2020: The year of the coronavirus pandemic
One experience dominated 2020: The coronavirus pandemic that hit our region hard starting in the middle of winter quarter. Since then, it’s felt like all coronavirus all the pandemic time.
There have been endless variations on the theme: health care concerns, economic issues, UW’s pivot to remote operations, the dramatic move to teaching and learning online, and the persistence of UW Bothell students, faculty and staff — especially given the civil unrest also rolling through the entire country this year.
But despite all of this, our UW Bothell Community continues as teaching, learning, research, school projects and extracurriculars keep happening.
Below are some of our top stories of 2020, including many non-pandemic stories that serve as notice 2021, eventually, will be different.
We also encourage you to check recent awards and honors for the UW Bothell community. And, take a look at 30 photos from our 30th anniversary year.
January
- $100,000 donation to the Makerspace
- Degree maps help students plan
- Joey Key receives NSF CAREER award
- UW Bothell recognized for community engagement
February
- UW Bothell unveils strategic plan
- Peer-to-peer teaching for student success
- Raising awareness about the U.S. Census
March
- Jesse Zaneveld receives NSF CAREER award
- Master of Nursing ranked nationally
- Real world intrudes on quarantine course
April
- Native American health through research
- Leslie Cornick new dean of School of STEM
- Mabel Ezeonwu receives 2020 teaching award
- Making face shields with 3D printers
May
- Record 13 UW Bothell students in the “Husky 100”
- Carrie Tzou receives 2020 research, scholarship award
- UW Bothell engineers work on ventilators
- Ursula Valdez receives Husky Green Award
June
- Alumni's Husky 5K goes virtual
- Research center provides national pandemic-response data
- Nurse leaders on the front lines of COVID-19
July
- $1 million gift makes an impact
- Consulting on COVID-19 ethics and equity
- Artificial intelligence turned against COVID-19
- UW Bothell No. 1 in nation among public colleges for ROI
August
- Health Studies pushes back against pandemic
- Bothell Block Party and BrewFest goes virtual
- Operations chief at COVID-19 command center
- Nursing students investigate K-12 COVID issues
September
- Alumnus connects the dots between farm and food insecurity
- At the epicenter of coronavirus outbreaks
- ASUWB committed to student experience
October
- Helping local K-12 schools focus on equity
- Democracy: How to live well together
- Local stream watchers add to salmon science
- ¡Basta! program wins national health award
November
- Q&A with first-generation students
- Taking contamination out of community gardens
- UW Bothell film medals at Berlin festival
- Home for pandemic, doing fieldwork at Isleta Pueblo
