National parks often are established to help preserve species native to a particular region, but it appears that some species preservation is more successful if a significant portion of land adjacent to a park also is left as natural habitat.

Thaddeus Spratlen paved the way for professors of color to join non-black universities and expanded access for other women and people of color in business by establishing the Business and Economic Development Center. Lois Spratlen contributed to gender equality by writing the book on how women are treated in university settings. She also was the first female UW ombudsman.

Their $1 million lifetime gift to the UW ensures the BEDC will flourish.

Julia Pevtsova and colleagues in the Department of Mathematics weren’t sure what to expect when they organized an on-campus lecture for middle school students in 2010. After all, it was being held on a Sunday afternoon, on a math topic that was unfamiliar to most people. How many tweens and teens would give up their Sunday for math?

As it turns out, quite a lot.

With the 2012 primary campaign heating up, David Domke and colleagues are returning to the campaign trail in partnership with the Seattle Times.

Election Eye 2012, a blog on the Seattle Times website, provides on-the-ground  coverage of the 2012 primary campaign as seen through the eyes of UW students and faculty.

Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults — long considered the least susceptible — a new study suggests.