The Daily | 11/18/09
Mary Gates Hall (MGH) is set to undergo restructuring, which is expected to streamline advising services and bring diversity to the center of campus. The renovation will relocate several advising offices across campus into the building, thereby addressing logistical concerns with those resources being separated and centralizing academic services.

University Week | 8.20.09
When doors of collaboration and mutual understanding are opened, good things happen — connections are made and lessons learned that can last a career and improve the work of students and faculty alike. Such is happily the case with the UW’s Summer Institute for the Arts & Humanities, now in its eighth year.

University Week | 8/6/09
The Amgen Scholars program grows the next generation of biomedical researchers by immersing the best students in the laboratory of a top-flight researcher who provides them not just a research experience but becomes a mentor, and have them present their research findings to their peers at a national meeting and local sessions as well.

5.18.09 | The Daily
Nearly 700 undergraduates flooded Mary Gates Hall Friday, showcasing their findings at the 12th annual UW Undergraduate Research Symposium held by the university’s Undergraduate Research Program (URP).

5.7.09 | U Week
Nearly 700 UW undergraduates will showcase their contributions to innovative and groundbreaking research at the 12th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The symposium is from noon to 5 p.m. Friday, May 15, in Mary Gates Commons, and is organized by UW’s Undergraduate Research Program, which facilitates research experiences for scholars in all academic disciplines.

U Week | 4.30.09
On May 6, more than 100 UW undergraduates will showcase their civic engagement projects that benefit the local nonprofit organizations, schools, and campus programs with which they volunteer. The 18th Annual Spring Celebration of Service and Leadership happens from 4 to 6 p.m. in Mary Gates Hall.

The Daily | 4.28.09
Though the UW could be raking in stimulus money to fund scientific research, the money will ultimately do little to offset cuts that will affect undergraduate students. Undergraduate Research Program’s Janice DeCosmo and Jennifer Harris quoted.

U Week | 4.23.09
It’s the time of year when major scholarships are announced and student futures are planned. The Office of Merit Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards, part of the Center for Experiential Learning in Undergraduate Academic Affairs, has announced student winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater, Morris K. Udall and Beinecke scholarships.

The Daily | 4.13.09
Jumpstart is a national non-profit organization based in Boston. The program at the UW (housed within UAA’s Center for Experiential Learning), which is one of 74 across the United States, boasts about 90 corps members, the title given to student volunteers who devote their entire academic year to a classroom in one of five Head Start preschools.

The Daily | 3.31.09
Some UW students returned from spring break with suntans. Some returned with sunburns. Participants in Alternative Spring Break (ASB), however, arrived back on campus perhaps as sun-deprived as when they departed — but no skin tone could match the grins on their faces or the sense of fulfillment in their hearts.

The Daily | 3.13.09
This spring break, Bobby Chien won’t be boarding a plane bound for south of the border to sip icy piña coladas and perfect her suntan.
Rather, Chien’s destination is a bit less exotic: She will be spending the week of March 23-27 volunteering in Tonasket, Wash. as part of the UW Pipeline Project’s Alternative Spring Break.

University Week | 2.12.09
Undergraduate Honors student Sam Sudar is the most recent UW student selected for the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

The Daily News Online | 2.26.09
Gates Cambridge Scholar Sam Sudar is featured in his hometown paper.

The Daily | 1.16.2009
Monday marks the UW’s eighth annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, an opportunity for UW students, faculty and alumni to reflect on King’s call for service and respond to his request through participation in community service projects.

University Week | 1.8.09
Make Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a day of service and volunteer in area nonprofits. "The Day of Service is a nice way for UW employees and students to come together in a different way," says adviser Kay Balston. Sign up today!

The Daily | 12.4.08
Profile of service learning course supported by Carlson Center. Course is on human rights and in it 32 students from Waseda University in Tokyo watch films like "The Kite Runner," read short fiction stories, and are required to volunteer at service learning sites such as Teen Feed and the Boys & Girls Club.

University Week | 12.4.08
Last January, 1,200 members of the UW community spent the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service helping others. The next Day of Service is Jan. 19, 2009, and there are 57 agencies awaiting your help.

Congratulations Mona Pitre-Collins, UAA colleague and Distinguished Staff Award Recipient!

Before Mona Pitre-Collins became director of the Undergraduate Scholarship Office in 2000, the UW had gone 15 years without a Rhodes scholar. Since then, UW students have been selected for four Rhodes scholarships, four Trumans, six Marshalls, seven Udalls and 22 Goldwaters. That doesn’t count other scholarship awards, either: Mitchell, Merage, Beinecke, Gates Cambridge and Jack Kent Cooke.

University Week | 05/22/08
This course allows an avenue for exploration of the issues of homelessness in young people from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. The course is grounded in a service-learning format; students will work in one of the many homeless youth-serving organizations in the University District as an integral class requirement.

University Week | 05/08/08
Extrabular: That which is rambunctious, extensively extracurricular and spectacularly life-changing. It’s how UW undergraduate Amir Stone describes his research, which uses infrared tracking and real-time imaging in a digital arts installation called "Blight Horizon."

University Week | 04/03/08
Lucy Brennan, a UW sophomore in art and the comparative history of ideas, worked with third and fourth-graders at Forks Elementary School during Alternative Spring Break the last week of March.

University Week | 02/21/08
The UW Seattle has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth. The Corporation for National and Community Services bestows the honor.

The Seattle Times | 02/14/08
The University of Washington’s Seattle campus has been chosen by the Corporation for National and Community Services for a President’s Higher Education Community Service award for programs that aid disadvantaged youths.

The Seattle Times | 01/20/08
For the second year in a row, the University of Washington tops the list of large colleges sending volunteers to the Peace Corps. This achievement shines as brightly as the university’s academic and research distinctions.

University Week | 01/10/08
The Central Branch Preschool was founded in 1968, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered. You could help honor King by helping to repaint the school on Jan. 21, as part of the Day of Service in his name.

UW News | 12/06/07
Jeffrey Eaton, a senior at the UW, has been selected as a Marshall scholar, one of the highest awards available to college graduates in the U.S. He and fellow UW student Graham Griffiths were finalists in the competition, which awards full scholarships for graduate study in England to about 40 American students annually.

University Week | 11/29/0
University of Washington graduate student Peter Kithene has won $25,000 as a CNN Heroes honoree. Kithene, 25, was chosen one of six honorees out of 7,000 nominations sent in by CNN viewers in 93 countries.

The Daily | 10/02/07
Ever thought about playing an active role on campus, but haven’t found an outlet on top of a growing workload? From lending a hand to preschool children to traveling and learning about the world, the UW is brimming with a plethora of volunteer opportunities for the next generous Husky to take up the initiative.

University Week | 09/27/07
Last week the UW unveiled and dedicated a permanent exhibit honoring alumni who, as UW undergraduates, achieved prestigious recognition as Rhodes Scholars. Their accomplishments were recognized in remarks by President Mark Emmert, Undergraduate Academic Affairs Dean and Vice Provost Edward Taylor, and UW alum and Rhodes Scholar Bror Saxberg.

University Week | 09/27/07
Kiera Clarke, who earned a B.A. in Italian and minor in international studies at the UW in June, has received a scholarship worth as much as $300,000 for graduate studies.

Seattle PI | 08/23/07
Every once in awhile, Professor Jim Morrow teased his University of Washington math students by tossing out a truly advanced concept. The college kids were interested, yet most realized they wouldn’t be ready to tackle it for a few years. Except Nate Bottman.

University Week | 07/19/07
Kayanna Warren has traveled abroad and even lived a year in China. But this summer the UW alumna is seeing the continental United States from end to end in a biodiesel-fueled bus, both learning and teaching as she goes about environmentally friendly practices and Native American issues.

The Daily | 05/21/07
From the equality of women in Tanzania to the new Human Cytomegalovirus double-stranded RNA-binding proteins, students learned about a variety of topics at Friday’s Undergraduate Research Symposium in Mary Gates Hall.

The Daily | 05/18/07
Students and faculty will have a chance to learn about Cuban music since the fall of the Soviet Union, gender differences in engineering education and robots that detect wear in power cables, as Mary Gates Hall hosts the 10th annual Undergraduate Research Symposium today.

King 5 News | 05/13/07
He was orphaned as a child in his native Kenya. Now, a University of Washington senior is honoring mothers in his village by building and running a medical clinic. Lori Matsukawa talks with Peter Kithene.

University Week | 05/10/07
Katharine Liang, a UW senior, initially got interested in medical research to help her mom, who because of myopic degeneration and glaucoma is legally blind. Now a neurobiology major, Liang studies biomaterials, as they are providing solutions such as artificial lenses and retinal implants.

University Week | 05/10/07
For the people in a new performance at the UW, disrobing is more than taking off clothes. And though there won’t be any actual nudity in the show, there will be an exploration of the fears and blurred boundaries of young adulthood.

The Daily | 04/10/07
Last week, UW senior Alula Asfaw was named a 2007 Harry S. Truman Scholarship recipient. The scholarship, worth $30,000, has a long application process, which Asfaw began last year.

UW Office of News and Information | 03/14/07
Teaching middle-school children during Alternative Spring Break changed Nimisha Ghosh Roy’s life. She realized she wants to be a teacher, that she wants to teach physics and Earth science to middle school kids.

The Daily | 02/21/07
With Spring Break less than a month away, UW students are eagerly looking forward to a week of promoting positive change in the greater Seattle area.

University Week | 01/18/07
When Charlene Reyes landed in New Orleans a couple of weeks ago, it was her first time outside the three west-coast states. Since then, she’s encountered untold other firsts.

UAA’s Carlson Center helped with the curriculum for this service learning course.

The Daily | 01/16/07
More than 1,200 people from the UW community gave up their day off from work and school yesterday to serve the community as part of the UW’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

UNIVERSITY WEEK | 8.17.06
Nathan Kutz and Josh Proctor have worked, studied, traveled, published and even applied for a patent together in their roles as professor and student, boss and employee and principal investigator and student researcher …

P-I REPORTER | 05.24.06
"Three University of Washington seniors will pursue such ambitions when they move to the United Kingdom this fall as recipients of top university honors — the Rhodes, Gates Cambridge and Marshall scholarships, respectively…"

SEATTLE TIMES | 05.20.06
"A high-tech human exoskeleton powered by compressed air that could one day enable quadriplegics to walk…"

SEATTLE TIMES | 05.19.06
"Three seniors with unusual ambitions and talents who together have landed their school a rare honor…"

SEATTLE P-I | 03.29.06
Suzanne Jeneby went to Kenya on a whim as an undergraduate and never left emotionally …

THE DAILY | 02.08.06
Eliana Hechter never attended her senior prom. She never went to her high school’s homecoming game, and never sat through a high school English exam. Instead, she opted to go to the UW at the age of 14 — but her accomplishments don’t stop there …

THE DAILY | 01.17.06
Nine hundred students, staff, faculty and their families turned out to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day the way King would have intended: serving their communities…

THE DAILY | 01.13.06
More than 800 students, faculty, staff and their families are expected to turn out for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service Monday …

UWEEK | Thursday, May 12, 2005
This year’s Undergraduate Research Symposium will attract more than 500 participants — a growth of ten-fold in the program’s eight-year history …

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER | Saturday, June 12, 2004
Jennifer Lenhart graduates from the University of Washington today with the satisfaction of knowing that her research is influencing major international trade policies, with ripples
reaching the nation’s capital and the Third World ..

UWEEK | Thursday, May 13, 2004
Are small-scale stream restoration projects successful? What are the most efficient undergraduate business programs in the Pac-10? And by the way, how have novelty records affected British popular culture? Such questions and scores more ..

YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC | Thursday, March 25, 2004
Eduardo Torres reads his story aloud while University of Washington student Meryl Goodwin pounds away on the keyboard … The effort is part of a UW Pipeline Project, a program in which UW students use their spring break helping elementary students improve their literacy while learning about attending a university …

UWEEK | Thursday, April 10, 2003
First there was Dawn Hewett. Then came Matt Alexander and then there was a third, Jasmin Weaver. The three UW students were selected as Mitchell Scholars in three consecutive years — a sure sign that the University has become a major …