09/19/2017
In an essay, Mary-Claire King describes the lows and highs of the week of April Fools’ Day in 1981. Her husband announced he was leaving, having fallen in love with a grad student. Then her house...
09/22/2017
Kristel Hallsson, 37, was serving in Afghanistan when the deaths of two comrades made her recast her career path. Now she's a first-year student at UW-Spokane.
“Ultimately, I want to be the person...
09/11/2018
The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons.
One artist/nurse decided to change the...
11/08/2018
For years Ben Starnes, a UW Medicine vascular surgeon at Harborview Medical Center, wondered what had happened to the stranger whom his father had helped in a moment of need in 1967.
The man, Fred...
01/21/2018
Dr. Arno G. Motulsky, a global pioneer in human genetics, died Jan. 17 in Seattle at the age of 94. Through his research, writing and mentoring, he helped create and define the field of medical...