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A virtual home away from home

Miguel Macias, the director of the Student Diversity Center, and his team have been preparing the center as a virtual home where students can connect as they deal with social and political issues and begin the academic year.

September 24, 2020

Health Studies prepared alumna for pandemic

Mary Cowan (Health Studies ‘17) worked at the Yakima Health District in the food safety program – until the coronavirus pandemic hit. That’s when she really drew on her UW Bothell education.

September 15, 2020

Connecting the dots between farm and hunger

Bothell business owner and University of Washington Bothell graduate George Ahearn co-founded the EastWest Food Rescue nonprofit with a simple strategy: “You tell us you’re hungry; we get you food.”

September 10, 2020

Nursing students investigate K-12 COVID issues

RN-to-BSN students in a community health course looked at some of the difficult safety and protection issues facing K-12 schools as they plan for reopening in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic.

August 21, 2020

Disability and education at UW Bothell

In the course, Disability in Society, Jason Naranjo, senior lecturer in the School of Educational Studies, examines history, theory, values and assumptions about disability in the context of schools and society.

August 20, 2020

How an environmental health career MAPS out

Jeff Ketchel says his Master of Arts in Policy Studies in 2008 gave him skills he has used to head health districts and now serve as executive director of the Washington State Public Health Association.

August 12, 2020

Health Studies pushes back against pandemic

A crisis needs a range of responders, and some of those on the front lines during the coronavirus pandemic have been School of Nursing & Health Studies students Aaron Davis, Addison Lin, Kathy Luangrath and Sesait Tekle.

August 4, 2020

Artificial intelligence turned against COVID-19

A team led by Assistant Professor Dong Si is turning the power of artificial intelligence against the COVID-19 coronavirus with a new software tool that could help design vaccines and drugs.

July 28, 2020

COVID-19 ethics and equity

Jamie Shirley, director of nursing in the School of Nursing & Health Studies, is an ethics consultant for UW Medical Center Northwest whose advice helps decide care in a COVID-19 crisis.

July 8, 2020

Turning environmental angst into activism

In addition to teaching Eco-Grief and Climate Anxiety, Jennifer Atkinson is producing a podcast and creating a global network of educators to help students cope with feelings of environmental loss.

July 8, 2020

Nurse leaders on the front lines of COVID-19

Nurses in the Master of Nursing program who had to rapidly respond to the coronavirus pandemic explained how it dramatically affected their education at the spring MN Symposium.

June 25, 2020

UW Bothell engineers respond to COVID-19

Mechanical engineering graduates from the University of Washington Bothell are helping Ventec Life Systems meet the challenge of vastly multiplying production of ventilators, which support life for people in advanced respiratory distress from COVID-19.

May 13, 2020