Stories indexed under: Faculty profiles
Total: 25
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With cell as muse, art fuels scientist’s quest
April 28, 2008
For Ahna Skop, the tipping point to a career in science was a dance and a food fight.
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Professor blends ecology, history
April 21, 2008
As a University of Washington graduate student in the late 1980s, Nancy Langston traveled to a national park in Zimbabwe to study an endangered bird. She came back with a resolve to know more about people.
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Professor strengthens math, science education
March 26, 2008
For well over a decade, mathematics professor Terry Millar has worked to improve math and science instruction for students at all levels by bringing together the knowledge of university mathematicians and scientists with the teaching and curricular expertise of educators.
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Professor finds the modern in the medieval
Sept. 19, 2007
Chris Kleinhenz retired from the Department of French and Italian after nearly 40 years of leading students through Dante’s “Divine Comedy’” — including Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise — and showing them why the medieval text matters.
- Orchestras director begins new chapter April 25, 2007 James Smith, the newly appointed director of orchestras at the School of Music, did not begin his musical career with an eye on conducting.