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Creating community led to dream career
Alumna Brittaney Bunjong has used her Media & Communication Studies degree to create a varied career that includes podcasting, event planning, artist management and food blogging. Through it all is her life’s work: creating community.
March 31, 2022
Alumnus proves the distance between a dream and reality is action
What do mechanical engineering and the sport of curling have in common? Ask Colin Hufman, UW Bothell STEM graduate and Olympic athlete.
March 17, 2022
New book centers Indigenous worldviews
Audubon reviews “Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science,” a new book by Dr. Jessica Hernandez in which she shares her personal history as a Maya Ch’orti’ and Binnizá woman and her lived experience as a lifelong learner and scholar of Indigenous science.
February 24, 2022
Alumni till fertile soil
Environmental Studies alumni David Jackson ’17 and Sara Rocero ’17 are using their degrees for the greater good of the environment while working at the Snohomish Conservation District.
February 24, 2022
Alumnus is a changemaker and a trailblazer
Aaron Yared has gone from being the director of government relations at UW Bothell to serving as president of the University of Washington’s Graduate and Professional Student Senate. In this story by Julie Emory for The Daily, he shares his journey along the trail he blazed for others to follow.
February 17, 2022
Passion meets policy
Alumna Megan Dunn ’15 got her master’s in Policy Studies from the University of Washington Bothell and is now using her to degree as the chair of the Snohomish County Council.
February 10, 2022
Critical thinking for lifelong learning
Dr. Martha Groom and Dr. David Stokes, professors in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, participated in a national study on critical thinking — and their students from the University of Washington Bothell had the highest gains.
February 3, 2022
Planting the seeds of change
Alumna Sharndeep Shoker ’21 feels a personal connection with the Punjabi farmers who were protesting in the streets of Delhi — a connection that fueled her graduate student research, activism and allyship from 7,000 miles away.
January 6, 2022
The buzz on Camilo Acosta
Alumnus Camilo Acosta has an important job as the Japanese beetle eradication coordinator in Washington state, helping to catch the insects — which devour more than 300 different plant species — by the thousands.
December 20, 2021
‘Transformation’ captures spirit of UW Bothell
A mask commissioned for UW Bothell stays true to Alaskan Alutiiq mask construction and form and represents UW Bothell’s diverse student body and its process of transformation. It is now on display in Discovery Hall.
November 10, 2021
When opposites attract
The Earth System Science degree program is only two years old, and yet it already has made a difference in students’ lives, giving one former business major, for example, “permission” to pursue her passion.
November 9, 2021
Pain to purpose
By starting his own organization, Afghans of Seattle, fourth-year student Sameer Mahan didn’t just wait and hope that help would arrive for refugees. He guaranteed it.
November 4, 2021