, Roy, age 84, March 20 JUNE FAIRCHILD HENDRICKSON DOUGLAS BENNETT HASLAND formed UW’s first open-heart (later the Department of Oral ’40, age 101, Feb. 18 (American Colonial History NEIL JOHNSON ELGEE DURWARD “FROSTY” CLARE ’83, Des Moines, age 77, Endowed Fund), as well as spent 35 years working in the surgery. After his retirement, Biology) at the UW School ’61, ’71, Renton, age 85, Feb. 24 GERALD LEE HARTMAN March 23 UW primate research depart- he spent many years as a vol- of Dentistry. In 1967, he MARIAN BULOW ARNOTT ’54, Mercer Island, age 93, his colleague from Central ’67, Tacoma, age 79, Feb. 15 ment, where he continued unteer lobbyist for the League created the school’s Center ’42, Bellevue, age 100, Dec. 31 March 20 Washington University, Dr. RENA JEAN (NELSON) GROSS EDWARD TAYLOR “TY” GRAHAM Diane Heggarty (Dr. Diane his surgical career. A Navy of Women Voters, working on for Research in Oral Biology ’61, West Linn, Oregon, age 92, DAVID NORIE BANKS ’84 Woodinville, age 57, veteran, the Seattle native reproductive rights issues. He and served as its director. He FAYE ST. JOHN DANIELSON JANET BARKER FOOTH Heggarty Libraries Endowed March 30 ’68, Salem, Oregon, age 89, March, 25 trained as a surgical assistant died Feb. 1 at the age of 85. returned to New York in 1975 ’45, Everett, age 95, March 26 ’54, Seattle, age 87, March 31 Fund for Chemistry), and the Dec. 27 Walter L. & Rosemary S. Berg and technician but later held to finish his career, though he SHIRLEY BRANDENBURG CYNTHIA KAY PORTER odd jobs such as janitor at his WIL BORCHERS NELP came and his wife moved back to IRIS ELINOR WEBER MARTIN EUGENE V. LAGERBERG University Archivist Endowed ’62, Mill Creek, age 79, Jan. 1 LEE E. ESKENAZI ’86, Seattle, age 59, Jan. 15 church. He died March 22 at to Seattle in 1962 to create Seattle in 2006. He died April ’45, Edgewood, age 97, Jan. 5 ’54, ’58, ’62, Shoreline, age 91, Fund. He died Dec. 25 at the Dec. 3 ’68, Seattle, age 74, March 5 age of 97. the age of 84. and lead UW Medicine’s 5 at the age of 98. LARRY R. BROWN JAY GARTH WHEELER Division of Nuclear Medicine. HARRY GEORGE ’62, Mercer Island, age 80, SHUZO TAKEUCHI ’86, Port Orchard, age 57, LOYD C. HEATH served on the Known internationally for his BILL SMITH was a professor of ’48, Colorado Springs, WARNER FREDERICK SCHEYER PATRICIA (TRISH) BERRY-BELL March 17 ’69, Mercer Island, Dec. 23 March 4 faculty of the Foster School pioneering work in nuclear music at the UW from 1966 Colorado, age 96, Jan. 4 ’54, ’59, Lakewood, age 88, spent more than 30 years as a Jan. 27 nurse at UW Medical Center of Business from 1962 until medicine, he also loved to ski, to 1997 as well as a founding SUZANNE MEAD LUNDIN ROBERT FLEMING HAYMAN JR. his retirement in 1998. He do woodworking, go sailing member of the Dave Brubeck SYBIL LEVIN KNUDSON Montlake. She started as an ’62, Issaquah, age 79, Jan. 5 ’87, Lakebay, age 55, Feb. 3 chaired the Faculty Council and break into song at family Octet. Considered a pioneer ’48, Seattle, age 93, March 1 RICHARD D. LESHGOLD 1970 ICU nurse but later worked in ’55, ’63, Rancho Mirage, Cali- recovery and research before of Academic Standards and dinners. He died March 14 at of modern classical music, he BILL HELWIG RICHARD ALLEN CURRY SHARON E. DOWNEY played a key role when the the age of 90. developed extended clarinet DONALD O. NEILSON fornia, age 86, Jan. 6 her retirement in 2016. She ’63, San Bernardino, California, ’71, Camano Island, age 81, ’88, Edmonds, age 62, Dec. 16 UW changed its grading techniques that included ’48, Issaquah, age 93, Jan. 4 died Jan. 19 at the age of 65. DONALD R. ANDERSON age 78, Jan. 10 April 3 system from whole-letter BILL ROE, ’73, served as playing multiple notes at the SCOTT ALLEN SCHILLINGER grades to a decimal system. president of USA Track and same time, even two clarinets CAROL COWAN BAIN ’56, Spokane, age 87, Dec. 18 KAREN SUE CROWDER was a ’88, ’03, Post Falls, Idaho, Heath was also renowned for Field from 2000 to 2008. He at once. He died Feb. 29 at ’49, Cincinnati, Ohio, age 93, DENIS BRISBIN MORGAN RALPH ANGEL lead staff trainer and interper- ’63, Feb. 12 ’73, Pasadena, California, age 54, Feb. 2 his photography, especially founded the Seattle-based the age of 93. Jan. 12 RICHARD EDGAR ARNOLD sonal communications expert ’56, Bremerton, age 91 age 68, March 6 at the UW for 26 years. After his iconic shots of the UW Club Northwest in 1972, was RICHARD CHARLES SUTCH JULIAN MCFARLAND BRAY campus. He died March 5 at the founder of Northwest WILLIAM ASBURY BECK she retired, she volunteered ’63, Kensington, California, LEANORE BECKER ’89, Seattle, age 52, Jan. 19 the age of 91. Runner magazine and was a ’49, ’62, ’91, ’94, FREDERICK RICHARD BROWN at a local women’s shel- age 76, Sept. 19 ’73, South Yarmouth, Mass., fixture in track and field and Maple Valley, age 94, Jan. 24 ’56, Portland, Oregon, age 89, ter while also serving as a Feb. 15 age 97, Jan. 30 “guardian ad litem,” appoint- cross-country at Western MIRIAM SUSAN WILENZICK Washington University for 35 FRANK W. NOLAN JR. ’63, Bellevue, age 78, Feb. 15 years. He died Feb. 28 at the ’49, Seattle GERALD DEWAIN GRONLEY ’56, Seattle, age 97, March 13 age of 69.

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SUMMER 20202020 6355 Let’s take a quick trip through the University Book Store’s 120 years: 1900 An early bookstore flier declares: “As this is purely a co-operative concern, run by students for their own benefit, it expects the THINGS THAT DEFINE THE UW support of all loyal students.” The student population: 514. 1917 The bookstore makes more than $50,000 in sales for the first time, with a profit of nearly $5,000. This data is made public and promoted in advertisements at the time. 1922 Longtime bookstore manager Percy Dearle resigns in order to start his own shop, “Dearle’s Student Supply,” on the Ave. He often slashes prices to undercut his old employer, allegedly once claiming that “he would live on the beach and eat clams to undersell the bookstore.” 1932 It looks like ASUW will default on bonds that it issued to build Hec Ed, so the bookstore incorporates and takes out loans. That saves ASUW’s skin, and saves the University Book Store from potentially being sold off by the cash-strapped ASUW. 1941 The world is at war, but Duke Ellington stops by the bookstore and plays a baby grand piano. Life on the Ave is beautiful—at least for a song or two. 1958 The bookstore ranks second only to the Harvard Book Store in sales.

COURTESY UNIVERSITY BOOK STORE 1964 President Charles E. Odegaard reorganiz- es campus and many of its departments, and The bookstore lands a new status: a for-profit organization that isn’t part of the University. That remains so today, but the board of directors features students, faculty and staff. 1970 The Vietnam War continues to loom over life in America, and the UW student body grows to more than 33,000—nearly double In its 120th year, University Book Store that of the previous decade. (The median age of a U.S. soldier killed in the war is 20.) As new remains as vital as ever students arrive, The bookstore more than doubles its volume, now up to $5.4 million. By Quinn Russell Brown 1987 The bookstore opens a Bellevue branch, bringing 60,000 titles and an intimate UW connection to the Eastside. The store closed 30 As the novel coronavirus spread through small staff. But the bookstore adapted on years later, in 2017, due to the changing retail King County and employees across the the fly, keeping a CDC-sanctioned dis- landscape. University of Washington were sent tance between themselves and wiping home, University Book Store CEO Louise down surfaces as they worked. It’s been 1992 UW pounds Michigan to win the Rose Little was in her office on the Ave, just good practice for summer quarter, which Bowl. Husky gear becomes even more in style, No matter the era, like any other day. Along with 40 of her will also be online. representing 10% of all store sales. University Book colleagues, Little, ’81, works at a place It’s quite a way to mark the bookstore’s 2009 Former President Jimmy Carter returns Store has always identified as essential by the state, and 120th anniversary. Opened by two students to the book store for his fourth visit (he would been in fashion as that designation is hard to dispute: While in 1900, operating out of a coat closet next have a fifth in 2019). The bookstore has also one of the premier thousands of students were missing from to the President’s Office in Denny Hall, welcomed Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Proud partner independent book campus, they still needed books for the shop relocated to the basement in Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, stores in the nation. spring quarter. 1908. But by 1924, the fire marshal kicked and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. of the Instead of waiting in a winding line at the organization off campus, flagging its the bottom floor of the bookstore, students setup as unsafe, and The bookstore moved 2013 Louise Little, ’81, who started at the now obtain their textbooks by mail or into an old billiards hall on the Ave. bookstore as a temporary cashier in 1980, digital download. For an independent “Sometimes I don’t know where the becomes the store’s first female CEO. bookseller built on in-person business, University Book Store ends and the 2020 As much of the University goes remote that took some getting used to. “We have University begins,” says Little. “We are due to coronavirus, the bookstore continues to to process, pick, pack and ship every or- part of the fabric of the campus culture. operate online in order to spread knowledge der,” says Little, and it’s a big deal for a Everyone has a bookstore memory.” and joy to students across the UW.

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