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Finding Friday Harbor
Driven to discover For the “ZooBots,” a quarter at the University of Washington means watching whales breach off the coast of San Juan Island, hiking through the old-growth forest, and taking a sunset...
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PASSION NEVER RESTS For students across the country, applying to medical school can be one of the most daunting tasks of their collegiate careers. But for some applicants, especially underrepresented...
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Be the first A first-generation college student from Kent, Washington, Stephen Ramirez, ’15, always wanted to give back to people. He grew up watching his grandmother spend her life in the public...
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A Promise to the public
Be a world of good Two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica, and Raz Barnea never lived the same day twice. Stationed across the island in the late 2000s, Barnea, who’s currently working toward...
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Compassion for community
Be a world of good Dr. Heather Fowler At about noon on the second and fourth Saturday of every month, dozens of homeless and low-income Seattleites and their furriest friends start to snake around the...
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Through the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Sarah Schooler, ’15, spent six weeks in the Alaskan bush, collecting the same data in the field she’d been studying in the classroom: salmon and the...
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Creating a cleaner cookstove
Be a world of good Half a world away, Kenyan women are crouching over a three-stone fire — literally three stones propping up a pot over an open flame — feeding it the wood they collected on their...
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China, revisited
Dare to do “No, not dǎ bái. Dǎ bài. The second part sounds like “bye,” with a downward inflection. Dǎ bài Texas.” It’s a Tuesday afternoon in late September, and sophomore Jane Yang is teaching a...
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Be a world of good In a preschool classroom, a teacher snaps a photo of a young girl stacking colorful wooden blocks, her face focused in concentration. Then another of a little boy fingerpainting,...
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After being honorably discharged for disclosing her sexual orientation, retired Army Col. Grethe Cammermeyer, ’76, ’91, fought the decision — and won — paving the way for the next generation of LGBTQ...
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