Birth of a New Field

Columns, June 2010, pages 20-21.

Despite her intense personal connection to the questions she's investigating, pharmacy professor Mary Hebert is quick to shift the focus elsewhere: "I just wanted other people to have healthy pregnancies."

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Seeing Red

Columns, March 2010, pages 20-21.

Last fall, Jay and Maureen Neitz, who joined the UW School of Medicine faculty in 2008, reported in the journal Nature that they had cured color-blindness in two squirrel monkeys using gene therapy.

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Orca's Best Friend

Columns, June 2009.

Samuel Wasser, head of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, enlists the help of extremely playful dogs to save endangered species.

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Lifelines and Vital Signs

Columns, March 2009.

Richard Ladner is helping the blind and deaf feel at home in a wired world.

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Brilliance Unleashed

Columns, December 2008.

A rising star in the field of nanophotonics arrives at the University of Washington to attempt to build ever-tinier computer circuits.

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Discovery Island

Columns, December 2005. Vol. 25, No. 4, pages 36-39.

Environmental science took a decisive turn on an obscure island off the northwest corner of Washington. The way we look at—and try to save—our world has never been the same.

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