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September 28, 2016
Skies Over Seattle: Connecting the campus and surrounding community
What does it mean to be homeless in the U-District? Drama students created Skies Over Seattle, original theater pieces inspired by the intersection of volunteerism and artistic creation in pursuit of understanding that question. Graduate students in acting, design and directing, as well as several undergraduates, volunteered for three community organizations that serve the homeless…
September 20, 2016
Developing a long-acting antiretroviral treatment for HIV
Current oral drug therapies for HIV can greatly reduce the presence of the virus in the blood stream. However, limitations prevent these therapies from reducing the presence of HIV in the tissues of a body, and to work in the blood stream, patients must strictly adhere to daily dosing regimens for the rest of their…
September 13, 2016
Finding connections to nature in cities is key to healthy urban living
Those who live in cities are increasingly “numb” to the natural world and its important connections for our health. UW researcher Peter Kahn says that city dwellers are unaware of how we’re undermining our connection to nature, putting our own health and the survival of wildlife and wild areas at higher risk of loss from…
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