October 2017

Assistant Professor Joey Shapiro Key tells the South Whidbey Record she loves the small part she plays in the Laser Interferometer Gravitation-wave Observatory (LIGO). The three architects of the observatory and the scientific collaboration of which Key is a part were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. 

Kwad Dawgs is a new UW Bothell club that loves to build and fly drones. Some members are engineering students who have used the Makerspace to create drone components. Student Payton Rollag says work with the quadcopter is “fundamental to what I’m learning.”