Nikkei Manor, an assisted-living community in Seattle’s International District, has a new garden, thanks to 17 91探花landscape architecture students and their professors.
Author: Catherine O'Donnell
Batya Friedman, a professor in the 91探花 Information School, has been named University Faculty Lecturer for 2012-13. Chosen by a faculty committee led by Provost Ana Mari Cauce, Friedman is known for technology design that supports important human values.
A new system of construction fences designed by a 91探花group make campus building sites look neater. They also offer history of the building project and explain what’s being built.
Michael Honey, a history professor at 91探花Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of Kings speeches on economic justice.
Some of the best examples of 91探花architecture student drawings from 1914 to 1947 are on display in Allen Library until March 12.
In “Profit of Education,” 91探花economics Professor Dick Startz says America’s public school system can be fixed if we raise teacher salaries 40 percent, which would pay for itself nine times over.
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has announced that 91探花聽researchers, with the architectural firm NBBJ,聽will receive a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to extend nationally a model that reduces hospital energy use by 60 percent. The work of the 91探花team reflects a fundamental game change. Once upon a time, it was enough to create a building that was energy efficient. Now the goal is net zero: the structure creates as much energy as it uses….
More people in the West are without health insurance, too.
WHAT: “Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008” will be released this week by the U.