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Don James

Don James (American football) (1932–2013), American college football head coach at Kent State University (1971–1974) and the University of Washington (1975–1992).


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Anita Ramasastry

She clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court and has taught at University of Washington since 1996.

Bonjour

Laurence BonJour (born 1943), epistemologist and professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington

Christopher Erb

Born in Waverly, New York and raised in Seattle, Washington, Erb is a graduate of the University of Washington.

Dallas County, Alabama

Shwetak Patel, (1981-), from Alabama, was born in Selma and went on to become a professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington and invent a number of new sensing technologies.

David Denny

Active in public life, Denny served as probate judge, King County Commissioner, a member of the Seattle City Council, a director of the Seattle School District, and regent of the Territorial University of Washington, predecessor to the University of Washington.

David Montgomery

David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

Donald Petersen

A portrait of Petersen, painted by artist Michele Rushworth hangs in the Petersen Room in the Allen Library at the University of Washington.

Edmond S. Meany

Mount Meany in the Olympic Mountains, Meany Crest on Mount Rainier, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts on the Seattle campus of the University of Washington, Camp Meany (a Cub Scout camp on the Olympic Peninsula from 1939 to 1942 and now a part of Camp Parsons), and Meany Middle School in Seattle, Washington are all named in his honor.

Edward D. Lazowska

Lazowska has mentored a number of students, including Hank Levy (University of Washington), Yi-Bing Lin (National Chiao Tung University), Ed Felten (Princeton University), and Christophe Bisciglia (successively Google, Cloudera, and WibiData).

Eugene Webb

The Plays of Samuel Beckett (Seattle: University of Washington Press; London: Peter Owen, 1972).

Samuel Beckett: A Study of His Novels (Seattle: University of Washington Press; London: Peter Owen, 1970).

Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region

The Hubble Space Telescope's Blinking Planetary image credit goes to astronomers Bruce Balick of the University of Washington; Jason Alexander, University of Washington; Arsen Hajian, U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C.; Mario Perinotto, University of Florence (Italy); Patrizio Patriarchi, Arcetri Observatory (Italy); and Cornell's Terzian, who used a special instrument with the Hubble Telescope known as WFPC2 (pronounced "wiffpick two").

Gananath Obeyesekere

Before his appointment to Princeton, Obeyesekere held teaching positions at the University of Ceylon, the University of Washington, the University of California, San Diego.

Gardena High School

Nesby Glasgow: NFL safety, 1979–1992, attended University of Washington, and was recognized as part of the Century Team at the University of Washington.

Harry the Husky

Coincidentally, the mascot had already been referred to by that name during a scene in The Sixth Man, a film starring Marlon Wayans about the University of Washington basketball team, that had been released prior to the vote.

Henry Suzzallo

After his dismissal from the University of Washington, Suzzallo became associated with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which he became president of in 1930.

Human Proteome Folding Project

The Human Proteome Folding Project (HPF) is a collaborative effort between New York University (Bonneau Lab), the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and the University of Washington (Baker Lab), using the Rosetta software developed by the Rosetta Commons.

James Banks

James A. Banks (born 1941), professor at the University of Washington, Seattle

James Sun

James was recently selected as one of the top 100 alumni from the University of Washington in the "Wonderous 100 Alumni Award", which also included Bill Gates Sr., Governor Christine Gregoire, and musician Kenny G.

John Cramer

John G. Cramer (born 1934), professor of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle, SF author

John Forsen

In 2009 he directed and produced the documentary "AYP, Seattle's Forgotten World's Fair", about the 1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition held on the newly formed University of Washington Campus.

John McDiarmid

John B. McDiarmid, Canadian academic and University of Washington Professor of Classics

John Michael Wallace

John Michael Wallace is a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington, as well as the former director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)—a joint research venture between the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Lake Washington School District

They adopted reform mathematics texts such as TERC and Connected Mathematics, although these and similar text have been blamed for a dramatic decline in math skills of students entering the University of Washington, and some parents protested the complete omission of elementary arithmetic, particularly from TERC.

Leighton Chan

Subsequently, he completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Fellowship, earned a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and was a Congressional Fellow for the Honorable Jim McDermott (Washington).

Lorenzo Romar

Romar became the head coach at Pepperdine University and then at Saint Louis University before taking the job at the University of Washington in 2002.

Matt Kaeberlein

He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 2002 and did his post-doctoral work with Dr. Stanley Fields in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.

Michael Gelb

Michael H. Gelb, biochemist and professor at the University of Washington

Olin Kreutz

Kreutz attended the University of Washington, where he played for the Washington Huskies football team under coach Jim Lambright.

Philip Howard

Philip N. Howard, Canadian American sociologist and professor of communication at the University of Washington's Department of Communication

Robert J. Naiman

He also holds the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Rivers at the University of Washington.

Sarah Aldridge

After earning her undergraduate degree, followed in 1933 by her law degree from the National University of Washington, D.C. (now George Washington University), she was admitted to practice in Virginia and Washington D.C., and before the US Court of Claims and the US Supreme Court.

Shawn Wong

He has also taught at the Universität Tübingen (Germany), Jean Moulin Université (Lyon), and at the University of Washington Rome Center (Italy).

Thomas Gatch

Thomas Milton Gatch (1833–1913), president of Willamette University, Oregon State University, and the University of Washington

Treaty of Hadiach

Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine, University of Washington Press, 1996, ISBN 0-295-97580-6

University Link

It will start at the northernmost stop of Central Link underneath Westlake Center and continue northeast to its first stop beneath Capitol Hill at Cal Anderson Park, near Seattle Central Community College, before heading north to its final stop at the University of Washington near Husky Stadium and the Burke-Gilman Trail.

University of Washington Tacoma

In 1986, the Higher Education Coordination Board suggested branch campuses for both the University of Washington and Washington State University.