May 2017

About 200 students and members of the public are choosing to spend a spring Saturday indoors at a daylong cybersecurity summit at the University of Washington Bothell. This first-time event on May 13 is hosted by the student chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). 

UW Bothell presented its Legacy Award to the Simonds/Green family for their commitment to education and contributions to the campus and city. Ronald Green Jr., Janet Green Hunter and Darrell Green are the grandchildren of Sarah Simonds Green, who is memorialized with a conservatory.

National Nurses Week, May 6-12 
UW Bothell nursing students are talking with firefighters, business owners and Bothell residents for a community health assessment to document their resiliency in the year following a huge downtown fire. A multimedia project will be part of a commemoration event this summer.

Marketing mental health on social media, Christina Tran worked to overcome the social stigma that people who seek help are flawed. The global studies major was a social media marketing intern at the Varad Program clinic in Bellevue.

The University of Washington Bothell diversity center is an example of how students change the campus, said Dominick Juarez, one of the students who made it happen.The center opened May 1 in Founders Hall.